The Centre and the Bodleian Library have partnered a project to bring an exhibition of the Bodleian’s Hebrew manuscripts to the Jewish Museum in New York. The exhibition, called ‘Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as the Meeting Place of Cultures’, will be held from September 2012 to the end of January 2013. The Centre and the
Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies
In addition to the grant from the Dorset Foundation announced in a previous newsletter, the Centre has recently received a major contribution from the Polonsky Foundation in support of the Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies. As reported in the Winter 2011 newsletter, the first seminar will take place in 2012-13, and will focus on
Israel Ambassador teaches students at the Centre
His Excellency Daniel Taub, the Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Court of St James, recently spoke to a small group of students taking the Master of Studies in Jewish Studies at the Centre, and the Centre’s Fellows. Ambassador Taub, a graduate of the University of Oxford and author of a book on
Centre receives first grant to develop Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies
The Dorset Foundation has awarded the Centre £200,000 in order to launch a new round of seminars in advanced Jewish studies at Yarnton Manor. These extended research collaborations around specific research projects will draw together leading scholars from around the world to produce and disseminate new knowledge. These seminars are meant to utilize the unique
Centre conducts three international faculty searches
The Centre is conducting three international searches to fill senior faculty positions in Israel Studies and Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Oxford and a junior research fellowship in European Jewish History and Culture. The Fellowship in Modern Hebrew Literature, which is also the University’s Cowley Lecturership in Post-Biblical Hebrew, is a core post
International students pursue Master of Studies in Jewish Studies
The Centre has admitted an outstanding new class of eight graduate students to the Master of Studies in Jewish Studies degree programme including students from the UK, Slovakia, Malta, Denmark, and Germany. The Centre also provides most of the instruction to 65 students enrolled in the nine degree programmes in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at