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2024–2025
Exploring health through the intersection between bodies and systems, language and physicality...
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2023-2024
This year is devoted to the study of sound and music as a part of Jewish life, and we are delighted...
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2022–2023
Studying law between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, an age of transition from a world of...
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2021–2022
Focusing on the broad contexts in which Jewish (and Israelite) law was developed by and for Jews...
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2020–2021
Delving into some of the most pressing debates within US history and Jewish history, and examining...
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2019–2020
Devoted to the home, and seeking to advance research that will shed light on this most formative and...
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2018–2019
Delving into the meaning of modernity beyond the European, American, and Israeli contexts, looking...
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2017–2018
Posing new questions about the theories, institutions, and paradigms shaping the study of nature...
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2016–2017
Asking if and how Jewish history , culture , and experience offered new paradigms with which to...
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2015–2016
Exploring aspects of internal life that lie beyond reason—emotions and feelings, the unconscious...
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2014–2015
Deepening our understanding of the intellectual revolution at the heart of modern Jewish history.
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2013–2014
Investigating changes across the early modern Jewish world .
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2012–2013
Devoting intense study to a complex century characterized by the entanglement of Jewish, Christian...
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2011–2012
Applying an interdisciplinary approach to the richness and diversity of travel writing.
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2010–2011
Examining the boundary between Judaism and other religions with a concurrent study of parallel...
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2009–2010
Engaging in a critical analysis of secularization, the secular, and secularism, and their effects on...
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2008–2009
Working to expose the shifting linkages between commerce and culture in Jewish life from medieval to...
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2007–2008
Focusing on the imperial context of Judaism in Antiquity, in a decidedly interdisciplinary mode.
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2006–2007
Encouraging a broad view of Islamic societies and fostering new approaches to their religious...
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2005–2006
Studying all facets of the Jewish book—treating it as a historical agent in Jewish culture and as a...
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2004–2005
Meditating on modern Jewish literature in its entirety and all its methods of study.
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2003–2004
Challenging the methodological divide between history and anthropology in the study of Jews and...
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2002–2003
Mining the extraordinarily rich history and culture of East European Jewry.
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2001–2002
Examining the various modes of scriptural interpretation in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
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2000–2001
Delving into the complex relationship between Jews, the arts, and Jewish culture.
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1999–2000
Devoting an entire year of study to the subject of Christian Hebraism, especially in early modern...
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1998–1999 (1)
Analyzing simultaneously medieval poetry and the texts and philosophical issues of the Haskalah.
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1998–1999 (2)
Analyzing simultaneously medieval poetry and the texts and philosophical issues of the Haskalah.
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1997–1998
Interrogating the relationship between ancient Israelite culture and neighboring cultures in the...
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1996–1997 (1)
Examining the commonalities and divergences of Jewish life in Israel and America in the twentieth...
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1996–1997 (2)
Examining the commonalities and divergences of Jewish life in Israel and America in the twentieth...
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1995–1996
Looking at the relationship of oral and written modes of cultural transmission , the relative values...
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1994–1995
Taking stock of the distinctive properties of, and putative boundary between, traditional memory and...
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1993–1994
Examining the multivalent relationship between law and spirituality in Ancient Near Eastern...