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 Alanna E. Cooper, a cultural anthropologist whose work addresses contemporary Jewish life in the United States.
Beth Kissileff reflects on the shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue and on Bound in the Bond of Life, a new essay collection that tells stories too complicated and painful to be reduced to a monument.
The current fellowship cohort, including leading figures in the field alongside new generations of scholars, launched the 2020–21 academic year focused on the theme of "America's Jewish Questions."
In recognition of Ione Abfelbaum Strauss' many contributions to the University of Pennsylvania, including her role as a trustee of the University, President Amy Gutmann and Chairman David Cohen have sent the following tribute to trustees past and present.
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 Elazar Ben-Lulu, who is an anthropologist of religion and gender with a particular interest in the intersection of LGBTQ identities and Judaism.
Even as the Nazi state closed in, many bourgeois Jews continued to lead bourgeois lives, leaving records of vacations and family gatherings. Ashkenazi and Miron read these images and words, so apparently anodyne, and yet impossibly so.
JQR editor David Myers chats with contributor Wojciech Tworek about new paradigms in the study of Hasidism on the horizon of Modernity, Shimon Engel, and the loss of a beloved teacher.
Reform is always a destruction of something that exists to make way for the new. Eve Krakowski looks at a moment of halakhic reform and traces its collateral damage on women's lives.
