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What is Jewish Studies? A conversation with Steven Weitzman and Leora Batnitzky, editors of The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies

Date
Thu April 30th 2026, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Event Sponsor
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Location
Building 360
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305
Conference Room

Date: Thursday | April 30

Time: 12:00 pm 
Place: CCSRE Conference Room, Bldg. 360 | First Floor

What are the questions that animate scholarship in Jewish Studies? What binds together the many disciplines engaged with Jewish Studies and what are the field’s boundaries?

Join Steven Weitzman, Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at UPenn, in conversation with Princeton philosopher Leora Batnitzky, for a discussion about how they compiled their new edited volume, The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies, the questions that have informed their scholarship, and the changing face of Jewish Studies. 

Lunch will be served.