IMC 2006: Sessions

Session 317: Love and Hatred: Between Jews and Christians in Medieval Ashkenaz

Organisers:	Elisheva Baumgarten, Department of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan Rella Kushelevsky, Department of Jewish Literature, Bar-Ilan University
Moderator/Chair:	Simha Goldin, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University
Paper 317-a	Vicarious Victories over Christianity in Medieval Jewish Hagiography (Language: English) Lucia Raspe, Seminar für Judaistik, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Index terms: Hagiography, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life, Sexuality
Paper 317-b	Medieval Jewish Discourses of Cruelty: A Reading of a Medieval Narrative from Northern France (Language: English) Rella Kushelevsky, Department of Jewish Literature, Bar-Ilan University Index terms: Hagiography, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life, Sexuality
Paper 317-c	Love, Lust, and Desire in Medieval Jewish Society (Language: English) Elisheva Baumgarten, Department of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan Index terms: Hagiography, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life, Sexuality
Abstract	This session focuses on medieval Ashkenaz - Germany and Northern France - and on emotions involved in aspects of Jewish-Christian relations. Two of the papers will focus on the ways Jews described their past and their dealings with non-Jews in fictional accounts. The third paper will investigate the way Christian society was used when discussing aspects of a central internal Jewish affair: marriage.