The Bodleian Library’s ‘Crossing Borders’ exhibition, co-curated by Dr Piet van Boxel and Sabine Arndt, was a great success recently at the Jewish Museum in New York, where it was on show until 3 February 2013. It was the subject of a symposium on Sunday 13 January at the Jewish Museum entitled The Medieval Hebrew
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‘Crossing Borders’ Opens in New York
When Piet van Boxel, then Curator of the Bodleian Library’s Hebrew Collection and Director of the Centre’s Muller Library, mounted ‘Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as the Meeting Place of Cultures’ in 2008 in Oxford, he assembled a display of some of the world’s most important Hebrew manuscripts. The exhibition tells the story of how Christian
New Honorary Fellows and Senior Associates of the Centre
Honorary Fellowships have been conferred on two senior scholars who have been associated with the Centre for many years: Professor Emanuel Tov and Professor Geza Vermes. Professor Geza Vermes was born to an assimilated Jewish family in Hungary, was baptized with his parents in 1931 at the age of six, and later became a member
A Field Marshal on the Board of Governors
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, a member of the Board of Governors of the Centre, has recently been appointed Field Marshal after a long and distinguished career in the Army. This is the highest possible rank, senior to that of a General, and is held currently by just eight people, three of them members of the
Conference on ‘The Place of European Jewry in the Global Jewish Community’
The Centre is sponsoring a conference in Oxford for about twenty experts in contemporary Jewish life to formulate a research project on the place of European Jewry in the global Jewish community, as part of our commitment to providing a scholarly understanding of contemporary Jewish life. Co-sponsors of the conference are The American Jewish Joint
The New Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
In January 2013, a new series of Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies will be inaugurated with a project focused on: ‘Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs’. This Research Seminar will bring a group of international scholars to the Centre to pursue a