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

Remembering Sol Cohen z”l
January 27, 2025
Remembering Sol Cohen z”l
by Andrew Berns

An appreciation of Sol Cohen’s life and learning from a devoted student, past fellow, and Penn Ph.D. alumnus

In Memoriam: Sol Cohen
January 22, 2025
In Memoriam: Sol Cohen
by Steven Weitzman

An accomplished Assyriologist and longtime fixture of the Katz Center has passed away

Announcing our New Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
January 20, 2025
Announcing our New Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
by Steven Weitzman

The Katz Center welcomes Mendel Kranz to the position starting in 2025-26