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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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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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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 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
September 15, 2026
Upcoming Public Event: Jonathan Boyarin on "Funny, Strange, and Serious Stories of Yiddishland's Jews"
September 10, 2026
Alumna Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich Awarded Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
September 9, 2026
Professor Liz Alexander and Fellow Abigail Snyder Publish Article on Early Rabbis

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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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"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

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

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Invisible Fatherland: Constitutional Patriotism in Weimar Germany

Manuela Achilles

Cambridge University Press (2026)

Justice Behind the Iron Curtain

Justice behind the Iron Curtain

University of Toronto Press (2018)

Sirach and Its Contexts

Sirach and Its Contexts

Greg Schmidt Goering

Brill (2021)

Prisoners of Zion

Prisoners of Zion

University of Michigan (2019)

Jewish Annotated

Wisdom in the Apocrypha

Greg Schmidt Goering

Oxford University Press (2020)

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Religion without Violence: The Practice and Philosophy of Scriptural Reasoning

Peter Ochs

Cascade Books (2019)