Announcements
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Fellow in Modern Hebrew Literature appointed
Dr Adriana X Jacobs has been appointed the Centre’s Fellow in Modern Hebrew Literature and as the University of Oxford’s Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature. Dr Jacobs completed her BA at the College of William and Mary (Virginia, US) and she received her PhD in 2010 in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She wrote a…
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Louis Jacobs Exhibition goes digital
The Leopold Muller Memorial Library has launched a digital version of the exhibition We Have Reason to Inquire: The Life and Works of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs. The exhibition illustrates Rabbi Dr Jacobs’ life and thought by means of documents, letters, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, typescripts and photos. It contains everything displayed in, and also supplements,…
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New York fundraising event success
A successful event for friends of the Centre was hosted recently at the Yale Club in New York by Daniel and Joanna Rose. Daniel Rose, Chairman of Rose Associates, a New York-based real estate company, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and his wife, Joanna, who received the Distinguished Friend of Oxford…
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Louis Jacobs in Yarnton
23 January 2013 saw the opening of the exhibition We Have Reason to Inquire: The Life and Works of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs. It coincided with the start of the Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies, on the topic of ‘Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: Exploring Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs’.…
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Portrait of a Fellow – Dr Miri Freud-Kandel
Dr Miri Freud-Kandel, the Centre’s Fellow in Modern Judaism, has been associated with the Centre since 2000, soon after she came to teach for the Theology Faculty while still a post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge. Her BA in Theology and Religious Studies from Cambridge led to a PhD thesis that was published in 2006 as Orthodox…
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Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies on ‘Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs’
The Oxford Seminar on ‘Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs’ opened with an international symposium focused on ‘Orthodox Judaism and Theology in the Twenty-first Century’. It was introduced by Dr Miri Freud-Kandel from Oxford and Dr Adam Ferziger of Bar-Ilan University, in the…