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A Conversation with Poet Adam Kirsch

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A Conversation with Author Arnold Eisen

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News & Events

November 11, 2025
Professor Greg Schmidt Goering Delivers Colloquium on Metaphors in Proverbs
November 10, 2025
UVA Jewish Studies Becomes Silver Sponsor of Association for Jewish Studies
November 7, 2025
Jewish Studies Celebrates 25 Years at UVA
November 6, 2025
Upcoming Jewish Studies Speaker's New Book Becomes a New York Times Bestseller
October 31, 2025
Cancelled: "A Still Small Voice" Film Screening and Panel Discussion

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Undergraduate Fellows Dinner

November 12, 2025

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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Being Jewish in America Today: Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

November 19, 2025

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Rotunda Dome Room

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Being Jewish in America Today: Adam Kirsch

January 29, 2026

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

To Be Announced

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Religious Studies Colloquium: Martien Halvorson-Taylor, Jewish Studies

February 11, 2026

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Gibson Hall 341

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Being Jewish in America Today: Arnold Eisen

March 10, 2026

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

To Be Announced

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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

(2021)

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Religion without Violence: The Practice and Philosophy of Scriptural Reasoning

Peter Ochs

(2019)

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Words on Fire

Vanessa Ochs

(1999)

Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation

Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation

Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

(2017)

Jewish Poetry in Islamic Jerusalem

Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem

Jessica Andruss

(2023)

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Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues In Postmodern Jewish Philosophy

Peter Ochs

(2019)