New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2023
JQR 113.4 is now available, online and in print.
In this issue:
Bricks without Mortar: Looking at Lists
Hair Dye
Wet Cat food
Bra, tights
Vodka
“What I Found Surprised Me”: Old Wisdom for the New Century
“What I found surprised me.” This sentiment, voiced by Benjamin Sommer in his essay on biblical theology, was one shared by all of the essayists in our recent forum marking JQR’s 130th anniversary.
Women’s Riches: Culture & Capital in Medieval Egypt
If a woman does not immerse after her menstruation according to rabbinic norms, legislates Maimonides in 1176, she will lose her dower to her husband. In her lively and original work of social reconstruction, Eve Krakowski sees this law as a “milestone in the long and winding history of rabbinization.” Digging behind the law, one of Maimonides’s more aggressive legal reforms, she discovers fascinating and largely unseen traces of women’s folk piety.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2020
Update: this issue is free online without a subscription through June 30, 2020.
JQR 110.1 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
Daniel Reifman uses semiotic theory to account for the fact that legal rationales play a relatively peripheral role in the construction of rabbinic legal discourse.
“What Else There Is Still Beneath”: The Multiple Dimensions of the Cairo Genizot
One hundred and twenty years have passed since the discovery of the document trove in the genizah at...
Joel Kraemer – Death of a Scholar
Below is a celebration of the life and scholarship of Professor Joel Kraemer (1933–2018) written by JQR contributor Mordechai A. Friedman (his pieces can be found here and here). Kraemer was a great pioneer of Judeo-Islamic studies, a lovely human being, and a generous teacher of many students, some of whom are currently at the Katz Center both among staff and fellows.
