Between the Besht and Bulletproof Stockings: An Introduction to Hasidic Music Tutor: Dr Diana Matut Online course via Zoom on Tuesdays 4-5pm (UK time) Hasidic music is often thought of as being merely synonymous with the singing of nigunim (‘wordless’ melodies). Modern Hasidism, however, can boast a tremendous musical culture, encompassing liturgy, traditional melodies used 

We are pleased to announce 2021-22 as the inaugural year of the new Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL) of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (OCHJS), in collaboration with other institutions across Europe and beyond. Beginning in October 2021, OSRJL will offer a range of free online language classes on eleven 

The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place from August 23-27 and August 31-September 3 2021. This year the school is being given online (via Zoom). The school offers nine days of intensive teaching in Biblical Hebrew. Each weekday there will be three hours of teaching, delivered in two separate 90-minute sessions, between 11.30-15.30 

Welcome to Trinity Term 2021. Please find details on how to sign up for our events in our programme below. If you have any queries, please contact Priscilla Lange at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk.   Trinity Term 2021 Programme

We are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships as part of our Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies entitled “Philosophy in Scripture”: Jewish Philosophical Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Late Medieval Period, to be led by Professor Paul B. Fenton and Dr Raphael Dascalu in Trinity Term 2022. Please find the relevant application materials