The Past is Present in Jewish Studies Scholarship
The Jewish Quarterly Review marked its 130th anniversary at the 2020 (virtual) annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.
JQR Contributor Conversation: Ismar Schorsch on Wissenschaft
JQR 109.3 was devoted to new perspectives on Wissenschaft des Judentums, the movement for scholarly study of Judaism.
The First Modern Syllabus: A. S. Yahuda at the University of Madrid
Abraham S. Yahuda (1877–1951) was the first Jewish scholar to hold a chair in Jewish studies at a modern Western university—the University of Madrid. Here is the first known syllabus preserved by a modern professorial chair in Jewish studies. Neither of Yahuda’s nearest peers, Harry Wolfson at Harvard University and Salo W. Baron at Columbia University, seem to have safeguarded their original syllabi.
Why Yahuda? Why the forum? Why in a Wissenschaft issue? A conversation between Michal Friedman and Allyson Gonzalez
Michal Friedman and Allyson Gonzalez ask the history of Wissenschaft des Judentums to embrace to a fascinating and influential player whose legacy has, until now, been resigned to the periphery: A. S. Yahuda.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2019
JQR 109.3 is now available, online and in print.
