Editor | Abraham Socher |
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Frequency | Quarterly |
Founded | 2010 |
Country | United States |
Based in | Cleveland Heights, Ohio |
Language | English |
Website |
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ISSN | 2153-1978 |
The Jewish Review of Books is a quarterly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs from a Jewish perspective. It is published in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. [1]
The magazine was launched in 2010 with an editorial board that included Michael Walzer and Ruth Wisse, Shlomo Avineri, Ruth Gavison, [2] and other prominent Jewish thinkers. [3] The editor is Abraham Socher. [3] [4] The initial press run was 30,000 copies. [5] [6] According to The Jewish Week, the JRB is "unabashedly" modeled after the venerable New York Review of Books. [5] Harvey Pekar and Tara Seibel collaborated on comic strips for the first two issues of the magazine. [7]
The magazine was initially funded by the Tikvah Fund, founded by Zalman Bernstein. [3] [5] In 2022, the publication separated from the Tikvah Fund and is now run independently under the non-profit Jewish Review of Books Foundation, chaired by Jehuda Reinharz, with the Mandel Foundation providing the majority of the funding. [8]
Contributors have included Robert Alter, Elisheva Carlebach, David Ellenson, Daniel Gordis, Moshe Halbertal, Shai Held, Susannah Heschel, Dara Horn, Adam Kirsch, Jonathan Sacks, Haym Soloveitchik, David Wolpe, and Steven Zipperstein. [9]