New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2022
JQR 112.3 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
JQR Contributor Conversation: Hadar Feldman Samet on Sabbatian Hymns
Hadar Feldman Samet’s essay Ottoman Songs in Sabbatian Manuscripts: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Inner Writings of the “Ma’aminim” (JQR 109.4) explores a little-known set of liturgical songs produced and used by members of the religious group devoted to Shabbetai Tsvi, a seventeenth-century messiah who was embraced by Jewish masses all over the world but then rejected by most after his conversion to Islam.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2019
JQR 109.3 is now available, online and in print.
Notes from the 2018 Meyerhoff Lecture
The Katz Center used the 2018 Meyerhoff Lecture as an opportunity to reflect on the field of Sephardi studies by inviting field pioneer Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University) to discuss his own fascinating intellectual biography, and to trace its legacy through the work of three influential students of the next generation. Julia Philips Cohen, one of Rodrigue’s students, now associate professor of History at Vanderbilt University, ended her reflections with the following.
Karaites and Science
Mathematics, physics, chemistry, logic, music, and astrology share an ability to speak to humans across borders, moving more easily between cultures than do cuisine, clothing, or dogmatics.
