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