In June, the Katz Center partnered with Penn Libraries and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) to launch their first MOOC. This Massive Open Online Course brings together the Katz Center’s scholarly networks with the extraordinary collections of SIMS to push Jewish scholarship into an exciting new collaborative space, and to reach interested audiences worldwide.

The Jewish Quarterly Review has an interest in both sides of the scholar—the archival hermit and the public intellectual, the long form creator of knowledge, the pithy essayist, the revealer of the telling footnote. Short-form scholarship is featured in several recent and upcoming issues. 

Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times has now been published in the Jewish Culture and Contexts series at Penn Press. Edited by Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz, the volume is the product of the 2009-2010 fellowship year, "Secularism and Its Discontents."

The Penn Libraries and its Judaica collections are honored to accept the landmark donation of Rabbi Michael Strassfeld's personal papers and Jewish sound recording collection. Taken together, the collection comprises forty-five linear feet of primary source materials for studying American Judaism and Jewish culture since the 1960s.