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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 29, 2026
UVA Jewish Studies to Appoint Forensic Archaeologist Kevin Colls as Professor of Practice
September 28, 2026
Professor Caroline Kahlenberg Presents Colloquium on Jewish Students at the American University of Beirut
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

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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

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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)

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Words on Fire

Vanessa Ochs

(1999)

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)

Jewish Poetry in Islamic Jerusalem

Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem

Jessica Andruss

Oxford University Press (2023)

Justice Behind the Iron Curtain

Justice behind the Iron Curtain

University of Toronto Press (2018)

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Religion without Violence: The Practice and Philosophy of Scriptural Reasoning

Peter Ochs

Cascade Books (2019)