Fourteen Visiting Fellows from around the world are also working at the Centre this year on a range of research topics. The Harold Hyam Wingate Visiting Fellows include a team of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars from the University of Oregon, Trinity Western University, and Bar Ilan University who have been working as a team researching
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Visiting Fellows delve into old Yiddish books
The Centre is hosting eleven Yiddish scholars from Israel, the US, Netherlands, and Germany for our annual advanced research institute. This year’s theme is devoted to the Bodleian’s collection of sixteenth century Yiddish manuscripts and books- the world’s leading collection, much of which has never been studied before. The first book printed in Yiddish was