Solomon Schechter | Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

“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.

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The Past is Present in Jewish Studies Scholarship

The Jewish Quarterly Review marked its 130th anniversary at the 2020 (virtual) annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.

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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2020

JQR 110.4 is now available online*.

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“The Art of Drinking Still Presents Some Obvious Difficulties to You”: Schechter the Satirist

The following appeared in the Hebrew periodical Ha-Shachar in 1877 as part of an extended, fictional epistolary exchange between...

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“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...

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Schechter in Cambridge and Philadelphia

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