David
Zvi
Kalman

University of Pennsylvania

Bio

David Zvi Kalman is a scholar of medieval Islamic law and culture, history of technology, Jewish law and culture, legal theory, and material culture.

Kalman received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation titled “Unequal Hours: The Jewish Reception of Timekeeping Technology from the Bible to the Twentieth Century.”

Fellowship

2019–2020

Devoted to the home, and seeking to advance research that will shed light on this most formative and intimate of contexts for Jewish life.