Ella Darivoff Director
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Steven Weitzman serves as the Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and as the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of the Hebrew Bible, the origins of Jewish culture, and the history of biblical interpretation, Weitzman's recent publications include Disasters of Biblical Proportions: the Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World; the coedited Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies (with Leora Batnitzky and Eve Krakowski); and with Matthias Lehmann, The Jews from Ancient Canaan to a Global Culture, the fourth edition of a widely used textbook of Jewish history.