Event

Coordinators: Penn Professors, Larry Silver and David Ruderman

Click here for the full program:

The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Culture- In honor of Richard I. Cohen.pdf 

1:30pm-1:45pm Opening Remarks

Talya Fishman, Director, Jewish Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania

1:45pm-3:15pm Session I

Chair: Natalie B. Dohrmann, University of Pennsylvania

The Image of the Flame in Contemporary Jewish Culture

Walter B. Cahn, Yale University

Disobedient Images: Transgressions and Interpretations

Norman L. Kleeblatt, The Jewish Museum, New York

3:15pm-3:45pm Coffee Break

3:45pm-5:15pm Session II

Chair: David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania

Rembrandt and the Jews-the State of the Question

Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania

The Reproducibility of the Angelus Novus in the Moment of Danger: Walter Benjamin's 'Angel of History' in Israel

Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

5:15pm-6:00pm Tributes and Response

Richard I. Cohen's Contribution to the History of Jewish Art

Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania

Richard I. Cohen's Impact on Jewish Studies

David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania

Response

Richard I. Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program in cooperation with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

Free and open to the public. Please bring a photo I.D. to enter the Library.