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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 16, 2026
Cornell Professor Jonathan Boyarin Shares Yiddish Anecdotes from Eastern Europe
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Asher Biemann Co-Edits Volume on Jewish-Muslim Thought

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Visiting PhD Fellow Talk: Bilal Akar (University of Milan)

Date: October 21, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Location: New Cabell Hall Room 236

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UVA Jewish Studies Faculty Meeting

Date: October 28, 2026

Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Jewish Studies Undergraduate Fellows Dinner

Date: November 2, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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Israel-Palestine after the 2026 Elections: A Conversation with Ghaith al-Omari and Ned Lazarus

Date: November 4, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Location: Nau 101

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Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows Workshop Dinner

Date: November 9, 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)

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Invisible Fatherland: Constitutional Patriotism in Weimar Germany

Manuela Achilles

Cambridge University Press (2026)

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

Asher Biemann

De Gruyter (2026)

Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation

Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation

Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

Routledge (2017)

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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Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies

Isaac Ariail Reed

University of Chicago Press (2020)