2019 AAJS Conference

Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne

‘Jewish Studies in Australia: New Directions’

Welcome
Dvir Abramovich: Hear Dvorah Baron Roar: A Feminist Heroine in the Shtetl You Should Know About
Niva Kaspi: Can You Say That in English? Translating David Grossman’s Intimate Grammar
Max Kaiser: “Jewish Culture Is Inseparable from the Struggle against Reaction”: Shaping an Australian Jewish Antifascist Minor Literature in the 1940s
Avril Alba: Unsettling the Past: Holocaust Memory in Australia
Will Allington: From Irving to Anonymous: Casual and Organised Holocaust Denial on the Internet
Emmanuel Gruzman: Socioeconomic and Cultural Adaptation Patterns of Russian-Speaking Jews in Melbourne
Jennifer Creese: “Schmoozing with My Sisters”: Observations on Conducting Insider Ethnography in a Jewish Community
Jana Vytrhlik: Jewish Studies or Art History? Revisiting Traditional Boundaries
Anna Hueneke: A Modern Prayer
Conference Dinner at Ilona Staller, Balaclava
Elizabeth Offer: Conflict and Contact: Leopold Judell and the Ship Voyage to South Australia in 1870
William Rubinstein: The Effects of the Creation and Existence of the State of Israel on the Perception of Jews by Non-Jews
Lynne Swarts: First Came the Feminists, Then the Germans, and Finally the Jews: German Jewish Oriental Scholarship Forty Years after Edward Said
Michael Abrahams-Sprod: From Humiliation, to Segregation, to Annihilation: The Education of Young Jews in Nazi Germany
Philip Mendes and Marcia Pinskier: Jewish Communities and Child Sexual Abuse: A Case Study of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Ghil`ad Zuckermann: From the ‘Promised Land’ to the ‘Lucky Country’: Applying Lessons from the Hebrew Revival to the Reclamations and Empowerment of Aboriginal Languages and Cultures