Announcements

Thanks to the generosity of Tad Taube and Taube Philanthropies, the Taube Prizes for Student Writing in Hebrew and Jewish Studies for postgraduate students were offered for the second time this year. We received eighteen excellent submissions across numerous areas of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the committee selected the following recipients for the prize: 

We are delighted to share the 2023-24 Impact Report for our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL). Not only does this report cover the OSRJL’s activities throughout the 2023-24 academic year, but it also provides an overview of the programme’s pilot phase (2021-24) and future goals. We hope you enjoy reading it! To learn 

We are happy to announce that Dr Diana Matut will be teaching a new music class through the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL) in Michaelmas Term 2024. Michaelmas Term 2024: Yiddish Musics: The 20th and 21st Century Mondays, 18:15-19:15 UK Time, Online via Zoom This course focusses on the development of Yiddish musics 

As part of the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL), applications for language classes beginning in Michaelmas Term 2024 are now open! The deadline to apply is 16 September at 12 noon UK time. Classes beginning in Michaelmas Term 2024 include those on the following languages: Haketia Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic Classical Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Italian Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Neo-Aramaic 

The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (OCHJS) is pleased to announce the opening of submissions for 2 Taube Prizes for Student Writing in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, generously funded by Taube Philanthropies. Current Master’s and DPhil students at the University of Oxford across Faculties working on any topic in Hebrew and/or Jewish Studies 

2024 Massada Annual Lecture Dilemmas of Journalism: Media in Times of War Thursday 30th May, 5.15pm-7pm Dr Ilana Dayan (J.S.D. Yale Law School) is an esteemed journalist; creator and anchor of the award-winning programme Uvda (‘fact’ in Hebrew), Israel’s leading investigative current affairs TV programme; and lecturer on freedom of speech law at Tel Aviv University.