The Katz Center is a global leader in the study of Jewish civilization.

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

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Wendy Zierler Finds Where Storytelling, Medicine, and Gender Come Together in Modern Hebrew Literature
April 24, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Wendy Zierler Finds Where Storytelling, Medicine, and Gender Come Together in Modern Hebrew Literature
by Wendy Zierler, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Wendy Zierler is a polymath whose hard-to-pin-down scholarly identity brings creative verve to her scholarship

A Sweet Sorrow
April 23, 2025
A Sweet Sorrow
by Steven Weitzman

Steve Weitzman pays tribute to departing director of public programs Anne Albert

Beyond Columbus: What DNA Can—and Can’t—Tell Us about Jewish History
April 10, 2025
Beyond Columbus: What DNA Can—and Can’t—Tell Us about Jewish History
by Flora Cassen

Flora Cassen shows how, if used wisely, ancient DNA can serve the work of Jewish history