Jewish Quarterly Review

The Jewish Quarterly Review was established by Israel Abrahams and Claude Montefiore in 1889, and migrated from England to Philadelphia in 1910, where its publication resumed under the editorship of Cyrus Adler and Solomon Schechter. It remains the oldest English-language journal in the field of Jewish studies. JQR preserves the attention to textual detail so characteristic of the journal's early years, while encouraging scholarship in a wide range of fields and time periods. In each quarterly issue of JQR, the ancient stands alongside the modern, the historical alongside the literary, the textual alongside the contextual.

Recent issues are available online through Project Muse, and to access 130 years of JQR, you can find our full archive digitized at JSTOR.

For instructions on how to submit an essay click HERE, and to subscribe, visit jqr.pennpress.org. Does your institution require you to publish open access?  Click HERE to learn more.

Editors: Natalie B. Dohrmann & David N. Myers
Executive Editor: Anne Oravetz Albert
Journal Manager: Adrienne Atkins
Editorial Board: Mira Balberg, Elisheva Baumgarten, Beth Berkowitz, Daniel Boyarin, Francesca Bregoli, Richard I. Cohen, Daniel Frank, Miriam Goldstein, Liora R. Halperin, Warren Zev Harvey, Sarah Imhoff, Martin Kavka, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Eric Lawee, Lisa Leff, Vivian Liska, Shaul Magid, Jessica M. Marglin, Kenneth B. Moss, David B. Ruderman, Daniel R. Schwartz, Edwin Seroussi, Joanna Weinberg, Steven Phillip Weitzman, Beth Wenger, Elliot R. Wolfson, Sunny S. Yudkoff, Irene Zwiep

 

 

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Dec
18
December 18, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Essays on Sephardi and Mizrahi Modernity
by
Anne Oravetz Albert

JQR’s latest forum, on the modern history of Jews in the Middle East, upends Western-centric narratives of modernity. 

Dec
10
December 10, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
Telling Tales, Rabbi-Style
by
Natalie B. Dohrmann

When a trusted rabbinic sage tells you he has just seen a frog larger than a castle with his own eyes, should you believe him? 

Nov
27
November 27, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2024
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Oct
25
October 25, 2024
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The Art of the Memory Palace according to Isaac Arama
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

In the current issue of JQR, Rachel B. Katz explores a Jewish adaptation of classical ars memorativa centered on common prayers

Sep
27
September 27, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
"Reading Bialik in Tehran"
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Daniel Amir turns to the Persian press to show us how Iranian Jewish intellectuals and activists saw, imagined, and attempted to shape their world in the vibrant years before 1948

Sep
6
September 06, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2024
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Jul
17
July 17, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
JQR Mourns the Passing of Arnie Band
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The Jewish Quarterly Review and Katz Center mourn the loss of Professor Arnold J. Band z”l

May
29
May 29, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2024
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Apr
29
April 29, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
JQR on One Foot
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

In the winter issue of JQR Naphtali Meshel finds the new in a familiar old tale.

Mar
14
March 14, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
JQR’s Cover: An Incomplete History
by
Natalie B. Dohrmann

JQR gets a facelift

Mar
5
March 05, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2024
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Jan
9
January 09, 2024
Jewish Quarterly Review
Tevi: Amelia Bedelia avant la lettre
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Ayelet Wenger draws lines between Rabban Gamliel’s slave Tevi and Aesop’s trickster heroes

Dec
4
December 04, 2023
Jewish Quarterly Review
Stews, Soaps, Spells, and Salves
by
Natalie B. Dohrmann

JQR’s latest forum looks at the Jewish recipe

Nov
29
November 29, 2023
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2023
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Oct
19
October 19, 2023
Jewish Quarterly Review
A “Metropolitan Miniature”: Hebrew Modernism in a Local Key
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

What did Hebrew modernism look like in the often-overlooked spaces between the shtetl and the big city?