Past Events

Scholars in the fields of family law, legal history, rabbinic law, and cultural history will consider cases in the regulation of Jewish marriage that illuminate the impact of institutional configurations, regional…

Julian Weiss, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish, King’s College London

Lital Levy, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Princeton University; and Katz Center Fellow

Sara Lipton, Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook

“What’s in a Nose?  On the Origins, Dissemination, and Effects of Medieval Anti-Jewish Caricature”

In this paper I…

Professor Andreas Kilcher, Literature and Cultural Studies, ETH Zurich

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies-Herbert D. Katz Center Fellowship in Jewish Manuscript Studies and the David B. Ruderman Distinguished Fellowship Lecture

Tales of Three Texts: The Judaeo-Arabic…

Professor Tzvi Langermann, Department of Arabic, Bar Ilan University

Sa'd ibn Mansur 
(Izz Al-dawla) Ibn Kammuna was a 13th Century Jewish physician (ophthalmologist), philosopher and critic of Islam who lived…

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, are…

As many of you may have heard, David Stern has been offered a professorship at Harvard University, where he will begin teaching next fall. In keeping with this year’s theme on historiography, we’re thus adding a…

Gruss Colloquium: Monday April 27- Tuesday April 28 with the title: “Doing Wissenschaft: The Academic Study of Judaism as Practice 1818–2018.”

The full details can now be…