This seminar series is held under the joint auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, the Faculty of Theology & Religion and the Centre for the Study of the Bible. It is designed to create a forum for considering recent developments in modern Jewish thought. In particular, these seminars are intended to provide a forum for discussing recently published books in the field.
Wednesdays at 5pm
Online via Zoom only
Conveners: Miri Freud-Kandel and Daniel M. Herskowitz
Week 2, 24 January
Yaniv Feller (Florida University) will discuss his new book The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought (Cambridge, 2023)
In order to attend this seminar, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcuyhpzooHNI_1MRjRZDFkcrwvwpNBbqA
Week 4, 7 February
Orit Avishai (Fordham University) will discuss her new book Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel (NY, 2023)
In order to attend this seminar, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdO6qrjgtHNLLOGBO65PlaITTtCMCM5Wb
Week 6, 21 February
Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford) will discuss her new book Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/Liverpool University Press, 2023)
In order to attend this seminar, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuc-iurj8oEt0HWkRE4I_uEGA6nsKCSRAp
Week 8, 6 March
Lea Taragin Zeller (Hebrew University) will discuss her new book The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land (NY 2023)
In order to attend this seminar, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUscOCrpzwjGtTi69BkefRQZnomlJI0ywGG
All are welcome