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Farewells & Hellos
As the fall semester wound to a close, the Katz Center said farewell to four extraordinary fellows who greatly contributed to the program's intellectual community. And as we look ahead to the start of the spring semester, we welcome new scholars who promise to bring additional expertise and enthusiasm to the Center's seminar table.
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Library Acquistions
The Library at the Katz Center received a gift of the Laurence Salzmann Photography Collection from Laurence Salzmann and Ayşe Güran-Salzmann. Consisting of over twenty discrete projects, the interdisciplinary oeuvre of photography, films, and photo-illustrated books spans over fifty years and four continents, and is both fine art and unique anthopological field work.
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Early Career Workshop
Sponsored by the American Academy for Jewish Research and hosted by the Katz Center, an upcoming early career faculty workshop will support professional development, help foster connection and conversation across boundaries and specialization, and advise participants on subjects ranging from publishing to work-life balance. Applications are being accepted through January 15th.
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December Symposium
This year's fellow-conceived colloquium, "Jews in Muslim Contexts: Spatial Approaches," took place on December 12, 2018. Each of the conference sessions was structured as a conversation animated by provocations and questions set by the organizers. Historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, as well as a working photographer, participated in the day, their remarks tied together by concentric notions of space.
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LEAP:Rabbis, Academics, & Binaries
Now in its fourth productive year with Clal, the Katz Center is hosting a cohort of rabbis for a collaboration on the topic of Jewish history in the Near and Middle East as well as on relations with Muslim neighbors there. Participating rabbis come from all over the country and learn from the Center's fellows and colleagues.
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Community Partnerships
Fellows conducted a number of speaking engagements around the Philadelphia area this past fall, meeting local residents in synagogues, community centers, and classrooms for reflection and discussion of research ranging from the Holocaust in North Africa to the Jews of India to Mizrahi culture in Israel. Visit our calendar for details on this semester's line-up.
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Publications
Past and current fellows made 2018 a productive year, collaborating with Katz Center colleagues, offering new perspectives on a range of topics, and publishing an impressive amount of scholarship. Alumni, did you publish something? Remember to keep in touch with us so that we can share your good news.
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Fellow Q&Awith Yuval Evri
Yuval Evri (King's College London) discussed his research project, "Between Partitions and Translations: Arab-Jewish Cultural Visions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," with Center director Steve Weitzman. Read the full interview.
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Fellow Q&Awith Alma Heckman
Alma Heckman (University of California, Santa Cruz) discussed her research project, "Radical Roads Not Taken: Moroccan Jewish Trajectories, 1925–1975," with director Weitzman. Read the full conversation.
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JQRThe Rule of Sevens in Israel & Zionism
The current issue of JQR includes a set of short essays on particular years of import in the history of Israel and Zionism—all of which, as it happens, end in seven. Read an excerpt of JQR coeditor David N. Myers's introduction.
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JQRLaws on Walls between the Rabbis & Rome
The Roman Empire communicated its power to Jews in the Eastern provinces in many ways, significant among them was the ubiquity of laws inscribed on city walls. The rabbis had their own strategies to counter this imperial intrusion into Jewish life. JQR coeditor Natalie Dohrmann explores this phenomenon and introduces the current issue's article by Katell Berthelot on the same subject.
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JQRJoel Kraemer – Death of a Scholar
In a contributed post, Tel Aviv University's Mordechai Akiva Friedman celebrates the life and scholarship of Professor Joel Kraemer, a great pioneer of Judeo-Islamic studies, a lovely human being, and a generous teacher of many students, some of whom are currently at the Katz Center both among staff and fellows.
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What Do You Know?Sephardi vs. Mizrahi
This year we're taking questions directly from online readers and asking experts to respond. In this edition, current fellow Dina Danon (Binghamton University) explains the difference between "Sephardi" and Mizrahi," terms that refer to two distinct Jewish diasporas, each one itself characterized by significant internal cultural diversity.
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What Do You Know?Dhimmi Status
In this edition of What Do You Know?, Mark Wagner (Louisiana State University) explains the meaning of the word dhimmi, including its provenance and its current relevance. Interested in asking one of our scholars a question connected to our fellowship theme, Jewish culture in modern Muslim lands? Submit your own question here.
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