We are pleased to announce that applications for classes beginning in Michaelmas Term 2023 through our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages are now open! For more information and to apply, please consult this page. The deadline to apply is 5 September 2023 at 12 noon UK time.
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Receiving the OCHJS Annual Report
If you currently receive a copy of our Annual Report each year, or if you wish to sign up to receive the Report, please fill out this form to ensure we have your up-to-date details/preferences on file. We are now offering the Report in digital as well as paper formats. If you have any questions,
Result of Taube Prizes for Student Writing in Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Thanks to the generosity of Tad Taube and Taube Philanthropies, the Taube Prizes for Student Writing in Hebrew and Jewish Studies for postgraduate students were offered for the first time this year. We received twenty-three excellent submissions across numerous areas of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the committee selected the following recipients for the prize:
Recording of 50th-Anniversary Celebration
You now can watch part of our 50th-Anniversary Celebration, which took place on 25 June 2023, on Vimeo! This recording features: Welcome & Introduction by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger FBA (President of the OCHJS) 50th-Anniversary Film of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies David Grossman & Professor Adriana X. Jacobs in Conversation, co-hosted with
Tenth Annual OSI
We are pleased to report that the tenth annual Oxford Summer Institute on Modern & Contemporary Judaism (OSI) is successfully in the books! This year’s programme took place from 2-6 July at Keble College’s H. B. Allen Centre, and its theme was ‘Authority and Leadership in Modern and Contemporary Judaism’. Please find the schedule for
Now Hiring: Academic Registrar (Maternity-Leave Cover)
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is looking to hire someone to fill its full-time Academic Registrar role for 7 months (with the possibility of extension) of maternity-leave cover beginning on Monday 13 November 2023. The post, which is directly responsible to the OCHJS’s President, encompasses coordination of our Visiting Fellows & Scholars