Yishai Kiel will lecture on the dynamics of law, narrative, and myth, through the lens of incest. I will focus on rabbinic (Palestinian and Babylonian), Christian (Latin, Greek,…
Prof. Andrew Plaks, Professor Emeritus, East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Princeton University; and Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University
Prof. Richard Kalmin (Jewish Theological Seminary) will talk on his recently published book, Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and their Historical Context.
We are happy and proud to invite you to the first workshop in a new series of Jewish Studies workshops which will bring together graduate students, Jewish Studies faculty, and Katz Center fellows, with the aim of…
In the early 1230s, Robert Grosseteste, Franciscan lector at Oxford, Bishop of Lincoln, and one of the intellectual giants of thirteenth-century England, penned his De cessatione legalium, in which he sets…
Dr. Peter Machinist Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Emeritus Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Harvard University
500 Years after the establishment of the Venetian Ghetto, the University of Pennsylvania's Program in Jewish Studies, the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, the Department of Music, the…
On Monday, November 9th, in commemoration of Kristallnacht, the Jewish Studies Program and the Germanic Literatures and Languages Department, welcome Roger Grunwald who will…
