Family, Loss, and Preservation: Sarah Abrevaya Stein at NMAJH
When we invited Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein of UCLA to give a public lecture this year, it was because her work in Sephardi and Mizrahi history is especially compelling, and...
What Do You Know? Sephardi vs. Mizrahi
In the series What Do You Know?, we feature scholars’ answers to questions about Jewish history and culture submitted by our readers.
An anonymous reader asks,
“What is the difference between “Sephardi” and “Mizrahi”?”
Current fellow Dina Danon answers:
Katz Center Fellow Yuval Evri on Arab-Jewish Thought and Modern Hebrew & Arabic Literatures
This blog post is part of a series focused on the research of current fellows. In this edition, Steven Weitzman sits down with Yuval Evri to explore his research project, "Between Partitions and Translations: Arab-Jewish Cultural Visions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."
Opening Seminar: Some Notes on the Idea of Modernity in the MENA
The Katz Center's 2018–19 fellowship year kicked off last week with a panel discussion.
Jewish Life in Modern Islamic Contexts
When it comes to Jewish history, many of us know about the West. What about the rest?
