Marci Seder is the Center’s academic programs coordinator. She was most recently a local coordinator for the largest au pair agency in the United States. Marci has a B.S. in Food Science from the University of Maryland, College Park and an M.S. in the Science of Instruction from Drexel University.
THE KATZ CENTER is delighted to announce the incoming cohort of international fellows for the 2024–25 fellowship year devoted to new research at the intersection of Jewish studies and medicine, broadly conceived. The cohort is made of scholars working on a fascinatingly diverse set of projects that intersect where questions of the Jewish body, illness and health converge. Through the lens of medicine and health, these projects open new vistas into questions of gender, histories of institutions, science and religion, life and death, sociology and politics.
Join us in celebrating three past fellows who won recognition for their books by the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer Book award committee of the AJS.
During the fall semester of 2023, the Center built on the theme of music and sound to create a range of intellectual partnerships, developing scholarly programming that enhanced and expanded the discussions happening around the seminar table and in the hallways at 420 Walnut Street.
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Through a generous gift to the School of Arts & Sciences, the Goldhirsh-Yellin Foundation has established the Goldhirsh-Yellin Program Fund for the Study of Jewish History and Culture in Israel and the Goldhirsh-Yellin Program Fund for the Study of Antisemitism in the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
The major New York Times article from Sunday, September 11 on Hasidic education in New York has elicited a huge outpouring of responses on social media from many different quarters—critics of the school system, supporters, and, quite noticeably, many within the Hasidic community itself. It is hard to recall a story in which the Haredi community in the United States has been the focus of such wide national visibility and scrutiny.