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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

"Reading Bialik in Tehran"
September 27, 2024
"Reading Bialik in Tehran"
by The Jewish Quarterly Review

Daniel Amir turns to the Persian press to show us how Iranian Jewish intellectuals and activists saw, imagined, and attempted to shape their world in the vibrant years before 1948

 New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2024
September 6, 2024
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2024
by The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Healing in an Age of Limbotopia
September 4, 2024
Healing in an Age of Limbotopia
by Steven Weitzman

Looking for healing and hope within the darkness of the present