New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2024
JQR 114.4 is now available, online and in print.
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JQR 114.4 is now available, online and in print.
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JQR 113.4 is now available, online and in print.
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JQR 111.4 is now available, online* and in print.
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"Do not be saddened or troubled, good sister. Your brother will die today as a good Jew." These are the words reportedly spoken by a fourteenth-century mendicant friar, just before taking his own life. He had declared his conversion to Judaism, and despite his sister’s tearful entreaties, he chose a public and violent death over forcible return to his order. One Avraham ben Avraham Avinu, whose dramatic and literally iconoclastic antics made him the subject of at least three contemporary reports, did the same.