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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2025
JQR 115.4 is now available, online and in print
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JQR 115.4 is out, feat. essays on conversion to Judaism in antiquity, 13th c. philosophical commentaries, Jüdisch-Deutsch novellas, and the winding modern reception of a 17th c. rabbi, PLUS a text and translation of a medieval prose-poetry story!
Peruse the TOC:
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Peruse the TOC:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
JQR 115.4 is out, feat. essays on conversion to Judaism in antiquity, 13th c. philosophical commentaries, Jüdisch-Deutsch novellas, and the winding modern reception of a 17th c. rabbi, PLUS a text and translation of a medieval prose-poetry story!
Peruse the TOC:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Peruse the TOC:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2025
JQR 115.4 is now available, online and in print
katz.sas.upenn.edu
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
JQR 115.4 is out, feat. essays on conversion to Judaism in antiquity, 13th c. philosophical commentaries, Jüdisch-Deutsch novellas, and the winding modern reception of a 17th c. rabbi, PLUS a text and translation of a medieval prose-poetry story!
Peruse the TOC:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Peruse the TOC:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
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We had a great time kicking off #OAWeek with a panel of Penn Press journal editors (including from Change Over Time, @easmisc.bsky.social, @thejqr.bsky.social, and @sims-mss.bsky.social's Manuscript Studies) discussing their experiences with and thoughts on Open Access publishing!
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We had a great time kicking off #OAWeek with a panel of Penn Press journal editors (including from Change Over Time, @easmisc.bsky.social, @thejqr.bsky.social, and @sims-mss.bsky.social's Manuscript Studies) discussing their experiences with and thoughts on Open Access publishing!
This #OAweek event is starting soon! See you there.
Interested in our decision to make JQR open access? Join us for the OA Week event "Before and After the Open Access Transition: Penn Editors Share Their Experiences," featuring JQR's own Natalie Dohrmann.
Oct. 20, 11:30AM EST. Free, hybrid, open to the public.
library.upenn.edu/events/open-...
Oct. 20, 11:30AM EST. Free, hybrid, open to the public.
library.upenn.edu/events/open-...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This #OAweek event is starting soon! See you there.
Interested in our decision to make JQR open access? Join us for the OA Week event "Before and After the Open Access Transition: Penn Editors Share Their Experiences," featuring JQR's own Natalie Dohrmann.
Oct. 20, 11:30AM EST. Free, hybrid, open to the public.
library.upenn.edu/events/open-...
Oct. 20, 11:30AM EST. Free, hybrid, open to the public.
library.upenn.edu/events/open-...
library.upenn.edu
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Interested in our decision to make JQR open access? Join us for the OA Week event "Before and After the Open Access Transition: Penn Editors Share Their Experiences," featuring JQR's own Natalie Dohrmann.
Oct. 20, 11:30AM EST. Free, hybrid, open to the public.
library.upenn.edu/events/open-...
Oct. 20, 11:30AM EST. Free, hybrid, open to the public.
library.upenn.edu/events/open-...
ICYMI!
Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)!
www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...
www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...
Jewish Quarterly Review to become Open Access in 2026 - University of Pennsylvania Press
Penn Press and the Katz Center are delighted to announce a new chapter in the history of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Beginning with the winter 2026 issue
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October 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
ICYMI!
Today!
Did you catch Sunny S. Yudkoff's 2024 JQR essay "Yankev Glatshteyn and the Threat of Yiddish Joy"?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
If you're in the Philly area, check out her talk at Penn next week!
figs.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/....
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
If you're in the Philly area, check out her talk at Penn next week!
figs.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/....
September 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Today!
Did you catch Sunny S. Yudkoff's 2024 JQR essay "Yankev Glatshteyn and the Threat of Yiddish Joy"?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
If you're in the Philly area, check out her talk at Penn next week!
figs.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/....
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
If you're in the Philly area, check out her talk at Penn next week!
figs.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/....
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Did you catch Sunny S. Yudkoff's 2024 JQR essay "Yankev Glatshteyn and the Threat of Yiddish Joy"?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
If you're in the Philly area, check out her talk at Penn next week!
figs.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/....
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
If you're in the Philly area, check out her talk at Penn next week!
figs.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/....
We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog!
Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
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A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center
A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access
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September 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog!
Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
(1/5) It's peer review week! #PRW2025 Thank you to those who have reviewed for JQR over the years. We would not be here without you.
Check out this thread for insights and reflections from the JQR editors on the peer review process, including advice for authors and reviewers. 🧵
Check out this thread for insights and reflections from the JQR editors on the peer review process, including advice for authors and reviewers. 🧵
September 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
(1/5) It's peer review week! #PRW2025 Thank you to those who have reviewed for JQR over the years. We would not be here without you.
Check out this thread for insights and reflections from the JQR editors on the peer review process, including advice for authors and reviewers. 🧵
Check out this thread for insights and reflections from the JQR editors on the peer review process, including advice for authors and reviewers. 🧵
In our current issue, Leslie Ribovich and Cara Rock-Singer stage a conversation with 20th century cultural critics James Baldwin and Rabbi Louis Finkelstein.
Learn more on the blog!
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Learn more on the blog!
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Fabulative Friends: An Essay
Leslie Ribovich and Cara Rock-Singer set two great twentieth-century cultural critics into dialogue
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September 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In our current issue, Leslie Ribovich and Cara Rock-Singer stage a conversation with 20th century cultural critics James Baldwin and Rabbi Louis Finkelstein.
Learn more on the blog!
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Learn more on the blog!
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
These essays are free to access without a subscription thru 9/5. Get them now!
Simcha Gross, "From Togas to Turbans: Jewish Male Head Coverings between the Roman and Sasanian Worlds"
Edwin Seroussi, "Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation: Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
Simcha Gross, "From Togas to Turbans: Jewish Male Head Coverings between the Roman and Sasanian Worlds"
Edwin Seroussi, "Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation: Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
Project MUSE - Jewish Quarterly Review-Volume 115, Number 3, Summer 2025
muse.jhu.edu
September 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
These essays are free to access without a subscription thru 9/5. Get them now!
Simcha Gross, "From Togas to Turbans: Jewish Male Head Coverings between the Roman and Sasanian Worlds"
Edwin Seroussi, "Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation: Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
Simcha Gross, "From Togas to Turbans: Jewish Male Head Coverings between the Roman and Sasanian Worlds"
Edwin Seroussi, "Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation: Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
In a short note in JQR 115.3, Jonathan Howard examines the 12th c. MS that seems to evidence the origin of the Palestinian vocalization signs. He argues that it actually refers to cantillation signs, leaving the origin of the vocalization signs uncertain.
Take a look:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Take a look:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Project MUSE - <i>Maḥzor Vitry</i>'s "Palestinian Vocalization": Is It Really Vocalization?
muse.jhu.edu
September 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In a short note in JQR 115.3, Jonathan Howard examines the 12th c. MS that seems to evidence the origin of the Palestinian vocalization signs. He argues that it actually refers to cantillation signs, leaving the origin of the vocalization signs uncertain.
Take a look:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Take a look:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
This summer Shai Secunda returned to JQR with his essay "The Babylonian Talmud, the Aramaic Incantation Bowls, and Babylonian Jewish Textuality."
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
You can revisit his earlier JQR essays on the Bavli here:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
You can revisit his earlier JQR essays on the Bavli here:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Project MUSE - The Babylonian Talmud, the Aramaic Incantation Bowls, and Babylonian Jewish Textuality
muse.jhu.edu
August 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This summer Shai Secunda returned to JQR with his essay "The Babylonian Talmud, the Aramaic Incantation Bowls, and Babylonian Jewish Textuality."
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
You can revisit his earlier JQR essays on the Bavli here:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
You can revisit his earlier JQR essays on the Bavli here:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
In our current issue, Tsiona Lida explores the concept of hope in the work of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and Walter Benjamin, and shows how their differing approaches illustrate the affective qualities of historical writing.
Don't miss her essay:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Don't miss her essay:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Project MUSE - The Ascent of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's Politics of Hope in Light of Walter Benjamin
muse.jhu.edu
August 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In our current issue, Tsiona Lida explores the concept of hope in the work of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and Walter Benjamin, and shows how their differing approaches illustrate the affective qualities of historical writing.
Don't miss her essay:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Don't miss her essay:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Why do Jews cover their heads?
In JQR 115.3, @simchagross.bsky.social looks at norms of Jewish male head covering as a proxy for cultural assimilation and difference in rabbinic Rome and Sasania.
Learn more on the blog and read his essay FREE thru September 5!
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
In JQR 115.3, @simchagross.bsky.social looks at norms of Jewish male head covering as a proxy for cultural assimilation and difference in rabbinic Rome and Sasania.
Learn more on the blog and read his essay FREE thru September 5!
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Why Do Jews Cover Their Heads?
In JQR 115.3, Simcha Gross looks at norms of Jewish male head covering as a proxy for cultural assimilation and difference in rabbinic Rome and Sasania
katz.sas.upenn.edu
August 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Why do Jews cover their heads?
In JQR 115.3, @simchagross.bsky.social looks at norms of Jewish male head covering as a proxy for cultural assimilation and difference in rabbinic Rome and Sasania.
Learn more on the blog and read his essay FREE thru September 5!
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
In JQR 115.3, @simchagross.bsky.social looks at norms of Jewish male head covering as a proxy for cultural assimilation and difference in rabbinic Rome and Sasania.
Learn more on the blog and read his essay FREE thru September 5!
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Our summer issue is out and two essays are free for a limited time. Don't forget to peruse the TOC! 🌻
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
Project MUSE - Jewish Quarterly Review-Volume 115, Number 3, Summer 2025
muse.jhu.edu
August 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Our summer issue is out and two essays are free for a limited time. Don't forget to peruse the TOC! 🌻
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
Pssst... have you heard?
Edwin Seroussi's essay in our current issue, "Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation: Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited," is free to read and download through September 5! Learn more on the blog.
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Edwin Seroussi's essay in our current issue, "Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation: Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited," is free to read and download through September 5! Learn more on the blog.
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Pssst ... Have You Heard about Israel Najara?
In JQR 115.3, Edwin Seroussi finds deeper meanings threaded through the long history of slanderous gossip attached to the famous poet and composer
katz.sas.upenn.edu
August 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Pssst... have you heard?
Edwin Seroussi's essay in our current issue, "Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation: Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited," is free to read and download through September 5! Learn more on the blog.
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Edwin Seroussi's essay in our current issue, "Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation: Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited," is free to read and download through September 5! Learn more on the blog.
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
JQR 115.3 is here! We've got:
-Early Jewish head coverings
-The Talmud & the Aramaic incantation bowls
-Israel Naraja
-The Palestinian vocalization signs
-Yosef Yerushalmi & Walter Benjamin
-James Baldwin & Louis Finkelstein
Read the TOC +2 free essays!👇
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
-Early Jewish head coverings
-The Talmud & the Aramaic incantation bowls
-Israel Naraja
-The Palestinian vocalization signs
-Yosef Yerushalmi & Walter Benjamin
-James Baldwin & Louis Finkelstein
Read the TOC +2 free essays!👇
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
August 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
JQR 115.3 is here! We've got:
-Early Jewish head coverings
-The Talmud & the Aramaic incantation bowls
-Israel Naraja
-The Palestinian vocalization signs
-Yosef Yerushalmi & Walter Benjamin
-James Baldwin & Louis Finkelstein
Read the TOC +2 free essays!👇
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
-Early Jewish head coverings
-The Talmud & the Aramaic incantation bowls
-Israel Naraja
-The Palestinian vocalization signs
-Yosef Yerushalmi & Walter Benjamin
-James Baldwin & Louis Finkelstein
Read the TOC +2 free essays!👇
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...