New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2025

JQR 115.2 is now available, online and in print.

In this issue:

Christian Stadel identifies a Syriac source for a passage in the Aramaic Scroll of Antiochus, thereby characterizing the text as a more complex composition than previously assumed.

Flora Cassen surveys the state of play for historical genomics in Jewish studies, explaining what scholars stand to gain and what challenges they face in using the analysis of ancient DNA to understand the Jewish past. This essay is FREE to read and download without a subscription through June 25, 2025.

Michael Ebstein compares the mystical worldviews of Jewish philosopher Ba@hya Ibn Paqūda and Muslim philosopher Abū ‘Abd Allāh Mu@hammad Ibn Sa‘īd Ibn Khamīs al-Yāburī to illuminate the interaction between Jewish and Muslim thought in eleventh-century al-Andalus/Sepharad.

Ahuvia Goren unfolds a seventeenth-century Italian halakhic dispute in which a woman argued her own case, offering a glimpse into the agency and social position of an educated early modern Jewish woman. This essay is FREE to read and download without a subscription through June 25, 2025.

Matthias B. Lehmann uses the contentious 1911 elections of the Central Committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle to demonstrate the persistence of Jewish internationalism through to World War I, countering a narrative of national fragmentation.

Rachel Gordan examines the attempts to reckon with literary antisemitism in the years following World War II, surveying the methods, goals, consequences, and conflicts that characterized the movement for anti-antisemitism.

Jonathan Sitbon analyzes the meaning and usage of the words Israelite and Juif over three centuries and maps their usage onto changing concepts of Jewish identity in modern France.

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