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On the Nature of Jewish Belonging in Contemporary Times: New Trends in the Study of American and Israeli Jewry

[RG #96] On the Nature of Jewish Belonging in Contemporary Times: New Trends in the Study of American and Israeli Jewry

March 1 - June 30, 2004

Organizers:

Steven Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Harvey Goldberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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The aim of our research group is to analyze new trends in the study of American and Israeli Jewry. This task will involve the documentation and intepretation of recent emerging trends in how people choose to express Jewish life and affiliate with other Jews, as well as thinking about familiar forms of Jewish diversity in new ways. We will explore the processes of historical development, as well as dynamic negotiation and choices made by Jews as individuals and as groups in forming the striking range of forms that characterize contemporary Jewish "belonging".

 

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Jeff Spinner-Halev

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University of Nebraska
Jeff is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. His research interests are: liberal and democratic theory and cultural pluralism; democracy and pluralism in a comparative approach.
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Rajeev Bhargava

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University of Delhi
Rajeev is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Delhi University. His research interests are: nature and ethics of political secularism; reconciliation between communities in deeply divided societies.
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Lior Barshack

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IDC Herzliya
Lior is a professor at the Radyzner School of Law, IDC Herzliya. His research interests are: religious aspects of the legal system; relations between law, kinship and psychoanalysis; and constitutional theory.

Law and Pluralism

[RG #97] Law and Pluralism

March 1 - August 31, 2004

Organizer:

Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Our research group will explore the following topics:

  • The religious aspects of legal systems.
  • Conceptions of secularism, the specificity of Indian secularism, and the extent to which secularism might be considered a Western, Christian doctrine.
  • Global justice, and caution in the attempts to extend the principles of distributive justice to the global sphere.
  • Establishing universal features of criminal law that would be applied in the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals.
  • Issues of political import and relevance to Israeli society.
  • The relations between values and rights in the constitutional context.
  • An analysis of the later drafts of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, drafted over the months April and May of 1948.

 

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Gary Tubb

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Columbia University
Gary is a professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His research interests are: history of the genre of the Sanskrit mahakavya or "great poem"; Sanskrit literary theory and related scholastic traditions.
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Herman Tieken

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Leiden University
Herman is a professor in the Kern Institute at Leiden University. His research interests are: classical literatures of Sanskrit and Tamil; Sanskrit drama; Middle-Indic languages and literatures, inscriptions; Jaina canonical texts.
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Peter Khoroche

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Independent Scholar
Peter is an independent scholar. His research interests are: Sanskrit poetry in all its aspects; translating, editing and interpreting the texts in the wider context of Indian culture.
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Thomas Hunter

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ACICIS
Thomas is affiliated with the Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies, Indonesia. His research interests are: cultural archaeology of Malay-Indonesian archipelago; application of post-colonial and translation theory to the critical study of modern Indonesian theory.

Toward a History of Sanskrit Poetry: Innovations and Turning Points

[RG #94] Toward a History of Sanskrit Poetry: Innovations and Turning Points

September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004

Organizer:

Yigal Bronner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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It is quite amazing that no proper history exists for Sanskrit belles lettres, one of the world's richest and longest literary traditions. The scholarship of the last two and a half centuries yielded, for the most part, a vast body of data on authors and their putative dates. But it failed to produce a narrative explaining developments in their poetic practice and, quite often, denied outright the very possibility of change. Indeed, the number of serious and analytical essays on representative works from the Sanskritic canon is unbelievably small. The main purpose of our research group is to begin to emend this state of affairs and produce a history of Sanskrit literature, one that, contrary to the antihistorical notion of it as monolithic and immune to change, would concentrate on innovations and turning points.

 

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Rafi Talmon

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University of Haifa
Rafi is a professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Haifa.
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Jan Retsö

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University of Gothenburg
Jan is a professor in the Institute of Oriental and African Languages at the University of Gothenburg. His research interests are: Arabic linguistics; Semitic languages; and pre-Islamic history of Arabia.
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Stephan Procházka

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University of Vienna
Stephan is a professor in the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna. His research interests are: Arabic language; Arabic dialects; comparative dialectology; Arab minorities and their dialects in southern Turkey; veneration of saints in popular Islam.
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Aryeh Levin

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Aryeh is a professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: old Arabic grammatical thought and terminology; history of the Arabic language; modern Arabic dialects.
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Aharon Geva-Kleinberger

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University of Haifa
Aharon is a professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Haifa.