Past Events

Events



"Literary Garbage: Hebrew Literature, Waste, and the Climate Crisis"

"Theorizing" Comparative Literature Graduate Students lecture series
Dr. Tafat Hacohen Bick
Nov 27, 2023 at -

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 Butcher and the Book: Regulating Kosher Meat in Early Modern Europe

Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Joshua Teplitsky (Penn)
Nov 20, 2023 at -



A Symposium on Folklore in Honor of Dan Ben-Amos

Nov 19, 2023 at -

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…



Lost Subjects and Recovered Objects in H. G. Adler's Holocaust Museum

Samuel Spinner (Johns Hopkins)
Nov 14, 2023 at -

Samuel Spinner (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University) is the author of Jewish Primitivism (2021).

Sponsored by the Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic…



The Naked and the Hairy: Material Memory and Jewish Record-keeping in Early Modern Europe

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 at -

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…



The Jewish Catalog at 50

Oct 18, 2023 at -

This event is postponed. 



Symposium: Laurence Salzmann, A Life With Others

Oct 10, 2023 at -

This symposium celebrates the donation of the Laurence and Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann Collection



Alexander Colloquium: Dr. Magda Teter

"Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism"
Dr. Magda Teter
Oct 3, 2023 at -

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…



"The Antisemite as Intellectual and Storyteller"

Dr. Saskia Fischer
Sep 19, 2023 at -

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 Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law Among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe

Apr 24, 2023 at -

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…