James Benjamin Loeffler

James Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia. Educated at Harvard, Columbia, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he also studied in Russia and Ukraine as a U.S. Fulbright Fellow. His first book, The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire, won eight awards and honors, including from the Association for Jewish Studies, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the Sami Rohr Jewish Book Prize, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He is the recipient of fellowships from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Mellon Foundation New Directions Program.

He is also the editor of The Law of Strangers: Critical Perspectives on Jews and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019), with Moria Paz.

He lives in Washington, DC with his family.

More information is available at www.jamesloeffler.com