Announcements

OXFORD SCHOOL OF RARE JEWISH LANGUAGES Applications are now open for OSRJL Jewish Music Class for Michaelmas Term 2025 The Sound of the kley zemer. Jewish Instrumental Music until 1800 Online course via Zoom on Mondays 18:15 to 19:15 (UK time) Tutor: Dr Diana Matut Although vocal music is intimately linked to the Jewish experience, instruments 

Co-convenors Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford) and Lea Taragin-Zeller (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) have opened applications for a working group focused on the intersection of Jewish theology and anthropology. Despite much recent scholarly interest in theology and anthropology, most works have tended to focus on the context of Christianity and Islam. This working group seeks 

As part of the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL), applications for language classes beginning in Michaelmas Term 2025 are now open! The deadline to apply is Friday, 12 September at 12 noon UK time. _ Classes beginning in Michaelmas Term 2025 include those on the following languages: Haketia Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Italian Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Neo-Aramaic Judeo-Persian Judeo-Tat Karaim 

We are delighted to announce that our colleague at OCHJS, Professor Alison Salvesen (Polonsky Fellow in Early Judaism), has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her contribution to research in early Jewish and Christian translation and reception of the Hebrew Bible (third century BCE – eighth century CE). We congratulate 

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 third time this year. We received twenty excellent submissions across numerous areas of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the committee selected the following recipients for the prize: