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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

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Adam Ferziger Brings Up the Bones
June 3, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Adam Ferziger Brings Up the Bones
by Adam S. Ferziger, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Adam Ferziger take a capacious look at the growing but not uncontroversial Jewish practice of cremation

A Battle of the Sexes in Early Modern Italy
June 2, 2025
A Battle of the Sexes in Early Modern Italy
by The Jewish Quarterly Review

In JQR 115.2 Ahuvia Goren jumps into the messy divorce of two learned and sharp-tongued Jews

New Titles in the Jewish Culture and Contexts Series: Spring 2025
May 29, 2025
New Titles in the Jewish Culture and Contexts Series: Spring 2025
by Adrienne Atkins

Two new books on the interaction between modern media and Jewish life published by the Katz Center’s series with Penn Press