We are delighted to invite you to our Brichto Event next Wednesday!
Dr. Yakov Z. Mayer will be giving a talk titled 'The New Jewish Novel: Yakov Z. Mayer’s "Nehemiah" and Hebrew Literature beyond Israel'.
Join us at 6pm on Feb. 11th!
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#cultureevent #oxford

We are delighted to invite you to our third #davidpattersonlecture of the term!

Tomorrow, Professor Yakov Mayer will be giving a lecture titled 'The Soncino Talmud and Late Medieval Hebrew Book Culture'.

Join us at 6pm on Thursday!
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#oxford #bookhistory

We are pleased to announce our Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop, which will take place from 22 June-3 July 2026!

Applications are due by noon (UK time) on February 20th.

For course and application details, see the following page: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app...

#oxford #Summer2026 #Manuscripts

We are delighted to invite you to our Brichto Event next Wednesday!
Dr. Yakov Z. Mayer will be giving a talk titled 'The New Jewish Novel: Yakov Z. Mayer’s "Nehemiah" and Hebrew Literature beyond Israel'.
Join us at 6pm on Feb. 11th!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#cultureevent #oxford

DP Lecture: Beatrice Bonanno, 'Jewish Greek Scriptures and Early Christianity' David Patterson Lecture, Full Title: 'Jewish Greek Scriptures and Early Christianity: Insights from the “Minor Versions”', 22 January 2026

The recording for this lecture is now available on our Vimeo! vimeo.com/1160248511

LAST CALL: Applications for OSI are due on February 2nd! Remember to apply by Monday of next week!

www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app...

#oxford #Summer2026

We are delighted to invite you to our next #davidpattersonlecture!

Tomorrow Professor Omri Asscher will be giving a lecture titled 'Pluralism, Particularized: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in Hebrew Translation'.

Join us at 6pm on Thursday!
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#lecture #oxford

Remember to apply for the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism (OSI)! Applications are due by February 2nd!

#oxford #Summer2026

We are delighted to invite you to our next #davidpattersonlecture!

Dr Beatrice Bonanno will be giving the lecture 'Jewish Greek Scriptures and Early Christianity: Insights from the “Minor Versions”'.

Join us at 6pm on Thursday!
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#lecture #oxford

With the new term commencing, take a look at our Hilary 2026 Term Programme!
Here you'll find activities sponsored by the OCHJS, the Centre of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the Faculty of Theology and Religion!
www.ochjs.ac.uk/news/term-pr...
#oxford #Events

Don't forget to apply to the Yishai Shahar Visiting Fellowships in Jewish Art History!

Applications will close this Friday at noon (UK time)!

For more information, go to this link: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app...

#fellowship #arthistory #Oxford

Applications are now open for the 2026 Oxford Summer Institute on Modern & Contemporary Judaism, which will take place from June 28-July 2 2026!

The deadline to apply is 2 Feb., 2026. For more information, visit the following page:
www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app...

#oxford #summer2026

Reminder that applications for our 2026/27 Visiting Fellowships close on January 16th! Don't forget to apply!

#fellowship #oxford

Our 2024/25 Annual Report is now available on our website! You can find it, along with all previous annual reports, at the following link:
www.ochjs.ac.uk/publications...

#oxford #JewishStudies

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: We are delighted to announce our Visiting Fellowships for 2026/2027!

The deadline to apply for each of the Visiting Fellowships is 16 January 2026 at 12 noon UK Time.

For more information, see the following page:
www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app...

#fellowship #oxford

Schonfeld Lecture_ Zoë Waxman, 'Packing for an Unknown Destination' Second Solomon Schonfeld Lecture, Full Title: 'Packing for an Unknown Destination: Possession and Dispossession in the Holocaust', 2 December2025

The recording for this lecture is now available on our Vimeo! vimeo.com/1144768667

Tomorrow Dr Amir Banbaji will give our final #davidpattersonlecture of the term: 'Beyond Ornament: The Shifting Role of Melitsah in Hebrew Thought from the Middle Ages to the Haskalah'.

Join us online or in person at 6pm tomorrow!
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#lecture #oxford

Ullendorff Lecture: Matthew Morgenstern, 'Theodor Nöldeke’s Mandäische Grammatik (1875) in Retrospect' Ninth Edward Ullendorff Lecture, Full Title: 'Theodor Nöldeke’s Mandäische Grammatik (1875) in Retrospect: 150 Years of Babylonian Aramaic Studies',…

The recording for this lecture is now available on our Vimeo! vimeo.com/1142407067

On Dec. 8th and 9th, speakers at the upcoming ERC-Synergy MiDRASH Conference will include our very own Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Dr. Rahel Fronda, Dr. Joseph O’Hara, and Caleb Klein.

You can tune-in to the conference via zoom:
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#conference #Oxford

Tonight at 6pm Susanne Marten-Finnis will give the #davidpattersonlecture, 'Zamość – an Experiment in Geopolitical Engineering. The Sephardic Community in Late-Sixteenth-Century Poland and the Interplay between Geography, Diasporic Agency, and Trade'.

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We are excited to announce that a one-term OSRJL class of Advanced Old #Yiddish taught by Dr Diana Matut will be offered in Hilary Term 2026!
You can find more information and the application (due Dec. 21) at the following link:
www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla...

#languagelearning #oxford

Please note that there is an error in this post and on the flyer, and the event is at 6pm (UK time)!

Tune in at 5pm on Tues. Dec. 2nd for the Second Solomon Schonfeld Lecture! Professor Zoë Waxman will give a talk titled, '‘Packing for an Unknown Destination’: Possession and Dispossession in the Holocaust'.

For more information:
www.ochjs.ac.uk/public-lectu...

#oxford #JewishHistory

This Thursday Professor Patrick Koch will be giving the #davidpattersonlecture, 'Between Miracle Worker and Divine Agent: Isaac Luria and the Making of Lurianic Hagiography'.
Join us online or in person at 6pm on Nov. 20th!
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#Mysticism #lectures #oxford

Applications are now open for Hilary Term classes with our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! This term we will begin our courses for Judeo-Greek, Kivruli, Judeo-French, and Classical Judeo-Arabic, so be sure to #apply by noon on Dec. 19th, UK time!

www.ochjs.ac.uk/osrjl-applic...

At 6pm on Nov. 13th Dr Miriam Feldmann-Kaye will be giving our fourth #davidpattersonlecture of the term: 'The Burning Bush in Modern Jewish Theology: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Response to Paul Ricœur’s Critique'.

Join us online or in person!
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#theology #oxford

DP Lecture: Emily Rose, 'A Bleeding Corpse, A Grim Grimm Fairy Tale with Early Modern Shivers' David Patterson Lecture, Full Title: 'A Bleeding Corpse, A Grim Grimm Fairy Tale with Early Modern Shivers: The Dubious Margaret of Pforzhei (1267), A Singular…

The recording for this lecture is now available on our Vimeo page! vimeo.com/1135729450?s...

The 'Impact Report' for the 2024/25 academic year at the OSRJL is now available on our website! View the following link to learn all about the OSRJL programme:

www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla...

#languagelearning #oxford #osrjl

For our third #davidpattersonlecture of the term, Thursday @6pm Dr Emily Rose will be giving a lecture titled 'A Bleeding Corpse, A Grim Grimm Fairy Tale with Early Modern Shivers: The Dubious Margaret of Pforzheim (1267), A Singular Female Blood Libel'.

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#lectures

Tomorrow, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 3:30pm (UK time), tune in for the Seminar in Modern Jewish Thought, where Prof. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson will discuss her forthcoming book and 'Writing about Judaism and Nature.'

Join us via zoom:
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#oxford #seminar