The Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL) Lectures are a series which takes place in conjunction with the language classes of the OSRJL. Each lecture is dedicated to a particular topic related to a rare Jewish language. All lectures are open to the public. To watch recordings of previous lectures, please click here.
Additionally, please find here the academic blog of the OSRJL, The Jewish Languages Bookshelf.
Trinity Term 2022 Schedule
All are welcome
Week 2, 3 May
6 pm (UK time), Online Via Zoom
Professor Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College), ‘Jewish Languages: Commonality and Diversity’
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuf-2qrT8pHdz4uDX8oocR9hxjz49fIKE9.
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 4, 17 May
6 pm (UK time), Online Via Zoom
Dr Beruriah Wiegand (OCHJS) and Professor Ilan Stavans (Amherst College)
‘Translating from and into Yiddish: A conversation on Der Opgang (The Disappearance) between Beruriah Wiegand and Ilan Stavans’
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuuvrzotE9SulqjQPFuBMm39nqIKMi4e
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 6, 31 May
6 pm (UK time), Online Via Zoom
Professor Ofra Tirosh-Becker (Hebrew University), ‘Judaeo-Arabic Translations: From the Bible to The Count of Monte Cristo’
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuyqpjwsHNy10B1rnTacuggW00w2fztH.
Week 7, 7 June
6 pm (UK time), Online Via Zoom
Dr Jean Baumgarten (Research Director Emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS, France]), ‘Translating the Bible in Old Yiddish: From Bilingual Glossaries to Adaptations with Commentaries’
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdO2orjMoGtEOHdi8CJP5OWtKSwmBHZub.