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A Conversation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

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A Conversation with Author Arnold Eisen

"Being Jewish in America Today" Series

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"A Still Small Voice" Film Screening and Panel Discussion

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2025 Forum on Jewish-Muslim Thought and Theology

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September 29, 2025
Jewish Studies Alumni Emily Filler Co-Edits a New Book on Jewish Ethics
September 25, 2025
Meet Visiting Ph.D. Fellow Anaël Malet
September 24, 2025
UVA Jewish Studies is Now on Bluesky
September 17, 2025
Call for Proposals: UVA Jewish Studies Visiting Ph.D. Student Fellowship
September 15, 2025
Former Jewish Studies Director James Loeffler to Speak on His New Book

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Undergraduate Fellows Dinner

October 9, 2025

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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Forum on Jewish-Muslim Thought and Theology

October 20, 2025 - October 22, 2025

All Day

University of Vienna

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Jewish Studies Colloquium: Liz Alexander, Religious Studies

October 22, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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UVA Jewish Studies 25-Year Anniversary Celebration

October 31, 2025 - November 2, 2025

All Day

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"A Still Small Voice" Film Screening and Panel Discussion

November 2, 2025

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Nau Hall 101

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Publications

Religion Without Violence Book Cover

Religion without Violence: The Practice and Philosophy of Scriptural Reasoning

Peter Ochs

Cascade Books (2019)

Holocaust Research

Memory, Responsibility, and Transformation

Manuela Achilles

Journal of Holocaust Research (2021)

Spiritual Homelands

Spiritual Homelands

Asher Biemann

De Gruyter (2020)

Justice Behind the Iron Curtain

Justice behind the Iron Curtain

University of Toronto Press (2018)

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)