Leah Hochman

Leah Hochman directs the Jerome H. Louchheim School for Judaic Studies at the University of Southern California and is associate professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She received her BA from Pitzer College and her MA and PhD in religion and literature from Boston University. She has been a fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Potsdam, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig, and...See more

Leah Hochman directs the Jerome H. Louchheim School for Judaic Studies at the University of Southern California and is associate professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She received her BA from Pitzer College and her MA and PhD in religion and literature from Boston University. She has been a fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Potsdam, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig, and the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. She taught previously at the University of Florida and Boston University. Her book, The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn: Aesthetics, Religion, and Morality in the Eighteenth Century , was published by Routledge in 2014. See less