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Wednesday, November 6, 2019
For Current Fellows

“A Trunk and That Which Is In It”: Domestic Culture in the Geniza Society >

Featuring: Miriam Frenkel, 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, October 30, 2019
For Current Fellows

Deconstructing Home on Temple Grounds and the Creation of a Threatening Other >

Featuring: Marjorie Lehman, Jewish Theological Seminary

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

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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
For Current Fellows

Jewish Homes and Museums: Empty Houses, Domestic Reflections >

Featuring: Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University

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

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
For Current Fellows

“Building Resilience”: Negotiating Experiences of Home and Belonging along the Border of Israel and Gaza >

Featuring: Keren Friedman-Peleg, The College of Management-Academic Studies

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

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Wednesday, October 2, 2019
For Current Fellows

Freudian Rooms >

Featuring: Liliane Weissberg, 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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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
For Current Fellows

The Eruv as Metaphor for Jewish Homemaking in the Diaspora >

Featuring: Leora Auslander, University of Chicago

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

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Wednesday, September 18, 2019
For Current Fellows

Rooms with a View: Exploring the Jewish Home >

Featuring: Leora Auslander, University of Chicago; Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Joshua Teplitsky, University of Pennsylvania; Jenna Weissman Joselit

As a way to inaugurate its new fellowship year devoted to the theme of The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In, this opening panel explores Jewish experience from the perspective of different rooms in the house.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2019
For Current Fellows

Hebrew Prose by Late-Ottoman Rabbis from Eretz Yisrael >

Featuring: Keren Dotan, Open University of Israel
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
For Current Fellows

"The Hebrew Tongue That Prevails in Our Times": Jewish Moroccan Language and Writing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century >

Featuring: Yigal S. Nizri, University of Toronto
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
For Current Fellows

The Way It Mattered: Jewishness as Social Identity in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt >

Featuring: Alon Tam, University of Pennsylvania
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