2023–2024 Fellowship: The Sound and Music of Jewish Life
Applications Open for 2023–2024 Fellowship
The Katz Center invites applications from scholars working on projects related to the study of sound, music, and aurality in Jewish life—past and present. Applications are due October 24, 2022.
Meet the fellows!
2022–23 Fellowship Theme: Jews and Modern Legal Culture
The Katz Center is thrilled to announce the cohort for the 2022–23 academic year, engaging the theme of Jews and Modern Legal Culture.
About Us
Jewish History, Texts, Cultures, Ideas, and Experiences
Katz Center research spans all periods of Jewish history, from distant antiquity through to the present day; it reaches into every part of the globe where Jews have lived, and it is grounded in a wide range of disciplines and approaches.
JQR 112.2 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.
In partnership with Penn’s Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
New Virtual Course
"In the Margins of a Medieval Jewish Prayer Book: What Can Physical Manuscripts Tell Us about History?" is taught by Elisabeth Hollender, Professor of Jewish History at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The Katz Center is a global leader in the study of Jewish civilization.
An Interview with Katz Center Fellow Marc Herman
"Jews had a legal culture long before they came under the aegis of Islam, even before they were known as Jews. But the spread of Islam brought about many changes to Jewish societies."
