The Jewish Quarterly Review

01/11/2024

In an article for JQR 114.3, Rachel B. Katz shows how Isaac Arama adapted the classical mnemonic device of a memory palace into Hebrew, marking a departure from earlier Jewish philosophical approaches.

Read more about her essay on the blog!

In the current issue of JQR, Rachel B. Katz explores a Jewish adaptation of classical ars memorativa centered on common prayers

18/10/2024

Last day to read and download these two articles from our current issue for free!

30/09/2024

On the blog we're spotlighting Daniel Amir's JQR 114.3 article "Reading Bialik in Tehran"!

Amir studies Persian translations of Bialik to show how the poet could be made to speak for and to the Iranian Jewish community in the vibrant years before 1948.

Daniel Amir turns to the Persian press to show us how Iranian Jewish intellectuals and activists saw, imagined, and attempted to shape their world in the vibrant years before 1948

12/09/2024

Two articles in JQR 114.3 are FREE until 10/18:

👉 Nili Gold excavates the poetic + personal meanings of “hayi shalom” in a love poem by Yehuda Amichai

👉 Adam Stern examines the continuity between history and war in Michel Foucault and Franz Rosenzweig

Download them now!
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53120

06/09/2024

JQR 114.3 is out with an array of fascinating articles! Inside you'll find:

-Cairo Geniza fragments that illuminate the Noahide commandments
-Memory and mnemonics in medieval Hebrew philosophy
-A parallel reading of Michel Foucault and Franz Rosenzweig
-The love poetry of Yehuda Amichai
-20th c. translations of Hebrew lit into Persian

Read more about the contents on the JQR blog.
https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/new-issue-jewish-quarterly-review-summer-2024

31/05/2024

JQR 114.2 is hot off the presses!

Inside you'll find articles on the Palestinian Talmud, early kabbalah, medieval religious practice, mandatory Palestine, and modernist Yiddish poetry.

PLUS two articles are free through 7/15! https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/new-issue-jewish-quarterly-review-spring-2024

01/05/2024

A new post on the blog highlights an article in our current issue by Naphtali Meshel--and its connection to a 1990 JQR article by Raphael Jospe.

Read more here:

In the winter issue of JQR Naphtali Meshel finds the new in a familiar old tale.

13/03/2024

For the first issue of 2024, JQR debuted a new cover design!

In this blog post, we take a trip down memory lane and revisit JQR covers of yore, from the journal's founding in 1889 to the present.

JQR gets a facelift

11/03/2024

🚨 OPEN ACCESS ALERT! 🚨 Two articles in our new issue are free to read and download through April 19!

-Rachel Baron-Bloch, "The Racial Politics of the Alliance Israélite Universelle"
-Caroline Kahlenberg, "The Predicament of a Palestinian Hebraist, 1912–1979"

Get them here:

Established in 1889, The Jewish Quarterly Review is the oldest English-language journal in the field of Jewish studies. JQR preserves the attention to textual detail so characteristic of the journal in the past, while attempting now to reach a wider and more diverse audience. In each quarterly issue...

08/03/2024

We love our new design! We're very grateful to designer Sue Hall and Penn Press for working with us to get to such a great result.

One of our journals, The Jewish Quarterly Review has a new design identity debuting in their new issue out now! On our blog, Director of Journals Jocelyn Dawson talks to JQR Executive Editor Anne O. Albert about the goals and process of the new design: https://ow.ly/u3MS50QO0Yf

Cc: Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

06/03/2024

📣 JQR 114.1 is now out!

Inside you'll find articles on Talmud, Kabbalah, Hasidic literature, the Alliance Israélite Universelle, an 18th c. Jewish convert/Dutch translator, and Palestinian Arab knowledge production on Zionism.

Check it out here (and peep our new cover redesign!) 👇

The TOC in Brief

30/01/2024

In 2019, Hadar Feldman Samet wrote a piece for JQR on "Ottoman Songs in Sabbatian Manuscripts."

Recently, she helped organize a performance of Sabbatian songs--some of which had never been performed publicly.

Learn more on the event + read a snippet of her article:

Sabbatian songs were performed publicly for the first time in a concert presented by the Katz Center, the Mandel Scholion Research Center, and the Weitzman Musuem.

12/01/2024

🚨Open access alert!🚨Only a few days to get these JQR 113.4 articles for FREE! Open access ends on January 15!

-Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, "Ifra Hormiz and the Use of Mini-Corpora in the Study of the Babylonian Talmud"
-Itamar Ben Ami, "The Total State of the Torah: Isaac Breuer and the Foundations of Radical Orthodox Politics"

Get them here: 👇

Established in 1889, The Jewish Quarterly Review is the oldest English-language journal in the field of Jewish studies. JQR preserves the attention to textual detail so characteristic of the journal in the past, while attempting now to reach a wider and more diverse audience. In each quarterly issue...

09/01/2024

What does Rabban Gamaliel’s slave Tevi have in common with Aesop’s trickster heroes? Find out in Ayelet Wenger's piece for JQR 113.4, now highlighted on the Katz Center blog!

Ayelet Wenger draws lines between Rabban Meir’s slave Tevi and Aesop’s trickster heroes

11/12/2023

2 articles in JQR 113.4 are free to read and download until January 15:
-Michal Bar-Asher Siegal on Ifra Hormiz in the Babylonian Talmud
-Itamar Ben Ami on Isaac Breuer's radical Orthodox politics

Get 'em while they're hot! 🔥👇

Established in 1889, The Jewish Quarterly Review is the oldest English-language journal in the field of Jewish studies. JQR preserves the attention to textual detail so characteristic of the journal in the past, while attempting now to reach a wider and more diverse audience. In each quarterly issue...

04/12/2023

JQR 113.4 is out now, and it features a forum on Jewish recipes in all their forms. See what seven scholars have to say about "Stews, Soaps, Spells, and Salves"!

JQR’s latest forum looks at the Jewish recipe