James Loeffler

James Loeffler, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and scholar-in-residence at Pro Musica Hebraica, is currently the Robert A. Savitt fellow at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His “The Death of Jewish Culture” was the featured monthly essay in Mosaic for May 2014.

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Response · January 22, 2015
Wagner’s Jewish Followers
By James Loeffler
Hating Wagner is a debilitating Jewish habit. So is loving him.
Response · July 17, 2014
The Death of Jewish Culture Revisited
By James Loeffler
An exchange between the foremost philanthropic supporter of secular Jewish culture and the analyst of its decline.
Response · May 27, 2014
Jewish Culture and Its Discontents
By James Loeffler
Let me say it again: Jewish secular culture is too thin and open to support a real collective identity. So now what?
Monthly Essay · May 5, 2014
The Death of Jewish Culture
By James Loeffler
Not so long ago, Jewish culture seemed to flourish in America; but now all signs point in the opposite direction. What happened?