Thanks to the generosity of Tad Taube and Taube Philanthropies, the Taube Prizes for Student Writing in Hebrew and Jewish Studies for postgraduate students were offered for the first time this year. We received twenty-three excellent submissions across numerous areas of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the committee selected the following recipients for the prize:
Announcements
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
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
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
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
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