James Loeffler
James Loeffler
@jloeffler.bsky.social
Historian/Writer, Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins History
Coming in Summer 2026:
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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
September 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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
August 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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.
July 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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...
July 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM