Past Events

Events



Graduate Humanities Forum Symposium: Violent Means

Feb 24, 2014 at -

Speakers:

 

Herman Bennett, CUNY

Ravit Reichman, Brown

Dorothy Roberts, Penn

Caleb Smith, Yale

 

We lack consensus on what it means to limit, control, reduce, or…



Cristobal Mendes, alias Abraham Franco Silveira: The Puzzling Saga of a Seventeenth-Century Converso

Feb 5, 2014 at

Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
 Seventeenth Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture

Speaker: Yosef Kaplan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Response by Roger Chartier, University of…



הילכו שנים יחדיו Traditional and Academic Approaches to Talmud Study

Jan 29, 2014 at -

Professor Robert Brody, Talmud Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ISRAEL, will make a special presentation on Talmud to undergraduate students. Open to the public as well.



Jewish Discussions of Tradition in an Islamic Context (Iraq, 10th-11th Centuries)

Jan 28, 2014 at -

Professor Robert Brody, Talmud Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ISRAEL, will make a special presentation on Talmud for graduate students.



Leone Ebreo: Platonism and Kabbalah in Italian Early Renaissance

Jan 16, 2014 at -

 

Speaker:  Fabrizio Lelli - University of Lecce and currently a University of Pennsylvania Katz Center fellow



Cristobal Mendes
alias Abraham Franco Silveira
: The Puzzling Saga of a 17th-Century Converso

Jan 5, 2014 at -

 

This is the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 
Seventeenth Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture

Speaker: Yosef Kaplan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Response by Roger…



Gruss Workshop: Thinking Legally vs. Thinking Historically

Dec 12, 2013 at -



Full Day Workshop: A Part or Apart? Women in Early Modern Jewish Culture

Dec 11, 2013 at -

Space is limited and meals are provided, so if you would like to attend,
RSVP to Carrie Love (carrielo@sas.upenn.edu) by December 4, 2013.

9:30 am Coffee

10:00…



The Gendering of Asceticism in Rabbinic Tradition

Dec 5, 2013 at

 

Professor Ada Rapoport Albert

Professor (Emerita) of Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London 

Professor Rapoport Albert is a Fellow at the Katz…



The Elijah cave in Haifa: A Late Antique Religious Site of Jews and Pagans

Nov 21, 2013 at -

A lecture by Tal Ilan

The Elijah cave is a well-known holy site occupied by Jews in Israel today. But was it always so? A recent study of the cave by scholars and students of the Institut für Judaistik in…