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2025–26 Fellowship Theme: New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life
Meet the 2025–26 cohort!
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Announcing the Ross-Silk-Lowenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
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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.

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Blog

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?

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Adam Ferziger Brings Up the Bones
June 3, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Adam Ferziger Brings Up the Bones
by Adam S. Ferziger, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Adam Ferziger take a capacious look at the growing but not uncontroversial Jewish practice of cremation

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