Conservative Judaism (journal)

Conservative Judaism was a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1945 until 2014.

History

The journal was founded in 1945 under the editorship of Rabbi Leon S. Lang as a publication of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA). In 1968, the journal became a joint project of the RA and the Jewish Theological Seminary.^[1] According to Pamela Nadell, "the quarterly was designed for the elite--Conservative leaders and readers learned in Judaica," and it "remained influential chiefly among the leadership of the Conservative movement."^[1]

Leadership

Editors

Its editors were:^[2]

• Leon S. Lang, 1945–1952
• Samuel Dresner, 1955–1964
• Jack Riemer, 1964–1965
• S. Gershon Levi, 1965–1969
• Mordecai Waxman, 1969–1974
• Stephen C. Lerner, 1974–1977
• Myron Fenster, 1977–1979
• Arthur A. Chiel, 1979–1980
• Harold S. Kushner, 1980–1984
• David Wolf Silverman, 1984–1989
• Shamai Kanter, 1989–1993
• Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, 1993–2000
• Martin Samuel Cohen, 2000-2014
• Benjamin Kramer, 2014

Editorial board members

• Jerome Abrams (1967)
• Jacob Agus (1951-1952)
• David Aronson (1960)
• J. Leonard Azneer (1951)
• Ephraim Bennett (1951-1952)
• Sidney Bogner (1951)
• Eli A. Bohnen (1967)
• Ben Zion Bokser (1948, 1951, 1960)
• Alexander Burnstein (1945-1951)
• Gershon Chertoff (1951-1952)
• Seymour J. Cohen (1951)
• Alan Cooper^[2]
• David G. Dalin (historian)^[2]
• Samuel Dresner (1967)
• Jessica Feingold (1967)
• Myron Fenster (1967)
• Theodore Friedman (1948)
• Neil Gillman (theologian)^[2]
• Judah Goldin (1951)
• Robert Gordis (biblical scholar) (1948)
• Philip Graubart (1951)
• Simon Greenberg (former vice-chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America) (1948)
• Judith Hauptman (Talmudist)^[2]
• Arthur Hertzberg (1948-1951)
• Max Kadushin (scholar of rabbinics) (1948)
• Abraham Karp (1960)
• Wolfe Kelman (1967)
• Leon Liebreich (1951)
• Philip Kieval (1951)
• Alfred Kolatch (1951)
• Myer S. Kripke (1948)
• Morris B. Margolies (1951)
• A. Elihu Michelson (1952)
• Herbert Parzen (1951-1952)
• Jack Riemer (1967)
• Henry Moses Rosenthal (1948)
• Jack Wertheimer (historian)^[2]
• Edward T. Sandrow (1948)
• Joseph Sarachek (1951)
• Howard Singer (1951)
• Ira F. Stone (Musar scholar)^[2]
• Seymour Siegel (1967)
• Ralph Simon (1951)
• David Silverman (1967)
• Max Weine (1951-1952)
• Joseph Wise (1951)

Editorial Council

• Max Arzt (1945-1948)
• Herman Abramowitz (1945)
• Mortimer J. Cohen (1945-1948)
• Solomon Goldman (1945-1948)
• Israel Goldstein (1945-1948)
• Solomon Grayzel (1945-1948)
• Israel H. Levinthal (1945-1948)
• Louis M. Levitsky (1945-1948)

External links

• Archive of Articles from Conservative Judaism, 1945-2014