Post-primary blurb drop from the great, generous Randall Kennedy

Launch event for Exceptional Hatred on August 25 @politicsprose.bsky.social w/ Franklin Foer. Livestream option available. politics-prose.com/james-loeffl...

Another generous blurb for Exceptional Hatred

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A shooting in Paris, a column in Warsaw, & the forgotten origins of international criminal law. Or how the 1927 Shvartsbard Trial shaped Raphael Lemkin's legal thought New article w/ Leora Bilsky: academic.oup.com/jicj/advance... 1/1

"When the lines blur between scholarship and advocacy, both of them suffer." My two cents in the @chronicle.com piece about the new boom in antisemitism research. Lots of good analysis and debate in this overview of the state of the field. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The Fight Over Antisemitism Studies

How money, fear, and October 7 forged a contentious new area of study.

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New website just launched, as countdown to Exceptional Hatred publication date continues: jamesloeffler.com

Talking antisemitsm and higher education at Harvard news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Confronting campus antisemitism — Harvard Gazette

Schools have made progress in calling it out but need to develop a more forceful response, scholars say.

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Congratulations to my wonderful colleague, Alice Mandell, not on social media, whose first book is now out and available free, open access. If you want to know who was writing what in late Bronze Age Jerusalem, this is where you should go to find out: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Next week I will be speaking at the Center for Jewish Studies @harvard.edu as part of the the "Antisemitism & Universities Conference." More info here: cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event

Why measure antisemitism? This Sunday 5/3 come hear my keynote, "The Reason of Things: Measuring Antisemitism in Historical Perspective," at "Antisemitism in the U.S.: Current Social Science Research," hosted by Yeshiva U's Ferkauf & Wurzweiler Schools at NY's CJH www.yu.edu/wurzweiler/c...

Three talks this week: Tomorrow, 4/29 @uvajewishstudies.bsky.social for the Grob Lecture: jewishstudies.as.virginia.edu/paul-dorothy... 1/3

Exceptional Hatred website now has links for pre-purchase and some generous blurbs from @noahfeldman.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and Franklin Foer Randall Kennedy and Shaul Magid

Exceptional Hatred

A leading historian’s revelatory exploration of antisemitism in the United States—from 1940s anti-Jewish riots until today—showing that it has long ser...

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Looking forward to this event in DC on 3/26 with novelist Martin Prinz and filmmaker @bernadette Wegenstein about the end of the Holocaust -- and an explosive case of law and injustice. www.acfdc.org/events/thela...

The Last Days | Martin Prinz | Reading & Panel — Austrian Cultural Forum Washington DC

In collaboration with the Stulman Program in Jewish Studies and the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the ACF DC welcomes Austrian author Martin Prinz for a reading in Eng...

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An "exploration of antisemitism in the United States... showing that it has long served as a frontline in our wars over freedom of speech." Win a copy of @jloeffler.bsky.social's "Exceptional Hatred" from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social www.librarything.com/ner/detail/5...

Book Giveaway for Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight for Free Speech in Modern America by James Loeffler

Enter to win one of 25 free copies available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

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How does rabbinic Judaism view international law -- and how should that guide Jewish ethics today? My latest on Amalek, Zionism, and state violence. reformjudaism.org/learning/tor...

On the cries of others, and the language of listening: reformjudaism.org/learning/tor...

"How odd / Of God / To choose / The Jews." Mine on moral universalism and Jewish particularism in biblical and rabbinic thought: reformjudaism.org/learning/tor...

In a moment when radical Israeli politicians weaponize Judaism to justify racism, Jews must engage our tradition in its full moral complexity. Thanks to @rabbirickjacobs.bsky.social of the URJ, I'll post short pieces on Exodus over four weeks. First up: antisemitism's origins—and how we respond.

This Thursday, 12/11, I will discuss American antisemitism w/ Pamela Nadell and Stacy Burdett at DC's Capital Jewish Museum.

Save the date: Feb. '26 Hopkins Jewish Studies @jhuartssciences.bsky.social hosts "Imagining Israel Baal Shem Tov," a 1-week masterclass w/ Dr. Jonatan Meir. Travel stipends available. krieger.jhu.edu/jewishstudies/2025/11/20/announcing-the-2026-crane-masterclass-with-dr-jonatan-meir/

Announcing the 2026 Crane Masterclass with Dr. Jonatan Meir | Jewish Studies

The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies is happy to announce the upcoming program Imagining Israel Baal Shem Tov: Readings in Hasidic Hagiographic Literature with Crane Visiting Pro...

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Betting on the “Judeo-Christian tradition” was always a dubious wager. As the hyphen drops on the Far Right, seems like it’s time to re-up this piece of mine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Problem With the ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition’

The concept was always an unstable foundation on which to build a common American identity.

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Happy-ish to share my recent interview with the Adventures in Jewish Studies podcast on antisemitism and anti-Zionism, sponsored by @jewishstudies.bsky.social www.associationforjewishstudies.org/podcasts/ant.... #JewishStudies #Antisemitism #AntiZionism

Coming in Summer 2026:

Happening today - a global gathering to discuss the legacy of legal titan Alexander Pekelis (1902-1946). Centro Primo Levi hosts me, Natalia Indrimi, @yosefmalka.bsky.social Mauro Grondona, Ilaria Pavan and Umberto Gentiloni. RSVP for zoom -- details in link primolevicenter.org/events/minor...

Minorities and the Law: Alexander Pekelis and Jewish Legal Realist Tradition

Event Date: November 12, 2025 - Yosef Malka (Yale University) and James Loeffler (Johns Hopkins University) discuss their work in progress on the jurist Alexander Pekelis. Discussants: Umberto Gentilo...

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Next week at Amherst College: www.amherst.edu/news/events/...

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

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...

“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…

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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