Wednesday, February 26, 2020
For Current Fellows

From a Shtetl House to an Urban Apartment: Jewish Home Transformed, Reimagined, Negotiated >

Featuring: Anna Kushkova, University of North Carolina

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
For Current Fellows

Homeless in their Home/land: Mizrahis, Gender, and Public Housing in Israel >

Featuring: Claris Harbon, McGill University

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020
For Current Fellows

“If Only Women Were Building the Houses”: Home Planning as a Gender Issue in Eretz Yisrael >

Featuring: Sigal Davidi, Tel Aviv University

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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Wednesday, February 5, 2020
For Current Fellows

Dwelling with the Dead in Ancient Israel and Beyond >

Featuring: Melissa S. Cradic, Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology, Pacific School of Religion

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
For Current Fellows

A Jewish Home-in-the-Making: Practice, Discourse, and Memory of German-Jewish Homemaking in Emigration >

Featuring: Viola Alianov-Rautenberg, Institute for the History of German Jewry

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
For Current Fellows

“Show Me How You Build and I’ll Tell You Who You Are”: Jewish House Inscriptions in German-Speaking Countries >

Featuring: Nathanael Riemer, University of Potsdam

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
For Current Fellows

Multireligious Households in Venetian Jewish Homes during the Early Modern Era >

Featuring: Federica Francesconi, University at Albany, SUNY

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
For Current Fellows

A Prison and an Escape: Photographs of Jewish Homes in Nazi Germany >

Featuring: Ofer Ashkenazi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
For Current Fellows

On Judaism, Neglect, and Poverty in the Jewish Sections of Warsaw at the Turn of the Century >

Featuring: Ela Bauer, Kibbutzim College of Education

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
For Current Fellows

“I, the Widow, Do Solemnly Swear...” Plague, Survival, and Domestic Material Culture in Early Modern Prague >

Featuring: Joshua Teplitsky, University of Pennsylvania

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.

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