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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Mar
31
March 31, 2021
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2021
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Mar
22
March 22, 2021
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“What I Found Surprised Me”: Old Wisdom for the New Century
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Read for yourself the Old Series essays discussed in our anniversary forum.

Jan
6
January 06, 2021
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The Past is Present in Jewish Studies Scholarship
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Members of the JQR editorial board muse on the ongoing relevance of our scholarly past.

Dec
28
December 28, 2020
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Borderless Space, Radical Belonging
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The modernist poet Peretz Markish expressed his anarchism in a Jewish idiom, writes Anna Elena Torres.

Dec
18
December 18, 2020
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Secundus the Silent and the Vanishing Seduction of Beruriah
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Natalie B. Dohrmann

After the great Rabbi Meir asks his student to seduce his wife to teach her humility, the Talmud’s only named female Torah scholar commits suicide. Moshe Simon-Shoshan reassesses the legacy of this sordid tale.

Dec
15
December 15, 2020
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JQR at 130: New Voices Celebrate the Old Series
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Natalie B. Dohrmann

JQR marks its anniversary by diving into the archives for a fresh look at its earliest scholarship.

Dec
10
December 10, 2020
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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2020
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief.

Sep
24
September 24, 2020
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Vacationing in Nazi Germany
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Even as the Nazi state closed in, many bourgeois Jews continued to lead bourgeois lives, leaving records of vacations and family gatherings. Ashkenazi and Miron read these images and words, so apparently anodyne, and yet impossibly so.

Sep
15
September 15, 2020
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Kabbalistic Forms: Erratum et Novellus

Yossi Chajes heralds the recent study of rarely depicted huppahs in kabbalistic manuscripts by Uriel Safrai and Eliezer Baumgarten.

Sep
8
September 08, 2020
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JQR Contributor Conversation: Wojciech Tworek on Hasidism between the World Wars
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David Myers

JQR editor David Myers chats with contributor Wojciech Tworek about new paradigms in the study of Hasidism on the horizon of Modernity, Shimon Engel, and the loss of a beloved teacher.

Sep
1
September 01, 2020
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Women’s Riches: Culture & Capital in Medieval Egypt
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Natalie B. Dohrmann

Reform is always a destruction of something that exists to make way for the new. Eve Krakowski looks at a moment of halakhic reform and traces its collateral damage on women's lives.

Aug
25
August 25, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2020
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief.

Aug
14
August 14, 2020
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Ox and Pit and Tooth and Fire: Reading Tannaitic Legal Reasoning
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Did rabbinic jurists reason conceptually? Daniel Reifman weighs in.

Jul
8
July 08, 2020
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Josephus’s Elusive Command
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Nathan Thiel tries to solve a puzzle that has long troubled the journal: Who were Josephus’s “Galileans”?

Jun
25
June 25, 2020
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Knowing the Victim? Reflections on Empathy, Analogy, and Voice from the Shoah to the Present
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David Myers

The Holocaust and the BLM movement share the problem of knowing another’s experience. Judith Butler, Cheryl Greenberg, Marianne Hirsch, and Robin D. G. Kelley tackle the core epistemological and moral question of whether we can know another’s experience, and what is at stake in our answer.