Thank you to all the participants and contributors to the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern & Contemporary Judaism! See you again next year!

#summer #oxford #CulturalHeritage

BIAJS Essay Prize 2025 BIAJS Essay Prize 2025  We are delighted to announce the BIAJS student essay prize winners for 2025: Undergraduate winners (split): Dylan Moss (Oxford), “Lancelot as a New King David: Medieval Jewi…

Today we offer our congratulations to Dylan Moss for earning the BIAJS Undergraduate Essay Prize and the Ertegun Scholarship for his dissertation work with our President, Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger!

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#Theology #oxford #academia

Eight Oxford academics elected Fellows of the British Academy | Eight researchers from the University of Oxford have been made Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Richard Ovenden,

We are delighted to announce that our colleague at OCHJS, Professor Alison Salvesen, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy!

University of Oxford announcement here: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

British Academy announcement here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

Tune in for an online workshop on “Modern and Contemporary Jewish Translation and Multilingualism: Practices, History, and Semiotics", held on July 29-30!

Register here:
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If you have any questions, please write to jewishtranslation@gmail.com.

Apply now for the Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School! The program will take place from August 26 – September 5, 2025, and applications close on Friday July 11th! Find more information at the link below:

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#Hebrew #languagelearning #oxford

So concludes our Manuscript Workshop. We'd like to give our thanks to all of the wonderful scholars who have attended over the past two weeks, both our amazing teachers and incredible students!

#Manuscripts #history #oxford

Apply now for the Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School! The program will take place from August 26 – September 5, 2025, and applications close on Friday July 11th! Find more information at the link below:

www.ochjs.ac.uk/oxford-bibli...

#Hebrew #languagelearning #oxford

One week of our Manuscript Workshop done, one to go! And as we dive into more manuscripts, our Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism will be kicking off as well!

#summer #JewishStudies #Oxford

Tonight at 17:30! Prof. Penslar, Prof. Yadgar, and Prof. Peleg will discuss some fundamental themes in Israel Studies through their recently published books.

Book at the following link: forms.office.com/e/k6Nnemg9KF

Trinity Term has drawn to a close here at Oxford, but the studies don't stop for us! Today we hosted the first day of our intensive Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop!

#Manuscripts #bookhistory #oxford

Call for papers! The "Borders, Boundaries and Barriers" conference will be here at the University of Oxford from 20–21 April 2026! See the attached flyer for details!

#conference #history #middleages

We are so excited for the #davidpattersonlecture of Dr Keren Fraiman & Dr Dean Bell this Thursday! They'll be discussing their 2023 edition, 'The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the 21st Century'. Join online or in person!

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#jewishlife #lectures #oxford

This session has unfortunately been cancelled. But, we look forward to welcoming you to our future seminars, which we will announce as they become public!

Come Join our online Seminar in Modern Hebrew Literature! This Monday at 1pm (UK time) we will be discussing “Melitsah in the History of Hebrew Literary Theory.” Please register using the following link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#JewishStudies #literature #seminar #oxford

It's been a busy couple weeks here at the OCHJS! From #davidpattersonlectures and the Ancient & Medieval Egyptian Jewish Documents Workshop to the #taubeprizes! And we've got plenty more to come going into the final week of term!

#oxford #JewishStudies

We are so excited for the #davidpattersonlecture of Nicholas de Lange this Thursday! He'll be discussing his ongoing translation of 'Yemei Tsiklag' by S. Yizhar (1916–2006). Join online or in person!

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#jewishlanguages #translation #lectures #oxford

As we head into the last 2 weeks of this term, be sure you don't miss any of our events! Email Priscilla at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk to join our Activities Email List. #JewishStudies #Lectures #Events #Seminars

We were delighted to host Yair Qedar for a screening of his film 'Outsider.Freud' last evening as one of our #Brichto events this year! #ArtsandCulture #FilmNight

THIS EVENING! Join us for another Brichto Israeli Arts & Culture Event: a screening of the documentary 'Outsider.Freud' by Yair Qedar. This event will take place at the Maison Française d'Oxford at 6pm, get your free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-.... #FilmNight

2 DAYS LEFT to #apply for our #TaubePrizes for Student Writing in #Hebrew & #JewishStudies! The deadline is 30 May at 12 noon UK time, and we cannot accept late submissions. All details here: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-sub....

Please join us next week on Wednesday 28 May in person at the Clarendon Institute for our Brichto Israeli Arts & Culture Event featuring Shimon Adaf and his #poetry! #ArtsandCulture #Brichto

Lehmann Lecture: Yaacob Dwek, ‘Wealth and Learning in the Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora’ The Fifth Alfred Lehmann Memorial Lecture, 29 April 2025

Did you miss our latest Lehmann Lecture? Never fear--here is the recording on our Vimeo account! vimeo.com/1084272970 #JewishStudies #Lecture #LehmannLecture

We are delighted to be accepting submissions for our next round of #TaubePrizes for Student Writing in #Hebrew & #JewishStudies! Deadline to #apply 30 May at 12 noon UK time: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-sub....

Thank you for this post, Eylan! We are always looking to develop our #OSRJL programme and have a long list of languages we would like to add to our current 18 in time. Please do feel free to write to the programme at osrjl@ochjs.ac.uk with any questions or comments, or to get involved!

Are you interested in exploring a new language? Download the #OpenAccess eTextbook Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Textbook by Assaf Bar-Moshe free.
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Last evening, we were delighted to have the Fifth Alfred Lehmann Memorial Lecture presented by Professor Yaacob Dweck on ‘Wealth and Learning in the Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora’! #JewishStudies #Lecture

Term Programme - Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies Each term, a comprehensive list of our activities for members of the University of Oxford, visiting academics, as well as the general public is published in our Term Programme. To receive regular upda...

Week 1 of Trinity Term is under way! If you haven't seen it already, check out our #TermProgramme here on our website: www.ochjs.ac.uk/news/term-pr.... #JewishStudies #Lectures #Seminars #Events

Are you interested in exploring a new language? Download the #OpenAccess eTextbook Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Textbook by Assaf Bar-Moshe free. @ochjs.bsky.social
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Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages - Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies Applications for language classes starting in Trinity Term 2025 are now open! The deadline to apply is 4 April 2025. (You can check time-zone comparisons on sites such as this one; Oxford dates of ter...

2 DAYS LEFT to #apply for our #OSRJL classes beginning in Trinity Term! All information and how to apply here: www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla... #RareJewishLanguages #JewishLanguages