Published: 26 March 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
MORRY SCHWARTZ, A YOUTHFUL 72, has been revealed as the man behind the regeneration of the UK-based Jewish Quarterly. Just as others are predicting the death of print journalism and closing titles — many of them Jewish titles, worldwide — Schwartz is getting into the game with a vengeance, in the JQ’s most adventurous incarnation since it was founded by Jacob Sonntag in 1953.
Schwartz’s calling-card is his optimism. Speaking from his home in Melbourne, he says of his new venture that he is “100 per cent confident this will work”.
He already has an Australian-based editor installed, Jonathan Pearlman, who also edits one of Schwartz’s prized publications, Australian Foreign Affairs. And he has appointed three European consulting editors: Ian Black, formerly Middle East specialist on the Guardian; award-winning writer and translator Natasha Lehrer, based in Paris; and London-based journalist, Jo Glanville.
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New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens has taken on a side gig as the editor of a new limited-run journal of essays about Jewish issues. The journal, titled Sapir, is an initiative of the Maimonides Fund, an increasingly influential force in Jewish philanthropy that supports Jewish identity-building through media, education and Israel engagement. Over the past year, the fund has also become known for its leadership on COVID relief efforts.
The first of four print issues scheduled for 2021 will land in mid-April and will focus on social justice — a topic Stephens has addressed in columns that criticize progressive efforts.
Photo: An issue of the Jewish Quarterly and Australian publisher Morry Schwartz
