Announcements
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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…
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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…
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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…
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OCHJS 50th-Anniversary Celebration
On Sunday 25 June 2023, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies was delighted to celebrate its 50th Anniversary at Worcester College, Oxford. The event’s programme was as follows: 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…
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Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop 2023
This year’s Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop is under way! It is being led by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (OCHJS and Corpus Christi College), Agata Paluch (Freie Universität Berlin) and César Merchán-Hamann (OCHJS and Bodleian Library) and takes place from 26 June-7 July 2023. The following topics will be explored: Part 1 Introduction to the Bodleian Judaica collections…
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King’s Birthday Honours List
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies congratulates two of its Governors—David Lewis, CBE, & Anne Webber, CBE—and one of its Emeritus Governors, who is also Chair of its Library Committee—Charles Sebag-Montefiore, CBE, FSA—on being recognised in King Charles the III’s first Birthday Honours List! To consult the full list, please see here.