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Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 2012 Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 2012–2013 Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 2012–2013 | OXFORD CENTRE FOR | HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES | A Recognized Independent Centre of the University of Oxford Contents Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Message from the Acting President page 9 Main Office President’s Message 11 Yarnton Manor, Yarnton Highlights of the 2012–2013 Academic Year 13 Oxford OX5 1PY, England Telephone: Oxford +44 (0)1865 377946 Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies – Orthodoxy, Theological Fax: Oxford +44 (0)1865 375079 Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Email: [email protected] Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs Website: www.ochjs.ac.uk Orthodoxy, Theology and Louis Jacobs Dr Miri Freud-Kandel 27 Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit Orthodox Judaism and Theology in the Twentieth Century: Oriental Institute, University of Oxford Two Projects Dr Adam Ferziger 35 Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England What is ‘Modern’ in Modern Orthodoxy? Professor Alan Brill 41 Telephone: Oxford +44 (0)1865 278200 Halakhah and Aggadah: The Modern Conversion Controversy Fax: Oxford +44 (0)1865 278190 in Light of Louis Jacobs’s philosophy Professor Arye Edrei 48 The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is a company, limited by guarantee, Biblical Criticism and Late-Modern Orthodoxy in Israel incorporated in England, Registered No. 1109384 (Registered Charity No. 309720). The Dr Ari Engelberg 54 Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is a tax-deductible organization within the United States under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (Employer ‘Happy is He Who Loathes it, For it is Like a Dream That Flies Away’: Identification number 13–2943469). A Chapter in the Theology of a Medieval French Rabbi Dr Judah Galinsky 60 Real-time Themes for Reconstructing Holocaust Theology Professor Gershon Greenberg 66 Theology and Conversion, Converts and Theology – The Picture in Britain Dr Nechama Hadari 79 Back to Zechariah Frankel and Louis Jacobs? On Integrating Academic Talmudic Scholarship into Israeli Religious Zionist Copyright © Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 2013 Yeshivot and the Spectre of the Historical Development of the All rights reserved Halakhah Professor Lawrence Kaplan 85 ISSN 1368 9096 ‘Modern’ Orthodoxy in Antiquity and the Present Day Professor James Kugel 90 Cover illustration: Painting by Barent Avercamp; see pages 248–50 Edited by Dr Jeremy Schonfield, designed by Tony Kitzinger From Jacobs to the New Materialism: Revelation in Judaism after Printed and bound at the Dorset Press, Dorchester Metaphysics Professor Paul Morris 105 5 6 Contents Contents 7 Torah as the Word of God Professor Jacob Ross 110 Listings Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Biblical Criticism: The Academic Council 273 Some Reflections on the Importance of Asking the Right Question Other Academic Officers 274 Professor Tamar Ross 115 Members of the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit 275 Christians and Christianity in Halakhic Literature from the End The Leopold Muller Memorial Library Committee 275 of the Eighteenth to the Middle of the Nineteenth Centuries Professor Yosef Salmon 124 Visiting Fellows and Scholars 276 Orthodox Judaism in Transition – An Oxymoron? Centre Staff 277 Professor Chaim Waxman 133 Senior Members 279 New Research Degree Programmes in Hebrew and Jewish Studies We Have Reason to Inquire: at the University of Oxford 280 The Life and Works of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs Board of Governors 281 Dr César Merchán-Hamann, Jane Barlow, Dr Zsófia Buda, Donors of Books to the Leopold Muller Memorial Library 283 Milena Zeidler 142 Books Acquired for the Library through Special Funds Taste, Discrimination and Money: and Endowments 284 Jewish Art Collectors of Great Britain Sources of Funding 286 Charles Sebag-Montefiore 153 Two Jewish Soldiers in the Ottoman Army Professor Glenda Abramson 180 Teaching the Jewish Book: Some Reflections on Doing it at the Bodleian Dr David Stern 187 The Academic Year Courses, Lectures, Conferences, Publications and Other Activities by Fellows of the Centre 197 Visiting Fellows’ and Scholars’ Reports 220 MSt in Jewish Studies 236 Journal of Jewish Studies 239 The European Association for Jewish Studies 241 The Institute for Polish–Jewish Studies 242 Looted Art Research Unit 245 The Leopold Muller Memorial Library 256 In Memoriam Professor Geza Vermes, 1924–2013 270 Message from the Acting President The decision of the Governors announced in November 2013 to relocate the Centre’s activities to central Oxford from September 2014 has been widely welcomed as a reflection of the Centre’s integration into the intellectual life of the University and a boost to the Centre’s ability to reach out to the wider public. The move will mark a major development in the history of the Centre. There will inevitably be much to plan during the current academic year for our future in the city centre. In the meantime, our final year in Yarnton will be exceptionally full. The Centre will be hosting two Oxford Seminars for Advanced Jewish Studies and a full range of lectures, conferences and other teaching. In the meantime, we shall be putting into place the final arrangements for the Oxford Seminar for 2014–2015, which will be our first in our new premises, and preparing for the Seminar in 2015–2016. It is a pleasure to welcome from the start of this academic year Dr Adriana Jacobs as the Centre’s new Fellow in Modern Hebrew Literature and Dr Sara Hirschhorn as the Sidney Brichto Fellow in Israel Studies. Dr Hirschhorn, who has been most recently at Brandeis as a postdoctoral fellow following her doctorate at the University of Chicago, strengthens a burgeoning Israel Studies programme in Oxford led by Derek Penslar, the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies. Professor Penslar, who took up his post in the University in October 2012, has also been appointed to a Fellowship at the Centre from November 2013. Dr Jacobs comes to us from a postdoctoral fellowship in Yale. Her fellowship at the Centre is held in conjunction with the Cowley Lecturership in Postbiblical Hebrew, a post long filled with distinction by David Patterson. He would be very proud to see how the Centre he founded has evolved. Martin Goodman November 2013 9 President’s Message This is my final President’s message for the Annual Report. By the time you receive this, I will be on sabbatical in anticipation of my retirement on 30 June 2014. It has been a wonderful and challenging five years as President of the leading institution for Jewish Studies in Europe and the provider of Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Three new Fellows have joined the academic staff, including two appointed to newly created posts in Eastern European Jewish Civilization and Israel Studies. We have institutionalized the Visiting Fellows programme of Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies, in which teams of scholars are invited to work collaboratively around a research topic that draws on Oxford’s unique resources. We have continued to make a major contribution to the fields of Hebrew and Jewish studies through our Fellows’ teaching and research. The Centre has also been a home to visiting scholars on research sabbaticals, a conference centre for European Jewish leaders, and a meeting place for many of the leading Jewish studies scholars from around the world. My parting message is this: From the perspective of Jewish civilization, the Centre is one of the most important institutions in the world. People are often surprised to learn that Oxford has the world’s longest continuous history of teaching Hebrew (since 1546) and that the Bodleian Library holds the world’s most important collection of medieval Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts. Hebrew was introduced at Oxford to support Protestant Reformers who wanted to study the Hebrew Bible in its original language in order better to understand the roots of their own Christianity. The Christian Hebraist return to the sources also led the Bodleian Library curators to amass thousands of Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts – almost the entire canon of Jewish literature. Ironies abound. Many of the Oxford Christian Hebraists who perpetuated the study of Hebrew and acquired the Hebrew manuscripts did so at a time before Jews were legally allowed to live in England. And even after they were readmitted in 1656, Christian Hebraist fascination with Judaism did not translate into affection for Jews or respect for the Jewish religion. But, with profound historical implications, they did preserve the European and Mediterranean Jewish literary legacy more fully than anywhere else. 11 12 President’s Preface The Nazis annihilated six million Jewish lives, obliterated thousands of Jewish communities, and destroyed more than 100 million Jewish books. Ironically – and due in great measure to British resistance to the planned Nazi Highlights invasion – the European Jewish legacy was conserved at Oxford and rescued from destruction. We have a profound historical responsibility towards these remnants of what would otherwise have been a lost civilization. of the 2012–13 The Centre’s founding vision was to rebuild academic Jewish studies in Europe in the aftermath of the Holocaust. To this we must add that our mission is to reconstruct the narratives of Jewish civilization by researching the Hebrew Academic Year manuscript collections at Oxford and publishing the findings both for scholars and the general public. We have treasures in the Bodleian that provide more accurate readings of Talmudic literature before Christian censors’ and printers’ errors crept in. We have Maimonides’s own handwritten manuscripts that allow us to understand how he formulated and reformulated his views. We have manuscripts that demonstrate the collaboration of Jewish scribes and Christian artists in the production of Hebrew prayer books.
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