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JQR Contributor Conversation: Robert Brody on the Origins of Talmud Study in Ashkenaz

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JQR editor David Myers speaks with Professor Robert Brody about his response to Professor Haym Soloveitchik's proposal regarding the origins of medieval Ashkenazic Jewry.
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On Holiday with Benjamin of Tudela

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It is summer, and as the fortunate among us head to familiar summer haunts—redolent with the smell of hedgerows and the feeling of warm earth under bare feet, once again appreciating sundown and turning the pillow to the cool side—it seems apt to reflect on the many ways in which travel is something quite qualitatively different from movement through space.

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JQR Contributor Conversation: Ellie Schainker on the Case of Sura Gener

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To kick off a new contributor conversations series here on the JQR blog, Anne Albert asked contributor Ellie Schainker a few questions about her essay and its implications.
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Are You My Mother?

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Try everything once except folk dancing and incest. This oft-quoted advice is harder to follow than you’d think.

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