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Annual Report 2013-14 Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 2013–2014 OXFORD CENTRE FOR HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES A Recognised Independent Centre of the University of Oxford Contents OXFORD CENTRE FOR HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES President’s Message 5 Clarendon Institute Building Highlights of the 2013–2014 Academic Year 9 Walton Street Oxford Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies OX1 2HG ‘On the Word of a Jew’: Oaths, Testimonies, Tel: 01865 377946 and the Nature of Trust 24–48 Email: [email protected] A Jew in the Margin: Petrus Alfonsi and the Figure of Website: www.ochjs.ac.uk the Medieval Convert Professor Nina Caputo 25 The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is a company, limited by guarantee, Could a Victorian Jew be an English Gentleman? incorporated in England, Registered No. 1109384 (Registered Charity No. 309720). The Professor Todd M. Endelman 28 Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is a tax-deductible organization within Negotiating Trustworthiness: Jewish Businessmen in the United States under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (Employer the Public Rhetoric around the ‘Trustworthy Businessman’ Identification number 13–2943469). in Post-WWI Germany Dr Stefanie Fischer 31 Constructing Credibility: Apostates in the Jewish Courts of Medieval Ashkenaz Rachel Furst 35 Trust a Jew?: The Ambiguities of an Oath Professor Mitchell Hart 38 Can the Eyes Be Trusted? Jews, Vision and Evidence in Chartres Cathedral Professor Sara Lipton 42 Trusting Daniel Mendoza: How British Boxing Fans Copyright © Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 2014 Came to Believe in the ‘Fair Play’ of an Eighteenth-century All rights reserved Sephardi Pugilist Professor Ronald Schechter 46 ISSN 1368 9096 The Reception of Josephus in the Early Modern Period 49 Front cover illustration: Clarendon Institute Building; back cover: Portrait of Nina Salaman (detail), see pages 56–73; part titles are details of the title page of Sir Roger L’Estrange’s Other New Research translation of The Works of F. Josephus (London, 1733) see pages 49–54 Surreptitious Rebel – Nina Davis Salaman Edited by Dr Jeremy Schonfield Professor Todd M. Endelman 56 Designed by Tony Kitzinger A Universal Jewish Library? The Early Modern Origins of Printed and bound at the Dorset Press, Dorchester the Bodleian Oppenheim Collection Dr Joshua Teplitsky 75 3 4 Contents The Academic Year Courses, Lectures, Conferences, Publications and President’s Message Other Activities of Fellows of the Centre 79 Seminars, Conferences and Special Lectures involving Centre Fellows 96 This has been an historic year for the Centre, with a very full teaching and Visiting Fellows’ and Scholars’ Reports 110 research programme taking place against a background of intensive prepara- MSt in Jewish Studies 127 tions for the move to the centre of Oxford announced in last year’s Annual Report. Journal of Jewish Studies 130 The highlights of the academic year are described elsewhere in the Report (see The European Association for Jewish Studies 132 below, pages 10–21), but it may be appropriate to draw the attention of readers The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies 133 especially to the impressive research undertaken by the two residential Oxford Looted Art Research Unit 136 Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies hosted by the Centre in the course of the year, through the support of the Polonsky and Dorset Foundations, and also The Leopold Muller Memorial Library 142 to the Oxford Summer Institute in Modern and Contemporary Judaism held Listings in July 2014, through the sponsorship of a large number of individual donors. The Academic Council 152 The Summer Institute carried over the ethos of free enquiry into difficult issues Other Academic Officers 154 in modern Orthodox theology from the Oxford Seminar of 2012-13, recalling many of the original participants to tackle another complex issue which proved Members of the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit 155 to be of wide public interest. The Centre has continued to benefit from such The Leopold Muller Memorial Library Committee 156 donations from a wide range of supporters, and we acknowledge the generosity Visiting Fellows and Scholars 156 of all of them with gratitude. Centre Staff 157 The announcement with which I prefaced last year’s Annual Report in November 2013, that the Centre would be relocating in central Oxford all Honorary and Emeritus Fellows and Senior Associates 159 the activities which for many years had been based in Yarnton, was warmly Board of Governors 161 welcomed by the University, which immediately recognized the opportunities Donors of Books to the Leopold Muller Memorial Library 163 for synergy between the Centre and the University in the wider promotion Books Acquired for the Library through Special Funds of Hebrew and Jewish studies. It took much of the rest of the academic year and Endowments 164 to complete the process, but such goodwill across the University ensured eventually a successful conclusion to negotiations to secure an appropriate new Sources of Funding, 2013–2014 166 home for the Centre in the Clarendon Institute building in Walton Street. The move to this new home took place in September 2014. The Clarendon Institute is a fine late-Victorian building, described in a report soon after its opening in 1893 as ‘in the Elizabethan style’. It was built originally as a recreation centre for workers from Oxford University Press and was known as the Clarendon Press Institute. Staff at OUP with long memories still recall attending events at ‘the Stute’. In the early 1990s the building was handed over for academic use and its interior extensively remodelled to create 5 6 President’s Message President’s Message 7 offices and teaching rooms to house the Institute of Chinese Studies (which from Gloucester Green bus station, we can hope to attract a wider public from had grown too large to remain in the Oriental Institute) and the Centre for London and elsewhere. Final touches to the refurbishment of the building are Linguistics and Philology, and also to provide space for the Bodleian Chinese expected to be complete by the end of November, and the Visiting Fellows for Library. However, by November 2013 it was known that Chinese Studies were the first Oxford Seminar in the new premises arrive in January 2015. due to move in July 2014 to the new Dickson Poon China Centre in St Hugh’s Organizing and executing the move has been a huge operation, involving College, on completion of the China Centre building. hard work by many people. The Yarnton Manor estate was put up for sale in After the long consultation required for all allocations of space by the March 2014 and transferred to new owners in September. Sorting out materi- University, the Faculty of Oriental Studies was granted permission to retain als which had accumulated in different corners of such a large property over the space vacated by Chinese Studies and to allocate it to the Centre and to the forty years was not easy, and preparing the Clarendon Institute building for the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit, thus bringing under one roof the activities Centre to be ready for the start of term in October required much consultation previously divided between Yarnton and the Oriental Institute. In separate and numerous decisions. The Centre’s staff worked flat out to enable the move discussions, the Curators of the Bodleian Libraries agreed both to take on the to take place smoothly and on time. It is invidious to single out particular indi- task of managing the collections of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library and viduals when so many did so much, but it may be appropriate to note especially to retain the library space vacated by the Chinese Library, so that the bulk of the roles of David Lewis and Daniel Peltz, who looked after the sale on behalf of the Muller Library is available in the same building as the Centre’s research the Governors; of Sheila Phillips, who, as Bursar, was inevitably involved with and teaching rooms, with the Library’s special collections material housed in the process at every level; of Sue Forteath and Martine Smith-Huvers, who have the newly refurbished Weston Library alongside the Bodleian’s own special moved with the Centre and managed to organize and operate a new office in the collections of Hebraica and Judaica. chaos of packing cases and builders; and the Centre’s librarians, who worked Of exceptional importance in persuading the University authorities to immensely long hours to prepare the collections for transfer. allocate such a prime location to the Centre was the history of close cooperation From the beginning of September 2014 the librarians ceased to be employed over many years between the Centre and the Faculty of Oriental Studies and directly by the Centre and are now employed by the Bodleian. Many others who between the Centre and the Bodleian. The multiplicity of courses in Hebrew worked tirelessly for the Centre in the year under review also left the Centre’s and Jewish studies offered by the Faculty at both undergraduate and graduate employment at the end of August without the Centre being able to arrange such level would be impossible without the teaching expertise provided through a transfer to a new employer. For many of them, anxiety about the future was the Centre. Moreover, Oxford’s exceptional library provision in Hebraica inevitable for much of the year during the process of the sale, and it was only and Judaica – which attracts both such students and many research visitors in August that there was any certainty that the new owners wished to take on – has long relied on subventions from the Centre to ensure that the library estate staff.
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