March 14, 2023 Tuesday 6.00pm–7.30pm Jewish Museum of Australia This is session one of the four part series Learn JMA x The Jewish Quarterly: THE JEWS OF UKRAINE ..read more

21 March 2023 Tuesday 6.00pm–7.30pm Jewish Museum of Australia This is session two of the four part series Learn JMA x The Jewish Quarterly: THE JEWS OF UKRAINE ..read more

28 March 2023 Tuesday 6.00pm–7.30pm Jewish Museum of Australia This is session three of the four part series Learn JMA x The Jewish Quarterly: THE JEWS OF UKRAINE ..read more

4 April 2023 Tuesday 6.00pm–7.30pm Jewish Museum of Australia This is session four of the four part series Learn JMA x The Jewish Quarterly: THE JEWS OF UKRAINE ..read more

In partnership with London’s Jewish Book Week, we are pleased to announce a panel discussion to launch The Return of History: ‘Plague and Prejudice’ to launch The Jewish Quarterly in the UK ..read more

Presented in collaboration with Melbourne Jewish Book Week, we are thrilled to announce the continuation of our series of global conversations featuring online discussions with contributors to JQ to mark the launch of each issue ..read more

In partnership with Melbourne Jewish Book Week, we are pleased to announce an online discussion to launch The Jewish Quarterly in Australia ..read more

Before the Second World War, several prominent French Jewish families built vast collections of art and treasures which sought to venerate beauty at a time of increasing hostility. But their collections – and their rarefied worlds, now vanished – also reveal the tragedy of their troubled lives and identities as they found themselves caught between emancipation, assimilation and antisemitism ..read more

The publication of a previously unreleased short story by Sylvia Plath is big news in the literary world. As Harper Perennial released Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom to much fanfare and debate in January, I realised that – to my shame – I had never read any Plath. I decided to begin with Ariel (1965), written just before her suicide in 1963, and edited, along with her journals and letters, by Ted Hughes. (Hughes burnt the last of her journals. He was able to do all this because their divorce was not yet final. His actions obscured his abuse, which has become clearer since his de ..read more

Earlier in February, 56 faith leaders, including five Rabbis, signed an open letter to the Department of Education urging that “irrespective of the type of school they attend, all children are supported and allowed to thrive through education that actively promotes respect”. This was a response to pressure from some strictly-orthodox figures to dilute schools’ requirements to promote diversity, ie. not teach children about LGBT people. The letter’s signatories, who included Rabbi Laura Klausner and Rabbi Danny Rich, cited “reports that the Department for Education is planning to… no ..read more