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Book Talk w/ Elissa Sampson (Cornell University)

Oct 12 | 12 PM | Gibson 341

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Book Talk w/ Jonathan Boyarin (Cornell University)

Oct 12 | 5:30 PM | UVA Bookstore Mezzanine

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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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October 9, 2026
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October 8, 2026
Asher Biemann Co-Edits Volume on Jewish-Muslim Thought
October 2, 2026
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September 30, 2026
UVA Jewish Studies Alumna Deborah Barer Publishes Book on Improvisation in the Talmud

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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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Hebrew Bible Scholar Series: "Now Showing: God" (Carrie Cifers)

Date: October 16, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location: Gibson Hall 341

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Publications

Sirach and Its Contexts

Sirach and Its Contexts

Greg Schmidt Goering

Brill (2021)

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Cultures of Continuity: Jewish-Muslim Conversations on a Contested Ideal

Asher Biemann

De Gruyter (2026)

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Words on Fire

Vanessa Ochs

(1999)

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Religion without Violence: The Practice and Philosophy of Scriptural Reasoning

Peter Ochs

Cascade Books (2019)

Jewish Annotated

Wisdom in the Apocrypha

Greg Schmidt Goering

Oxford University Press (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)