13 to 24 August 2018 Application deadline: 17 June 2018 Read about the Summer School and apply here
Announcements
Hebrew Manuscript Studies: Codicology, Palaeography, Art History
Summer Workshop: 29 June to 12 July 2018 Project Leaders: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (Paris) César Merchán-Hamann (OCHJS and Bodleian Library) Closing date for applications: 8 April 2018 Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented interest in Hebrew manuscripts in various fields of academic Jewish studies. The development of new technologies, such as the DigiPal tool to deal with
New Sidney Brichto Fellow in Israel Studies appointed
Following an extensive international search, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies has appointed Dr Sara Hirschhorn as the new Sidney Brichto Fellow in Israel Studies at the Centre and University Research Lecturer in Israel Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Dr Hirschhorn is a graduate of Yale
Fellow in Modern Hebrew Literature appointed
Dr Adriana X Jacobs has been appointed the Centre’s Fellow in Modern Hebrew Literature and as the University of Oxford’s Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature. Dr Jacobs completed her BA at the College of William and Mary (Virginia, US) and she received her PhD in 2010 in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She wrote a
Louis Jacobs Exhibition goes digital
The Leopold Muller Memorial Library has launched a digital version of the exhibition We Have Reason to Inquire: The Life and Works of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs. The exhibition illustrates Rabbi Dr Jacobs’ life and thought by means of documents, letters, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, typescripts and photos. It contains everything displayed in, and also supplements,
New York fundraising event success
A successful event for friends of the Centre was hosted recently at the Yale Club in New York by Daniel and Joanna Rose. Daniel Rose, Chairman of Rose Associates, a New York-based real estate company, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and his wife, Joanna, who received the Distinguished Friend of Oxford