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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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:
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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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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

Nov 5th @6pm, tune in online or in person for our annual Ullendorff Lecture!
This year, Prof. Matthew Morgenstern will give a lecture titled, 'Theodor Nöldeke’s Mandäische Grammatik (1875) in Retrospect: 150 Years of Babylonian Aramaic Studies.'
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#oxford #lectures

Tonight, the 'Symposium in Honor of Academy Member Prof. Yaakov Kaduri,' by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, will feature a talk by our very own Prof Hindy Najman. The event will be available online at the following link at 2:30pm (UK time):
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For our second #davidpattersonlecture of the term, Tonight at 6pm, Dr Aadel Shakkour will be giving a lecture titled 'Opting for Literalism: Foreignizing Arabic Idioms into Hebrew to Enhance the Prestige of Arab Culture'.

Join us online or in person!

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Next Thursday, October 30th, we will be sponsoring the 'Music in Theresienstadt' concert at the Maison Française d'Oxford. Tickets are available for free at the link below!

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#concert #oxford #composers

Assaf Bar-Moshe, Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Textbook Wiktor Gębski; Assaf Bar-Moshe, Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Textbook, Journal of Semitic Studies, , fgaf027, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgaf027

'Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Textbook' by Assaf Bar-Moshe, the first Jewish language handbook published in a OSRJL / UCL series, has received a fantastic review in the Journal of Semitic Studies!

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We are delighted to announce our first #davidpattersonlecture of the term! This Thursday Professor Yoram Meital will be giving the lecture, 'Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Synagogues and Jewish Life and Heritage in Cairo'.
Join online or in person!
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#heritage

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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: "Bridges of Knowledge: Jewish Languages in Cultural Context," edited by Jean Baumgarten, Ruth von Bernuth, and Moshe Lavee, came together through the collaboration of members of our very own Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies!
#booklaunch #oxford #languages

With the new term commencing, take a look at our Michaelmas 2025 Term Programme!

Here you'll find activities sponsored by the OCHJS, the Centre of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (AMES, University of Oxford) and the Faculty of Theology and Religion!

www.ochjs.ac.uk/news/term-pr...

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Reminder: Applications close one week from today! Don't forget to submit by Wednesday, October 15th!

Correction: the deadline for applications is Wednesday the 15th of October!

Call for Applications: OSRJL Jewish Music Class!
'The Sound of the kley zemer. Jewish Instrumental Music until 1800'
For more information, see the following link: www.ochjs.ac.uk/jewish-music...
Please submit your application by 17 October 2025 at 12 noon (UK).
#oxford #jewishhistory #music

Call for Applications: "Jewish Theology and Anthropology: A Conversation"

For information regarding this working group, see the announcement attached via the link below!

Deadline for submissions is September 30, 2025.

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

#Theology #anthropology #oxford

Applications are now open for Michaelmas Term classes with our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! This term we will be offering courses for 12 different languages, so be sure to apply by noon on Sept. 12th, UK time!

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

#languagelearning #oxford

The Jewish Language Project has an educator workshop September 4 regarding our new curriculum, an information session about our new exhibit about Jewish languages, and a song competition involving Jewish heritage! Details at this link: www.jewishlanguages.org/events.
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