Bodies in [E]motion: Affect and Rabbinic Ritual Law
Katz Center
420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows and invited guests only.
Featuring
Sarah Wolf
Jewish Theological Seminary
Sarah Wolf is an assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Her research interests include scholasticism, legal theory, and the history of emotions. Her current book project examines the construction of emotions as legal categories in rabbinic literature. At the Katz Center, she will investigate the legislation of emotions including joy and mourning in rabbinic law, considering how these legal texts functioned as a late antique Jewish version of mental health discourse.
Wolf received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is also a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.