International Fellowship Program

Jews and Health

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The 2024–25 fellowship year is devoted to supporting new research at the intersection of Jewish studies and the study of health, medicine, and the body.  The cohort of scholars will look at illness health in Jewish life and thought through a range of lenses: examining institutions and social systems, histories of medicine, gender, literary discourse, and social sciences using data drawn from antiquity to the present.

Blog

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Vastly Expands the Map of Medieval Jewish Knowledge Transfer
March 21, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Vastly Expands the Map of Medieval Jewish Knowledge Transfer
by Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim opens our eyes to the to the fascinating and understudied medical knowledge networks that run along the Silk Routes

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Uzi Rebhun on the Importance of Counting
March 6, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Uzi Rebhun on the Importance of Counting
by Uzi Rebhun, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Uzi Rebhun trains his demographer’s lens on the Jewish American response to Covid-19

Demonesses All Around
February 28, 2025
Demonesses All Around
by The Jewish Quarterly Review

Amulets for warding off demons become portals to meditations on women and history in two new (free) essays by Avigail Manekin-Bamberger and Andrea Gondos