President
Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
BA, MA Paris; PhD Cambridge; FBA
President, OCHJS; Director, Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies; Professor of Hebrew Manuscript Studies, EPHE, PSL; Fellow, Corpus Christi College
Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew
Dr Hallel Baitner
Junior Research Fellow, OCHJS; Kennicott Fellow in Hebrew Studies, University of Oxford
Dr Danielle Drori
PhD New York University
Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature, OCHJS
Dr Miri Freud-Kandel
MA PhD Camb
Fellow in Modern Judaism, OCHJS; Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Judaism, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford
Modern Jewish Theology
Professor Martin Goodman
MA DPhil Oxf; FBA
Fellow in Jewish History in the Graeco-Roman Period, OCHJS; Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford; Professorial Fellow, Wolfson College
Professor Martin Goodman was President of the Centre from June 2014-September 2018. Professor Goodman has served as Professor of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford since 1991 and has been a Fellow of the Centre since 1986.
Jewish history of the Second Temple and Talmudic periods
Dr Daniel M. Herskowitz
Junior Research Fellow, OCHJS; Stipendiary Career Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, Wolfson College
Professor Adriana X. Jacobs
BA William and Mary, PhD Princeton
Fellow in Modern Hebrew Literature, OCHJS; Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature, University of Oxford; Fellow, St Cross College
Modern Hebrew Literature
Dr César Merchán-Hamann
BSc Universidad de los Andes MA, PhD Lond
Fellow Librarian & Director of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library, Bodleian Libraries; Curator of Hebraica & Judaica, Bodleian Library
Professor David Rechter
BA (Hons) MA (Hons) Melbourne, PhD Heb Univ Jerusalem
Ricardo Fellow in Modern Jewish History, OCHJS; Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford; William Golding Senior Research Fellow, Brasenose College
Modern Jewish History, particularly Habsburg Empire
Professor Alison Salvesen
MA DPhil Oxf
Polonsky Fellow in Early Judaism and Christianity, OCHJS; Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity, University of Oxford; Fellow & Tutor in Oriental Studies, Mansfield College
Early Jewish and Christian translation and interpretation of scripture; Jewish Aramaic – Talmud, Targum Jewish Greek – Septuagint and Minor Versions
Dr Jeremy Schonfield
BA Hons East Ang, PhD Camb
Supernumerary Fellow and Publications Officer, OCHJS; Rabbi John D Rayner Reader in Liturgy, Leo Baeck College
Literary-critical approaches to the Liturgy
Dr John Screnock
PhD, University of Toronto
Junior Research Fellow, OCHJS; Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible, University of Oxford
Ancient Hebrew, the development of texts in Jewish antiquity, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint
Dr Blanca Villuendas Sabaté
Junior Research Fellow DFG/AHRC, OCHJS
Dr Zoë Waxman
Departmental Lecturer in Modern Jewish History, OCHJS; Senior Associate, OCHJS
Dr Beruriah Wiegand
BA MA Lond, PhD UCL
Woolf Corob Lector in Yiddish, OCHJS
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Arn Tseytlin, A.N. Stencl
Dr Benjamin Williams
BA, MSt, DPhil Oxf
Supernumerary Fellow, OCHJS; James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinic Hebrew; Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Rabbinic Studies, Leo Baeck College
Midrash; medieval and early modern Jewish exegesis of the Hebrew Bible; Rabbinic exegesis in medieval Christian commentaries
Emeritus Regius Professor Hugh Williamson
Emeritus Fellow, OCHJS; Emeritus Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford
Professor Yaacov Yadgar
BA, PhD Bar-Ilan
Stanley Lewis Chair of Israel Studies, University of Oxford; Fellow, St Anne’s College
Jewish identity, religion, politics, and secularism