New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2024

JQR 114.2 is now available, online and in print. 

In this issue:

Hanan Mazeh dissects a key passage in the Palestinian Talmud concerning land ownership that shows rabbis using the law—Jewish and Roman—to grapple with competing claims to territory. This essay is FREE to read and download without a subscription through July 15, 2024.

Levana Meira Chajes examines the distinctive approach to divine unity offered by the author of the medieval kabbalistic treatise Ma‘arekhet ha-elohut, reflecting a fraught moment in the early history of kabbalah.

Judah D. Galinsky introduces and contextualizes an initiative by the thirteenth-century rabbi Isaac of Corbeil to inculcate awareness of Jewish religious obligations through universal daily recitation of an abbreviated list of commandments.

Hanan Harif uncovers a criminal case in mandatory Palestine in which the scholar S. D. Goitein’s intervention altered the court’s ruling, highlighting the role of European Jewish Orientalists in mediating between British authorities and Mizrahi Jews.

Sunny Yudkoff investigates the topos of joy across the work of modernist Yiddish poet Yankev Glatshteyn, showing how the Yiddish word freyd indexes the poet’s anger with the universalizing legacies of the Enlightenment and their iterations in Soviet communism and National Socialism. This essay is FREE to read and download without a subscription through July 15, 2024.

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