Our 2024/25 Annual Report is now available on our website! You can find it, along with all previous annual reports, at the following link: www.ochjs.ac.uk/publications... #oxford #JewishStudies

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: We are delighted to announce our Visiting Fellowships for 2026/2027! The deadline to apply for each of the Visiting Fellowships is 16 January 2026 at 12 noon UK Time. For more information, see the following page: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app... #fellowship #oxford

Tomorrow Dr Amir Banbaji will give our final #davidpattersonlecture of the term: 'Beyond Ornament: The Shifting Role of Melitsah in Hebrew Thought from the Middle Ages to the Haskalah'. Join us online or in person at 6pm tomorrow! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #lecture #oxford

On Dec. 8th and 9th, speakers at the upcoming ERC-Synergy MiDRASH Conference will include our very own Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Dr. Rahel Fronda, Dr. Joseph O’Hara, and Caleb Klein. You can tune-in to the conference via zoom: campus-condorcet.zoom.us/j/8346073641... #conference #Oxford

Tonight at 6pm Susanne Marten-Finnis will give the #davidpattersonlecture, 'Zamość – an Experiment in Geopolitical Engineering. The Sephardic Community in Late-Sixteenth-Century Poland and the Interplay between Geography, Diasporic Agency, and Trade'. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are excited to announce that a one-term OSRJL class of Advanced Old #Yiddish taught by Dr Diana Matut will be offered in Hilary Term 2026! You can find more information and the application (due Dec. 21) at the following link: www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla... #languagelearning #oxford

Tune in at 5pm on Tues. Dec. 2nd for the Second Solomon Schonfeld Lecture! Professor Zoë Waxman will give a talk titled, '‘Packing for an Unknown Destination’: Possession and Dispossession in the Holocaust'. For more information: www.ochjs.ac.uk/public-lectu... #oxford #JewishHistory

This Thursday Professor Patrick Koch will be giving the #davidpattersonlecture, 'Between Miracle Worker and Divine Agent: Isaac Luria and the Making of Lurianic Hagiography'. Join us online or in person at 6pm on Nov. 20th! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Mysticism #lectures #oxford

Applications are now open for Hilary Term classes with our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! This term we will begin our courses for Judeo-Greek, Kivruli, Judeo-French, and Classical Judeo-Arabic, so be sure to #apply by noon on Dec. 19th, UK time! www.ochjs.ac.uk/osrjl-applic...

At 6pm on Nov. 13th Dr Miriam Feldmann-Kaye will be giving our fourth #davidpattersonlecture of the term: 'The Burning Bush in Modern Jewish Theology: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Response to Paul Ricœur’s Critique'. Join us online or in person! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #theology #oxford

The 'Impact Report' for the 2024/25 academic year at the OSRJL is now available on our website! View the following link to learn all about the OSRJL programme: www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla... #languagelearning #oxford #osrjl

For our third #davidpattersonlecture of the term, Thursday @6pm Dr Emily Rose will be giving a lecture titled 'A Bleeding Corpse, A Grim Grimm Fairy Tale with Early Modern Shivers: The Dubious Margaret of Pforzheim (1267), A Singular Female Blood Libel'. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #lectures

Tomorrow, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 3:30pm (UK time), tune in for the Seminar in Modern Jewish Thought, where Prof. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson will discuss her forthcoming book and 'Writing about Judaism and Nature.' Join us via zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #oxford #seminar

Nov 5th @6pm, tune in online or in person for our annual Ullendorff Lecture! This year, Prof. Matthew Morgenstern will give a lecture titled, 'Theodor Nöldeke’s Mandäische Grammatik (1875) in Retrospect: 150 Years of Babylonian Aramaic Studies.' www.ochjs.ac.uk/public-lectu... #oxford #lectures

Tonight, the 'Symposium in Honor of Academy Member Prof. Yaakov Kaduri,' by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, will feature a talk by our very own Prof Hindy Najman. The event will be available online at the following link at 2:30pm (UK time): www.academy.ac.il/Index/Entry....

For our second #davidpattersonlecture of the term, Tonight at 6pm, Dr Aadel Shakkour will be giving a lecture titled 'Opting for Literalism: Foreignizing Arabic Idioms into Hebrew to Enhance the Prestige of Arab Culture'. Join us online or in person! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Next Thursday, October 30th, we will be sponsoring the 'Music in Theresienstadt' concert at the Maison Française d'Oxford. Tickets are available for free at the link below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/oxford-cen... #concert #oxford #composers

'Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Textbook' by Assaf Bar-Moshe, the first Jewish language handbook published in a OSRJL / UCL series, has received a fantastic review in the Journal of Semitic Studies! doi.org/10.1093/jss/... #languagelearning #JewishStudies #bookreview

We are delighted to announce our first #davidpattersonlecture of the term! This Thursday Professor Yoram Meital will be giving the lecture, 'Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Synagogues and Jewish Life and Heritage in Cairo'. Join online or in person! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #heritage

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: "Bridges of Knowledge: Jewish Languages in Cultural Context," edited by Jean Baumgarten, Ruth von Bernuth, and Moshe Lavee, came together through the collaboration of members of our very own Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies! #booklaunch #oxford #languages

With the new term commencing, take a look at our Michaelmas 2025 Term Programme! Here you'll find activities sponsored by the OCHJS, the Centre of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (AMES, University of Oxford) and the Faculty of Theology and Religion! www.ochjs.ac.uk/news/term-pr... #oxford

Reminder: Applications close one week from today! Don't forget to submit by Wednesday, October 15th!

Call for Applications: OSRJL Jewish Music Class! 'The Sound of the kley zemer. Jewish Instrumental Music until 1800' For more information, see the following link: www.ochjs.ac.uk/jewish-music... Please submit your application by 17 October 2025 at 12 noon (UK). #oxford #jewishhistory #music

Call for Applications: "Jewish Theology and Anthropology: A Conversation" For information regarding this working group, see the announcement attached via the link below! Deadline for submissions is September 30, 2025. www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app... #Theology #anthropology #oxford

Applications are now open for Michaelmas Term classes with our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! This term we will be offering courses for 12 different languages, so be sure to apply by noon on Sept. 12th, UK time! www.ochjs.ac.uk/osrjl-applic... #languagelearning #oxford

The Jewish Language Project has an educator workshop September 4 regarding our new curriculum, an information session about our new exhibit about Jewish languages, and a song competition involving Jewish heritage! Details at this link: www.jewishlanguages.org/events. #languagelearning

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: "Reading Psalms with the Scribes: Using Ancient Manuscript Evidence to Inform Biblical Studies", by OCHJS Fellow, Dr John Screnock, is due for publication in early November 2025! global.oup.com/academic/pro... #newbook #biblestudy #oxford

Applications are now open for Michaelmas Term classes with our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! This term we will be offering courses for 12 different languages, so be sure to apply by noon on Sept. 12th, UK time! www.ochjs.ac.uk/osrjl-applic... #languagelearning #oxford

Thank you to all the participants and contributors to the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern & Contemporary Judaism! See you again next year! #summer #oxford #CulturalHeritage

Today we offer our congratulations to Dylan Moss for earning the BIAJS Undergraduate Essay Prize and the Ertegun Scholarship for his dissertation work with our President, Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger! bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/07/08/b... #Theology #oxford #academia

We are delighted to announce that our colleague at OCHJS, Professor Alison Salvesen, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy! University of Oxford announcement here: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07... British Academy announcement here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

Tune in for an online workshop on “Modern and Contemporary Jewish Translation and Multilingualism: Practices, History, and Semiotics", held on July 29-30! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... If you have any questions, please write to [email protected].

Apply now for the Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School! The program will take place from August 26 – September 5, 2025, and applications close on Friday July 11th! Find more information at the link below: www.ochjs.ac.uk/oxford-bibli... #Hebrew #languagelearning #oxford

So concludes our Manuscript Workshop. We'd like to give our thanks to all of the wonderful scholars who have attended over the past two weeks, both our amazing teachers and incredible students! #Manuscripts #history #oxford

Apply now for the Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School! The program will take place from August 26 – September 5, 2025, and applications close on Friday July 11th! Find more information at the link below: www.ochjs.ac.uk/oxford-bibli... #Hebrew #languagelearning #oxford

One week of our Manuscript Workshop done, one to go! And as we dive into more manuscripts, our Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism will be kicking off as well! #summer #JewishStudies #Oxford

Tonight at 17:30! Prof. Penslar, Prof. Yadgar, and Prof. Peleg will discuss some fundamental themes in Israel Studies through their recently published books. Book at the following link: forms.office.com/e/k6Nnemg9KF

Trinity Term has drawn to a close here at Oxford, but the studies don't stop for us! Today we hosted the first day of our intensive Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop! #Manuscripts #bookhistory #oxford

Call for papers! The "Borders, Boundaries and Barriers" conference will be here at the University of Oxford from 20–21 April 2026! See the attached flyer for details! #conference #history #middleages

We are so excited for the #davidpattersonlecture of Dr Keren Fraiman & Dr Dean Bell this Thursday! They'll be discussing their 2023 edition, 'The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the 21st Century'. Join online or in person! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #jewishlife #lectures #oxford

Come Join our online Seminar in Modern Hebrew Literature! This Monday at 1pm (UK time) we will be discussing “Melitsah in the History of Hebrew Literary Theory.” Please register using the following link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #JewishStudies #literature #seminar #oxford

It's been a busy couple weeks here at the OCHJS! From #davidpattersonlectures and the Ancient & Medieval Egyptian Jewish Documents Workshop to the #taubeprizes! And we've got plenty more to come going into the final week of term! #oxford #JewishStudies

We are so excited for the #davidpattersonlecture of Nicholas de Lange this Thursday! He'll be discussing his ongoing translation of 'Yemei Tsiklag' by S. Yizhar (1916–2006). Join online or in person! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #jewishlanguages #translation #lectures #oxford

As we head into the last 2 weeks of this term, be sure you don't miss any of our events! Email Priscilla at [email protected] to join our Activities Email List. #JewishStudies #Lectures #Events #Seminars

We were delighted to host Yair Qedar for a screening of his film 'Outsider.Freud' last evening as one of our #Brichto events this year! #ArtsandCulture #FilmNight

THIS EVENING! Join us for another Brichto Israeli Arts & Culture Event: a screening of the documentary 'Outsider.Freud' by Yair Qedar. This event will take place at the Maison Française d'Oxford at 6pm, get your free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-.... #FilmNight

2 DAYS LEFT to #apply for our #TaubePrizes for Student Writing in #Hebrew & #JewishStudies! The deadline is 30 May at 12 noon UK time, and we cannot accept late submissions. All details here: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-sub....

Please join us next week on Wednesday 28 May in person at the Clarendon Institute for our Brichto Israeli Arts & Culture Event featuring Shimon Adaf and his #poetry! #ArtsandCulture #Brichto

Did you miss our latest Lehmann Lecture? Never fear--here is the recording on our Vimeo account! vimeo.com/1084272970 #JewishStudies #Lecture #LehmannLecture

We are delighted to be accepting submissions for our next round of #TaubePrizes for Student Writing in #Hebrew & #JewishStudies! Deadline to #apply 30 May at 12 noon UK time: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-sub....