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Jewish Studies Colloquium: Caroline Kahlenberg

Sept 16 | 12 PM | New Cabell 236

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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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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
September 7, 2026
UVA Jewish Studies Faculty to Participate in "Difficult Pasts" Symposium
September 4, 2026
UVA Jewish Studies Appoints Caroline Sturdy Colls as Inaugural Chair in Holocaust Studies
September 2, 2026
UVA Jewish Studies Welcomes Faculty and Fellows Back to Grounds

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Jewish Studies Colloquium: Caroline Kahlenberg (History & MESALC)

Date: September 16, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Location: New Cabell Hall 236

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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)

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Publications

Jewish Feminist Ethnographies: Special Issue of Nashim

Jewish Feminist Ethnographies: Special Issue of Nashim

Vanessa Ochs

Indiana University Press (2021)

Jewish Poetry in Islamic Jerusalem

Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem

Jessica Andruss

Oxford University Press (2023)

Passover Haggadah

The Passover Haggadah

Vanessa Ochs

Princeton University Press (2020)

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)

Spiritual Homelands

Spiritual Homelands

Asher Biemann

De Gruyter (2020)