We got a shoutout in Penn Today! Check out our blog post highlighting the contents of the latest issue. penntoday.upenn.edu/node/176546

Did you miss it? JQR 115.1 has arrived! 📚 Peruse the TOC and download two articles free: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54319

In honor of Women’s History Month, JQR is highlighting one of its earliest women contributors, the fascinating but now mostly-unknown Helena Frank. Read about her on the blog! katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog…

On the blog we're highlighting an article in our current issue. Find out how Sam Shuman traces the transformation of a modest ultra-Orthodox rabbi into an emblem of Haredi countercultural resistance. katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog…

In JQR 115.1, Ilan Benattar unearths a little-known proposal by Ottoman Jewish journalist (and later historian) Abraham Galante (1873–1961) to locate a Jewish state in the Sudan. See what Galante's idea reveals about late Ottoman Jewish communal politics: muse.jhu.edu/article/952520

As a teaser for an upcoming article in JQR 115.2, Flora Cassen wrote a post for the JQR blog: Beyond Columbus: What DNA Can—and Can’t—Tell Us about Jewish History Check it out--and look out for her forthcoming essay in our next issue! katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog…

Wojciech Tworek's essay in JQR 115.2 uncovers the origins of the Chabad custom of eating “black kasha” during the interwar period, and examines its function as a form of religious expression through nostalgic engagement with food. Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

Avigail Manekin-Bamberger (Avigail Manekin B) challenges theories of female authorship of the Aramaic incantation bowls, instead seeking women in their context through the details the bowls contain about named individuals. Her JQR 115.1 essay is FREE thru May 25! muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

Check out this 2022 blog post featuring JQR 115.1 contributor Sam Shuman! Hasidic Education in New York: A Clash of Law, Politics, and Culture katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog… And don't miss Shuman's JQR essay: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

Did you know that you can read and download our recent essay by Andrea Gondos free until May 25th?👇 The Female Body and the Male Gaze: Magic, Kabbalah, and Medicine in Early Modern East-Central Europe muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

After eleven years with JQR, our peerless executive editor Anne Albert has stepped away to begin a new position at Penn. We thank her for her remarkable contributions to JQR and congratulate her on this new chapter! katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog…

These new JQR essays are currently free! Flora Cassen examines the possibilities and pitfalls of using ancient DNA to understand the Jewish past. Ahuvia Goren unfolds a 17th c Italian halakhic dispute in which a learned Jewish woman argued her own case. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54744

Congrats to Jonathan M. Gribetz for receiving an honorable mention from the AIS for his book Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy! Check out his related 2017 JQR essay "The PLO’s Rabbi: Palestinian Nationalism and Reform Judaism." muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

Our spring issue is online now! Have you perused the TOC? 🌷 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54744

Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Shira Miron, & Sarah Wobick-Segev recently published Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (Penn Press, 2025)! Ashkenazi discusses some of the photos in his 2020 JQR essay "Jewish Vacations in Nazi Germany." 👇 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

Ahuvia Goren’s essay "'I Too Speak the Words of God': A Jewish Learned Woman Faces an Early Modern Rabbinic Court" is free to read and download until June 25! katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog…

What do we stand to gain and what challenges do we face in using ancient DNA to understand the Jewish past? Flora Cassen surveys the state of play for historical genomics in Jewish studies: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article… Free access thru 6/25! And don't miss her recent blog post! 👇

Readers of Rachel Gordan's book "Post­war Sto­ries: How Books Made Judaism American" (OUP, 2024) won't want to miss her new JQR essay, "Fagin, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech: The Postwar Reckoning with Literary Antisemitism." muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article… jewishbookcouncil.org/book/postwar-s…

In JQR 115.2, Christian Stadel traces the Hanukkah story from the Hasmonean era to the Babylonian geonim. Read about his essay "Probing the Sources of the Scroll of Antiochus: The Case for the Syriac Version of 1 Maccabees" on the blog! katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog…