According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, Queen Helena of Adiabene traveled from her kingdom in northern Mesopotamia to Jerusalem to worship the Jewish God in the temple. She ended up staying…
The Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture in Talmudic Civil Law
Benjamin Brown
Nov 28, 2023
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Jewish Law, also known as Halakhah, is a legal system without a state. Being religious law, its authority is based on its acceptance by believers. As such, it does not have official branches of government. Nor does…
"Theorizing" Comparative Literature Graduate Students lecture series
Dr. Tafat Hacohen Bick
Nov 27, 2023
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Dr. Tafat Hacohen Bick, was a post-doctoral fellow at the Katz Center (2022-2023). She holds a PhD from Ben Gurion University, where she wrote a dissertation on the poetry of Pinchas Sadeh, Yona Wallach,…
The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania will host a symposium in honor of Dan Ben-Amos. Leading scholars of Folklore Studies will…
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellowship in Jewish Manuscript Studies Lecture
Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University
Oct 24, 2023
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Maidservants did it, midwives too, rabbis and merchants, cooks and laundresses—everyone, it seems, was keeping written records in the age of expanding literacy, access to texts, and proliferation of bureaucracy. This…
