2026–2027 Jewish Studies Curriculum Initiative Fellowship

Theodor Dunkelgrün was educated at the Universities of Leiden and Chicago and has held several research fellowships, including at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on the History of the Book and the History of Scholarship, with special interest in the editorial and material history of the Hebrew Bible in the Early Modern period. He is the author of The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS, 2025) and the editor of five volumes, including The Jewish Bookshop of the World: Aspects of Print and Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Amsterdam (= Studia Rosenthaliana 46, 2020) and, together with Paweł Maciejko, Bastards and Believers: Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).

Dr. Dunkelgrün’s module will focus on Jews in Early Modern Muslim lands.

Jordan Katz is a historian of Early Modern Jewry, with an emphasis on the interplay between healthcare, civic life, Jewish communities, and gender in Early Modern Europe. Her work asks: How did Jews and Christians create a shared space of healthcare, and what were its limitations? How did gender impact the experience of healthcare for both providers and patients? And finally, what was the relationship between Jews, Christians, and civic authorities, and how did this differ across time and place? Katz’s first book, Delivering Knowledge: Jewish Midwives and Hidden Healing in Early Modern Europe (Stanford, 2026), explores these topics through the lens of Jewish midwives, showing that midwives played critical roles in early modern Europe, both as extensions of Jewish communal authority, as municipal employees, and as agents of burgeoning medical bureaucracies. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School, and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

Dr. Katz’s module will focus on Jews in Early Modern Europe.

Daniela R. P. Weiner’s research focuses on Holocaust history, memory, and education. Her book, Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys, was published in 2024 by Cornell University Press. She is currently working on two projects: one on the history of Holocaust education at American universities and one on the experiences of converts from Judaism to Catholicism during the Holocaust. Dr. Weiner holds a Master’s degree in Education: Educational Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before taking her faculty position at Stevens, she was a Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a Lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program, also at Stanford.

Dr. Weiner’s module will focus on the Holocaust. 

Amy Weiss holds the Maurice Greenberg Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford. Her research and publications focus on the intersections of American Jewish history, Jewish-Christian relations, and US-Israel relations. Most recently, she received a 2025–2026 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship and a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend to assist with the completion of her first book. Interfaith Friends and Ideological Foes: American Jews, Evangelicals, and Israel, 1963–2018 will be published by Oxford University Press in September 2026. Amy's work has appeared in several edited volumes and academic journals, including American Jewish History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Israel Studies.

Dr. Weiss’s module will focus on Jews and Judaism after World War II.

Ori Yehudai holds the Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies at Ohio State University. He received his BA and MA in history from Tel Aviv University and his PhD in history from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the history of Modern Israel, with an emphasis on migration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is the author of Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II, which was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards. His peer-reviewed articles have explored themes such as displacement, diaspora, violence, ethnicity, and humanitarianism. His current research project is entitled “Violence between Wars: the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1967–1982.” He teaches classes on the history of Zionism and Modern Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and Jewish migration and displacement. He is coeditor of the Journal of Israeli History.

Dr. Yehudai’s module will focus on the history of Zionism.