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Leah Hochman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought;
Director, Louchheim School for Judaic Studies at USC
Dr. Hochman is Director of the Jerome H. Louchheim School of Judaic Studies at USC and Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought on the Los Angeles campus. She teaches classes on medieval Jewish thought, modern and contemporary Jewish literature and history, religious autobiography, Jewish ethics, American Judaism, and religion and food. She also directs a summer course that brings students from all the HUC-JIR campuses and programs to Germany during the summer. Her current project is a study of the idea of ugliness in modern European religious thought. Before coming to HUC-JIR, she taught in the department of religion and the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida and in the core curriculum program at Boston University.
Scholarly Interests
- Medieval and modern Jewish thought
- European Jewry in the modern and contemporary ages
- Contemporary Jewish literature
- Jewish ethics
- Judaism in the Americas
- Religion, literature and identity
- German-Jewish Studies
Education
- M.A./Ph.D., Boston University
- B.A., Pitzer College
Lecture Topics
- Making the Jews Ugly: Physiognomy, Jewish Faces and Modern Europe
- The Beauty in Judaism: Aesthetics, Religion and Jews
- What Modern Jews Think (and Thought): Changing and Challenging Judaism
- Add Women and Stir: Feminism, Women, Men and Judaism
- Telling Our Stories: Jewish Auto/Biographies
- Green(ing) Judaism: Environmentalism and the Jews
- Jews, Judaism and the Internet: New Cultural Trends in Contemporary Jewry
- Let's Eat Already! Judaism and Food
- Eating Jewish in America: Taking Out Chinese and Eating Kosher In
- Maxwell House, Manischewitz, and Moses: The American Haggadah
- Jewish Sports: Who's First on Whose All Star List?
- Televising Judaism: The Changing Face of American Jewish Icons
- There Are Jews in Germany? German-Jews and their/our Judaism
- Tweeting, Texting and Torah: What American Judaism Looks Like on the Web
In the News
Follow the progress of the Core Curriculum course in American Judaism: www.amjewhuc.blogspot.com and www.amjewhuc.tumblr.com and look for the ongoing conversation from the class itself on twitter: www.twitter.com/amjewhucla
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