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2025 Annual Spring Colloquium in Judaic Studies

Jews and Health Bodies, Perceptions, Practices
Monday, April 28–Tuesday, April 29 | Amado Recital, Irvine Auditorium
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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.
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The TOC in Brief

New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2025
JQR 115.1 is now available, online and in print

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.

Meet the Fellows
Next Year's Theme
Antisemitism Postdoc

Blog

Sticking It to the Man
April 1, 2025
Sticking It to the Man
by David Myers

Sam Shuman traces the transformation of a modest ultra-Orthodox rabbi into an emblem of Haredi countercultural resistance

Helena Frank: Turn-of-the-Century Translator in JQR's Old Series
March 28, 2025
Helena Frank: Turn-of-the-Century Translator in JQR's Old Series
by Adrienne Atkins

In honor of Women’s History Month, JQR is highlighting one of its earliest women contributors, the fascinating but now mostly-unknown Helena Frank

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Vastly Expands the Map of Medieval Jewish Knowledge Transfer
March 21, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Vastly Expands the Map of Medieval Jewish Knowledge Transfer
by Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim opens our eyes to the to the fascinating and understudied medical knowledge networks that run along the Silk Routes

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