Announcements

We are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships as part of our Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies entitled “Philosophy in Scripture”: Jewish Philosophical Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Late Medieval Period, to be led by Professor Paul B. Fenton and Dr Raphael Dascalu in Trinity Term 2022. Please find the relevant application materials 

The following lecture will be given on 2 March 2021 at 6pm (UK time) via Zoom: Professor Dr Ronny Vollandt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, ‘Saʿadia Gaon’s Arabic translation of the Tora and Its Readers.’ For the lecture’s poster, please click here.

Due to Covid-19, our lectures and seminars will continue to be online for Hilary Term 2021.  Please find details on how to sign up for our events in our programme below. If you have any queries, please contact Priscilla Lange at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk.   Hilary Term 2021 programme

We are now accepting proposals for our next Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies (OSAJS), to be held in 2022. Please find details in the document below. The deadline for applications is 19 February, 2021. OSAJS 2022 Call for Proposals

Due to Covid-19, our lectures and seminars will be online for Michaelmas Term 2020.  Please find details on how to sign up for our events in our programme below. In order to receive an invitation to the Zoom link for the David Patterson Lectures and the Lunchtime Seminar in Jewish Studies, please contact Priscilla Lange 

The talk takes place on 27 October and will be delivered by Dr César Merchán-Hamann, Director of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library. Entitled ‘Jewish Treasures in Oxford’, the talk will illuminate the stories behind some of the most treasured Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts in the Bodleian’s collections. The talk is sponsored by the Friends of