Not to be confused with Jewish Quarterly

Jewish Quarterly

Jewish Quarterly is a UK literary and cultural magazine, published 4 times a year. It focuses on issue of Jewish concern, but also has interests in wider culture and politics. It was founded by Jacob Sonntag in 1955 and has published continuously since...

The Jewish Quarterly Review is an peer-reviewed academic journal

Academic journal

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 which focuses on Jewish studies. It is published quarterly for the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 by the University of Pennsylvania Press

University of Pennsylvania Press

The University of Pennsylvania Press is a university press affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

. The current editors

Editor in chief

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 are Elliott Horowitz and David N. Myers, a professor of Jewish studies at UCLA. It is available online through Project MUSE

Project MUSE

Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...

 and JSTOR

JSTOR

JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

.

The journal was established in London

London

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 in 1889 by Israel Abrahams

Israel Abrahams

Israel Abrahams was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most notably, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages ....

 and Claude G. Montefiore as an outgrowth of the Wissenschaft des Judentums

Wissenschaft des Judentums

Wissenschaft des Judentums , refers to a nineteenth-century movement premised on the critical investigation of Jewish literature and culture, including rabbinic literature, using scientific methods to analyze the origins of Jewish traditions.-The Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden:The ...

 movement and is the oldest English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 journal of Judaic scholarship.

Notable contributors include Solomon Schechter

Solomon Schechter

Solomon Schechter was a Moldavian-born Romanian and English rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish...

, Alexander Altmann

Alexander Altmann

Alexander Altmann was an Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi born in Kassa, Austria-Hungary, today Košice, Slovakia. He emigrated to England in 1938 and later settled in the United States, working productively for a decade and a half as a professor within the Philosophy Department at Brandeis...

, Solomon Zeitlin

Solomon Zeitlin

Solomon Zeitlin, שְׁלֹמֹה צײטלין, Шломо Цейтлин Shlomo Cejtlin was a Jewish historian...

, Louis Ginzberg

Louis Ginzberg

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City.-Biographical background:...

, Menachem Kellner

Menachem Kellner

Menachem Kellner is a contemporary Jewish scholar of medieval Jewish philosophy with a particular focus on the philosophy of Maimonides. He is Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa and has taught courses in philosophy, religious studies and medieval and modern Jewish philosophy at...

, Michael Friedländer

Michael Friedländer

Michael Friedländer was an Orientalist and principal of Jews' College, London. He is best known for his English translation of Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed, which was the most popular such translation until the more recent work of Shlomo Pines, and still remains in print.Friedländer was...

, E. N. Adler, W. Bacher, L. Blau, A. Büchler, T.K. Cheyne

Thomas Kelly Cheyne

Thomas Kelly Cheyne was an English divine and Biblical critic. He was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, and Oxford University....

, D. Kaufmann, A. Neubauer, M. Steinschneider, and I. Zangwill.

External links

• JQR on Project MUSE
• JQR on JSTOR
• Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania