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Intersectionality in the Medieval Archive
Join the Herbert D. Katz Center for the "Critical Race Studies" Series. RSVP is required for each virtual session.
This talk will deploy the foundational work of Kimberlé Crenshaw and others to explore how intersectionality, and specifically the idea of “compounded harm,” played out in premodern Jewish contexts. We will focus, as a case study, on the legal documentation of Jewish women in court cases in thirteenth-century England, one of the earliest medieval racialized states. How did "racialized antisemitism" intersect with class and gender in the premodern archive?
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The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is driven by the mission to deepen and broaden the understanding of Jewish history, texts, cultures, ideas, and experiences. The research it supports spans all periods of Jewish history, from distant antiquity through to the present day; it reaches into every part of the globe where Jews have lived, and it is grounded in a wide range of disciplines and approaches. Over the decades, after supporting hundreds of scholars and untold numbers of discoveries and publications, it has earned a reputation as the nation’s preeminent research center in the study of Jewish history and culture.