The journal has been published since 1949, first as JHI's newsletter in 1950-53 as a semi-annual, and since then as a quarterly. It is addressed to people dealing with Jewish history in Poland, mainly to Polish and foreign scholars. Polish essays are supplemented with English summaries, some are originally in English or German, and some source materials are in Hebrew. Their contents range from antiquity up to the present, but the Holocaust and World War II are studied most extensively. Besides papers, the Quarterly features source documents from Polish or foreign archives and testimonies (diaries or memoirs). Local historiography on towns and regions is also represented. Every issue includes reviews on recent Polish or foreign publications, a survey of foreign (mostly Jewish) press and a bibliography of Jewish-related publications in Poland. The current output of JHI's research staff and other scholars is presented in Jewish History Quarterly, which is a direct continuation of the Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego (The Bulletin of the Jewish Historical Institute), published by JHI from November 1950 until the end of 2000. The quarterly follows the numbering sequence of the "Biuletyn ZIH".


Articles published in "Jewish History Quarterly" since 2004 can be ordered at The Central Eastern European Online Library (C.E.E.O.L.). Book reviews, reviews of foreign periodicals and materials for bibliography "Jews in Poland" are available at C.E.E.O.L. for free.



In 2008 publishing of the "Jewish History Quarterly" is supported by The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration.