Applications for the 2021–2022 academic year are now open
Call for Applications: Premodern Law
The Katz Center seeks to support scholars working on law as a dynamic feature of Jewish culture in premodern contexts, spanning from antiquity to the eighteenth century. This is the first of two successive fellowship years devoted to Jews and the law.
Pursuing research on the topic of America’s Jewish Questions.
Announcing the 2020–2021 Fellows
Read Katz Center director Steve Weitzman’s welcome to the incoming cohort of scholars on the Center blog.
JQR 110.2 now available.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review
The oldest English-language journal in the field of Jewish studies has a new issue, available online and in print. See the Table of Contents on our blog.
A letter to the University of Pennsylvania community during a difficult time
A Personal Message from Penn's President
"This is a generation-defining moment. And like every such moment that has gone before, it is not only the crisis itself but also how we respond that matters most."
Coming Up
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Please check back at the start of the next semester.
