The Jewish Quarterly

The Jewish Quarterly has cultivated literary journalism of the highest standard for almost 70 years. It is an independent publication that explores Jewish issues, and issues of humanity from a Jewish perspective.

The Jewish Quarterly is published four times a year – in February, May, August and November. Each issue features a major political or cultural theme, investigated in long-form essays by prominent voices from around the world. JQ’s mission is not to advocate, but to investigate complex and pressing matters of politics, religion, history and culture, and to do so in depth.

Founded in 1953 by Jacob Sonntag, JQ’s new editor is Jonathan Pearlman. The Jewish Quarterly is published out of Australia and is distributed and accessible worldwide.

Latest issue

“The left has become the ideology that dare not speak its name.” —Anshel Pfeffer

In The Strange Death and Curious Rebirth of the Israeli Left, Anshel Pfeffer takes the pulse of Israel’s left wing, examining its health and prospects and dissecting the country’s complex post-Netanyahu political reality. He concludes that until it comes up with a new story to tell Israelis, the left will remain a bit player in the country it once built and ruled.

Also in this issue, Richard J. Evans looks for the roots of antisemitism in chief Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg’s formative years, and Natalie Gryvnyak explores the neighbourhood of Ukraine’s Jewish comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky. And in three enlightening book reviews, Barry Schwabsky evaluates Jewish decadence and its influence on modernity, Lauren Elkin looks back on the work of the indomitable Vivian Gornick and Raphael Zarum pays tribute to the legacy of Jonathan Sacks.