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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.

Fellowship Info
Next Year

Blog

  • Katz Center Scholars Respond to Christchurch

    Friday Mar. 22, 2019

    Following the horrific events in the mosques of Christchurch which occurred on March 15th, the current Katz Center fellows have released the following statement of support: As scholars of Jews in the Islamic world and related subjects, we are stricken by the attacks on the mosques in New Zealand. We protest the bigotry and hatred that fueled the terrorism. We extend sympathy to the victims, their family, friends, and community. Inna lilahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.

  • Katz Center Announces 2019–20 “Home” Fellows

    Tuesday Mar. 19, 2019

    On behalf of the Katz Center, I am delighted to announce our fellowship cohort for the academic year 2019–20, focused on the theme of "The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In."