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
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
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
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
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
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
Dr Elena Lolli
BA, MA University of Bologna; joint PhD University of Bologna and EPHE, Paris
Research Fellow, OCHJS; Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellow, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York; 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
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
Dr Dorota Molin
BA, MPhil, PhD Cambridge
Research Fellow, OCHJS; Lecturer in Classical Hebrew Language, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern 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
Dr Joseph O’Hara
MA, DPhil Oxford
Research Fellow, OCHJS; Junior Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford; Research Associate, Corpus Christi College
Hebrew and Arabic linguistics, Jewish books in the Islamicate world, codicology and palaeography
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
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
Dr Harald Samuel
DrTheol Göttingen
Research Fellow, OCHJS; Departmental Lecturer in Classical Hebrew, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern 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
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
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
Dr Zoë Waxman
BA York; MA Warwick; DPhil Oxford
Senior Associate, OCHJS; Departmental Lecturer in Modern Jewish History, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern 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
Dr Beruriah Wiegand
BA, MA London; PhD UCL
Woolf Corob Lector in Yiddish, OCHJS
Yiddish language and literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish poetry, contemporary Yiddish literature, translations from and into Yiddish
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
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, secularism