The Leopold Muller Memorial Library has launched a digital version of the exhibition We Have Reason to Inquire: The Life and Works of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs. The exhibition illustrates Rabbi Dr Jacobs’ life and thought by means of documents, letters, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, typescripts and photos. It contains everything displayed in, and also supplements,
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New York fundraising event success
A successful event for friends of the Centre was hosted recently at the Yale Club in New York by Daniel and Joanna Rose. Daniel Rose, Chairman of Rose Associates, a New York-based real estate company, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and his wife, Joanna, who received the Distinguished Friend of Oxford
Louis Jacobs in Yarnton
23 January 2013 saw the opening of the exhibition We Have Reason to Inquire: The Life and Works of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs. It coincided with the start of the Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies, on the topic of ‘Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: Exploring Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs’.
Portrait of a Fellow – Dr Miri Freud-Kandel
Dr Miri Freud-Kandel, the Centre’s Fellow in Modern Judaism, has been associated with the Centre since 2000, soon after she came to teach for the Theology Faculty while still a post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge. Her BA in Theology and Religious Studies from Cambridge led to a PhD thesis that was published in 2006 as Orthodox
Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies on ‘Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs’
The Oxford Seminar on ‘Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs’ opened with an international symposium focused on ‘Orthodox Judaism and Theology in the Twenty-first Century’. It was introduced by Dr Miri Freud-Kandel from Oxford and Dr Adam Ferziger of Bar-Ilan University, in the
New Centre Governors
We are delighted to announce the appointment of five new Governors of the Centre – three of them women: Dr Sondra Hausner Dr Sondra Hausner is University Lecturer in the Study of Religion at Oxford. Her primary teaching interests are social and cultural theories of religion, and her primary research interests are religion in