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News
Students' Digital Humanities Publication in NELC 0620 class: Sephardic Heritage Cookbook Scalar site
Professor Heather Sharkey pursued a project with her students to study one cookbook in Penn's collection: The Sephardic Heritage Cookbook, published in 2016 by the women's society of
Newest Issue of Kedma: Penn's Undergraduate Journal on Jewish Thought, Jewish Culture, and Israel
The current issue (Issue 2, Number 6, Fall 2022) of Kedma: Penn's Undergraduate Journal on Jewish Thought, Jewish Culture, and Israel is here!
University of Pennsylvania Emergency Fellowships for Graduate Students from Ukraine
CFP: University of Pennsylvania Emergency Fellowships for Graduate Students from Ukraine
Kathryn Hellerstein’s new book: China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters
Anouncinng a new book: China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters
"From Ancestry DNA to Pig Heart Transplants: Jewish Medical Ethics Update Spring 2022" with Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman
A Jewish Studies Program Meltzer Intern Event
Conversation with Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman
Jewish Studies Research Awards Summer 2022 Research
Goldfein Research Awards, Brenner Special Opportunity Awa
Prof. Kathryn Hellerstein’s Jews and China Freshman Seminar featured in Penn Today
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/archives-class-different-commun
The Katz Center is driven by the mission to deepen and broaden the understanding of Jewish history, texts, cultures, ideas, and experiences. The research it supports spans all periods of Jewish history, from distant antiquity through to the present day; it reaches into every part of the globe where Jews have lived, and it is grounded in a wide range of disciplines and approaches.
Events
Plague and the Persecution of Minorities:
How the New Sciences of Plague Are Changing Our Understanding of Responses to the Black Death
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Each fall and spring the Jewish Studies Program offers Goldfein Research Awards, Brenner Special Opportunity Awards, and Schwartz Awards to both undergraduate and graduate Penn students. Learn More >