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From the Editor This issue of JQR is the last that will bear my name as editor. As I look back over the years of my involvement with the journal, I realize how dramatically things have changed. A short accounting of these changes may not be out of place in ajournai whose area of interest encompasses Jewish history. Twenty-five years ago I took my first job as Assistant Professor of Postbiblical Literature at Dropsie College in Philadelphia. Although it had pioneered Jewish Studies in the United States, offering the PhD decades before other American universities and rabbinic seminaries, Dropsie was at that time a failing institution. But I was young and idealistic and I had recently discovered mada'ei ha-yahadut at Hebrew University. I was fired with the dream of an American institute for Judaic Studies at the highest level. When I was later (in 1981) appointed president of Dropsie, I began a restoration program in earnest. Aside from ever-present financial problems, there were three areas of immediate and vital concern: the faculty, the library, and the journal, the Jewish Quarterly Review. Over the next several years these concerns were addressed and significant achievements attained including, most notably, the retention of a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press

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Goldenberg, David M.
Jewish Quarterly Review , Volume 93 (3) – Jan 4, 2003
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This issue of JQR is the last that will bear my name as editor. As I look back over the years of my involvement with the journal, I realize how dramatically things have changed. A short accounting of these changes may not be out of place in ajournai whose area of interest encompasses Jewish history. Twenty-five years ago I took my first job as Assistant Professor of Postbiblical Literature at Dropsie College in Philadelphia. Although it had pioneered Jewish Studies in the United States, offering the PhD decades before other American universities and rabbinic seminaries, Dropsie was at that time a failing institution. But I was young and idealistic and I had recently discovered mada'ei ha-yahadut at Hebrew University. I was fired with the dream of an American institute for Judaic Studies at the highest level. When I was later (in 1981) appointed president of Dropsie, I began a restoration program in earnest. Aside from ever-present financial problems, there were three areas of immediate and vital concern: the faculty, the library, and the journal, the Jewish Quarterly Review. Over the next several years these concerns were addressed and significant achievements attained including, most notably, the retention of a

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