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David Ariel BA (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); MA, Ph.D. (Brandeis University)
e-mail: david.ariel@ochjs.ac.uk
Jewish philosophy, thought and history
David Ariel was appointed President of the Centre from October 2008. Prior to moving to the UK,
he served as President of Siegal College of Jewish Studies (Cleveland, Ohio) for 25 years.
He has lectured widely on Jewish subjects throughout North America,Israel, and the former
Soviet Union and served as a consultant to universities, foundations and academic accrediting agencies.
Dr Ariel has written four books including Kabbalah: The Mystic Quest in Judaism and What do Jews Believe?
The Spiritual Foundations of Judaism
Raffaella Del Sarto MA (Univ. of Freiburg, Germany); Ph.D. (Heb. Univ. of Jerusalem)
Pears-Rich Research Fellow in Israel Studies;
Research Fellow,
Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College
raffaella.delsarto@sant.ox.ac.uk
Politics and society of modern Israel, EU-Mediterranean relations, EU-Israeli relations, domestic and
international politics of the Middle East, international relations theory
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Jordan Finkin BA; MA (Chicago); Ph.D. (Berkeley)
MSt Course Coordinator and Fellow in Modern Hebrew Literature;
Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew, University of Oxford
jordan.finkin@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Modern Hebrew Literature; Special Interests: Hebrew and
Yiddish Modernist Poetry, Hebrew
and Yiddish Linguistics
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Martin
Goodman MA (Oxon); D.Phil. (Oxon); FBA
Fellow in Jewish History in the Graeco-Roman Period and Academic Director ;
Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford;
Professorial Fellow, Wolfson
College, Oxford
martin.goodman@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Jewish history of the Second Temple and Talmudic periods
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David
Rechter BA (Hons); MA (Hons) (Melbourne); Ph.D. (Heb. Univ. Jerusalem)
Fellow in Modern Jewish History;
University Research Lecturer, Oxford University;
Research Fellow in Modern Jewish History, St. Antony's College
david.rechter@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Modern Jewish History, particularly Habsburg Empire
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Aaron Rosen BA (Bowdoin); Ph.D. (Cantab)
Albert and Rachel Lehmann Junior Research Fellow in Jewish History and
Culture;
Junior Research Fellow, St. Peter's College
aaronmatthewrosen@gmail.com
Jewish visual culture; Special interests: modern Jewish art and
aesthetics, Jewish-Christian dialogue
Alison
Salvesen MA (Oxon); D.Phil. (Oxon)
Polonsky Fellow in Jewish Bible Versions;
University Research Lecturer, University of Oxford;
Tutor in Oriental Studies, Mansfield College,
University of Oxford
alison.salvesen@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Early Jewish and Christian translation and interpretation of scripture; Jewish Aramaic - Talmud, Targum
Jewish Greek - Septuagint and Minor Versions
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Adam Silverstein MA (Cantab); Ph.D. (Cantab)
Fellow in Jewish-Muslim Relations;
University Research Lecturer in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford;
College Lecturer (Near Eastern Studies), The Queen's College
adam.silverstein@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Judeo-Islamica; Near Eastern History
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Eliyahu Stern BA; MA (Yeshiva); Ph.D (Berkeley)
Junior Research Fellow in Russian and/or East European Jewish History;
William Golding Junior Fellow, Brasenose College
eliyahu.stern@orinst.ox.ac.uk
History of ideas, especially emergence and development of traditional worldviews in Western Civilization, Jewish intellectual history.
Piet
van Boxel MA (Rome); Ph.D. (Tilburg)
Librarian;
Fellow in Early Judaism and Origins of Christianity;
Hebraica and Judaica Curator, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
vanboxel@ochjs.ac.uk
Pseudepigrapha, Early Christian Literature, Rabbinic Literature
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Joanna
Weinberg BA Hons (London); Ph.D. (London)
Catherine Lewis Fellow in Rabbinics;
James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinic Hebrew, University of Oxford;
Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford
joanna.weinberg@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Rabbinic Literature, Jewish Historiography, History of Scholarship
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Hugh G M Williamson BA, MA, PhD and DD (Cantab); FBA
Regius Professor of Hebrew;
Student of Christ Church;
Fellow of OCHJS (ex officio)
hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk
The Book of Isaiah;
Jewish History and Literature in the Achaemenid Period
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Miri Freud-Kandel MA (Cantab); Ph.D. (Cantab)
Lecturer in Modern Judaism;
Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
miri.freud-kandel@orinst.oxford.ac.uk
Modern Jewish Theology
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Garth Gilmour BSocSci; BA (Cape Town); MA (Jerusalem); D.Phil. (Oxon)
Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford;
Senior Fellow, WF Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
garth.gilmour@arch.ox.ac.uk
Biblical Archaeology
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Stephen Herring MA (Wheaton);M.Div (Gordon-Conwell; Ph.D. candidate (Aberdeen)
Lector in Biblical Hebrew
slherring1@gmail.com
Pentateuch Studies, Book of Ezekiel, Conceptualization of Divinity
in the Hebrew Bible
Fergus Millar, MA (Oxon); D.Phil. (Oxon); D.Litt.
(Oxon.); FBA
Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford;
Emeritus Fellow, Brasenose College, University of Oxford
fergus.millar@bnc.ox.ac.uk
History of the Roman Empire especially in the Greek East,
and in Late Antiquity
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Madhavi
Nevader, BA Hons (Middlebury College, USA); M.Phil. (Oxon); D.Phil.(Oxon)
Visiting Lecturer;
Theology Lecturer, Oriel College, University of Oxford
madhavi.nevader@oriel.ox.ac.uk
Hebrew Bible
Jeremy
Schonfield BA (Hons) (East Anglia); Ph.D. (Cantab)
Mason Lecturer;
Rabbi John Rayner Lecturer in Liturgy, Leo Baeck College
jjschon@globalnet.co.uk
Literary-critical approaches to the Liturgy
Haike Beruriah Wiegand BA, MA (Leo Baeck College, London); Ph.D. (UCL)
Lector in Yiddish
BeruriahWiegand@aol.com
Yiddish Language and Literature - Special interests : Isaac Bashevis Singer, Arn Tseytlin, A.N. Stencl
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Daphna Witztum BA (Heb.University,Jerusalem)
Lector in Modern Hebrew
Hebrew Lector, London School of Jewish Studies
dwitztum@hotmail.com
Modern Hebrew Language and Literature