Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Mary Channen Caldwell on Jewish Music and Musicians in Medieval France
Natalie Dohrmann (NBD): Mary, tell us a bit about your scholarly interests and what especially excites you about them personally and/or intellectually.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2024
JQR 114.1 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
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.
Jewish Political Theology: A Conversation between Fields
Political scientist Miguel Vatter has written a compelling new book on the philosophy of Jewish political theology, and he’s done so from outside the field of Jewish studies.
The 19th-Century Convert Moses Margoliouth
In the current issue, David Ruderman explores the lonely life of Moses Margoliouth (1818–1881), a Polish Jew who became a Christian scholar and a minister in the Anglican church. Filled with religious certainty and intellectual confidence...
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2019
JQR 109.1 is now available, online* and in print.
The Convert and the Concubine: A Story of Love, Islam, and Halakhic Flexibility
This year at the Katz Center the fellows have spoken about how little research has been conducted on modern Jewish legal sources from Islamic lands. With this in mind, I’m presenting one such source to show the promise that legal texts have for shedding light on both social and intellectual history.
