Past Events

Events



The Jewish Catalog Turns 50

Revolutionary Manifesto of DIY Judaism
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, Joshua Teplitsky, Beth Wenger
Feb 7, 2024 at -

5pm Doors | 5:45pm Program | 6:45pm Reception (In Person Only)
In Person at The Weitzman & Livestreamed on Zoom



Derek J. Penslar, “The 1948 War in the Eyes of the World: From the Local to the Global"

Derek Penslar (Harvard)
Feb 5, 2024 at -

 



The Personalization of Authority in Modern Jewish Law: Jurisprudential and Sociological Aspects

The Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture in Talmudic Civil Law
Benjamin Brown
Nov 28, 2023 at -

Jewish Law, also known as Halakhah, is a legal system without a state. Being religious law, its authority is based on its acceptance by believers. As such, it does not have official branches of government. Nor does…



"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