David Patterson Lectures

The Lectures are held in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Room, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford, OX1 2HG  (Tel. 01865 610422)

Mondays at 7.15pm (Drinks from 6.45pm)

10 October
Professor Lisa Leff (American University)
The Archive Thief: the man who salvaged French Jewish
history in the wake of the Holocaust

31 October
Professor Michael Silber (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
In Your Face! A provocation in Amsterdam, a scandal in Bohemia: secularization, acculturation and the Jewish beard

7 November
Dr Michal Friedman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Re-encountering Sepharad in Modern and Contemporary Spain

14 November
Professor Simon Levis Sullam (Universitá Ca’Foscari, Venice)
Venice, the Jews and Europe, 1516-2016

21 November
THE EDWARD ULLENDORFF MEMORIAL LECTURE
Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
The language of Paradise: Aramaic or Hebrew?  Aspects of an ancient controversy

28 November
Professor Arie Dubnov (University of Haifa)
The making of a liberal sage: Reassessing Isaiah Berlin’s legacy

Please note that there will be no lecture
on 17 October or 24 October


ALL ARE WELCOME