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Wednesday, December 8, 2021
For Current Fellows

Jewish Litigation and Legal Performance at Germany’s Imperial Supreme Court (1511–1690) >

Featuring: Tamar Menashe, Columbia University

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

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
For Current Fellows

The Medieval Myth of Ancient Customary Law >

Featuring: Ada Kuskowski, University of Pennsylvania

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

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
For Current Fellows

An Investigation of the Geonic Institution of the "scholars of the siyuma (redaction) circle" in the Context of Islamic and Medieval Legal Cultures >

Featuring: Paul Mandel, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies

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

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
For Current Fellows

Rethinking Premodern Jewish Legal Cultures: A Roundtable Opening Discussion >

Featuring: Beth Berkowitz, Barnard College; Jay R. Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts Amherst/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania

The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies devotes its 2021–22 fellowship year to new research in the study of Jews and premodern law, aiming to advance a field that is rethinking core assumptions and moving in new and interconnected directions.

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Monday, March 22, 2021
For Current Fellows

Cold War Zionisms >

Featuring: Noam Pianko, University of Washington

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

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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
For Current Fellows

Inventing the Refugee: United States Activists and Refugee Policy, 1945–1965 >

Featuring: Libby Garland, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY

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

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Monday, April 5, 2021
For Current Fellows

Christian Passover Seders and Other Sites of Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Postwar America >

Featuring: Jessica Cooperman, Muhlenberg College

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

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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
For Current Fellows

The Discourse of Jewish Literacy and Illiteracy >

Featuring: Jon Levisohn, Brandeis University

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

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
For Current Fellows

Celebrations in LGBT Families: A Comparative Analysis of Reform Jewish Life-Cycle Rituals in the United States and Israel >

Featuring: Elazar Ben-Lulu, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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

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Wednesday, March 17, 2021
For Current Fellows

Playing in the Land of Milk and Honey: Southern Jewish Theatre Circuits in Nineteenth-Century America >

Featuring: Heather Nathans, Tufts University

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

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