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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. 

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Jewish Marriage Contracts Animate Shalom Sabar’s SIMS-Katz Lecture

ketubah with lions/suns

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The Wayfarer’s Prayer in manuscript: Karp BVIII.7

Upon cataloging manuscript ephemera from the Abraham J. and Deborah Karp Collection of Judaica at the Penn Libraries, one item caught my eye – something very uncommon. What I mean by this is that there is no real comparable equivalent to this manuscript that I have seen in other collections or at Judaica auctions.

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Yad Aharon: Hebrew Poetry and the Number 14

Yad Aharon is a fascinating little book of poems and homilies. It was printed in Thessaloniki, Greece in the Hebrew year 5599 (1838 or 1839), and the author, Aharon Tsevi Ashkenazi, is only identified as being an elderly poet in Thessaloniki.

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New Worlds through Renaissance Manuscripts

Portrait of a Man
When Fabrizio Lelli introduced this sixteenth-century painting by Bartolomeo Veneto to the audience at a lecture this month, he read it for hints as to its subject.
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Linguistics and History

Infrared Goggles
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Remembering Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld
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