out the collection. The library also holds the personal letters of more than 50 Jewish-American leaders from the 1800s and 1900s, including Isaac Leeser, Sabato Morais, and Abraham Neuman (three ministers of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia), Cyrus Adler (president, Dropsie College, Mikveh Israel, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Theological Seminary of America; librarian, Smithsonian Institution), Charles Cohen (president, Mikveh Israel, Fairmount Park Commission), his journalist sister Mary M. Cohen, Yiddish journalist Ben Zion Goldberg, and the benefactor Moses Dropsie. Publications The Katz Center houses the Jewish Quarterly Review, the oldest continuously published journal of Judaic Studies in English. Founded in England in 1888 under the editorship of Claude Montefiore and Israel Abrahams, JQR first came to the U.S. in 1911 under the editorship of Solomon Schechter and Cyrus Adler. It is currently published by Penn Press. The Katz Center partners with the University of Pennsylvania Press to publish the book series Jewish Cultures and Contexts. The series is edited by Shaul Magid, Francesca Trivellato, and Steven Weitzman. Notable fellows Israel Bartal: winner of the Landau Prize for the research of the history of the Land of Israel (2009) Menachem Ben-Sasson: former member of the Knesset for Kadima; former president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2009-2017) Amnon Ben-Tor: winner of the Israel Prize for archaeology (2019) Yoram Bilu: winner of the Israel Prize for Sociology and Anthropology (2013) Richard I. Cohen: winner of the Arnold Wischnitzer Prize (1998) Natalie Zemon Davis: winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize (2010); Companion of the Order of Canada; recipient of the National Humanities Medal (2012) Daniel J. Elazar: founder and former president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Yaakov Elman: founder of the field now known as Irano-Talmudica Seymour Gitin: winner of the Israel Museum's Percia Schimmel Prize (2004) Nurith Gertz: winner of the Brenner Prize for Literature (2009); recipient of the Israeli Book Publishers' Association Gold Award (2010) Moshe Greenberg: winner of the Israel Prize in Bible (1994) Bonnie Honig: winner of the Foundations of Political Thought Book Prize (1994) Gershon Hundert: winner of the Judaica Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries (2008) Moshe Idel: winner of the Israel Prize for Jewish thought (1999) Sara Japhet: former president of the World Union of Jewish Studies (2005-2009); winner of the Israel Prize for Biblical studies (2004) Yosef Kaplan: winner of the Israel Prize for the history of the Jewish people