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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 2d

There are 5 weeks left to apply to the Katz Center's 2026–27 fellowship, War and Peace in Jewish Thought and History. Click below to learn more!
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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 5d

Check out a few highlights from this week's seminar: fellow Marjorie Feld led the talk, From the Roots: A History of the Sustainable Jewish Farming Movement.

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 7d

We're thrilled to share that 2024–25 fellow Wendy Zierler's new book, Going Out with Knots was just published today by University of Nebraska Press.
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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 8d

This #fellowtuesday we're spotlighting 2025–26 fellow Hannah Mayne. As part of this year's theme New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life, Mayne's research focuses on transgressive piety: emerging practices of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women.
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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 8d

2025–26 fellow Michal Kravel-Tovi launches the fellowship year by exploring the perils and opportunities entangled in the trope of the frontier as an analytical tool. Click below to read her conversation with Natalie Dohrmann. katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

Q&A: Michal Kravel-Tovi Brings the Twin Tools of Anthropology and Politics to the Varieties of Contemporary Judaism

Katz Center Fellow Michal Kravel-Tovi launches the fellowship year by exploring the perils and opportunities entangled in the trope of the frontier as an analytical tool

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 9d

There are 6 weeks left to apply to the Katz Center's 2026–27 fellowship, War and Peace in Jewish Thought and History. Click below to learn more!
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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 12d

With an eye toward this year’s fellowship theme of New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life, check out this "Collections Spotlight."
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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 13d

This #throwbackthursday check out Past Lectures and Contemporary(ish) Times, a round up of virtual lectures and classes compiled with the 2025–26 fellowship theme, New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life in mind.
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Past Lectures and Contemporary(ish) Times: A Round-up

The Katz Center YouTube channel is full of lectures on Jewish life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 14d

In his interview with Natalie Dohrmann, Mendel Kranz discusses the complex entanglement of antisemitism and Islamophobia in France, new ways of studying antisemitism, and the relationship between scholarship and the present moment. Click below to read!

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Meet Ross-Silk-Lowenstein Postdoctoral Fellow Mendel Kranz

Kranz finds wisdom in precision and nuance, studying the intertwined but distinctive histories of Islamophobia and antisemitism in modern France

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 15d

This #fellowtuesday the Katz Center spotlights 2025–26 fellow Gal Levy. As part of this year's theme, New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life, Levy's research topic is Diversity, Ethnicity, and Belonging: American Jewry Transformed?
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Gal Levy

Gal Levy serves as a senior teaching faculty member and researcher at the Open University of Israel. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Kansas (2014–2015) and the Centre for Resear...

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 16d

Click the link below to apply for the 2026–27 international fellowship program, a year focused on war and peace in Jewish history, thought, and culture. The deadline to apply is in seven weeks, November 10, 2025.
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War and Peace in Jewish Thought and HistoryApply Here. Applications will be due November 10, 2025. The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications fo...

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 19d

Enjoy these highlights from Wednesday's seminar, Torah u'Maga: The Religio-political Theology of Contemporary Orthodoxy with fellow Joshua Shanes.

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 20d

Check out the latest fellow Q&A! 2024–25 fellow Lennart Lehmhaus digs deeply into rabbinic sources to try to contextualize and understand the rabbis’ unique understanding of mental health.
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Lennart Lehmhaus Looks at Madness and Sanity in Ancient Sources

Katz Center fellow Lennart Lehmhaus digs deeply into rabbinic sources to try to contextualize and understand the rabbis’ unique understanding of mental health

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The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social · 21d

We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog!

Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
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A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center

A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access

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Penn Arts & Sciences @sas.upenn.edu · 21d

A $21M gift from the estate of alumna Louise A. Strauss will provide major support to the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, as well as the Rare Judaica Acquisitions Endowment Fund in Penn Libraries. Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4pqTtOL @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 22d

This #fellowtuesday the Katz Center spotlights incoming 2025–26 fellow Sarah Leiter. As part of this year's theme, New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life, Leiter's research focuses “Children of Songbirds”: creating community from emergent ancestral Jewishness. katz.sas.upenn.edu/who-we-are/s...

Sarah Leiter

Sarah Leiter’s research focuses on questions of social identity and historical consciousness, particularly among Hispanic Catholic New Mexicans who have recently discovered their Sephardic Jewish ance...

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 26d

Check out these highlights from the opening seminar of the 2025-2026 fellowship year, New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life: Cultural Expansions, Encounters, and Experiments. Short-term fellow Michal Kravel-Tovi led introduced a discussion on Thinking from the Frontier. #FellowFriday

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 28d

Unrest in the Roman Empire: A Discursive History is now open access. Download the whole book, including Katz Center associate director Natalie Dohrmann's contribution, for free here: www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 29d

This #fellowtuesday the Katz Center spotlights incoming 2025–26 fellow Tamar Hess. As part of this year's theme, Hess's research focuses on contradictions in contemporary Israeli religious Zionist literature.
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The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social · 29d

In our current issue, Leslie Ribovich and Cara Rock-Singer stage a conversation with 20th century cultural critics James Baldwin and Rabbi Louis Finkelstein.

Learn more on the blog!
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Fabulative Friends: An Essay

Leslie Ribovich and Cara Rock-Singer set two great twentieth-century cultural critics into dialogue

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · Sep 7

For #CoffeeWithACodex on September 11 (on Zoom, at Noon ET), Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 491, a manuscript of the Yom Kippur Maḥzor for the rite of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, written in Provence, 1663.

Register here: https://bit.ly/41XvkFm

Coffee with a Codex: Maḥzor for Yom Kippur

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · Sep 4

With an eye towards the Katz Center's 025–26 fellowship theme, New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life, this #ThrowbackThursday check out past fellow, Alon Tam's exploration of Egyptian coffeehouse culture. katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

Katz Center Fellow Alon Tam on Egyptian Jewish Culture

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today, the Katz Center spotlights incoming 2025–26 fellow Cynthia Gabbay. As part of this year's theme, New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life, Gabbay's research will focus on shattering the abjad: new genres in the postnational Hebraic diaspora.
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Cynthia Gabbay

Cynthia Gabbay is a researcher of Latin American and Jewish studies at the Institute of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin, where she works on her German Research Foundation-fu...

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · Aug 27

Applications are open for the 2026–27 international fellowship program, a year focused on war and peace in Jewish history, thought, and culture. Deadline to apply is November 10, 2025. Apply below!

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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · Aug 26

This #fellowtuesday the Katz Center spotlights incoming 2025–26 fellow Marjorie Feld. As part of this year's theme, New Frontiers in Contemporary Jewish Life, Feld's research will focus on exploring the history of the sustainable Jewish farming movement.
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Marjorie N. Feld

Marjorie N. Feld is professor of history at Babson College where she teaches courses on U.S. social history, gender, labor, and food justice. She serves on the Academic Advisory Council of Jewish Voic...

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