Jewish Studies Research Guide

The bilingual »Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook« forms the core of the institute’s publications and orients itself towards both German- and English-language audiences. The Yearbook is a peer-reviewed journal. All submissions undergo an anonymous review procedure, the success of which is the precondition for publication. With its international editorial board, its review procedure, its scholarly style including its thorough editorial process, and its meticulous layout, that Yearbook follows the best traditions of established humanities journals. Some of the issues are accessible online via the institute's website: https://www.dubnow.de/en/publications/series/jahrbuch-des-dubnow-instituts-dubnow-institute-yearbook

Jewish social studies : a quarterly devoted to contemporary and historical aspects of Jewish life. "Jewish Social Studies plays an important role in advancing the understanding of Jewish life and the Jewish past. Key themes are issues of identity and peoplehood, the vistas opened by the integration of gender as a primary category in the study of history, and the multiplicities inherent in the evolution of Jewish societies and cultures around the world and over time. Regular features include work in anthropology, politics, sociology, religion, and literature, as well as case studies and theoretical discussions, all of which serve to re-chart the boundaries of Jewish historical scholarship." (Periodical's website)

"Established by Israel Abrahams and Claude Montefiore in 1889, The Jewish Quarterly Review is the oldest English-language journal in the field of Jewish studies. JQR preserves the attention to textual detail so characteristic of the journal's early years, while encouraging scholarship in a wide range of fields and time periods. In each quarterly issue of JQR the ancient stands alongside the modern, the historical alongside the literary, the textual alongside the contextual." (Periodical's website)

Founded by the Société des Études Juives in 1880, this multidisciplinary periodical wished to create an academic forum for the study of Jewish history and defense of Judaism comparable with the German-Jewish Wissenschaft des Judentums. Isodore Loeb, Zadok Kahan, Georges Vajda were among its editors.

"The purpose of Jewish History, the sole English language publication devoted exclusively to history and the Jews, is to broaden the limits of historical writing on the Jews. Jewish History publishes contributions in the field of history, but also in the ancillary fields of art, literature, sociology, and anthropology, where these fields and history proper cross paths. The diverse personal and professional backgrounds of Jewish History's contributors, a truly international meeting of minds, have enriched the journal and offered readers innovative essays, as well as special issues on topics proposed by guest-editors: women and Jewish inheritance, the Jews of Latin America, and Jewish self-imaging, to name but a few in a long list." (Periodical's website)

American Jewish History is the official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society, the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the United States. The most widely recognized journal in its field, AJH focuses on every aspect of the American Jewish experience. Founded in 1892 as Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society (PAJHS), it was later published as American Jewish Historical Quarterly (AJHQ) and is currently titled American Jewish History (AJH). (ajhs.org)

Jewish Culture and History is an inter-disciplinary journal which brings together the best of current research in Jewish social history with innovative work in Jewish cultural studies. The journal includes cutting-edge research by younger scholars as well as established specialists, as well as reviews of recent publications. The journal explores previously neglected areas of the Jewish experience from a range of different perspectives including Jewish popular culture, social and political history, literary and cultural representation of Jews, and the global contexts of Jewish culture and history. All articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous peer-review, involving initial editor screening and double-blind refereeing.

Southern Jewish History is the annual peer-reviewed journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society. It has been published
regularly each fall since 1998. The journal is a benefit of membership in the Society and is also available by prepaid order. (Journal's website)