IV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
Social and cultural history of the Jews on the eastern Adriatic coast in the 18th century

Program:

bulletSunday, August 18, 2002
  

09.00h - 10.00h - Opening ceremony
Mr. David Granit, Ambassador of Israel to Croatia
Mr. Hans G. Knitel, Ambassador of Austria to Croatia
Dr. Svjetlan Berkovic, Ambassador of Croatia to Israel
Ms. Zofija Klemen Krek, Director and Secretary General of the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO
Prof. Afrim Karagjozi, The Academy of Sciences of Albania
Mr. Jusuf Altintas, Representative of the Jewish Community of Turkey
Mr. Ivan Šprlje, Prefect of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County
Prof. Dubravka Šuica, Mayor of the City of Dubrovnik
Dr. Sabrina Horovic, President of the Jewish Community of Dubrovnik
Prof. Dr. Helena Jasna Mencer, Rector of the University of Zagreb
bullet11.00h - 13.00h - Working session I
Jaime Contreras Contreras: PARA UN ANÂLISIS HISTÔRICO DE LOS JUDEO-CONVERSOS SEFARDIES
Benjamin Ravid: THE GHETTO OF SPALATO
Moisés Orfali: A KABBALISTIC TIKKUN FROM RAGUSA OF THE 18th CENTURY
Genevieve Humbert-Knitel: ACTIVITÉS CULTURELLES ET POLITIQUES DES JUIFS
DE CZERNOWITZ (BUKOWINE) AU XVIIIe ET XIXe SIECLES
bullet14.30h - 16.30h - Working session II
Andréa Zinato: CONTATTI CULTURALITRA SPAGNA ED EBREI DELL'ADRIATICO ORIENTALE: LUMI E OSCURITÂ
Shlomo Sela: THE IBERIAN SCIENTIFIC TRADITION IN THE BALKANS - MOSES ALMOSNINO'S TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE
Gianfranco Giraudo/Marcella Ferraccioli: DIZIONARIO DEI TERMINI RIGUARDANTI GLI EBREI NEI DOCUMENTI VENEZIANI (SECC. XVII XVIII)
Adriano Pavan: DIZIONARIO DEI TERMINI RIGUARDANTI GLI EBREI NEI DOCUMENTI VENEZIANI (SECC. XVII XVIII)
20.00h - Visit to the Dubrovnik Synagogue
21.30h - Betty Klein & Nir Sarusi: Concert of Sephardic music (Rector's Palace)


bulletMonday, August 19
09.00h - 11.30h - Working session III
Eyal Ginio: CONTESTED SPACES, UNEASY COHABITATION:
JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN 18th CENTURY SALONICA
Yolanda Moreno Koch: ELIYAHU CAPSALI'S CRONICLES
Mordechai Arbell: THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF VLOR-VALONA-AVILONA AND ITS ROLE IN THE ADRIATIC
Martine Boiteux: LE COMMUNAUTÉ JUIVE DE ROME AU Xllléme SIECLE: NOUVELLES SOURCES, NOUVELLES PROBLÉMATIQUES
Klaus Lohrmann: JEWS IN TRIESTE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE BEGINNING OF HABSBURG RULE OVER THE CITY
bullet12.00h - 14.00h - Working session IV
Elena Mironesko Bieleva / Ramon Magdalena: RESPONSA RABiNICOS DE SHEMUEL DE MEDINA, SHELOMOF  ABRAHAM HA-KOHÉN Y YOSEF BEN YIZHAQ ALMOSNINO COMO FUENTES HISTÔRICAS DE LOS JUDIOS DE RAGUSA
Gérard Nahon: DE L'ÉPIGRAPHE ET A LA LITTÉRATURE: JACOB PARDO, RABBIN A RAGUSE (1740 1819)
Misa Meyuhas Ginio: REMINISCENCES 0F CHRISTIAN POLEMICS ADVERSUS IUDAEOS IN 18th CENTURY SEPHARDIC RABBINICAL TRADITION
Ivan Ceresnjes: ..."WHERE NO JEW HAD EVER SET FOOT BEFORE"...
(SABBATAI ZVI, THE "MYSTICAL MESSIAH" IN ULCINJ, MONTENEGRO)
bullet15.00h - 17.30h - Working session V
David M. Buniš: SOUTH SLAVIC INFLUENCES ON THE JUDEZMO (LADINO) PHONOLOGY
Eliezer Papo: AN INTERESTING LIFE THAT CONNECTS VENEZIA, RAGUSA, SPALATO, SARAJEVO, BELGRADE AND JERUSALEM INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY OF CHAKHAM DAVID BEN YA'AQOV PARDO
Jennie Lebel: MOSES LOPES PEREIRA BARON DIEGO D'AGUILAR
Ivica Martinovic: EPIZODA O LUNI ŽIDOVKI l IVANU ŠIŠKOVU GUNDULICU.
YOUNG JEWISH GIRL LUNA AND IVAN ŠIŠKOV GUNDULIC: PROTECTION OF THE VICTIM AND THE EXAMPLE OF THE RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN DUBROVNIK (1699)
Janez Marolt: HISTORY OF JEWS IN SLOVENIA (IN THE 18" CENTURY)

bulletTuesday, August 20
09.00 - 11.30 - Working session VI
Melita Švob: MIGRATION AND CHANGES IN ADRIATIC JEWISH COMMUNITIES DURING THE TIME
Winfried Busse: L'ORTHOGRAPHIE DU JUDEOESPAGNOL
Aleksandar Lebl: SETTLEMENT OF THE JEWS IN VOJVODINA IN THE 18th CENTURY
Georgeta Pintilie: THE JEWS AND THE TRANSITION
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE '90 ROMANIAN CHANGE
Mariona Companys Huguet: JEWISH CATALONIA (A temporary exhibition at The Museum of the History of Catalonia)
bullet12.00h - 14.00h - Working session VII
Vlasta Kovac: JEWISH PUBLICATIONS IN CROATIA
Aleksandar Lebl: JEWISH PUBLICATIONS IN SERBIA
Presentation of the book: THE PORT OF SALVATION: JEWS IN VELA LUKA FROM 1937 1943. Author: Zvonko Maricic. Promoters. Svjetlan Berkovic, Ivana Burdjelez and Zvonko Maricic
Presentation of the work of Dubrovnik Secondary School (Gimnazija Dubrovnik) students:
I. Jews in Dubrovnik and II. Diary of Mrs. Sara. Authors: Katarina Brbora, Azra and Aida Karamehmedovic. Mentor: Jozo Serdarevic
Closing remarks
 
bullet14.00h - Excursion

III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE   year 2000:
social and cultural history of the jews on the eastern adriatic coast in the 17th century
bulletSunday, August 27 / Arrival in Dubrovnik
Evening events at the International Centre of Croatian Universities (ICCU), Don Frana Bulica 4
08.00 p.m. - Presentation of the book of Maren Frejdenberg: "Jews in the Balkans" (Published by Branimir Donat) 
09.00 p.m. - Opening of the exhibition of paintings of Liana Gross
09.30 p.m. - Reception


bulletMonday, August 28
09.00 a.m. -10.00 a.m. - Opening ceremony
10.00 a.m. -10.30 a.m. - Coffee break and Press conference
10.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. - Working session I
Chairman: Moises Orfall
Tullia Zevi: MINORANZE E GLOBALIZZAZIONE
Tullia Carretoni: AZIONI UNESCO PER UNA SOCIETA DI PACE MULTIETNICA E MULTICULTURALE
Melita Svob: MIGRATION OF JEWS (SEPHARDS) - CHANGES IN POPULATION
Juan Carrasco Pérez: MIGRACIONES DE JUOLOS NAVARROS MACIA LA DIASPORA ORIENTAL
12.00 p.m. - 12.30 p.m. - Coffee break
12.30 p.m. - 02.00 p.m. - Working session II
Chairman: Benjamin Ravid Jose
Hinojosa Montalvo: LA EXPULSION DE LOS JUDFOS ARAGONESES Y VALENCIANOS Y SU DIASPORA EN EL MEDITERRANEO ORIENTAL
Alisa Ginio: EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE SEPHARDI FAMILY ACCORDING TO "MEAM LOEZ" BY RABBI YA'AKOV KULI (1730)
Luko Paljetak: LIK ZUÐELA U DUBROVACKIM KOMEDIJAMA 17. STOLJECA
Luca Calvi: LUOGHI COMUNI SUGLI NELLA LETTERATURA STORICA DELLA RUS1 DEI CARPAZI
Anamarija Paljetak: ZIDOVI U SLOVENIJI
02.00 p.m. - 03.00 p.m. - Lunch break
03.00 p.m. - 04.30 p.m. - Working session III
Chairman: Alisa Ginio
Halil Inalcik: SEPHARDIC JEWS' ECONOMIC PLACE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Corrado
Iannino: CRIPTO-EBREI A CROTONE NEL XVII SECOLO: LA VISITA AD LIMINA DEL
VESCOVO MARCO RAMA
Gianfranco Giraudo & Marcella Feraccioli: PROGETTO DI UN DIZIONARIO DEI TERMINI RIGUARDANTI GLI EBREI NEI DOCUMENTI VENEZIANI (XVI - XVIII SEC.)
Benjamin Ravid: THE JEWS OF SPALATO AT THE END OF THE CINQUECENTO: MERCHANTS. GHETTO AND MONEYLENDERS
Svjetlan Berkovic: ZIDOVSKA ZAJEDNICA NA PROSTORU VELE LUKE l SREDNJE DALMACIJE
06.30 p.m. - Visit to Dubrovnik Synagogue
08.00 p.m. - Sanja Primorac-Feer: UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: FROM VISION TO REMEMBRANCE
09.00 p.m. - Dinner offered by the Rector of the University of Zagreb

bulletTuesday, August 29 / at the lCCU
09.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. - Working session IV- Chairman: Juan Carrasco Pérez
Gaetano Massa: ASPECTOS DE LA CULTURA DEL JUDEO-ESPANOL DE ORIENTE
ESTUDIADOS EN LA NEW YORK DE LOS ANOS SESENTA
Pier Cesare loly Zorattini: EBREI E GIUDAIZZANTI A RAGUSA E SULLA COSTA
DALMATA
NEI PROCESSI DEL S. UFFIZIO DI VENEZIA
Moises Orfali: AARON COHEN DE RAGUSA: VIDAY OBRA
Mauro Perani: L'OPERASHEMENHA-TOVEZEQANAHARON DEI RABBINI RAGUSINI
SHELOMOH OHEV E DEL NIPOTE AHARON BEN DAVID HA-KOHEN. VENEZIA 1657.
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. - Coffee break
11.00 a.m. - 01.00 p.m. - Working session V- Chairman: Jose Hinojosa Montalvo
Gerard Nahon: BRITAVRAHAM, CEUVRE HÉBRAIQUE D'ABRAHAM B. RAPHAEL - JACOB
BOUCHARA, CONSUL DE RAGUSE A ALGER
Naida Pavic: SEPHARDIC DIASPORA IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Mordechai Arbell: RABBI YEHUDA DE RAGUSA, HIS LIFE AND HIS WORK - FOUNDER OF  THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN JAFFA - PALESTINE
Vesna Girardi Jurkic & Kristina Dzin: RIM I ZIDOVI U ANTICKOJ ISTRI
Martine Boiteux: LA COMMUNAUTÉ JUIVE DE ROME AU XVIIEME SIECLE ENTRE EXIL ET CONVERSION
Abdelhamid Largueche: L'ETAT DE LA RECHERCHE SUR LA COMMUNAUTÉ JUIVE DANS L'UNIVERSITÉ TUNISIENNE
Ilario Principe: ARCHITETTURA DELL'EBRAISMO: E VERA ASSENZA
01.00 p.m. - 02.00 p.m. - Lunch break
02.00 p.m. - 03.30 p.m. - Working session VI
Chairman: Gerard Nahon 
David Kamhi: SEPHARDIC JEWS OF SARAJEVO
Jennie Lebl: RESPONSAS AS HISTORICAL SOURCES
Ivica Zile: ULICA OD SIGURATE i ZIDOVSKI ARHEOLOSKI SEGMENTI
Manuel Forcano: CONTRA EDOM: TEXTOS POLÉMICOS HEBREOS ANTICRISTIANOS Y EL PUNTO DE VISTA JUDlO
03.30 p.m. - 05.00 p.m. - Guided City tour
07.30 p.m. - Exhibition of Synagogal Architecture (Rector’s Palace)
08.30 p.m. - Montserrat Franco: Concert of Sephardic songs ( Rector's Palace)
09.30 p.m. - Dinner offered by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Zagabria

bulletWednesday, August 30 / At The ICCU
09.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. - Working session VII
Chairman: Glnafranco Giraudo
Suva Bon & Otelio Bosari: GLI EBREI NEL NOVECENTO, IDENTITA, PERSECUZIONE, RISPOSTE
Andrea Zinato: -POR NO SER NACIDO EN CASTILLA, ANTES EN TAN REMOTA PARTE*: JACOB UZIEL. POETA SEFARDITA
Joseph Levi: KABBALAH E SCIENZA NEL IMPERO OTTOMANO E IN ITALIA ALL'INIZIO DEL SEICENTO
Winfried Busse: LE PROJET D'UN DICTIONNAIRE INTERACTIF DU JUDÉO-ESPAGNOL DANS L'INTERNET
Miljenko Foretic: ZIDOVI u STARIJOJ HRVATSKOJ DRAMI
Simona Delic: LAS MUJERAS TRANSGRESIVAS EN LOS ROMANCES SEFARDIES DE BOSNIA-UN APPROXIMAMIENTO LITERARIO ANTROPOLOGICO AL ROMANCERO SEFARDI
Ivana Burdelez: THE IMAGE OF DUBROVNIK THROUGH THE PROCESS OF ISAAC JESURUN
12.30 p.m. - Excursion to the Island of Lopud (where the Jewish internees were staying during the Second World War), lunch included
08.00 p.m. - Farewell dinner

Dubrovnik, Croatia - August 26-28, 1998.

Social and cultural history of the Jews on the eastern Adriatic coast in the 16th century

bulletMonday, August 28
09.00h -10.00h - Opening ceremony
10.30h - 13.00h -Session I
Chairman: ALISA MEYUHAS GINIO
Gerard Nahon: "JUIFS ET CROATES AU MOYEN AGE: LES SOURCES HEBRAIQUES"
Melita Švob: "JEWISH SETTLEMENTS AND MIGRATIONS ON THE EASTERN ADRIATIC COAST"
Andrea Zinato: "PRESENZA SEFARDITA TRA COSTA E ENTROTERRA - GLI ALBORI DELLINSEDIAMENTO"
Petar Vrankic: "L'ARRIVO DEI SEFARDITI IN BOSNIA NEL 16° SECOLO: LORO AMBIENTAZIONE E ASSESTAMENTO"
Jose Ramon: MAGDALENA NOM DE DEU: "VIAJEROS JUDIOS POR EL ADRIATICO EN EL SIGLO XVI. ELIAHU DA PESARO (1563): LOS MEDIOS TECNICOS DE NAVEGACION: LA GALERA"
Manuel Forcano Aparicio: "VIAJEROS JUDIOS POR EL ADRIATICO EN EL SIGLO XVI. ELIAHU DA PESARO (1563): LA BUROCRACIA Y LOS TRAMITES DE EMBARCACIONES"
              Discussion:
13.30h
- Opening of the Stamp exhibition (ICCU building)
15.30h - 17.00h - Session II
Chairman: MOISES ORFALI
Filippo Maria Paladini: "PRIVILEGI ANTICHI E "SINAGOGHE FORESTE": INTEGRAZIONE E DIFFERENZIAZIONE DELLE COMUNITA EBRAICHE TRA ADRIATICO ORIENTALE E LEVANTE JONIO NEI SECOLI XVI-XVII"
Viviana Bonazzoli: "IMPRESE MERCANTILI EBRAICO-RAGUSINE NELLE FONTI NOTARILI DI VENEZIA E DI ANCONA NELLA SECONDA META DEL'500"
Sneshka Panova: "THE SEFARDES FROM TRIEST (THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN THE REGION)"
Marcella Ferraccioli / Gianfranco Giraudo: "MERCANTI (E) EBREI TRA VENEZIA E RAGUSA (DA MANOSCRITTI DEL MUSEO CORRER DI VENEZIA)"
              Discussion:
19.00h - Visit to the Synagogue

bulletThursday, August 27
09.00h-10.30h - Session III
Chairman: GERARD NAHON
Mauro Perani: "TESTIMONIANZE SU RAGUSA-DUBROVNIK NEI TESTI EBRAICI MANOSCRITTI"
Mordechai Arbell: "THE COHEN BELIFANTE FAMILY OF DUBROVNIK (RAGUSA) AND THEIR DIASPORA IN BARBADOS AND AMSTERDAM"
Moises Orfali: "DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE AID OF RAGUSAN JEWRY IN THE QUEST FOR REDEMPTION OF CAPTIVES"
Ivana Burdelez: "SOME TOPICS ON THE RAGUSAN JEWS - 16™ C"
Kristina Jurkic Džin: "INSCRIPTIONS REFERRING TO ORIENTAL FOUND ON LEAD PLATES AT THE NECROPOLIS OF ANCIENT PULA"
              Discussion:
10.30h - 11.00h - Coffee break
11.00h - 13.00h
Mitchell Serels: "ELEMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY IN SPLIT"
Benjamin Ravid: "DANIEL RODRIGA AND HIS ADRIATIC PROJECTS"
Alisa Meyuhas Ginio: "THE SEPHARDI HERITAGE: THE CASE OF R. MOSHE ALMOSNINO OF SALONICA(16TH CENTURY)"
Paolo Edoardo Fornaciari: "ASSICURATORI EBREI E MARINAI RAGUSEI: MERCI E RISCHI TRA LIVORNO E RAGUSA NEL SETTECENTO"
Martine Boiteux: "LIMAGE DU JUIF A ROME AU XVIeme SIEGLE"
              Discussion
13.30h - Lunch (Buffet-ICCU building)
14.30h - Documentary on the Croatian Jews (20 minutes)
15.00h -16.00h - Culture dei Mari - Round table
16.00h - Guided City Tour
20.00h - Reception by the Mayor of the City of Dubrovnik
20.30h - Concert of Duo Kol-Tof from Israel (Sponza Palace)

bulletFriday, August 28
08.30h - 10.30h - Session IV
Chairman: MITCHELL SERELS
Ilario Principe: "I SEFARDITI E LA CALABRIA"
Haim Vidal Sephiha: "PROBLEMATIQUE DU JUDEO-ESPAGNOL"
Moshe Shaul: "THE JUDEO-SPANISH IN ISRAEL: PRESENT SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE"
Tullia Zevi: "ASPETTI E PROBLEMI DELL'EBRAISMO ITALIANO OGGI"
              Conclusions
Excursion to the Konavle region and lunch at the Konavoski dvori / Departure
For those who stay: SABBATH Service in the Synagogue (Rabin Mitchell Serels)

 

1996

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS ON THE EASTERN ADRIATIC COAST TILL 1808. - FIRST DIALOGUE

under the auspices of Mr. Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO

Organizing  Committee: Mr. Dan Baram
Ms. Nina Gardner - Luzzatto
Prof. Ivana Burdelez
Conference secretaries: Mrs. Vlasta Brunsko and Mrs. Roberta Šimunovic"
Honorary  Committee : Prof. dr. Marijan Šunjic, Rector - University of Zagreb
Mr. Božo Biškupic, Minister - Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
Mrs. Vesna Girardi Jurkic - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Permanent Delegation to UNESCO - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia
Dr. Nikola Ružinski - Deputy Minister - Ministry of Science of the Republic of Croatia
Ing. Nikola Obuljen - Mayor of Dubrovnik
Prof. dr. Ognjen Kraus, Chairman - Coordinating Committee of Jewish Communities in Croatia
Mr. Edo Tauber, President - Jewish Community of Split
Dr. Bruno Horovic, President - Jewish Community of Dubrovnik
Patronage : Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia
Ministry of Science of the Republic of Croatia
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Croatia
Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Croatia to UNESCO
Coordinating Committee of Jewish Communities in Croatia
Jewish Community of Dubrovnik
Embassy of Spain in the Republic of Croatia
United States Embassy in the Republic of Croatia
Embassy of Bulgaria in the Republic of Croatia
Embassy of Italy in the Republic of Croatia