New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2022
JQR 112.3 is now available, online* and in print.
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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2022
JQR 112.2 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
Announcing the 2022–23 Fellows
The Katz Center is thrilled to announce the cohort for the 2022–23 academic year, engaging the theme of Jews and Modern Legal Culture. The fellows will join us from Israel, France, Germany, Canada, and the United States, and represent a range of methodological, disciplinary, and historical specializations.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2022
JQR 112.1 is now available, online* and in print.
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Simcha Gross and Avigail Manekin-Bamberger introduce Aramaic incantation bowls that draw on rabbinic and elite literary sources, forcing a reevaluation of the “popular” religion traditionally ascribed to the bowls.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2021
JQR 111.4 is now available, online* and in print.
In this issue:
JQR Contributor Conversation: Wojciech Tworek on Hasidism between the World Wars
Myers asks about some of the broader questions that inform Tworek’s recent essay “Mystic, Teacher, Troublemaker: Shimon Engel Horovits of Żelechów and the Challenges of Hasidic Education in Interwar Poland” (JQR 110.2)
New Book from Former Katz Center Fellow Maurice Samuels
In 1832, an antisemitic scandal shook France to its core. In the spring of that year, the Bourbon royal family—ousted by yet another revolution—was moldering in exile when its most glamorous member, the duchesse de Berry, hatched a plot to reclaim the throne for her 11-year-old son. Surrounded by a band of young nobles willing to die for the royalist cause, the duchess landed on the coast of France in May.
JQR Contributor Conversation: Samuel Hayim Brody on Jewish Studies and the History of Capitalism
The spring issue of JQR (110.2) features an essay called “What Great Transformation? Continuity, Rupture, and Capitalism in Twenty-First-Century Jewish Studies,” in which author Samuel Hayim Brody observes that historians of Judaism tend to exempt capitalism from their assessment of the radical impact of modernity on Judaism.
JQR Contributor Conversation: Hadar Feldman Samet on Sabbatian Hymns
Hadar Feldman Samet’s essay Ottoman Songs in Sabbatian Manuscripts: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Inner Writings of the “Ma’aminim” (JQR 109.4) explores a little-known set of liturgical songs produced and used by members of the religious group devoted to Shabbetai Tsvi, a seventeenth-century messiah who was embraced by Jewish masses all over the world but then rejected by most after his conversion to Islam.