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28th Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture in Judaic Studies, November 15 at 5:15 pm

Plague and the Persecution of Minorities
How the new sciences of plague are changing our understanding of responses to the Black Death.
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2025–26 Fellowship

New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life: Cultural Expansions, Encounters, and Experiments
Contemporary Jewish life constitutes an ever-expanding cultural landscape, teeming with multiple possibilities for doing and being Jewish.
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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.

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

The Art of the Memory Palace according to Isaac Arama
October 25, 2024
The Art of the Memory Palace according to Isaac Arama
by The Jewish Quarterly Review

In the current issue of JQR, Rachel B. Katz explores a Jewish adaptation of classical ars memorativa centered on common prayers

October 7 as Turning Point in Jewish History
October 18, 2024
October 7 as Turning Point in Jewish History
by The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Marking the anniversary of October 7, 2023, and its aftermath in university and political life, five prominent historians of Judaism reflect on the date as a watershed for American Jewish history

"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

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