Jewish Quarterly Review to become Open Access in 2026
09/18/2025
Penn Press and the Katz Center are delighted to announce a new chapter in the history of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Beginning with the winter 2026 issue (JQR 116.1), all… READ MORE
Category: Jewish Studies
Occupied Words by Hannah Pollin-Galay wins a National Jewish Book Award!
04/10/2025
Penn Press is thrilled to announce that Hannah Pollin-Galay’s 2024 book Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish recently won a National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book… READ MORE
Tracy Picks a Franklin’s Fave: The Return of the Absent Father
10/18/2024
Today’s post comes from Penn Press’s Marketing Operations Manager, Tracy Kellmer, continuing a blog series in which Tracy explores one of the books currently for 75% off in the Franklin’s Faves section of our… READ MORE
New Design Identity for the Jewish Quarterly Review
03/07/2024
Today’s post features Jocelyn Dawson, Director of Journals at the University of Pennsylvania Press, in conversation with Anne O. Albert, executive editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR), on the… READ MORE
University Press Week: How does Penn Press #SpeakUP?
11/16/2023
Today’s post is a part of University Press Week 2023’s blog tour. This year, the members of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses)—an organization of 160 mission-driven publishers in the… READ MORE
Peer Review Week: Interview with Jewish Quarterly Review editor Natalie B. Dohrmann
09/26/2023
It’s Peer Review Week! This annual week-long event aims to celebrate the value of peer review among academic publishers, associations, institutions, researchers, and more. This year’s theme is Peer Review… READ MORE
Penn Press Announces New Senior Editor Elisabeth Maselli
03/03/2022
Penn Press is pleased to announce that Elisabeth Maselli will join the University of Pennsylvania Press as a senior acquisitions editor at the end of March 2022. She will be… READ MORE
Penn Press Announces Partnership with the Association for Jewish Studies to Publish AJS Review
09/07/2021
Effective with Volume 46 (2022), Penn Press will publish the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) flagship journal, AJS Review. Published biannually, AJS Review features a range of articles, essays, and book reviews highlighting pathbreaking work… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Spring 2021 catalog!
03/04/2021
Exciting new titles this season include: • An Illustrated Business History of the United States by Richard Vague, a sweeping, lively, and highly approachable history of American business from the nation’s… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2020 catalog!
09/02/2020
Exciting new titles this season include: • In Defense of Populism by Donald T. Critchlow, which argues, contrary to contemporary warnings about the dangers of populism, that grassroots activism is essential… READ MORE
