England | Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Uri Erman asks how British opera both aided and undermined the acculturation of Jewish vocal artists in the 18th and 19th centuries

Steve Weitzman (SW): Uri, might you begin by telling us a bit about your larger project on opera in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and what led you to this interest?

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Katz Center’s Becky Friedman on Jews and Jewishness in English Renaissance Drama

Steven P. Weitzman (SPW): Becky, first of all, I have to convey a huge congratulations on completing your doctorate. It is quite an accomplishment to have completed a dissertation while working full time at the Katz Center and living through a pandemic.

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The 19th-Century Convert Moses Margoliouth

In the current issue, David Ruderman explores the lonely life of Moses Margoliouth (1818–1881), a Polish Jew who became a Christian scholar and a minister in the Anglican church. Filled with religious certainty and intellectual confidence...