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Call for Applications

The Katz Center is now accepting applications for the 2020–2021 fellowship year focused on the theme of America's Jewish Questions.
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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

The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In

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The 2019–20 fellowship program takes as its focus the study of the home, and seeks to advance research that will shed light on this most formative and intimate of contexts for Jewish life. The fellowship will support scholarship on the Jewish home across many different thresholds and look back out from the home into the broader world.

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Blog

  • New Podcast on Religion and the Global Future

    Monday Aug. 5, 2019

    Much of what the Katz Center does is focused on the past, but sometimes we try to look into the future. That is what we attempted to do in the spring of 2019 by organizing a series of public talks focused on how religion is shaping the future of the globe. We are pleased to be able to share with you a seven-part podcast based on that lecture series.

  • Secrets and Lies: Truth, Evidence, and Deception in Jewish History and Culture

    Tuesday Jul. 23, 2019

    Twenty-five graduate students from around the world recently convened in Jerusalem for the fifth Summer School for Graduate Students in Jewish Studies. This year’s week-long program focused on the theme of “Secrets and Lies: Truth, Evidence, and Deception in Jewish History and Culture.”