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President

Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

BA, MA Paris; PhD Cambridge; FBA

judith.schlanger@orinst.ox.ac.uk

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

Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew

Dr Hallel Baitner

hallel.baitner@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Junior Research Fellow, OCHJS; Kennicott Fellow in Hebrew Studies, University of Oxford

Dr Danielle Drori

PhD New York University

Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature, OCHJS

Dr Miri Freud-Kandel

MA PhD Camb

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

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

Modern Jewish Theology

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Professor Martin Goodman

MA DPhil Oxf; FBA

martin.goodman@orinst.ox.ac.uk

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

Jewish history of the Second Temple and Talmudic periods

Professor Martin 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.

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Dr Daniel M. Herskowitz

Junior Research Fellow, OCHJS; Stipendiary Career Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, Wolfson College

Professor Adriana X. Jacobs

BA William and Mary, PhD Princeton

adriana.jacobs@orinst.ox.ac.uk

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

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Dr Elena Lolli

elena.lolli@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Junior Research Fellow, OCHJS

Dr César Merchán-Hamann

BSc Universidad de los Andes MA, PhD Lond

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

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

Professor David Rechter

BA (Hons) MA (Hons) Melbourne, PhD Heb Univ Jerusalem

david.rechter@orinst.ox.ac.uk

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

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Professor Alison Salvesen

MA DPhil Oxf

alison.salvesen@orinst.ox.ac.uk

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

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Dr Jeremy Schonfield

BA Hons East Ang, PhD Camb

jeremy.schonfield@blueyonder.co.uk

Supernumerary Fellow and Publications Officer, OCHJS; Rabbi John D Rayner Reader in Liturgy, Leo Baeck College

Literary-critical approaches to the Liturgy

Dr John Screnock

PhD, University of Toronto

john.screnock@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Junior Research Fellow, OCHJS; Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible, University of Oxford

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

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Dr Blanca Villuendas Sabate

blanca.villuendassabate@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Junior Research Fellow DFG/AHRC, OCHJS

Dr Beruriah Wiegand

BA MA Lond, PhD UCL

BeruriahWiegand@aol.com

Woolf Corob Lector in Yiddish, OCHJS
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Arn Tseytlin, A.N. Stencl

Dr Benjamin Williams

BA, MSt, DPhil Oxf

benjamin.williams@orinst.ox.ac.uk

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

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Emeritus Regius Professor Hugh Williamson

Emeritus Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, OCHJS

Professor Yaacov Yadgar

BA, PhD Bar-Ilan

yaacov.yadgar@area.ox.ac.uk

Stanley Lewis Chair of Israel Studies, University of Oxford; Fellow, St Anne’s College
Jewish identity, religion, politics, and secularism

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