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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Jun
9
June 09, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
JQR Contributor Conversation: Samuel Hayim Brody on Jewish Studies and the History of Capitalism
by
Natalie B. Dohrmann

JQR editor Natalie Dohrmann chats with contributor Samuel Hayim Brody about Jewish studies and the history of capitalism.

May
26
May 26, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
Pandemic and Plague: Literary Encounters
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

In this JQR blog forum, the third in a series inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, five scholars reflect on scenes from Jewish literature that allow them some purchase on this moment.

May
15
May 15, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2020
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

May
14
May 14, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
Words and images
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Yossi Chajes finds new aspects of Lurianic kabbalistic practice in the relationship between text and image.

May
12
May 12, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
Fun a ganef iz shver tsu ganvenen*: On Holocaust Linguistics
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Disaster leaves indelible traces on language. How can old words navigate the new and radically discordant? Hannah Pollin-Galay asks that question of several glossaries of Holocaust Yiddish.

Apr
6
April 06, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
Pandemic and Plague: Theological and Philosophical Reflections
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

JQR blog forum

Apr
5
April 05, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
Silver Linings: JQR on Project Muse—Free through June!
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

Supporting scholarship in the era of coronavirus.

Mar
25
March 25, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
Pandemic and Plague: Echoes from the Jewish Past
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

In this JQR blog forum, scholars reflect on past Jewish experiences of plague, pandemic, and quarantine.

Mar
9
March 09, 2020
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JQR Contributor Conversation: Hadar Feldman Samet on Sabbatian Hymns
by
David Myers

JQR editor David Myers chats with contributor Hadar Feldman Samet about Jewish messianism and multicultural music.

Feb
7
February 07, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2020
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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The TOC in Brief

Jan
15
January 15, 2020
Jewish Quarterly Review
Medieval Frenemies: Jewish and Christian Martyrs Had a Lot in Common
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Anne Oravetz Albert

"Do not be saddened or troubled, good sister. Your brother will die today as a good Jew." These are the words reportedly spoken by a fourteenth-century mendicant friar, just before taking his own life.

Nov
11
November 11, 2019
Jewish Quarterly Review
JQR Contributor Conversation: Ismar Schorsch on Wissenschaft
by
David Myers
Oct
23
October 23, 2019
Jewish Quarterly Review
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2019
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The Jewish Quarterly Review
Oct
16
October 16, 2019
Jewish Quarterly Review
The First Modern Syllabus: A. S. Yahuda at the University of Madrid
by
Allyson Gonzalez
Oct
14
October 14, 2019