Late Beauty – Rübner Conference, Marking the Work and Honoring the Memory of the Poet and Israel Prize Laureate Tuvia Rübner
- 23 January 2020
- 9:30
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mendel Building
23 January 2020 / 26 Tevet 5780
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Each session will last 50 minutes and will be followed by a ten minute interval
9:30 – 10:00 Words of welcome
Yigal Bronner, Tamar Hess, Benjemin Pollock
10:00 – 11:00 Chairperson: Tamar Hess
Efrat Gal-Ed: “I’ve abandoned the German language as my language of writing” – on Hebrew and German in the work of Tuvia Rübner
11:00 – 12:00 Chairperson: Amir Engel
Rafi Weichert: Visit to a museum – poems, statues, and paintings in Tuvia Rübner’s poetry
Guy Raz: Dual perspective – a short history of photography and poetry
12:00 – 13:00 Chairperson: Benjemin Pollock
Uri Hollander: “Is the tree a tree?” Rübner, Zach, and “the green.”
Na’ama Bar-Eitan Sadowsky: “But now we shall create green” – on two poetic stratagems to represent the nothingness in the something in Rübner’s poetry
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (Mandel Building)
14:00 – 15:00 Chairperson: Sidra DeKovan Ezrahi
Rachel Tzvia Back: “Always already in translation” – on the poetics of Tuvia Rübner
Giddon Ticotsky: Rübner and Agnon at the parting of ways
15:00 – 16:00 Chairperson: Efrat Gal-Ed
Jan Kűhne: “A long short life,” Abridged and Expanded – Disparities in Tuvia Rübner’s German and Hebrew Autobiographies
Yehonatan Vardi: “And the voice of friendship is as the voice of poetry”: Tuvia Rübner as the student and friend of Aryeh Ludwig Strauss
16:00 – 17:30 A long short life: in memoriam. Chairperson: Giddon Ticotsk
Galila Rübner ǀ Liat Kaplan ǀ Omri Lior ǀ Yinon Vigoda ǀ Jan Kühne
Symposium organizer: Jan Kűhne and Giddon Ticotsky
Photography: Tuvia Rübner © Avishag Sha’ar Yishuv
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The symposium is supported by:
The Martin Buber Society of Fellows program
The Mandel Scholion Center
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
The Department of Hebrew Literature, the Faculty of the Humanities
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem for the History and Culture of German Jews
The Asher Barash Genazim Research Institute for the History of Modern Hebrew Literature founded by the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel