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Meet the fellows!

2024–25 Fellowship Theme: Jews and Health
The Katz Center is thrilled to announce the cohort for the 2024–25 academic year, engaging the theme of Jews and Health.

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

Coming Up
Thursday, March 6, 2025
For the Public

Women’s Bodies and Public Health in Poland before and after the Holocaust >

Featuring: Natalia Aleksiun, University of Florida

Jewish physicians mobilized women’s bodies to ensure the future of the community

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
For the Public

The Future of Antisemitism Research >

Featuring: Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto; Steven Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania; Avinoam Patt , New York University ; Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan

Hear from leaders of four research centers about new directions and challenges in this field

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
For Current Fellows

Medicine for the Jewish Nation: Pathologizing Jewish Orthodoxy in Maskilic Medical Discourse in the Late Eighteenth Century >

Featuring: Christoph Schulte, University of Potsdam
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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.

Meet the Fellows
Next Year's Theme
Antisemitism Postdoc

Blog

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Magdalena Janosikova on the History of Medicine in Early Modern Ashkenaz
February 25, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Magdalena Janosikova on the History of Medicine in Early Modern Ashkenaz
by Magdalena Janosikova, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Natalie Dohrmann talks with fellow Magdalena Janosikova about her work on the distinct physicality of illness and treatment in Ashkenaz that is often obscured by written sources

New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2025
February 24, 2025
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2025
by The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Katz Center–Supported Scholarship Recognized in the National Jewish Book Awards
February 7, 2025
Katz Center–Supported Scholarship Recognized in the National Jewish Book Awards
by Adrienne Atkins

2024 winners and finalists developed their research in the halls of the Katz Center and in the pages of Katz Center publications.

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