Honorary Fellowships have been conferred on two senior scholars who have been associated with the Centre for many years: Professor Emanuel Tov and Professor Geza Vermes. Professor Geza Vermes was born to an assimilated Jewish family in Hungary, was baptized with his parents in 1931 at the age of six, and later became a member
Announcements
A Field Marshal on the Board of Governors
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, a member of the Board of Governors of the Centre, has recently been appointed Field Marshal after a long and distinguished career in the Army. This is the highest possible rank, senior to that of a General, and is held currently by just eight people, three of them members of the
Conference on ‘The Place of European Jewry in the Global Jewish Community’
The Centre is sponsoring a conference in Oxford for about twenty experts in contemporary Jewish life to formulate a research project on the place of European Jewry in the global Jewish community, as part of our commitment to providing a scholarly understanding of contemporary Jewish life. Co-sponsors of the conference are The American Jewish Joint
The New Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
In January 2013, a new series of Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies will be inaugurated with a project focused on: ‘Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs’. This Research Seminar will bring a group of international scholars to the Centre to pursue a
Centre Alumnus Named Prime Minister of Romania
Dr Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, a graduate of the Centre’s One-Year Programme in Jewish Studies, was recently appointed Prime Minister of Romania. He came to the Centre in 1992 in order to discover more about the role of Jews and Judaism in Romanian society during the 18th and 19th centuries. He became deputy foreign minister in the
Joshua Teplitsky Appointed Lehmann Junior Research Fellow
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