NASHIM: Open Calls
Call for Poetry Submissions
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues invites submissions of poems by feminist poets, in English or in English translation and previously unpublished in English, responding to the events of October 7, 2023, and those that followed, in Israel and elsewhere. Selected poems will be published in a poetry supplement edited by Kathryn Hellerstein and Lisa Katz, in the Spring 2025 issue of NASHIM. We prefer to publish translated poems together with the poems in their original language. Please send poetry submissions to Nashim@schechter.ac.il by December 31, 2024.
Call for Papers: Meaning Making After October 7
On October 7, 2023, Israel suffered the worst terror attack in the country’s history, when Hamas operatives violated and murdered nearly 1,200 people, wounded thousands more, and abducted to Gaza some 220 women and men, elderly and young. The impact of this large-scale and exceptionally brutal violence continues to reverberate in Israel, Gaza and beyond.
Issue no. 47 of Nashim (Spring, 2026), under the consulting editorship of Alanna E. Cooper of Case Western Reserve University and Keren Friedman-Peleg of the College of Management, Academic Studies, in Rishon LeZion, aims to address how Jews in Israel and abroad are working to make sense of the events and move forward from them. We seek scholarly articles and essays in a range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, political science, history, literature and the arts, on topics that address meaning-making after October 7. We welcome proposals from both emerging and established scholars, and are particularly interested in gendered perspectives, including those that address women’s presence (and absence) in the discourse of trauma and war.
Proposals for submission may address but are not confined to the following questions:
- What sorts of work are poets, writers, artists and musicians creating in the aftermath of October 7? What social assumptions do they reveal? And what taken-for-granted ideas do they challenge?
- How have the contours of the relationship between Jews in Israel and abroad shifted? What are the implications?
- As state authorities, NGOs, community groups, campus student groups and other actors formulate varied forms of discourse to construct logic from the horrific chaos, where are the points of tension between them and how are these being addressed (or not)?
- What can we learn about the hopes and anxieties of Jewish communities by analyzing new holiday observances, prayers and other rituals that have emerged post-October 7?
- The hostage crisis and the prosecution of the war have served as moral flashpoints for Jewish groups that span a vast political spectrum. How are these being discussed, reflected upon and navigated? What threats do they pose, and what values do they expose?
Proposals for submissions of up to 12,000 words, not previously published or under consideration for publication elsewhere, should be sent to Deborah Greniman, Managing Editor of Nashim, at Nashim@schechter.ac.il, by March 1, 2025. Final date for submission of articles: June 15, 2025. All scholarly articles will be subject to peer review. Academic Editor of Nashim: Renée Levine Melammed.
Nashim is published jointly by the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University and Indiana University Press.