Public Programs at the Katz Center

The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies is committed to providing audiences in Philadelphia and beyond with unique opportunities to learn from prominent scholars in Jewish studies. The diverse group of scholars who come to the Center eachr year from around the world and the richness of the fellowship programs contribute greatly to the range and quality of the Katz Center’s public programing.

   

   

• Penn Lectures in Judaic Studies: Greater Philadelphia — drawing hundreds of people every spring, this lecture series is conducted in local synagogues, community centers, and at the National Museum of American Jewish History. Recent programs dealt with topics ranging from the economic role of Jews in history to secularism in the Modern Jewish world to conversion in Jewish history.
  
  • 2011 fall lectures: Between Cross and Crescent: Three Chapters in Christian Jewish Muslim Relations
  • 2012 spring lectures: On the Road: Travel in Jewish History

• Programs at Penn Hillel — Katz Center fellows and Penn undergraduates meet in informal conversations on topics devised between them.
  • Click here for current schedule of events.

• Penn Seminars for Rabbis — through close reading of primary texts, the Penn seminars for rabbis introduce Jewish educators to some of the most exciting findings and recent trajectories in Jewish studies. Led by fellows, past sessions included such topics as modern readings of the Book of Job, the seeming tension between academy and community, and the debate over conversion in the State of Israel.
  • Click here for current schedule of events.

If you would like to receive emails about upcoming public lectures and events in the area, please send a note with your email address to Etty Lassman (lassman@sas.upenn.edu).