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.
Natalie Dohrmann (NBD): Ahuvia, tell us a bit about your broad scholarly interests, and what especially excites you about them personally and/or intellectually.
JQR 115.2 is now available, online and in print.
In this issue:
Christian Stadel identifies a Syriac source for a passage in the Aramaic Scroll of Antiochus, thereby characterizing the text as a more complex composition than previously assumed.
We are thrilled to learn that scholarship supported by the Katz Center has been recognized by the National Jewish Book Awards.
We are proud to celebrate a year of new books in the Jewish Culture and Contexts series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
JQR 114.4 is now available, online and in print.
In this issue:
How do you remember things? Memories are stored in the mind, of course: we make “mental notes,” set long lists to song, use practice drills, and more. But how does it work, exactly? Where do memories reside; how are they created and retrieved when needed; and what relationship do they have to body and soul? These are questions that ancient and medieval thinkers pondered for both theoretical and practical reasons, in a tradition of ars memorativa.
JQR 114.3 is now available, online and in print.
In this issue:
Elyashiv Cherlow brings new light to the provenance of a passage of the Jerusalem Talmud based on newly identified Cairo Geniza manuscript fragments.
JQR 113.4 is now available, online and in print.
In this issue:
JQR 113.3 is now available, online and in print.
In this issue:
Barry Wimpfheimer shows that the Mishnah stacks legal couplets like building blocks to produce ever-richer conceptual understandings and train the reader to mine it for such meaning.