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Publishing top scholarship in Judaic studies for over a century
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Our fall issue is out with a range of essays spanning antiquity to the modern period, and including literature, philosophy, and more! Don't have access? It will become open access in winter 2026 along with our whole back catalog!
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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2025
JQR 115.4 is now available, online and in print
https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/new-issue-jewish-quarterly-review-fall-2025
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Are you a scholar with an open access publishing mandate as a condition of your grant or fellowship? Consider submitting to JQR! The journal will become OA in winter 2026, including all past and future issues.
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After unraveling the legend of the Prague golem in two JQR essays (2013, 2017), Edan Dekel & David Gantt Gurley are back with new findings about the tale's origins!
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But first, get up to speed with a blog post from the archives:
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The Accidental Golem Hunters: A conversation between Edan Dekel and Gantt Gurley
https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/accidental-golem-hunters
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The Jewish Quarterly Review
Penn Press
14 days ago
With
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's annual conference in full swing, one of
@thejqr.bsky.social
's most-read pieces is now freely available:
muse.jhu.edu/article/959927
As the JQR transitions to Open Access in 2026, its full archive becomes even more valuable to scholars!
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In our current issue, Matan Orian reconciles ostensibly contradictory Second Temple sources attesting to the possibility of conversion to Judaism, arguing that they reflect different stages in a generations-long process of a family becoming Jewish. Check it out!
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Project MUSE - Was the Possibility of Conversion to Judaism Denied in the Second Temple Period?
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/974763
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We are thrilled that three 2025 Schnitzer winners and finalists prefigured their award-winning books in JQR publications: Iris Idelson-Shein, Hannah Pollin-Galay, and Rachel Gordan. Check out their JQR essays in this thread. A warm congratulations to all the honorees!
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Our fall issue is out with a range of essays spanning antiquity to the modern period, and including literature, philosophy, and more! Don't have access? It will become open access in winter 2026 along with our whole back catalog!
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2025
JQR 115.4 is now available, online and in print
https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/new-issue-jewish-quarterly-review-fall-2025
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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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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2025
JQR 115.4 is now available, online and in print
https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/new-issue-jewish-quarterly-review-fall-2025
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reposted by
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Penn Press
2 months ago
We had a great time kicking off
#OAWeek
with a panel of Penn Press journal editors (including from Change Over Time,
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's Manuscript Studies) discussing their experiences with and thoughts on Open Access publishing!
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This
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event is starting soon! See you there.
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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.
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ICYMI!
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Today!
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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!
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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...
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A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center
A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access
https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/gift-jqr-and-katz-center
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(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. 🧵
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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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Fabulative Friends: An Essay
Leslie Ribovich and Cara Rock-Singer set two great twentieth-century cultural critics into dialogue
https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/fabulative-friends-essay
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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
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Project MUSE - Jewish Quarterly Review-Volume 115, Number 3, Summer 2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
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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...
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Project MUSE - <i>Maḥzor Vitry</i>'s "Palestinian Vocalization": Is It Really Vocalization?
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/967050
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This summer Shai Secunda returned to JQR with his essay "The Babylonian Talmud, the Aramaic Incantation Bowls, and Babylonian Jewish Textuality."
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You can revisit his earlier JQR essays on the Bavli here:
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Project MUSE - The Babylonian Talmud, the Aramaic Incantation Bowls, and Babylonian Jewish Textuality
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/967047
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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:
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Project MUSE - The Ascent of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's Politics of Hope in Light of Walter Benjamin
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/967049
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Why do Jews cover their heads? In JQR 115.3,
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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!
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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
https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/why-do-jews-cover-their-heads
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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
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Project MUSE - Jewish Quarterly Review-Volume 115, Number 3, Summer 2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233
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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.
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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
https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/pssst-have-you-heard-about-israel-najara
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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!👇
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