Jewish Folkore and Ethnology, Volume 5 (Fall 2026)

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (JFE) is a peer-reviewed annual journal. It features innovative, original analytical studies, essays, and commentaries in English on the diverse ways in which Jewishness is expressed, conceived, transformed, and perceived by Jews and non-Jews through folklore, tradition, and social/cultural practice. JFE succeeds previous international serials of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review and Jewish Cultural Studies sponsored by the Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section of the American Folklore Society. JFE’s coverage includes but is not limited to genres of narrative, song, music, speech, custom, ritual, belief, art, craft, architecture, dance, dress, and food; practices and performances of the body, faith, home, and community in the past and present; and ideas of tradition, identity, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, education, and culture. JFE invites submissions from varied disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and methodologies/approaches. JFE strives for an international reach in content and authors and values engaging academic writing that will be of interest to lay as well as scholarly audiences.

Volume 5, Number 1 (Fall 2026)
SPECIAL ISSUE: THE FOLKLORE AND ETHNOLOGY OF ANTISEMITISM

Note on Transliteration 

Introduction: The Folklore and Ethnology of Antisemitism
SIMON J. BRONNER

Folk Narratives of “The Wandering Jew” (ATU 777) in Latvian Folklore
SVETLANA POGODINA

Jewish Women’s Folk Memory of Argentine Schooldays, 1900–1955
JACQUELINE LAZNOW

Words of War: The Rhetorical Weapons of Folklore After October 7
STEVE SIPORIN

Does Reporting of Israeli Organ Harvesting Constitute Blood Libelous Folklore, and Why Does It Matter?
SIMON J. BRONNER

Contributors