In this month's newsletter...
In this month's newsletter...
APRIL E-NEWS
In this month’s newsletter, we celebrate the announcement of next year’s Katz Center fellows, look ahead to the 24th Annual Gruss Colloquium and enriching April events in the Public Program series, and also spotlight some of our favorite blog posts. Read on to learn more!
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2018–2019 FELLOWS

The Center is proud to announce its 2018–2019 cohort of fellows devoted to scholarship on the theme of “Jews in Modern Islamic Contexts.” Coming from across the globe and representing a range of different disciplines, the fellows will be addressing both religious and secular dimensions of Jewish culture in North Africa, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, and Central and South Asia. Visit our website to see the full list.
24TH ANNUAL GRUSS COLLOQUIUM IN JUDAIC STUDIES

Science and Transformation in Jewish Culture
April 2223, 2018
During this two-day colloquium, scholars will join our fellows to explore the ways that science and Judaism have long been mutual catalysts of change, exploration, and self-reflection. Panels are divided according to four analytical loci: transmission, expertise, praxis, and institutions, opening avenues for the nuanced interdisciplinary conversations across a wide range of case studies, premodern and modern. Click here more information about the event, including the full program.
BLOG ROUNDUP

Natalie B. Dohrmann exhumes a remarkable and prolific female contributor to the Jewish Quarterly Review in celebration of Women’s History Month.

Jonathan Hess analyzes different treatments of the famous case of a Jewish boy secretly baptized and abducted in nineteenth-century Bologna.
Center director Steve Weitzman reflects on a recent trip to Washington, D.C. for an advocacy day organized by the National Humanities Alliance to rally support for the NEH.

Anne O. Albert reveals why JQR always makes one article available online without a subscription.
APRIL PUBLIC PROGRAMS

From Vienna to New York: Memory of a Life in Two Worlds
April 17, 2018
The Katz Center is proud to partner with the Jewish Studies Program to bring Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel to the Penn campus. Dr. Kandel will be exploring his career in neuroscience and its connection to art through the lens of his autobiography, Reductionism in Art and Brain Science—Bridging the Two Worlds. Click to register. Other upcoming community programs include talks by Julia Watts Belser and J. H. (Yossi) Chajes; check out the whole series here.
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