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Visiting PhD Fellow Talk: Katie Brown

Sept 28 | 12 PM | New Cabell 236

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Book Talk w/ Jonathan Boyarin (Cornell University)

Oct 12 | 5:30 PM | UVA Bookstore Mezzanine

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Book Talk w/ Elissa Sampson (Cornell University)

Oct 12 | 12 PM | Gibson 341

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Hebrew Bible Scholars in Virginia Series: Carrie Cifers

Oct 16 | 12:00 | Gibson 341

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Visiting PhD Fellow Talk: Bilal Akar

Oct 21 | 12 PM | New Cabell 236

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Israel-Palestine After the Elections

Nov 4 | 6 PM | Nau 101

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September 25, 2026
UVA Jewish Studies Fall 2026 Newsletter Available
September 24, 2026
Professor Caroline Rody Publishes Book on The Trope of the "Great House" in Literature
September 22, 2026
Professor Sophia Solomon Co-Authors Chapter About the Maccabiah Games
September 18, 2026
UVA Jewish Studies to Host Conversation on Israel-Palestine After the 2026 Elections
September 17, 2026
Visiting PhD Fellow Katie Brown Speaks at Friedman Family Graduate Fellow Dinner

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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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"Opening a Confiscated Archive: A View of the Interracial Yiddish Left's Origins and Impact," Elissa Sampson (Cornell University)

Date: October 12, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Location: Gibson 341

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"Funny, Strange, and Serious Stories of Yiddishland's Jews," Jonathan Boyarin (Cornell University)

Date: October 12, 2026

Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Location: UVA Bookstore Mezzanine

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Jewish Studies Undergraduate Fellows Dinner

Date: October 14, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows Workshop Dinner

Date: October 14, 2026

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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Publications

Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape From Nazi Terror

"Archives of Affection: Johanna and Ermanno Loevinson as a Cultural Translators"

Asher Biemann

Routledge (2021)

Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation

Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation

Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

Routledge (2017)

Jewish Annotated

Wisdom in the Apocrypha

Greg Schmidt Goering

Oxford University Press (2020)

Spiritual Homelands

Spiritual Homelands

Asher Biemann

De Gruyter (2020)

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)

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Invisible Fatherland: Constitutional Patriotism in Weimar Germany

Manuela Achilles

Cambridge University Press (2026)