Blog

Apr
26
April 26, 2022
Announcing the 2022–23 Fellows

Announcing the 2022–23 fellows: Jews and Modern Legal Culture.

Mar
31
March 31, 2022
Katz Center Fellow Marc Herman on Medieval Judaism, Islamic Legal Theory, and a New Genre of Jewish Thought
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Marc Herman

This blog post is part of a series focused on the research of current fellows. In this edition, the Katz Center’s Becky Friedman sits down with Marc Herman, who researches the ways that medieval Jews deployed Islamic legal theory when writing about the Oral Torah.

Mar
10
March 10, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2022
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Mar
9
March 09, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
The Ironies of History: The Ukraine Crisis through the Lens of Jewish History
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David Myers, The Jewish Quarterly Review

In this JQR forum, four historians of Jewish Eastern Europe reflect on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Feb
8
February 08, 2022
Jewish Political Theology: A Conversation between Fields
by
Miriam Jerade

Miguel Vatter’s book Living Law shows the potential unleashed when disciplinary divides are breached.

Jan
13
January 13, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
Jewish Latin American Studies: A Conversation
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

JQR 111.4 features a forum focused on exciting new work being done in Latin American Jewish studies—a thrilling exploration of an untapped field in American and global Jewish studies. Ilan Stavans and Ranaan Rein convened the contributors to that forum for a virtual round table to discuss the field.

Jan
12
January 12, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2021
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief.

Jan
5
January 05, 2022
In Memory of Samuel Klausner

The Katz Center mourns the recent passing of Samuel Klausner.

Nov
16
November 16, 2021
Spectacular New Acquisition: A Pair of 18th Century American Jewish Portrait Paintings

The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica at the Penn Libraries expands its holdings of early American Jewish portrait paintings.

Nov
10
November 10, 2021
The Wayfarer’s Prayer in manuscript: Karp BVIII.7
by
Louis Meiselman

Penn Libraries' Rare Judaica Cataloging Librarian examines a special case of the Wayfarer’s Prayer.

Oct
20
October 20, 2021
Jewish Quarterly Review
Bricks without Mortar: Looking at Lists
by
Natalie B. Dohrmann

Read the introduction to JQR’s latest forum on the topic of the list.

Oct
13
October 13, 2021
Kicking off the 2021–2022 Katz Center Public Programs

Free online lectures scheduled through January!

Sep
29
September 29, 2021
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2021
by
The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief.

Sep
10
September 10, 2021
In Memory of Howard Reiter
by
Steven Weitzman

The Katz Center mourns the recent passing of Howard Reiter.

Aug
12
August 12, 2021
In the Margins of a Medieval Jewish Prayer Book: The New SIMS-Katz MOOC

New edX course exploring a fourteenth-century Mahzor, from the Katz Center and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies.