• 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

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

Monday 22 October 2018

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

Monday 29 October 2018

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

Monday 5 November 2018

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

Monday 12 November 2018

• 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

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

Monday 26 November 2018

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Monday 11 February 2019

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

Monday 18 February 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Monday 13 May 2019

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

Monday 20 May 2019

• 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

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

Monday 3 June 2019

• 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

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

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 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

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

Thursday 31 October 2019

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

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 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

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

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 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

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

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 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)