International Fellowship Program

Jews and Health

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The 2024–25 fellowship year is devoted to supporting new research at the intersection of Jewish studies and the study of health, medicine, and the body.  The cohort of scholars will look at illness health in Jewish life and thought through a range of lenses: examining institutions and social systems, histories of medicine, gender, literary discourse, and social sciences using data drawn from antiquity to the present.

Blog

New Essays on Sephardi and Mizrahi Modernity
December 18, 2024
New Essays on Sephardi and Mizrahi Modernity
by Anne Oravetz Albert

JQR’s latest forum, on the modern history of Jews in the Middle East, upends Western-centric narratives of modernity. 

Telling Tales, Rabbi-Style
December 10, 2024
Telling Tales, Rabbi-Style
by Natalie B. Dohrmann

When a trusted rabbinic sage tells you he has just seen a frog larger than a castle with his own eyes, should you believe him? 

New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2024
November 27, 2024
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2024
by The Jewish Quarterly Review

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