We are thrilled to learn that scholarship supported by the Katz Center has been recognized by the National Jewish Book Awards.

Natalie Dohrmann (NBD): Carla, tell us a bit about your scholarly interests. What drew you to them originally? What especially excites you about them personally or intellectually?

We are proud to celebrate a year of new books in the Jewish Culture and Contexts series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. 

How do you remember things? Memories are stored in the mind, of course: we make “mental notes,” set long lists to song, use practice drills, and more. But how does it work, exactly? Where do memories reside; how are they created and retrieved when needed; and what relationship do they have to body and soul? These are questions that ancient and medieval thinkers pondered for both theoretical and practical reasons, in a tradition of ars memorativa.

JQR 114.1 is now available, online* and in print. 

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JQR debuts a new look! The journal has been redesigned inside and out, reflecting our legacy of producing the best in Jewish studies past and present. 

JQR 113.4 is now available, online and in print. 

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In an essay in the current issue of JQR, Magdaléna Jánošíková and Iris Idelson-Shein explore new territory in the landscape of early modern Yiddish writing.

JQR 113.3 is now available, online and in print. 

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Barry Wimpfheimer shows that the Mishnah stacks legal couplets like building blocks to produce ever-richer conceptual understandings and train the reader to mine it for such meaning.

JQR 113.1 is now available, online* and in print. 

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