The Centre has appointed Joshua Teplitsky as the new Albert and Rachel Lehmann Junior Research Fellow in Jewish History and Culture, a two-year post associated with St Peter’s College, Oxford. Mr Teplitsky is due to receive his PhD from New York University for a dissertation on Rabbi David Oppenheim of Prague, whose collection of books is one of the glories of the Bodleian Library. He received his MA from New York University and his BA from Yeshiva University, and will take up his post at the Centre in October 2012.