Jewish Studies Quarterly (JSQ)

The Jewish Studies Quarterly was established in 1993 by Joseph Dan (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) and Peter Schäfer (Princeton)  and is edited by Professors Leora Batnitzky (Princeton) and Peter Schäfer (Princeton). It is a peer-reviewed academic journal edited from Princeton University and published by Mohr-Siebeck in Tübingen, Germany.

The journal’s content reflects the array of disciplines, historical eras, methodologies and research interests that characterize the academic pursuit of Jewish Studies today. Its contributors represent the many institutions throughout the world that support academic research in this area. Of the four issues that comprise an annual volume, one and sometimes two issues are devoted to special topics. Volume 14, no. 2, for example, includes the papers first presented at a workshop hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities titled Translating Texts, Translating Cultures. Other special issues have been given over to the proceedings of conferences or symposia that have taken place at Princeton University. Yiddish a Diasporic Path to Modernity (Volume 15 no. 1) and a selection of papers delivered at a colloquium that marked the seven-hundredth anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from France in 1306 titled "Recall and Exile: Literature, Memory, and Medieval French Jews" (Vol. 15 no. 3) are two recent examples. The editors of JSQ are pleased to offer manuscripts in which Hebrew sources are edited and translated into English for the first time. In Vol. 12, for instance, there is a compilation of Hebrew epitaphic poems from a cemetery in Amsterdam (c. 1611-1805) meticulously transcribed and introduced for the first time by scholars Marian and Ramon Sarraga. The variety of content makes JSQ a point of contact for academics in the sphere of Jewish Studies and maintains a sense of cohesiveness in a field that branches out as it grows. Additionally, JSQ publishes accepted articles as fast as possible and thereby makes new, exciting, and cutting edge scholarship easily accessible.

Editors: Leora Batnitzky (Princeton) and Peter Schäfer (Princeton)
Managing editor: Sally Freedman (Princeton)
Advisory board: Steven Aschheim (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University, New York), Michael Fishbane (University of Chicago), Christine Hayes (Yale University, New Haven), Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), Israel Yuval (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Contact: jsq@princeton.edu