The David Patterson Lectures, named in honour of the Centre’s Founder President, occur weekly during Oxford terms and are open to the public. Please find a list of this term’s lecture titles listed below.
To watch a selection of previously recorded David Patterson Lectures, please click here. If you have any queries about the lectures, please contact Ms Priscilla Lange at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk.
Lectures will be presented in a hybrid format which will be accessible both online (see below) and in person in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Room (refreshments to follow). No need to register if attending in person.
Thursdays 6.00-7.00 pm (UK time)
Week 1, 13 October
Professor Ruth von Bernuth (University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill)
‘Luther in Yiddish: Translating Biblical Literature in Early Modern Europe’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlc-yorjIuE9BPMYPRFx79D08u6j1_nLXM
Please see the flyer for this lecture here.
Week 2, 20 October
Dr Moshe Lavee (University of Haifa), ‘Exploring Intertextuality: Detection of Inter-religious Contacts in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Sources’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlfu6grD8uHteXU7dojJbk8juO0Yr-SkT8
Please see the flyer for this lecture here.
Week 3, 27 October
Dr Ossnat Sharon Pinto (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), ‘An Impostor’s Diary: David HaReuveni and the Complex Nature of ‘Truth’ ’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcu2upz4uGde4lAtzRpOg6DmOzP23rUFJ
Please see the flyer for this lecture here.
Week 4, 3 November
Dr Ilana Wartenberg (Tel Aviv University), ‘Medieval Hebrew Treatises on the Jewish Calendar: a Reflection of History, Culture, Religion and Science’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpdeiurjMsH9bY44jgwsdWSAHXQ6e–384
Please the flyer for this lecture here.
Week 5, 10 November
Dr Francesca Valentina (University of Pisa), ‘On Rabbis, Travellers and Amulets: Untold Stories from the Archive of the Jewish Community of Pisa’
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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcO2urTgtE9FBFQWuWP7EPth9V_jM5nYW
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Week 6, 17 November
Dr Sarah Gimenez (INALCO, Paris), ‘Identity and Alterity in Pre-War Judeo-Spanish Literature (Salonika, 1900-1940)’
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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlceyuqjIoGtWD5y7d3qXres5nuasLMVG8
Please find the flyer for this lecture here.
Week 7, 24 November
Dr Jean Baumgarten (CNRS-EHESS, Paris), ‘The Book of Customs (Sefer ha-Minhagim) (Venice 1593) by Shimeon Guenzburg and Its Dissemination in the Ashkenazi World’
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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoduGpqzkoGN33OjtppkHPughW7nw9Lfca
Please find the flyer for this lecture here.
Week 8, 1 December
Dr. Avital Pilpel (University of Haifa) and Dr. Shahar Gindi (Beit Berl College), Book launch: ‘Chess in the Jewish Community of Palestine and Israel: A History’
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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpc-yqqjMpGNeCWhTLBrn0WfDheqMj7Yo4
Please find the flyer for this lecture here.