#  Jordan Katz: Mapping Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Amsterdam 

 



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 **October 27, 2022** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Barker Center, Room 403 (Finnegan Room)**  



 

 



 


##  [WOMEN, GENDER, AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD](/women-gender-and-culture-early-modern-world)

##  SPEAKER: Jordan Katz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst/Harvard University

 Jordan Katz is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Judaism at the Harvard Divinity School (2022-23). Her current research project is "Delivering Knowledge: Midwives and the Making of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe." Professor Katz is a historian of early modern Jewry, with a focus on Jewish cultural history, history of medicine, and women and gender in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She received her PhD in History from Columbia University. Professor Katz has received fellowships from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture; the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine; the Center for Jewish History; and the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme. Prior to coming to Harvard Divinity School, she was at Yale University as the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Modern Jewish History Judaic Studies Program. Her work has been published in *Jewish Quarterly Review* and *Jewish Social Studies*.



 

 



 

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- [ Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World ](/seminars/women-gender-and-culture-early-modern-world)
 
 

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