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Dr Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, a graduate of the Centre’s One-Year Programme in Jewish Studies, was recently appointed Prime Minister of Romania. He came to the Centre in 1992 in order to discover more about the role of Jews and Judaism in Romanian society during the 18th and 19th centuries. He became deputy foreign minister in the 

The Centre has appointed Joshua Teplitsky as the new Albert and Rachel Lehmann Junior Research Fellow in Jewish History and Culture, a two-year post associated with St Peter’s College, Oxford. Mr Teplitsky is due to receive his PhD from New York University for a dissertation on Rabbi David Oppenheim of Prague, whose collection of books 

The Centre and the Bodleian Library have partnered a project to bring an exhibition of the Bodleian’s Hebrew manuscripts to the Jewish Museum in New York. The exhibition, called ‘Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as the Meeting Place of Cultures’, will be held from September 2012 to the end of January 2013. The Centre and the 

His Excellency Daniel Taub, the Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Court of St James, recently spoke to a small group of students taking the Master of Studies in Jewish Studies at the Centre, and the Centre’s Fellows. Ambassador Taub, a graduate of the University of Oxford and author of a book on 

The Dorset Foundation has awarded the Centre £200,000 in order to launch a new round of seminars in advanced Jewish studies at Yarnton Manor. These extended research collaborations around specific research projects will draw together leading scholars from around the world to produce and disseminate new knowledge. These seminars are meant to utilize the unique