James Loeffler

James Loeffler is the Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire, and co-editor of the forthcoming volume, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyering and International Law in Historical Perspective.

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A Poem That Shows How to Remember the Holocaust

Raphael Lemkin offered a reminder that genocides destroy more than lives.
- James Loeffler and Leora Bilsky
- April 8, 2021
The Atlantic

The Problem With the ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition’

The concept was always an unstable foundation on which to build a common American identity.
- James Loeffler
- August 1, 2020
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An Abandoned Weapon in the Fight Against Hate Speech

A 1952 Supreme Court ruling gave civil-rights groups a way to combat anti-Semitism and other prejudices—but in the years since, it’s largely gone unused.
- James Loeffler
- June 16, 2019

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James Loeffler

A Poem That Shows How to Remember the Holocaust

The Problem With the ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition’

An Abandoned Weapon in the Fight Against Hate Speech