Events
UVA Music and Jewish Studies Professor Joel Rubin hosts renowned artists Svetlana Kundish and Patrick Farrell in a concert of new Yiddish songs.
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Dr. Jaclyn Granick, Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at Cardiff University, Wales, presents her new book, International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War (Cambridge, 2021), in conversation with Professor James Loeffler.
Distinguished legal scholar Professor Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and former Dean of the Harvard Law School, presents the annual Grob Lecture on American Jewish Life.
Is there a Jewish religious tradition of environmentalism? How does the field of Jewish Studies intersect with the environmental turn in the humanities?
UVA Jewish Studies alum Rachel B. Gross, Assistant Professor and John & Marcia Goldman Chair in American Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University, presents her acclaimed new book, Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice (NYU Press, 2021), in conversation with Professor Vanessa Ochs.
Dr. Tal Becker, Legal Adviser to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, recently negotiated the diplomatic accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The latest issue of American Jewish History asks: What differences have Jews and Judaism made in the history of American sexuality? How has sexuality shaped the history of American Jews and Judaism?
Our spring semester opens with renowned scholar and communal leader Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson in conversation with Jewish Studies Program Director James Loeffler. Professor Ellenson will share reflections on his time as a graduate student studying Judaism and religion at the University of Virginia in the early 1970s.
How can we educate the next generation of student-leaders and emerging professionals to work across religious and racial divides?
Dr. Ronit Stahl, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the award-winning first book, Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America (2017), presented insights from her book-in-progress, Troubling Conscience: Religious Freedom and Health Care in Modern America.
Dr. Ronit Stahl, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the award-winning first book, Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America (2017), presented insights from her book-in-progress, Troubling Conscience: Religious Freedom and Health Care in Modern America.
A Book Conversation with Professor Jessica Kirzane (Univ. of Chicago) and Professor Caroline Rody (UVA)
A Book Conversation with Prof. Joel Rubin (UVA), Prof. Mark Kligman (UCLA) and artist/scholar Joshua Horowitz
Presented by the UVA Jewish Studies Program, the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the UVA Law School, and the UVA Religion, Race & Democracy Lab
The historian of mysticism Gershom Scholem famously quipped that one of the twentieth
century’s most influential intellectual movements, the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School,
was among the “most remarkable ‘Jewish sects’ that German Jewry produced.” Elias Sacks will
reassess the work of (Jewish) founders of Critical Theory such as Max Horkheimer and Theodor
How can we cultivate habits of intellectual inquiry in an anti-intellectual public? How can we
empower individuals to embrace uncertainty and intellectual vulnerability in a society that often
valorizes leaders who reject such traits? These are questions that resonate in today’s world, but
Rabbi Leo Baeck is known as the heroic leader of German Jewry during the dark Nazi years. Less well known is how he was able to balance a twofold commitment: to Jewish faith and to modern historical scholarship.
Join us in the Jewish Studies office to share some of our books with you!
Dr. Raz Segal earned his PhD in history at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University in 2013. He is assistant professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Sara and Sam Schoffer Professor of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University, where he also serves as director of the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Dr.