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.
Hilary Term 2024
Thursdays, 18:00-19:00 UK Time
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG and online via Zoom
Week 1, 18 January
Dr John Screnock, ‘To What Text(s) Does the Book of Esther Refer? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Intertextuality in Esther’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsduygpjspE9LgkAko87TkSy2RKsFg60CB
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 2, 25 January
Rabbi Lisa Grushcow, ‘The Bush was Not Consumed: A Rabbinic Reception History of Exodus 3:1-4’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvc-GrrTouGdAjsRiGxpOsuCCzPVmtpwyz
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 3, 1 February – CANCELLED
Dr Harald Samuel, ‘Manoello Giudeo – Hebrew Poetry in the Trecento’
Week 4, 8 February
Professor Jean Baumgarten, ‘Translating, editing, and printing mystical prayers (Tikkunim) in Old Yiddish’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwud-CuqDsiHtY56p0GAcNn75ahB4gjk3ZI
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 5, 15 February
Dr Mei-Tal Nadler, “To grant a second chance to something which could never have had one”: A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdu6opjgoGtD7saYwByTFNYpnn-Skph-T
Week 6, 22 February
Professor Gideon Bohak, ‘The Pishra de-Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa: A Babylonian Jewish Anti-Witchcraft Spell and Its Historical Significance’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcOygrjIiEt1TjiyUS7nyyrqTecFQvK94
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 7, 29 February – CANCELLED
Dr Danjing Ma, ‘The Rise and Decline of the Jewish Community in Kaifeng’
With many apologies, and due to circumstances outside of our control, this lecture has been cancelled.
Week 8, 7 March
No lecture. Please see conference programme on ‘Enterprise, Engagement, Integration: Jews of Seventeenth-Century Britain and the Empire’.
ALL WELCOME