Vanessa L. Ochs
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Vanessa L. Ochs

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Subject: Amazon Author Central Bio - Passover Haggadah

Rabbi Vanessa L. Ochs, Ph.D., is the author of The Passover Haggadah: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2020), which traces the evolution of the world's most reprinted and re-imagined Jewish text across centuries of history, art, and ritual practice. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where she cofounded the Jewish Studies Program and taught courses on the Passover Haggadah, Jewish feminism, Jewish ritual, and ethnographic fieldwork in religion. An ordained rabbi, Ochs is also the author of Inventing Jewish Ritual, winner of a National Jewish Book Award, along with Sarah Laughed: Modern Lessons from the Wisdom and Stories of Biblical Women, The Jewish Dream Book, and Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey into the Sacred. Her writing has been recognized with a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She holds a B.A. from Tufts University, an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology of Religion from Drew University.
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