The European Hebrew Journal (EHJ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal operating under a biannual publication model, with two issues published per calendar year.
Regular issues are expected to appear according to scheduled publication cycles, while thematic or special issues may be organized when appropriate.
Publication schedules may evolve as the journal expands its editorial structure, reviewer network, and international scholarly participation. Any modifications will be communicated transparently through the journal website.
The inaugural issue was published in June 2026.
EHJ may publish issues progressively within a defined publication cycle. In such cases, an issue may initially be opened with an editorial introduction and a first group of peer-reviewed research articles and may subsequently be completed by adding further peer-reviewed research articles before the issue is formally closed.
This model is intended to support timely publication, editorial transparency, and the gradual completion of regular issues.
Research articles, review articles, and short communications added to an open issue must undergo the journal's standard editorial assessment and double-blind peer-review process. Editorial forewords, announcements, and book reviews receive quality control appropriate to their type under the Peer Review Policy; they are not automatically described as double-blind-reviewed research articles. The publication date of each individual article is recorded separately and is not backdated.
Once an issue is formally closed, its table of contents is considered final. Any later corrections, updates, or metadata improvements will be handled transparently and will not alter the original scholarly record.
For editorial, indexing, and bibliographic purposes, original peer-reviewed research articles are clearly distinguished from editorials, forewords, book reviews, review essays, notes, announcements, repository materials, and other non-research content.
The European Hebrew Journal (EHJ) applies an anonymous double-blind peer review model intended to ensure scholarly quality, methodological rigor, and academic integrity.
All submissions undergo an initial editorial assessment to determine relevance to the journal scope, basic academic quality, and suitability for external review.
Research manuscripts considered suitable proceed to anonymous review by at least two independent reviewers. Reviewers are normally external specialists; a qualified editor or Board member may be appointed under the expertise, independence, conflict-of-interest, and separation-of-roles safeguards in the Peer Review Policy. Reviewer identities are concealed from authors, and author identities are concealed from reviewers through the separate anonymised manuscript and title-page procedure. The Editor-in-Chief may assign two Academic Editors where additional handling expertise is needed.
Editorial outcomes may include:
• Accept without revisions
• Minor revisions
• Major revisions
• Reject
Final publication decisions are made by the Editor-in-Chief or a non-conflicted handling editor where recusal is required, following consideration of the reviewers' recommendations.
Review duration may vary depending on reviewer availability and manuscript complexity.
The European Hebrew Journal (EHJ) recognizes long-term preservation of scholarly literature as an essential component of responsible academic publishing.
The journal supports sustainable digital preservation practices intended to ensure continued accessibility, discoverability, and integrity of published materials.
The journal provides immediate access to published content through its OJS website. On 12 October 2026, the official PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) plugin, version 3.0.0.1, was installed and enabled. The network’s Terms of Use were accepted on the same date, and the scheduled tasks were reloaded. Initial registration and deposit processing are awaiting the automated task cycle; no completed preservation deposits have yet been verified. The journal therefore does not claim that its issues are already preserved in PKP PN. Direct LOCKSS and CLOCKSS arrangements remain disabled.
Indexing, library catalogue records, DOI registration, and author self-archiving are distinct from an independent preservation service. Any verified preservation partnership and its coverage will be identified here when established.
Published scholarly articles are immediately available without embargo.
The European Hebrew Journal charges no fees to authors, readers, or other journal users for manuscript submission, editorial assessment, publication, access, or other scholarly publishing functions. There are no submission, peer-review, editorial-processing, article-processing (APC), publication, page, colour, language-editing, withdrawal, membership, subscription, or access charges. There are no hidden costs, surcharges, or mandatory paid services.
Because the journal charges no fees, fee waivers and discounts are not applicable.
Donations are voluntary and are unrelated to manuscript consideration, peer review, acceptance, or publication. Making or declining a donation has no effect on editorial decisions.
Conference participation is a separate activity. Where a conference registration fee exists, including for conferences associated with special issues, payment or non-payment has no influence on the decision to publish a manuscript. Conference participation or payment does not guarantee publication; manuscripts are assessed under the same scholarly, ethical, and peer-review standards.
EHJ encourages broad dissemination of scholarly research and permits authors to archive published works in accordance with principles of open scholarly communication.
Authors may deposit submitted manuscripts, accepted manuscripts, and published versions of their articles without embargo in:
• Institutional repositories
• University repositories
• Personal academic webpages
• Scholarly platforms
• Research networks and academic archives
Authors should acknowledge EHJ as the original venue of publication.
The journal supports responsible self-archiving practices that increase visibility, citation potential, and accessibility of research outputs.
EHJ supports dissemination of published metadata and scholarly records through recognized indexing services, repositories, catalogues, and discovery systems.
The journal aims to facilitate interoperability with scholarly infrastructures by maintaining standardized metadata practices intended to improve discoverability through:
• Academic search engines
• Open repositories
• Library systems
• Citation databases
• Research aggregators
Repository inclusion may expand as the journal continues to develop.
EHJ assigns Crossref-registered Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to published scholarly content within the scope of the DOI Policy; editorial and other non-research items may receive DOIs where applicable.
DOIs provide persistent identification and support citation stability, metadata interoperability, and discoverability. DOI registration does not itself preserve the full text.
Each DOI is permanently associated with the published Version of Record. While DOI metadata may be updated when necessary, the DOI itself remains unchanged throughout the lifetime of the publication.
Special-issue research articles receive editorial oversight equivalent to regular research articles and independent external peer review. Guest-editor appointment, oversight, and independent handling of guest-editor submissions are governed by the Peer Review Policy. Authors who are editors or board members are excluded from handling their own manuscripts.
Authors, reviewers, editors, and the publisher must follow the AI and Automated Tools policy, including disclosure, confidentiality, and human responsibility.
EHJ operates as a diamond open-access journal: authors, readers, and other journal users pay no fees, surcharges, or mandatory service charges for submission, editorial assessment, publication, access, or other scholarly publishing functions. Its operating model includes voluntary financial and institutional support and volunteer editorial and scholarly work, as described on the Support EHJ page. Permitted paid advertising is an additional potential source of support, separate from scholarly publishing; this does not imply that advertising revenue has already been received.
Material sources of funding, sponsorship, and institutional or in-kind support are disclosed publicly, including the provider, nature, and purpose of the support where relevant. Support arrangements must preserve editorial independence. Confidentiality must not be used to conceal editorial control or a relevant financial conflict.
No donation, grant, institutional affiliation, sponsorship, or other financial relationship may influence manuscript screening, reviewer selection, peer review, acceptance, rejection, publication priority, corrections, retractions, complaints, or appeals. Support conditioned on favourable treatment of a particular manuscript, suppression of findings, or control of scholarly decisions is prohibited.
Relevant financial or institutional relationships must be disclosed and assessed. A materially conflicted editor or reviewer is excluded from the affected assessment or decision, which is assigned independently. Institutional support does not entitle an affiliated author to preferential treatment. The passage of time alone does not remove a continuing conflict.
EHJ may accept paid advertisements for scholarly books, research projects, academic conferences, and other products or services relevant to its scholarly community.
All paid advertisements are prominently labelled “Paid Advertisement” and displayed in designated advertising areas, visually separate from articles, abstracts, references, peer-review reports, and editorial notices. Advertisements are not inserted into scholarly article files.
The publisher or a designated advertising coordinator approves advertisements according to their academic relevance, accuracy, and appropriateness. Advertisements are not selected using confidential manuscript information or readers’ personal behaviour. Misleading claims and intrusive advertising are prohibited.
Advertising payments purchase advertising space only. They confer no influence over reviewer selection, peer review, acceptance, rejection, publication timing, book reviews, corrections, retractions, complaints, or appeals. EHJ does not sell favourable reviews, editorial endorsements, or publication guarantees.
Advertisements do not constitute endorsement by EHJ. Paid promotional material must never be presented as peer-reviewed scholarship or an independent scholarly book review.
Relevant relationships between advertisers, authors, reviewers, and editors must be disclosed and assessed. Materially conflicted persons do not participate in the affected scholarly assessment or decision.
Advertising is an optional service, separate from journal submission, publication, and access, which remain free of charge. Advertising revenue is publicly identified as a source of journal support.
Conference participation is separate from journal publication. Any conference registration fee has no influence on manuscript assessment or publication. Questions concerning support, financial conflicts, or improper influence may be sent to office@hebrew.edu.rs and are handled under the journal's complaints and appeals procedure.
Policy updated: 12 October 2026.
EHJ considers manuscripts previously shared as a preprint or unreviewed working paper on a lawful repository, preprint server, or academic website. Such dissemination does not by itself constitute prior journal publication. The work must not already have been published as a peer-reviewed article or be under consideration by another journal.
At submission, authors disclose the earlier version to the editor, providing its URL or identifier, version or posting date, and any relevant differences. Authors must retain the rights needed for EHJ publication. Preprints receive the same editorial assessment and peer review as other submissions and confer no guarantee of acceptance.
Authors must submit an anonymised review manuscript and disclose identifying preprint details separately in the title-page file or confidential comments to the editor. A public preprint may make identity discoverable; double-blind review cannot guarantee that a reviewer will never recognise an author.
After publication, authors should update the preprint record with the complete EHJ citation, article DOI where assigned, and link to the published Version of Record. Preprints must remain labelled as earlier, unreviewed versions and must not be represented as EHJ-approved publications.
Research manuscripts must identify the evidence supporting their arguments and describe relevant methods sufficiently for scholarly assessment. Materials may include inscriptions, manuscript transcriptions, images, linguistic corpora, comparison tables, archaeological records, interview materials, datasets, and analytical code.
Authors provide a Data and Materials Availability statement describing what supporting materials exist, where and how they can be accessed, and any restrictions. Repository links, persistent identifiers, versions, archive names, shelfmarks, catalogue numbers, or access procedures should be supplied where applicable. Authors are encouraged to share supporting materials through suitable repositories when lawful, ethical, and practicable.
EHJ does not require public disclosure that would breach copyright, archive conditions, consent, privacy, confidentiality, cultural protections, or other legitimate restrictions. Restrictions must be explained specifically. Access on request should be stated only when an authorised holder can genuinely provide it, with the relevant contact and conditions.
For studies based only on cited published literature or textual sources, authors may state that no new research dataset was generated and that the sources are identified in the article and references. This does not exempt them from precise source citation or explanation of any restricted primary materials.
Editors and reviewers may request reasonable supporting evidence through a confidential route. Supplementary files submitted as evidence are assessed with the manuscript. Authors must hold any necessary permissions, identify applicable rights, and clearly mark third-party material excluded from the article’s CC BY 4.0 licence.
The European Hebrew Journal applies double-blind review to research articles, review articles, and short communications, with at least two independent reviewers. Reviewers are normally external specialists. A qualified editor or Board member may review a highly specialised topic under the independence and conflict-of-interest safeguards in the Peer Review Policy.
The Editor-in-Chief may assign two Academic Editors when additional editorial expertise is needed. An Academic Editor handling or deciding a manuscript does not act as its formal reviewer. Reviewer identities remain confidential under the double-blind policy.
Editorial forewords and book reviews receive quality control appropriate to their type. Authors do not handle their own manuscripts, and a non-conflicted editor makes decisions where recusal is required.
European Hebrew Journal (EHJ) ISSN 3122-8879 (online), COBISS.SR-ID 195306505, 1602082250
An international peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to Hebrew language, Jewish studies, philology, theology, manuscript studies, history, linguistics, and interdisciplinary research related to Jewish cultures and traditions.
Publisher:
Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature
Registered publisher and organisational unit of the Center for Hebrew Language and Literature (legal entity)
Nušićeva 12a, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
https://hebrew.edu.rs/
Editorial Office:
office@hebrew.edu.rs
Website:
ehj.hebrew.edu.rs
Journal Manager:
Željko Stanojević
ORCID: 0009-0009-0717-6184
ISSN: 3122-8879 online
All articles are published under an open access policy.
