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Announcing the 2021–22 fellows: Rethinking Premodern Jewish Legal Cultures.

The Library at the Katz Center highlights special acquisitions that reflect the possibility of overcoming trauma and rebuilding lives. 

Carlo Ginzburg and Francesca Trivellato spoke to the Katz Center about Jews, microhistory, and global paradigms.

Marking the end of a yearlong encounter between scholars and rabbis.

This blog post is part of a series focused on the research of current fellows. In this edition, Katz Center Director Steven Weitzman sits down with Britt Tevis, a historian with special interests in law and Jewish studies.

An upcoming conference opens new conversations about Jewish history in the Atlantic world.

This blog post is part of a series focused on the research of current fellows. In this edition, Katz Center Director Steven Weitzman sits down with Ayelet Brinn, a historian of American Jewish culture whose research examines the history of American Jewish print.

Emily Esten has been named the inaugural Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities. The new role—the world’s first endowed position in Judaica digital humanities—was established by a series of gifts from Arnold and Deanne Kaplan in 2019.

Penn’s Judaica Collections announce the acquisition of the largest private assemblage of its kind.

The series will use the prism of Jewish experience to examine intersections of race and religion, drawing lessons from the history of antisemitism, examining the role of Jews in the racialized culture of the United States, and exploring the impact of race on Jewish experience.