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Fellows & Lectors

President

Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

BA, MA Paris; PhD Cambridge; FBA

President, OCHJS; Director, Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies; Professor of Hebrew Manuscript Studies, EPHE, PSL; Fellow, Corpus Christi College

Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew

judith.schlanger@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Dr Peter Bergamin

MSt, DPhil Oxford

Research Fellow, OCHJS; Lecturer in Oriental Studies, Mansfield College

Maximalist Revisionist Zionism, British Mandate Palestine, Anglo-Jewry in the first half the 20th century

peter.bergamin@mansfield.ox.ac.uk

Dr Miri Freud-Kandel

MA, PhD Cambridge

Fellow in Modern Judaism, OCHJS; Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Judaism, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford

Modern Jewish theology

miri.freud-kandel@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Martin Goodman

MA, DPhil Oxford; FBA

Fellow in Jewish History in the Graeco-Roman Period, OCHJS; Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professorial Fellow, Wolfson College

Professor Goodman was President of the Centre from June 2014-September 2018. Professor Goodman has served as Professor of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford since 1991 and has been a Fellow of the Centre since 1986.

Jewish history of the Second Temple and Talmudic periods

martin.goodman@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Dr Daniel M. Herskowitz

BA The Open University of Israel; MA Hebrew University of Jerusalem; DPhil Oxford

Research Fellow, OCHJS; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Theology and Religion; Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College

Modern Judaism, Jewish-Christian relations, intellectual history, medieval Jewish thought

daniel.herskowitz@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Professor Adriana X. Jacobs

BA William and Mary; PhD Princeton

Fellow in Modern Hebrew Literature, OCHJS; Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature, University of Oxford; Fellow, St Cross College

Modern Hebrew literature

adriana.jacobs@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Dr Elena Lolli

BA, MA University of Bologna; joint PhD University of Bologna and EPHE, Paris

Research Fellow, OCHJS; Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow; Research Associate, Corpus Christi College

Italian Judaism in the early modern era, Italian Jewish socio-economic life and cultural production, Hebrew palaeography of Italian manuscripts

elena.lolli@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Dr César Merchán-Hamann

BSc Universidad de los Andes; MA, PhD London

Fellow Librarian & Director of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library, Bodleian Libraries; Victor Blank Curator of Hebraica & Judaica, Bodleian Library

cesar.merchan-hamann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Dr Dorota Molin

BA, MPhil, PhD Cambridge

Research Fellow, OCHJS; Lecturer in Classical Hebrew Language, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford; Research Associate in Neo-Aramaic Linguistics, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge

Biblical Hebrew and its pronunciation traditions, Modern Hebrew, North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, language contact, word order typology, tense-aspect-modal systems

dorota.molin@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Dr Joseph O’Hara

MA, DPhil Oxford

Research Fellow, OCHJS; Junior Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

Hebrew and Arabic linguistics, Jewish books in the Islamicate world, codicology and palaeography

joseph.ohara@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Professor David Rechter

BA (Hons), MA (Hons) Melbourne; PhD Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ricardo Fellow in Modern Jewish History, OCHJS; Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford; William Golding Senior Research Fellow, Brasenose College

Modern Jewish history, particularly Habsburg Empire

david.rechter@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Professor Alison Salvesen

MA, DPhil Oxford

Polonsky Fellow in Early Judaism and Christianity, OCHJS; Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity, University of Oxford; Fellow & Tutor in Oriental Studies, Mansfield College

Early Jewish and Christian translation and interpretation of scripture; Jewish Aramaic–Talmud, Targum Jewish Greek–Septuagint and Minor Versions

alison.salvesen@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Dr Harald Samuel

DrTheol Göttingen

Research Fellow, OCHJS; Departmental Lecturer in Classical Hebrew, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford; Privatdozent for Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, University of Göttingen

History of the Hebrew language, textual criticism, literary history of the Hebrew Bible, history of research

harald.samuel@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Dr Jeremy Schonfield

BA Hons East Anglia; PhD Cambridge

Supernumerary Fellow and Publications Officer, OCHJS; Professor of Liturgy, Leo Baeck College

Literary-critical approaches to the Liturgy

jeremy.schonfield@blueyonder.co.uk

Dr John Screnock

PhD, University of Toronto

Research Fellow, OCHJS; Tutor in Old Testament, Wycliffe Hall

Ancient Hebrew, the development of texts in Jewish antiquity, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint 

john.screnock@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk

Dr Zoë Waxman

BA York; MA Warwick; DPhil Oxford

Senior Associate, OCHJS; Departmental Lecturer in Modern Jewish History, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

The Holocaust, women’s and gender history, Feminist history, sexual violence, genocide, history of memory, history of emotions, history of thought, modern Jewish history

zoe.waxman@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Dr Beruriah Wiegand

BA, MA London; PhD UCL

Woolf Corob Lector in Yiddish, OCHJS

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Arn Tseytlin, A.N. Stencl

beruriahwiegand@gmail.com

Dr Benjamin Williams

BA, MSt, DPhil Oxford

Supernumerary Fellow, OCHJS; James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinic Hebrew; Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Rabbinic Studies, Leo Baeck College

Midrash; medieval and early modern Jewish exegesis of the Hebrew Bible; Rabbinic exegesis in medieval Christian commentaries

benjamin.williams@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Professor Yaacov Yadgar

BA, PhD Bar-Ilan

Stanley Lewis Chair of Israel Studies, University of Oxford; Fellow, St Anne’s College

Jewish identity, religion, politics, and secularism

yaacov.yadgar@area.ox.ac.uk

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