Ruth Meltzer Seminar | Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Yirah, Law, and the Birth of Modern Hebrew Literature >

Featuring: Tafat Hacohen-Bick, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows and invited guests only.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

For Current Fellows

Limitations on Access to Jewish “Law” in Jewish Studies >

Featuring: Dana Hollander, McMaster University

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows and invited guests only.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

For Current Fellows

“Like a Dead Weight on the Intellect’s Wings”: Virtue, Law, and Persecution in Moses Mendelssohn’s Ethics >

Featuring: Sarah Zager, St. Olaf College

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows and invited guests only.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

For Current Fellows

The Ultra-Orthodox Politicization of Judaism: Isaac Breuer’s Radicalization of Neo-Kantian Legal Philosophy >

Featuring: Itamar Ben Ami, Humboldt University of Berlin

At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows and invited guests only.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

For Current Fellows

On the Tracks of Haim Guedalla: Debt, Default and State Making in the 19th Century >

Featuring: Marc Flandreau, University of Pennsylvania

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

For Current Fellows

Ottoman Legal Reforms and Jewish Self-Determination in the Ottoman State, 1839–1880 >

Featuring: Tamir Karkason, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

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Monday, December 5, 2022

For Current Fellows

Yirah, Law, and the Birth of Modern Hebrew Literature >

Limitations on Access to Jewish “Law” in Jewish Studies >

“Like a Dead Weight on the Intellect’s Wings”: Virtue, Law, and Persecution in Moses Mendelssohn’s Ethics >

The Ultra-Orthodox Politicization of Judaism: Isaac Breuer’s Radicalization of Neo-Kantian Legal Philosophy >

On the Tracks of Haim Guedalla: Debt, Default and State Making in the 19th Century >

Ottoman Legal Reforms and Jewish Self-Determination in the Ottoman State, 1839–1880 >

The New American Halakhah: The Praxis of the Contemporary American Beth Din >

A Jewish Indictment for Nuremberg: The New York Black Book of 1946 >

Legal Foundations of the Diasporic Jewish Nation >

Frankist Memory in the Brandeis Family and the American Law of Privacy >