Blog | Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

May

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May 12, 2025

Catch ‘Em All! Conversations with Fellows

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Kathryn Maxwell

The 2024–2025 fellows share the interests and inspirations that animate their scholarship

May

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May 09, 2025

SIMS-Katz Fellow Sacha Stern Initiates Us into the Art and Science of Medieval Timekeeping

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Arthur Kiron

Looking for dating advice? Read on!

May

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May 08, 2025

Plague, Poetry, and Prayer: Three Manuscripts Join the Penn Libraries

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Kathryn Maxwell

A selection of fascinating new items in our collections

May

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May 07, 2025

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Ahuvia Goren on the Circulation of the Idea of Circulation

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Ahuvia Goren, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Ahuvia Goren traces heated debates over the function of the heart and brain and in so doing reveals the broad and complex circulation of ideas in early modern Europe

May

5

May 05, 2025

Jewish Quarterly Review

New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2025

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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in brief

May

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May 01, 2025

The Katz Center Is Hiring

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The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

The Center is looking for a new director of public programming

Apr

24

April 24, 2025

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Wendy Zierler Finds Where Storytelling, Medicine, and Gender Come Together in Modern Hebrew Literature

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Wendy Zierler, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Wendy Zierler is a polymath whose hard-to-pin-down scholarly identity brings creative verve to her scholarship

Apr

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April 23, 2025

Jewish Quarterly Review

Anne Albert Flies the Coop

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Natalie B. Dohrmann, David Myers

JQR says farewell to its executive editor

Apr

23

April 23, 2025

A Sweet Sorrow

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Steven Weitzman

Steve Weitzman pays tribute to departing director of public programs Anne Albert

Apr

10

April 10, 2025

Jewish Quarterly Review

Beyond Columbus: What DNA Can—and Can’t—Tell Us about Jewish History

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Flora Cassen

Flora Cassen shows how, if used wisely, ancient DNA can serve the work of Jewish history

Apr

1

April 01, 2025

Jewish Quarterly Review

Sticking It to the Man

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David Myers

Sam Shuman traces the transformation of a modest ultra-Orthodox rabbi into an emblem of Haredi countercultural resistance

Mar

28

March 28, 2025

Jewish Quarterly Review

Helena Frank: Turn-of-the-Century Translator in JQR's Old Series

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Adrienne Atkins

In honor of Women’s History Month, JQR is highlighting one of its earliest women contributors, the fascinating but now mostly-unknown Helena Frank

Mar

21

March 21, 2025

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Vastly Expands the Map of Medieval Jewish Knowledge Transfer

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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

Mar

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March 06, 2025

Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Uzi Rebhun on the Importance of Counting

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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

Feb

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February 28, 2025

Jewish Quarterly Review

Demonesses All Around

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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