New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2025

In this issue:

Simcha Gross situates classical rabbinic discussions of male head coverings in their Roman and Sasanian contexts, and in doing so he shows how the diverse meanings of late antique head coverings complicate the narrative of the origins of the kippah. This essay is FREE to read and download without a subscription through September 5, 2025.

Rabbis, Neighbors, and Political Autonomy

The city serves as the stage for much of Jewish history. For a host of historical, demographic, and economic reasons, Jews have often been city-dwellers, and even when not, the association of the Jewish with the urban has kept a hold on the imagination of Jews and gentiles alike. The city looms large as part of the horizon of Jewishness, beginning even from the urbanization of the early rabbinic movement in Roman Palestine.

Online Teaching Resources

In curating and presenting lectures in Jewish studies to audiences beyond academia, the Katz Center fulfills several aims. One crucial one is to showcase the vibrancy of current research and the inherent interest of the areas of culture and history in which Jewish studies scholars are expert. In an era of diminishing support for humanities scholarship, the warm reception our talks—accessible but not simplified—have received speaks to a real appetite outside of the university for knowledge and ideas at a high level.