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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.

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 Marglin, Kenneth B. Moss, David B. Ruderman, Daniel R. Schwartz, Edwin Seroussi, Joanna Weinberg, Steven Phillip Weitzman, Beth Wenger, Elliot R. Wolfson, Sunny Yudkoff, Irene Zwiep

 

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Jan
18
January 18, 2023
Jewish Quarterly Review
Legal Theory and Jewish History
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David Myers, The Jewish Quarterly Review

JQR convenes a forum exploring interconnections between history and legal theory in Jewish studies

Jan
11
January 11, 2023
Jewish Quarterly Review
Bonnie Blankenship Retires after Nearly 5 Decades of Service
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Natalie B. Dohrmann

Bonnie, who made the Jewish Quarterly Review run smoothly since 1984, stepped down in December.

Nov
21
November 21, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
Point/Counterpoint: Jewish Activism in 1944 and the Bombing of Auschwitz
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

In this JQR forum, two scholars debate how fateful decisions were made.

Nov
16
November 16, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2022
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Aug
9
August 09, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2022
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in brief.

Aug
5
August 05, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
Our Children, Ourselves
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Anne Oravetz Albert, The Jewish Quarterly Review

A Moroccan Jewish newspaper's appeal to young readers a century ago has echoes in today's media.

Jul
12
July 12, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
Marginalized
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Finding history in the marginal notations of manuscripts.

Jun
16
June 16, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
The State of Eastern European Jewish Studies
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David Myers, The Jewish Quarterly Review

Read about the forum featured in the current issue of JQR.

May
26
May 26, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2022
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Mar
10
March 10, 2022
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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2022
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Mar
9
March 09, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
The Ironies of History: The Ukraine Crisis through the Lens of Jewish History
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David Myers, The Jewish Quarterly Review

In this JQR forum, four historians of Jewish Eastern Europe reflect on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Jan
13
January 13, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
Jewish Latin American Studies: A Conversation
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

JQR 111.4 features a forum focused on exciting new work being done in Latin American Jewish studies—a thrilling exploration of an untapped field in American and global Jewish studies. Ilan Stavans and Ranaan Rein convened the contributors to that forum for a virtual round table to discuss the field.

Jan
12
January 12, 2022
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2021
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief.

Oct
20
October 20, 2021
Jewish Quarterly Review
Bricks without Mortar: Looking at Lists
by
Natalie B. Dohrmann

Read the introduction to JQR’s latest forum on the topic of the list.

Sep
29
September 29, 2021
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2021
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief.