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2025–26 Fellowship Theme: New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life
Meet the 2025–26 cohort!
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2026–27 Fellowship

War and Peace in Jewish Thought and History
War has been a part of Jewish experience since its very beginnings, and so too has the aspiration for peace.
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Announcing the Ross-Silk-Lowenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
The Katz Center welcomes Mendel Kranz
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The TOC in Brief

New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2025
JQR 115.2 is now available, online and in print

The Katz Center is a global leader in the study of Jewish civilization.

International Fellowship Program

New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life: Cultural Expansions, Encounters, and Experiments

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The 2025–26 fellowship year is devoted to exploring how individuals, groups, and institutions are imagining and pushing forward new Jewish formations to create and inhabit previously uncharted territories. The cohort of scholars will examine what it means to live, worship, and affiliate Jewishly in this diversified landscape.

Meet the Fellows
Next Year's Theme

Blog

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Carmen Caballero Navas Knows a *Lot* about Medieval Gynecology
July 9, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center fellow Carmen Caballero Navas Knows a *Lot* about Medieval Gynecology
by Carmen Caballero Navas, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Carmen Caballero Navas finds women’s expertise as laced between the lines of male-authored medieval gynecological texts 

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Xandy Frisch Centers the Religious Body in Her Understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls
June 27, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Xandy Frisch Centers the Religious Body in Her Understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Xandy Frisch, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Xandy Frisch sees changing religious purity laws as evidence of communal trauma

Christian Stadel Connects the Dots
June 23, 2025
Christian Stadel Connects the Dots
by The Jewish Quarterly Review

How did the Hanukkah story make its way from the Hasmonean era to the Babylonian geonim?

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