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Gruss Colloquium

Order, Reorder, and Disorder: Jews and Muslims Encountering the Modern Era

May 5–6, 2019
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2019–2020 Fellows Announced

The Katz Center will devote the 2019–20 fellowship year to the theme of The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In.

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A Center for Scholarship

A residential fellowship program supports innovative, interdisciplinary research into all aspects of Jewish history, thought, and culture, structured around an annual theme.
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A Global Hub

At the Center's core is a residential fellowship program that supports research into all aspects of Jewish history, society, thought, & culture. The fellowship is built around an annual theme designed to stimulate the best new thinking across discipline.
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A Library

The Library at the Katz Center maintains extraordinary rare book and Judaica holdings, and its visionary librarians are on the forefront of open-access, digital, and collaborative efforts.
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A Publishing Engine

From the flagship journal the Jewish Quarterly Review to the Jewish Culture and Contexts book series published with the University of Pennsylvania Press, the Center supports the publication of outstanding scholarship.
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Twenty-First Century Learning

Promoting learning for its own sake, the Center partners with a variety of institutions and uses digital media to make the best scholarship available and meaningful beyond the academy.
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A Field Builder

Through mentorship, graduate programs, and support for early-career scholars, the Center is committed to transmitting scholarship across generations and securing a solid foundation for the future of Judaic studies.
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Fellowship Theme

Jewish Life in Modern Islamic Contexts

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The 2018–19 fellowship program will take as its focus the study of Jews in modern Islamic contexts. The fellowship will support scholarship on Jewish life, culture and thought as these have developed in modern times across North Africa, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and Central and South Asia.

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Blog

  • Penn Libraries Announces the Gift of Two Iconic Documents of American Jewish History

    Thursday Apr. 18, 2019

    A generous gift from Robert V. Waife, great-grandson of the writer Sholem Aleichem and President of the Sholom Aleichem Network, Inc. has brought two iconic documents of American Jewish History, the handwritten ethical will and tombstone epitaph of celebrated Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, to the Penn Libraries.

  • Katz Center Fellow Hadar Feldman Samet on Sabbateanism

    Monday Apr. 15, 2019

    Katz Center director Steven Weitzman sits down with Hadar Feldman Samet, who researches the lives and texts of the Sabbatean Ma’aminim, their syncretic religion, and the development of Sabbateanism.