Blog

Jan
15
January 15, 2025
The Katz Center Joins Instagram
by
Kathryn Maxwell

Follow the Katz Center on Instagram!

Jan
14
January 14, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Hannah Zaves-Greene Talks Disability Studies and American Jewish History
by
Hannah E. Zaves-Greene, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Hannah Zaves-Greene talks about the ways Jews took on discriminatory immigration laws in the US by redefining what it meant to be a healthy citizen

Jan
7
January 07, 2025
Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Marek Tuszewicki on Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe
by
Marek Tuszewicki, Natalie B. Dohrmann

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Marek Tuszewicki on the knowledge and practice of healthcare as a pastiche of a different sources and authorities in the Ashkenazi communities of Eastern Europe

Dec
18
December 18, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Essays on Sephardi and Mizrahi Modernity
by
Anne Oravetz Albert

JQR’s latest forum, on the modern history of Jews in the Middle East, upends Western-centric narratives of modernity. 

Dec
10
December 10, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
Telling Tales, Rabbi-Style
by
Natalie B. Dohrmann

When a trusted rabbinic sage tells you he has just seen a frog larger than a castle with his own eyes, should you believe him? 

Dec
5
December 05, 2024
Announcing New Titles in the Jewish Culture and Contexts Series: Fall 2024
by
Adrienne Atkins

This year saw twelve new books in the Katz Center’s award-winning book series

Nov
27
November 27, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2024
by
The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Oct
25
October 25, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
The Art of the Memory Palace according to Isaac Arama
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

In the current issue of JQR, Rachel B. Katz explores a Jewish adaptation of classical ars memorativa centered on common prayers

Oct
18
October 18, 2024
October 7 as Turning Point in Jewish History
by
The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Marking the anniversary of October 7, 2023, and its aftermath in university and political life, five prominent historians of Judaism reflect on the date as a watershed for American Jewish history

Sep
27
September 27, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
"Reading Bialik in Tehran"
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Daniel Amir turns to the Persian press to show us how Iranian Jewish intellectuals and activists saw, imagined, and attempted to shape their world in the vibrant years before 1948

Sep
6
September 06, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2024
by
The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Sep
4
September 04, 2024
Healing in an Age of Limbotopia
by
Steven Weitzman

Looking for healing and hope within the darkness of the present

Aug
29
August 29, 2024
Jews and Health: Gems from the Archives
by
Kathryn Maxwell

A round-up of the Katz Center’s past posts related to Jews and health

Aug
26
August 26, 2024
More New Acquisitions for the Penn Libraries
by
Kathryn Maxwell

Just a few of the exciting new items in our collections

Aug
23
August 23, 2024
Breaking News
by
Arthur Kiron

Penn acquires Jorge Luis Borges’s handwritten draft of “Yo, Judío”