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Jewish Quarterly
Not to be confused with The Jewish Quarterly Review question of finding the right word, the right
combination of words, and everything else would
Jewish Quarterly is a UK literary and cultural magazine, follow from it. Literature was a living thing for us,
published 4 times a year. It focuses on issue of Jewish and the world of books knew no boundaries. We
concern, but also has interests in wider culture and pol- cherished the illusion that "you have only to will it
itics. It was founded by Jacob Sonntag in 1955 and has and your dreams would cease to be fairy tales’ ...
published continuously since.[1] Recent editors have in- We felt as a collective, we had a sense of
cluded Matthew Reisz and Elena Lappin and the current community, we felt called upon to add a link to the
editor, Rachel Lasserson. ’golden chain’, handed to us by an earlier
In 1974 Sonntag described the Jewish Quarterly: generation."[1]
"If I were asked how I envisaged The Jewish
Quarterly when I started it more than twenty years Jewish Quarterly sponsors the annual Jewish Quarterly-
ago, I would say that it was to cultivate literary Wingate Literary Prize.
journalism in the best tradition of Central and
Eastern Europe and, in particular, in the best
tradition of Eastern European Jewish writing ... I
References
belong to the generation which looked for a [1] ^ Session transcript, Jewish Book Week 2003, The
synthesis between our Jewishness and our Roots of Writing, Gala Festival Opening Event.
Europeanism, between our nationalism and our
socialism, between the particular and the universal
... Part of our upbringing was to revere the printed
External links
word, to adorn it with a power of its own. How • Jewish Quarterly, official website.
could truth and reason not prevail’? It was just a
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Categories:
• Jewish magazines
• Publications established in 1955
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