• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
• Timing: Mondays 18.00 - 19.15
• Web Address: https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Conflicting Interests? Antisemitism and the Balfour Declaration
  Dr Peter Bergamin

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Yiddish speaking Orientals: Hebrew and Yiddish in Early Modern Christian Writings
  Dr Ayaa Elyada (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Bookmakers and booksellers in the Cairo Genizah World
  Prof Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (University of Oxford)

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - The Year 1700 and the Birth of the Jewish 18th Century
  Prof Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University)

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - "You will meditate on it day and night": The Ideal of Continuous Study in Ancient Judaism
  Dr Arjen Bakker (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - The Rabbinic Idea of Law
  Prof Chaim Saiman (Villanova University)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - The Corridors of Berlin: Proximity, Peripherality and Surveillance in David Bergelson's 'Boarding House Stories'
  Prof Marc Caplan (IFK, Vienna)

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Conflicting Intrapersonal Powers: A Study in Early Rabbinic and Pauline Anthropology and Hamartiology
  Dr Daniel Schumann (University of Munster)

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Jewish Life in Early Modern Europe: The origins of the Oppenheim Collection
  Please note different time and venue
  Dr Joshua Teplitsky (Stony Brook)

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Jewish Icons of Modernity - Spinoza, Da Costa, Mendelssohn, Jesus and Herzl - creating a Jewish Pantheon
  Professor Richard Cohen (Hebrew University)

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - On breastfeeding: Mythological motherhood in ancient Jewish texts
  Dr Yael Fisch (Tel Aviv University)

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Herem Nacao Style
  Professor Yosef Kaplan (Hebrew University)

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - BOOK LAUNCH: 'How Old is the Hebrew Bible?'
  Professor Ron Hendel (University of California, Berkeley), Professor Jan Joosten, Professor Hindy Najman, Professor Hugh Williamson (Christ Church)

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Before Rabbinical Judaism arrived: Ps. Jerome, Ps.- Philo and the Jewish textual tradition of the Western Mediterranean up to the 9th century
  Professor Johannes Heil (Heidelberg University)

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Under the Surface - Deep Underground Jewish Ritual Baths in Germany and France
  Dr Neta Bodner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - An English Hebraist, an Ottoman 'Rabbi', and the Unlikely Story of the First Hebrew Books Printed in Amsterdam (1605-1606)
  Dr Kirsten Macfarlane (University of Cambridge)

Monday 6 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Ancient Synagogues in Judaea/Palaestina: Community and Language
  Professor Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University)

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Jewish Traditionality and Classical American Pragmatism: Venturing beyond the Atlantic Wall
  Dr Nadav Berman Shifman (Yale University)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - There was no Hebrew Republic of Letters: Christian Hebraism, conceptual history and theory of citizenship
  Dr Dirk van Miert (Utrecht University)

Monday 27 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - The Year 1700 and the Birth of the Jewish 18th Century
  Professor Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What's love got to do with it? The emotional language of early Zionism
  Please note start time is 17.00
  Professor Derek Penslar (Harvard University)

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Pietistic Confraternity in Eighteenth-Century Padua
  Dr David Sclar (Harvard University)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Thomas Wakefield (1500-75) and the Study of the Hebrew Bible in Tudor England
  Dr Benjamin Williams (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - The Conceptualization of Music in Hebrew Philosophical Texts around 1500
  Dr Alexandre Cerveux (EPHE, Paris)

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Ancient Architectural Descriptions of the Second Temple - History and Ideology
  Dr Hallel Baitner (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - How Many Benedictions in the 'Eighteen Benedictions'? Traditions of Babylonia and the land of Israel
  Dr Binyamin Katzoff (Bar Ilan University)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Muhammad's Jews: Arabian Judaism in the Seventh Century
  Professor Aaron Hughes (University of Rochester)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - A Nazi in the Holy Language? On the Translation of Martin Heidegger into Hebrew
  Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Tehran Children: On the trail of WWII refugees in Central Asia
  Professor Mikhal Dekel (City College, CUNY)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - 'With kind words lean towards her'... Singing for the Bride and Groom in Early Modern Ashkenaz
  Dr Diana Matut (University of Halle-Wittenberg)