JSP Faculty News
- Greg Goering presented a paper entitled, "The Election of Israel in the Wisdom of Ben Sira" at the Association for Jewish Studies 40th Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 21-23 December 2008.
- Phyllis Leffler published "Mr. Jefferson's University: Women in the Village!" in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 2007. The essay won the William Rachal Award for the best article of the year published by the journal.
- James Nohrnberg published "A Tale of Two Tamars: Internecine and Inter-Ethnic Violation, Genetic and Genealogical Anxiety, in the Old Testament Narrative" in Genre (Special Issue on Violence and the Bible, ed. Clifton Spargo and Kevin Dunn [2009]).
- James Loeffler's book, The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire, which is forthcoming from Yale University Press in Spring 2010, has won an Association of Jewish Studies Cahnman Publication Subvention Award. His article, “Richard Wagner’s Jewish
Music: Anti-Semitism and Aesthetics in Modern Jewish Culture” will appear in a forthcoming issue of the journal Jewish Social Studies. Loeffler has also recently presented the following papers: “The Most Musical Nation of the Russian Empire, Or, How Russian is the History of Jewish Music?” (A Century Later: Assessing the Impact of the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Jan. 8, 2009), “Ambassador(s) to the Old Country: Eastern Europe in the Interwar American Jewish Political Imagination” (Association of Jewish Studies 2008 Conference, Washington, DC, December 21, 2008), “Friends and Enemies: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism and Jewish Music in Russia” (On the History of Jewish Music in Russia Conference, Russian Institute for the History of the Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia, Oct. 29 2008).
- Along with Joel Rubin, James Loeffler is co-editing an upcoming issue of Min-Ad: Israeli Studies in Musicology, devoted to papers originally delivered at the 2008 UVA Conference, "Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60: An International Conference."
- Vanessa Ochs has recently published the following works: "Keeping this Passover Different" (Catalog essay for the Seder Plate Invitational of the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco, February 2009), "Sukkaman" in
World Jewish Digest, October 2008, "Differently Heroic: Virginia Tech," World Jewish Digest, Jan 2008. She has also given the following presentations: "New ritual and the Creative Process" Hebrew College Rabbinical School, Boston, MA (January, 2009), "Something Old, Something New: Northeastern University Jewish Studies Program
December 2008: "The Traditional Commitment Ceremony" AJS, Washington, DC (January 2009).
- Ochs was the keynote speaker at the Klutznick-Harris Conference on Rites of Passage, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. Her speeches were entitled: "Why Some Rituals Endure," and "Same Sex Jewish Weddings."