This seminar will offer lectures on Modern Hebrew Literature, featuring recent scholarly discussions. While open to the public, one of the seminar’s primary goals is to create a forum for ongoing discussions about the current state of Hebrew Literature and its critique. The seminar will primarily take place online, with some lectures offered in a hybrid format.
Hilary Term 2026
Weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8
Convenor: Yoav Ronel
Week 2, Wednesday, January 28th, 5pm-6pm, ONLINE ONLY
Ariel Pridan, (Bucerius Institute for Research on Contemporary German History and Society). “London and the Jewish Question in Yosef Haim Brenner’s Out of the Depths (1909)”
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XAmfVNVHTsKdN0c9xmkxJg
Week 4, Wednesday, February 11th, 6pm-7pm, Catherine Lewis Lecture Room, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 1HG
BRICHTO ISRAELI ARTS & CULTURE EVENT
“The New Jewish Novel: Yakov Z. Mayer’s Nehemiah and Hebrew Literature beyond Israel” Yoav Ronel (OCHJS) in conversation with the author, Yakov Z. Mayer (Haifa University).
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/DA-Bh20uTK218AXwqK23Vg
Week 6, Monday, February 23, 3pm-4pm, ONLINE ONLY
Yoni Livne (Tel Aviv University), Lea Goldberg and the Rolling Stones: How Stones Begin to Speak in Goldberg’s Late Poetry
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KZOlDTopQYeUR1IOXPB_ZQ
Week 8, Monday, March 9, 3pm-4pm, CANCELLED
Iddo Telem (Rice University), Ḥizayon: H.N. Biali’s Translation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell and the Aesthetics of Hebrew Revival
DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES OUT OF OCHJS’S CONTROL, THIS SEMINAR HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED