Table of Contents

Preface 										1

History & Sociology: 								7 

Moises Orfali
Ordenanzas reguladoras en la ostentation del vestir 				9

Asuncion Blasco Martinez
Mujeres Judias Aragonesas: Entre El Amor, El Desamor,
La Rebeldia Y La Frustration (Siglos XIV-XV) 27

Jose Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim
Portrait of the 'Senhora' with manifold nuances:
D. Gratia Nasci 'a roeuvre' and the fictional D. Gratia 				45

Florbela Frade Veiga
Portuguese "Conversas" Home Circle. The Women's role
in the Diffusion of Jewish Customs and Traditions (16th and 17th centuries) 	63

Gerard Nahon
La condition feminine au miroir des Menus Visages
de Jacob Pardo, rabbin a Split et a Raguse 					83

Meritxell Orellana Blasco
Notas sobre ginecologia y cosmetica femenina 				97

Aldina Quintana
La mujer sefardi ante si misma y ante ellos: una lectura por
las paginas de la Alborada (Sarajevo 1900-1901) 				113

Gila Hadar
Prostitution: espacio, comunidad y nacionalidad en Salonica
a fines del periodo otomano y despues de el 					141

Literature: 									155 

Haim Weiss
"I saw pigeons keep on coming to my bed": Women in
Ancient Jewish Dream Literature 						157

Silvia Monti
Raquel, la judia de Toledo: construction de un mito literario 			169

Andrea Zinato
"E sse ficar viv'e saa,/ logo me farei crischaa...": 
la leyenda de Marisaltos la judia de Segovia.
If I am safe and sound Christian I shall become 				185

Felice Gambin
La imagen de la otra. La morisca en los tratados espanoles
de los Siglos de Oro 							205

Alisa Meyuhas Ginio
Perception and Images of the Four Biblical Matriarchs –
Las Kuatro Madres de Yisrael- in Rabbi Ya'akov Khuli's 
Me'amLo'ez (1730) 							219

Paolo-Edoardo Fornaciari
Donne Sefardite in un libro ritrovato
The Differential Impact of Arabic on Haketia and Turkish on Judezmo 		241

Linguistics: 									251

Ivana Vučina Simovic
El papel de la mujer sefardi en el mantenimiento/desplazamiento
del judeoespanol en el territorio de la antigua Yugoslavia 			253

Music: 										271

Shoshana Weich-Shahak
'Wo hay boda sin pandero" - El rol de la mujer en el repertorio 
musical sefardi: interprete y personaje 					273

Judith R. Cohen
"Maria, sister of Aaron, play your tambourine": Music in the
Lives of Crypto-Jewish Women in Portugal 					293

List of Participants 								315

Appendix - The program of the conference in Dubrovnik 				321

Universtyi of Zagreb ~ Centre for Mediterranean Studies

With the co-operation of
Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture,
Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, Istanbul, Turkey

8th International Conference
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS ON THE EASTERN ADRIATIC COAST
MAGIC and MEDICINE

PROGRAMME
Dubrovnik- Croatia, August 17-19, 2010

Monday, August 16, 2010
Arrival of participants

Tuesday, August 17, 2010
08:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:00 Opening Ceremony:

Chairperson: Prof. Ivana Burdelez, Director, Centre for Mediterranean Studies in Dubrovnik, University of Zagreb
Prof. Dr. Aleksa Bjelis, Rector, University of Zagreb H. E. Yosef Amrani, Ambassador, The State of Israel
■ Dr. Andro Vlahusic Mayor, City of Dubrovnik
Prof. Nikola Dobroslavic, County Prefect, Dubrovnik-Neretva County Rabbi Luciano Mose Prelevic, Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Zagreb
■ Prof. Dr. Sabrina Horovic, President of the Jewish Community of Dubrovnik Prof. Dr. Tamar Alexander, Director, Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Karen Gerson Sarhon, Coordinator, Board of Directors, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, Istanbul, Turkey

10:00 -10:30 Coffee Break & Press Conference

10:30-11:30 Opening Lecture Chairperson: Tamar Alexander
■ Yuval Harari: What is "Practical Kabbala"? - On the Place of Kabbala in the Tradition of Jewish Magic

11:30 — 12:30 SESSION I - Jewish Magic and Medicine in Medieval Spain Chairperson: Alisa Meyuhas - Ginio
■ Moises Orfali: Magia astral y medicina en el pensamiento hispanohebreo
■ Peter Lehnardt: A Scent of an Apple and the Spirit of Andalusian Judaism - A Reevaluation of the Cataluniyan Connection in the Transmission of the Pseudo Aristotelian Tractate De porno

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00 -15:30 SESSION II - Magical and Medical Terminology in Sephardi Documents Chairperson: Andrea Zinato
■ Merixtell Blasco: Magia medica o medicina magica en los manuscntos hebreos medievales
■ Jose Ramon Magdalena Norn De Deu: Concordancia hebraicoaljamiada trilingue de terminos farmacologicos
■ Shifra Sznol: Magia y hechizo' en las traducciones de las Biblias en ladino y en lengua romance (siglos XII-XVI)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 -17:30 SESSION III - Jewish Magic and Medicine in Christian Eyes Chairperson: Moises Orfali
■ Alisa Meyuhas - Ginio: El Medico judio espanol segiin la obra Fortalitium fidei de Alons de Espina (c.1465)
■ Jose Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim: "Murdering Doctors": the Accusation of Rever

19:00 - 20:00 Visit to the Dubrovnik Jewish Community Cemetery
guided by Gerard Nahon and Rabbi's Prayer for the Deceased

20:00 - 21:00 Visit to the Dubrovnik Jewish Community, Synagogue and Museum

21:30 Dinner

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

09:00 -10:30 SESSION IV - Jewish Physicians
Chairperson: Karen Gerson Sarhon
Gerard Nahon: De Safed a Amsterdam, Nishmat Hayyim de Menasseh ben Israel (1651) ■ Tzvi Langermann: Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo on Alchemy Melita §vob: Jewish Doctors in Croatia during the Centuries

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 —12:30 SESSION V - Witchcraft, Demons and Charms in Sephardi Culture
Chairperson: Yuval Harari
Tamar Alexander: Bala'am The Sorcerer According to Me'am Lo'ez
Rachel Saba - Wolfe: Un ruah ke entro en una mosa: Rabbi Eliyahu Ha-Cohen
Ha-ltamari and His Fight Against Demonic Posession
Eliezer Papo: Healing the Sick, Subjugating the Spirits, Fighting the Magic and the Evil Eye: A Glance at Medical Lore of Bosnian Sephardic Men

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00 -15:30 SESSION VI - Between Alchemy and Literature
Chairperson: Gerard Nahon
Andrea Zinato: Sogni, magia e medicina nel poema David (1626) di Jacob Uziel Gianfranco Giraudo / Marcella Ferraccioli: Cabalisti (e) Ebrei in documenti da biblioteche ed archivi veneziani
Petra Jelaca: L'eredita di magia ed alchimia nella letteratura rinascimentale croata:   I due negromanti di Drzic

15:30- 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 -17:30 SESSION VII - Sephardi Folk Medicine Chairperson: Eliezer Papo
■ Moshe Mossek: The Folk - Medicine Methods of Rabbi David De-Silva of Jerusalem (18th century)
Karen Gerson Sarhon: Folk Beliefs on Magic and Medicine in the Turkish-Sefaric Cultu as Recorded by the Ladino Database Project in Istanbul
■ Rozita lies Musafia: Medicina popular de los judios sefardies de Bosnia "El camino curandero de Nona Meryam"

19:30 Dinner

21:30 Dancing and performing play in 7 scenes OR HASHEMESH - THE SUNLIGHT Sponza Palace

Thursday, August 19, 2010

09:00 -10.30 Session VIII - Magic Objects in Jewish Culture Chairperson: Zdenko Kovac
- Deniz Bali and Karen Gerson Sarhon: The Magic of Pomegranate
■ Vuk Datovic: Amulet Collection from the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade
■ Hilary Pomeroy: Amulets - Their Enduring Charm

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Session IX - Healing in Hebrew Literature (A) Chairperson: Tamar Alexander
■ Nissim Calderon: The Healing Powers in Hebrew Poetry
■ Yitzhak Ben - Mordechai: The Magic of Inner Healing in Aaron Appelfeld's And The Ra Is Not Yet Over

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00 -15:30 Session X - Healing in Hebrew Literature (B) Chairperson: Nissim Calderon
■ Haviva Ishay: On Lovesickness and its Cures in Medieval Hebrew Poetry
■ Rachel Ben - Can'an and Ravit Raufman: Cursed by Magic Spell, Cured by Silence- a Discussion on the Functions of Speech and Silence in the Grimm's Tale
The Twelve Brothers and its Hebrew Versions

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 -17:00 Session XI - Magic vs. Medicine Chairperson: Moshe Mossek
■ Marline Boiteux: Medecine juive a Rome: pratiques et representations a I'epoque moderne
■ Marko Petrak: Magic and Medicine in Roman and Jewish Law
Zdenko Kovac: Magical Reasoning in Medicine vs. Other Human Brain Phenomenologies

17:00 -17:30 Conclusions & Closing Remarks 20:00 Farewell Dinner, Restaurant Dubravka

Friday, August 20, 2010
Departure of participants

19:30 Shabbat Service at the Synagogue
Melita Svob, Ana Hermanovic and Mateja Gospodinovic
Jewish doctors in Croatia during the centuries
Contents:
• Bible, Magic and Superstition (With demonstrationsj
- In middle ages the magical motifs of folk religion- by the Kabala.
- Fear of the evil eye - amulets and mezuzah worn for protection.
- Gematria - lucky numbers; Astrology lucky and unlucky days
- Wandering folk-healers (baal shem) offered magical charms, handbooks
- Legend about the magical exploit of the tzaddik- Chasidic movement.
- Ritual associated with death and burial or with birth
- Number of superstitious adopted from the host culture in which Jews lived.
• Medicine in East and West Adriatic coast
- Between West and East Adriatic Coast cooperation
-West Adriatic influences - Universities of Bologna, Padova, Pavija, etc.
- Monastery medicine-Bededictine pharmacy depend on Monte Cassino
- First doctors in Dubrovnik - First book in Croatian - translation
- Pharmacy of Small Brothers in Dubrovnik -continuity since 1317.
- Dubrovnik delegation to the University of Bologna, Venice and Padova, .
- „Ljekaruse" - collecting local medicine and adjusting to local needs
- East Adriatic contribution by collected herbs, translations of Arabic books..
- East coast'professora worked on Universities of Bologna, Padova..
• Jewish doctors are often the first Jews who are accepted
• Contribution to Medicine by Jewish doctors in Zagreb
• Jewish doctors in their communities , often as their president
• There is familiar tradition to study medicine .
• "Ferial home" in Crikvenica. Jewish children with health problems
• Clandestine partisan hospital in the mountain Petrova gora
• Jewish doctors In partisans and Holocaust victims.
• In 1942 - 76 Jewish doctors in Bosnia for eradication of endemic syphilis.
• List of the Jewish doctors- collected by dr. Nick
• Jewish doctors in Jugoslavia-according rabbi survey in 1929/1930
• Jewish students in Yugoslavia 1928-1938
• Dr. Boris Blau «Jewish students on Zagreb' Medical Faculty «
• Dr. Biserka Belicza and dr. Sasa Jeftovic "Jewish participation in medicine in Croatia and Zagreb"
• Dr.Melita Svob «Jewish doctors- victims in Holocaust»
• Jasa Romano « Jewish doctors and nurses in NOR»
• Doctors- war criminals (in Nueneberg) for their medical experiments on Jewish prisoners in camp Dachau, Auschwitz ..