ANNOUNCEMENT Please Post NINETEENTH ANNUAL MANFRED R. LEHMANN MEMORIAL MASTER WORKSHOP IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH BOOK
When: May 12-13 (Sunday-Monday), 2019 Where: Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, 420 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa 19106 Workshop Topic: "The Forest of Ilanot: Exploring a Forgotten Genre" Workshop Leader: Professor Yossi Chajes, University of Haifa Who may attend: open to Faculty, Professionals, and Graduate Students (please note space is limited) Overview: The workshop will introduce an understudied genre of kabbalah, the diagrammatic representations of sefirot that were produced on writing surfaces of many sizes. As prismatic sites at which their creators' worlds of kabbalah, magic, art, and science intersected, ilanot were mnemonic and pedagogical tools, which ambitiously facilitated the organization, representation, and creation of kabbalistic knowledge. They were also appurtenances used in the performance of kabbalistic prayer and meditation. The production of ilanot underwent change over time and space. We will consider Lurianic ilanot, whose complicated models of the divine worlds display diachronic progression, and which were sometimes produced on rolls that could extend for more than thirty feet. To scroll through them was to participate in the unfolding cosmogonic process that they depicted. Attention will also be paid to the earliest printed ilan, its composite nature, and the intentions of its publisher. About this year's Lehmann Workshop leader: J. H. (Yossi) Chajes is Professor in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa and Director of its Center for the Study of Jewish Cultures. Chajes has been a Visiting Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe University Frankfurt, and a Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Chajes currently directs the "Ilanot Project"-an ambitious attempt to research kabbalistic cosmological diagrams, which has been awarded Israel Science Foundation grants, the Friedenberg Prize, and in collaboration with the digital humanities lab at Göttingen University, a Volkswagen Foundation grant, to develop "Maps of God - Building a Portal to Visual Kabbalah." For information and how to apply and register, https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jwst/events/2019/lehmann-workshop Registration must be received by April 15, 2019. Presented by the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Library and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. This Workshop has been made possible by a generous contribution from the Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation along with grants from Albert and Nancy Friedberg Arthur Kiron, Ph.D. Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0559 Web: http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/judaica/ Wednesdays and Fridays at: Library at the Hebert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 420 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19106 Tel: (215) 746-1290 Web: https://www.library.upenn.edu/lkcajs
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