Tarbiz

Tarbiẕ (Hebrew: תרביץ‎) was a scientific quarterly of contemporary Jewish studies, Humanities and religion, published in Hebrew, by the Institute of Jewish Studies (now Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The journal was first published in the Autumn of 1929 and ended its publication in 2017. Among Hebrew journals, it is considered one of the most important journals in its field. Etymologically, the word "Tarbiz" means "place of dissemination of learning," particularly that related to an "academy," or "seat of learning."[1]

Tarbiẕ
DisciplineJewish studies
LanguageHebrew
Publication details
History1929–2017
Publisher
Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies (Magnes Publishing House, Hebrew University) (Israel)
FrequencyQuarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Tarbiz
Indexing
ISSN0334-3650
JSTOR03343650
OCLC no.1026583582

Tarbiẕ deals with the Jewish sciences: Judaism, Biblical criticism, Talmud, Kabbalah, Israeli customs, Jewish history, Hebrew bibliography, and more.

History

In the year 1935, to mark the eight-hundredth year anniversary of Maimonides' birth, the periodical became solely devoted to the subject of Maimonides, initially called: The Book of Maimonides of the Tarbiz. It later broadened its scope to include the entire range of Jewish studies.

The first editor of the journal was Professor Yaakov Nahum Epstein who served as its chief-editor until 1952, after whom, Hayyim Schirmann took-over from 1955–1969, followed by Ephraim Elimelech Urbach between the years 1971–1981. The following years saw a range of other chief editors. Participating in its writing were renowned personalities in the field of Jewish studies, including those who regularly wrote about it, such as Gershom Scholem, Saul Lieberman, Simcha Assaf, Hanoch Albeck, among others. Many of the key articles were also printed separately, or collected by their authors to be assembled into book-form.

The current publisher is the Magnes Publishing House at the Hebrew University. The journal's citation and reference rules were adopted by law journals published by Israeli universities whenever citing sources touching upon traditional Jewish law.[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, Jewish Studies Source, Linguistic Bibliography, Old Testament Abstracts Online, and MLA - Modern Language Association Database.[3]

References
  1. Cf. Babylonian Talmud (Menachot 82b, where the Aramaic word תרביצא‎ has been explained by Rashi and the Tosafists as a Beit midrash (House of study) where the Torah is disseminated. In the Soncino English edition of the Babylonian Talmud (s.v. Menachot 82b, note 9) the same word is translated as "the garden where scholars of the academy used to congregate for general discussions."
  2. The rules of uniform mention in legal writing, Basic rule no. 37, p. 50 (in Hebrew)
  3. "Tarbiz". Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
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