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| title           = Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums
| category        = [[Jewish history]], [[Judaism]]
| frequency       = Monthly
| circulation     =
| publisher       =
| founder         = [[Zecharias Frankel]]
| founded         = 1851
| firstdate       = {{Start date|1851|October}}
| finaldate = 1939
| finalnumber = 83
| country         = [[Germany]]
| based           =
| language        = [[German language|German]]
| website         = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} -->
| issn            =
| oclc            = 5764327
}}
'''''Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums''''' ("Monthly magazine for the history and science of Judaism", abbreviated to '''''MGWJ''''') was a monthly journal devoted to the [[Science of Judaism]]. It was founded by [[Zecharias Frankel]] in [[Dresden]] in 1851, following the suppression of ''[[Zeitschrift für die Religiösen Interessen des Judenthums]]'' in 1846.<ref name="jewishenc" /> It was published in [[Germany]] for 83 years between 1851 and 1939<ref name="JE" /> (except in 1887–1892)<ref name="jewishenc" /><ref name="JE" /> In time, it became the leading journal in the Jewish academic world.<ref name="JE" />
It was founded to serve as the organ of what Frankel called the "positive-historical school" in Jewish life and scholarship, which took up a middle position between Reform as represented by [[Abraham Geiger]], and Orthodoxy as interpreted by [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]] and [[Azriel Hildesheimer]]. This type of Judaism, conservative in its approach to Jewish observance and ritual but undogmatic in matters of scholarship and research, was taught at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau]], founded in 1854 with Frankel as head; the ''Monatsschrift'' was intimately though not formally connected with this Seminary and drew its editors and contributors mainly from the ranks of its lecturers and alumni.<ref name="JE" />
Frankel remained the editor of the ''Monatsschrift'' until 1868; the first seventeen volumes of the publication were edited by Frankel. Starting in 1869 he was succeeded in the task by the historian [[Heinrich Graetz]]. The latter edited vols. xviii. to xxxvi. inclusive, being assisted by [[Pinkus Frankl]] of the Berlin [[Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums]] in vols. xxxiii. to xxxv. Publication was stopped in 1887, when Graetz reached the age of 70 years old. It was resumed in 1892, with Marcus Brann<ref name="jewishencMarcus"/> and [[David Kaufmann]] as joint editors (vols. xxxvii. to xliii.). Upon Kaufmann's death (1899) Brann became sole editor. Since Jan., 1904, the ''Monatsschrift'' has appeared as the organ of the ''Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judenthums''.<ref name="jewishenc" /><ref name="JE"/>
The "''Monatsschrift''" was first published in Dresden. Some volumes were then issued in [[Krotoschin]] and some in Berlin; but the greatest number appeared in [[Breslau]]. A complete table of contents for the first seventeen volumes is appended to vol. xvii., and a similar table for the years 1869 to 1887 is given at the end of vol. xxxvi. This table has been published separately also.<ref name="jewishenc" />
==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="jewishenc">{{cite web | url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10941-monatsschrift-fur-die-geschichte-und-wissenschaft-des-judenthums | title=Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums| publisher=[[JewishEncyclopedia.com]] | accessdate=December 7, 2011 | author=[[Isidore Singer]], [[Peter Wiernik]]}}<br />'''Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography''':
*''Monatsschrift'', vol. i., Preface;
*S. P. Rabbinowitz, ''Zacharias Frankel'' (in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]), pp. 143 et seq., [[Warsaw]], 1898.
*An exhaustive criticism, by Atlas, of vol. xxxiii. appears in ''[[Ha-Asif]]'', ii. 432-450.</ref>
<ref name="JE">{{cite web | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/monatsschrift-fuer-geschichte-und-wissenschaft-des-judentums | title=''Monatsschrift fuer die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums'' | publisher=[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]] (2007, 2nd ed.) | author=[[Nahum N. Glatzer]]}}</ref>
<ref name=jewishencMarcus>{{Jewish Encyclopedia|no-prescript=1|title=BRANN, MARCUS|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3643-brann-marcus|accessdate=April 18, 2013}}</ref>
}}
==External links==
* [http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodical/titleinfo/2829132 All issues online]: Compact Memory, University Library Frankfurt
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