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Jewish Studies Colloquium: Caroline Kahlenberg

Sept 16 | 12 PM | New Cabell 236

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Hebrew Bible Scholars in Virginia Series: Rhiannon Graybill

Sept 22 | 12:30 | Gibson 341

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Visiting PhD Fellow Talk: Katie Brown

Sept 28 | 12 PM | New Cabell 236

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September 7, 2026
Registration Open for "Difficult Pasts: Ethics and Aesthetics of Telling Difficult Histories" Conference
September 4, 2026
UVA Jewish Studies Appoints Caroline Sturdy Colls as Inaugural Chair in Holocaust Studies
September 2, 2026
UVA Jewish Studies Welcomes Faculty and Fellows Back to Grounds
September 1, 2026
About our New Alumni Seminar: "Discovering the Book of Job"
August 31, 2026
Call for Proposals: UVA Jewish Studies Visiting PhD Student Fellowship (Fall 2027 Semester)

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Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows Workshop Dinner

Date: September 9, 2026

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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Jewish Studies Colloquium: Caroline Kahlenberg (History & MESALC)

Date: September 16, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Location: New Cabell Hall 236

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Hebrew Bible Scholar Series: "This is Not My Beautiful Body" (Rhiannon Graybill)

Date: September 22, 2026

Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Location: Gibson Hall 341

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UVA Jewish Studies Faculty Meeting

Date: September 23, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Visiting PhD Fellow Talk: Katie Brown (University of Texas at Austin)

Date: September 28, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Location: New Cabell Hall Room 236

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Publications

Jewish Annotated

Wisdom in the Apocrypha

Greg Schmidt Goering

Oxford University Press (2020)

Invisible Fatherland Cover

Invisible Fatherland: Constitutional Patriotism in Weimar Germany

Manuela Achilles

Cambridge University Press (2026)

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On the Margins of Orthodoxy

Glenn Dynner

Academic Studies Press (2025)

Jewish Poetry in Islamic Jerusalem

Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem

Jessica Andruss

Oxford University Press (2023)

Theology, History, and the Modern University

"A Science Without Limits": Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and the Problem of "Jewish Scholarship"

Asher Biemann

Mohr-Siebeck (2021)

Passover Haggadah

The Passover Haggadah

Vanessa Ochs

Princeton University Press (2020)