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VOLUME L · NO. 1 — SHAVUOT 2027 · Submissions now open

A journal for the study and advancement of Jewish culture and ideals.

The Menorah Journal explores Jewish life across communities, traditions, places and points of view. It introduces readers to interesting and distinctive aspects of Jewish culture through thoughtful scholarship, engaging articles, cultural features, art and visual storytelling. The work is scholarly when the subject calls for it, but always accessible and readable. It seeks to deepen knowledge and connection among Jewish readers and help readers of every background better understand and appreciate Jewish life.

The Physical Archive

One of the world’s largest known collections of the historic Menorah Journal.

Our physical archive in Cincinnati, Ohio, currently preserves 99 historical issues in original printings spanning 1917–1962, documented issue by issue in our public archive index.

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VOLUME L · NO. 1 — SHAVUOT 2027

Essays, scholarship, criticism, literature and other serious work engaging Jewish culture and ideas are now being considered.

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From the Archive

The historic journal in its own pages.

Selected pages from original issues document the journal’s editorial range, visual culture and place within twentieth-century Jewish intellectual life.

April 1922 · Volume VIII, No. 2 · Opening pages of “Towards a Truer Patriotism.”
February 1928 · Volume XIV, No. 2 · “A Rabbi Takes Stock,” with frontispiece.
Historic institutional advertisements · Hebrew Union College and Dropsie College.
Digital Issue Index

Digital access to the historic journal.

The complete historic run is indexed below, with each issue linked to the most specific HathiTrust digital record available.

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Year Volume Issue Title Digital Access