James Loeffler
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Historian/Writer, Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins History
Coming this Tuesday, a symposium on Louis Brandeis, Jewish liberalism, and Zionism.
pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...
Livestream on Zoom via
harvard.zoom.us/j/96207758290
Talks by Shaul Magid, Amalia Kessler, William Forbath, Laura Weinrib, Noah Feldman and yours truly
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Full program details and zoom link now available for the Louis Brandeis symposium at Harvard Law School in a few weeks.
pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...
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“The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism”
A Symposium sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School *Sep. 16, 2025*  POUND HALL 101 1563 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02…
https://pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-jewish-problem-and-how-to-solve-it-a-public-symposium-on-the-110th-anniversary-of-louis-brandeis-famous-essay/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMdHuFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsawoi8Fd6cH0_aPSNsilW0NKKAwSdXGjcEk6ZU3VhC675wXHkN_et21JjW2_aem_wpQtz3Rh81NwySthF987Mg
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Charlottesville shattered America's illusions about hate. Repair begins with grasping how it turbocharged antisemitism and turned the very act of opposing hate into political warfare. I'll be previewing my forthcoming book at the Univ. of Florida Jewish Studies Program on 9/4.
bit.ly/UFLoeffler
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Coming up next month at Harvard Law School - “The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism” Details in the link, and zoom option to follow
pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...
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“The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism”
A Symposium sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School *Sep. 16, 2025*  2025 marks the 110th anniversary of Louis Brandeis’s…
https://pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-jewish-problem-and-how-to-solve-it-a-public-symposium-on-the-110th-anniversary-of-louis-brandeis-famous-essay/
2 months ago
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James Loeffler
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
2 months ago
#OpenAccess
from
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- The Right to Banality: Interwar Jewish Global Thought between Eastern Europe and the Middle East -
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If you are looking to read something on the history of Zionism that moves beyond the settler colonialism debate & shows how the pre-1948 conflict in Palestine is linked to pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe -- & the role of int'l law in this story -- here's a new piece by yours truly.
cup.org/4lQfUL7
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The Right to Banality: Interwar Jewish Global Thought between Eastern Europe and the Middle East | Nationalities Papers | Cambridge Core
The Right to Banality: Interwar Jewish Global Thought between Eastern Europe and the Middle East
https://cup.org/4lQfUL7
2 months ago
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Volume 4 of the Cambridge History of the Holocaust is out this month, with my essay, "In Search of Global Justice: Holocaust, Genocide, Law." Edited by Laura Jockusch and Devin Pendas. TOC and other information in the next comment.
2 months ago
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Don’t think that the sky is a curtain, made so God won’t see! That the clouds are so that no one can see your hands; That the wind will muffle the wild cries; That the earth will soak up the blood of the victims... - I.L. Peretz (1905) , trans. J. Loeffler (2010)
jamesloeffler.com/dont-think-a...
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Don't Think: A Poem by I.L. Peretz - James Loeffler
Don’t Think By Isaac Leybush Peretz (1905) Translated from the Yiddish by James Loeffler ©2010  Don’t think that the world is just a tavern, Made so
https://jamesloeffler.com/dont-think-a-yiddish-poem-by-i-l-peretz/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL1qP9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFTaWFpTEEyTDVCWG9TV1pBAR7xX3VUrH8goepgY7H9fLXlmUmi4EyjOoKjF1B1M8kwrwiToEkoj02Uihxg_g_aem__lhU3w4n_w9Kwea4JuyxMA
2 months ago
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A new-ish piece of mine on Judaism and human rights, Israel and Palestine, is out. Come for the critique of easy religious slogans, stay for the reflections on what a future Jewish ethics might look like.
creor-ejournal.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...
2 months ago
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Last year I wrote a short piece about antisemitism and free speech, a spin-off from the book I am now completing (due out May '26). It just won the Rockower prize for excellence in writing about antisemitism. Happy to share once again here.
www.hartman.org.il/what-we-have...
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What We Have Learned About Campus Free Speech Since October 7
"There is no retreat on campus from the hard questions about freedom and equality."
https://www.hartman.org.il/what-we-have-learned-about-campus-free-speech-since-october-7/
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