Application deadline is now closed. The theme of OSI 2020 is “Worship, Space, and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Judaism: Continuity and Innovation”.  Researchers utilizing a range of analytical tools will explore the profound and fascinating intersection between the material and physical with spiritual elements of religious experience and identity.  Proposals are invited that explore 

The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies invites applications for Fellowships for the 2020-2021 Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies (January to June 2021).  The aim of the Seminar is to bring together scholars of Jewish-Buddhist relations and develop a framework for the future study of the field. Read more about the Seminar here. 

Edmund Castell, early modern lexicography, and the Hebraica collections of the University of Cambridge Supervisory team: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Kirsten Macfarlane (University of Oxford); Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge University Library) Books collected by Edmund Castell (1606-86), professor of Arabic at Cambridge and compiler of the great but commercially ill-fated polyglot lexicon (1669), form one of the 

The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies has been awarded a grant by Taube Philanthropies toward the Taube Family Doctoral Student Scholarship Fund. We invite applications for one full three-year scholarship for a doctoral candidate accepted for a DPhil degree at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the University of Oxford. The successful candidate 

Following the retirement of the current post-holder, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is seeking to fill the position of Academic Administrator from 1 October 2019. The post comprises administrative support for the Centre’s academic activities and public outreach programmes, servicing the Board of Governors and Academic Advisory Council, and maintenance of the Centre’s