Mazel tov to Dr. Amy K. Milligan of Old Dominion University, for being named an associate editor of the new journal, Jewish Folklore and Ethnology, published by Wayne State University Press.
The first of its kind in English, JFE is a peer-reviewed annual journal. An extension of the Press’s Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology, the journal will feature 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. Dr. Simon J. Bronner, Dean and Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA) will serve as the journal’s founding editor.