"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…
"Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism"
Dr. Magda Teter
Oct 3, 2023
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In 2017 in Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried…
Saskia Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover) will discuss the figure of the anti-Semite in contemporary German literature. She will focus on a novel by the German-Jewish author…
The sixteenth century testifies to the manifold ways in which European scholars manifested an ever-growing fascination with Hebrew literature in all its forms. It was in the seventeenth century, however, that this…
