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Vanessa Ochs
Author of "Inventing Jewish Ritual", Winner of 2007 National Jewish Book Award, Professor of Religious Studies at University of Virginia
Vanessa Ochs is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia. She is also a rabbi, ordained in 2012. In the summer of 2020, she was a faculty member for the Bronfman Youth Fellowship.
In her research and writing she investigates new ritual, feminism, and material culture in Jewish life and continues to expand her work on Jewish Sensibilities to include health care. Her many awards include a Creative Writing Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Her books include: The Passover Haggadah: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2020), Inventing Jewish Ritual (winner of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, Sarah Laughed, The Jewish Dream Book (with Elizabeth Ochs), Words on Fire, and Safe and Sound.
She lives in Charlottesville with her husband Peter Ochs; they have two grown daughters.
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Resilience and Creativity: Jewish creative responses to the pandemic
The Life of the Passover Haggadah
Research in new Jewish rituals
Literature of spiritual journeys
Healing in Jewish tradition
New ritual
Material culture and the study of religions
Women in Judaism
Anthropology of Judaism
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