Announcements
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OSRJL Impact Report 2025-26
We are pleased to share the latest Impact Report for our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages programme, covering the 2025-26 academic year. You can find the report, along with previous ones and more information about the programme, on the OSRJL’s page. For any questions, please contact OSRJL Administrator Luka Liu at osrjl@ochjs.ac.uk.
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OSRJL Applications for Michaelmas Term 2026
As part of the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL), applications for language classes beginning in Michaelmas Term 2026 are now open!The deadline to apply is Thursday, 10 September 2026 at 12 noon UK time._Classes beginning in Michaelmas Term 2026 include those on the following languages:HaketiaBaghdadi Judeo-ArabicJudeo-ItalianJudeo-MoroccanJudeo-Neo-AramaicJudeo-PersianJudeo-TatLadinoOld YiddishYiddish For more information on the programme…
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Oxford Summer Institute 2026
We are pleased to share that this year’s Oxford Summer Institute on Modern & Contemporary Judaism (OSI) took place at the University Club from June 28-July 2 2026. The programme’s theme was ‘Boundaries and Otherness in Jewish Worlds: Theological, Anthropological and Historical Perspectives’.
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Letter from the President: OSRJL Fundraiser
Please find here a letter from Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, whose vision and leadership made the Oxford School for Rare Jewish Languages possible. In her letter, Professor Olszowy-Schlanger shares why your support is so important in helping secure the future of the OSRJL. Since its founding in 2021, the OSRJL has grown beyond its original goal…
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2026 Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop
This year’s Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop: Codicology, Palaeography, Art History is underway in the midst of the heatwave! It is being led by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (OCHJS and Corpus Christi College) and César Merchán-Hamann (OCHJS and Bodleian Library) and runs from 22 June through 2 July 2026. More information about the workshop can be found here.
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King’s Birthday Honours List
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies congratulates its Senior Associate Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon for being recognised in King Charles the III’s Birthday Honours List this year! To consult the full list, please see here.