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A collection of recently published texts authored by Katz Center fellows.

Following up with Professor Menahem Ben-Sasson, Chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Penn Libraries' Rare Judaica Cataloging Librarian examines a manuscript in the Alfonso Cassuto Collection. 

Applications for small grants to support research in Jewish studies in Ukraine are now open.

Announcing the 2022–23 fellows: Jews and Modern Legal Culture.

This blog post is part of a series focused on the research of current fellows. In this edition, the Katz Center’s Becky Friedman sits down with Marc Herman, who researches the ways that medieval Jews deployed Islamic legal theory when writing about the Oral Torah.

Miguel Vatter’s book Living Law shows the potential unleashed when disciplinary divides are breached.