Events
Summer Workshops in Hebrew Manuscript Studies
Hebrew Manuscript Studies: Codicology, Palaeography, Art History summer workshop, taking place from 26 June to 7 July 2023 and led by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (OCHJS and Corpus Christi College), Agata Paluch (Freie Universität Berlin / DFG-Emmy Noether "Patterns of Knowledge Circulation") and César Merchán-Hamann (OCHJS and Bodleian Library). The Summer Workshop in Oxford proposes a comprehensive and specialised programme in which a basic yet in-depth methodological introduction and research guidance will be provided to the fields of Hebrew Manuscript Studies mentioned above, as well as to history of the book and collections, art history, conservation and digital palaeography. The workshop will be divided into two parts, the first 6 days long and the second 4 days long. The first part will be devoted to methodological introduction as well as detailed examination of medieval manuscripts. The second part will be devoted to manuscripts in the age of print, i.e., in the early modern and modern periods. Applicants can attend both parts, or Part 1 only, but only alumni of our programme can apply to Part 2 only. The workshop is organised in collaboration with the Bodleian Library, which will allow access to original manuscripts in situ for the teaching sessions. Lecturers will include Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Professor Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Dr Agata Paluch and Dr César Merchán-Hamann. Application closing date: 12 January 2023 at 12 noon UK Time. Please consult these links for further information: https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HebMS-Workshop-2023-SHORT-Call-for-Applications.pdf https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HebMS-Workshop-2023-Application-Procedure.pdf https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HebMS-Workshop-2023-Application-Form.pdf https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HebMS-Workshop-2023-Bursary-Application-Form.pdf
Location: The Bodleian Library, Oxford
Jewish How-To Books: The Circulation of Practical and Kabbalistic Knowledge
Jewish How-To Books: The Circulation of Practical and Kabbalistic Knowledge in Premodern East-Central Europe In this lecture, Dr Agata Paluch will focus on largely unexplored handwritten Jewish how-to and recipe books produced in premodern Eastern and Central Europe. These manuscripts embodied textual and material format in which Jewish practical knowledge circulated between cultural (Jewish and Christian) and linguistic (Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, and Ruthenian) milieus. They record practices that extend beyond the boundaries of now distinct disciplines of knowing, such as medicine, natural sciences, kabbalah (Jewish mystical traditions), or magic. In this talk, the speaker will explore these books as material and cultural objects and critically assess the transformations of learned forms of kabbalistic textuality and practice within non-expert, at times lowbrow, contexts. She will showcase the translation of complex kabbalistic ideas into a functional mix of languages and a discourse of easily reproducible practices that became a marker of their popular success among a variety of peoples in the premodern Ashkenaz. In so doing, she will also reconsider the largely unstable categories of “elite” and “popular” forms of knowledge in the context of kabbalistic traditions in circulation in Eastern and Central Europe up to the early eighteenth century. This is an online event. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jewish-how-to-books-the-circulation-of-practical-and-kabbalistic-knowledge-tickets-511774119167?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Location: Institute of Jewish Studies UCL (University College London) ONLINE
Medicine, Illness, and the Body: Jewish Healing and Healers from the Middle Ages to the Early Modernity
Location: Institute for Jewish Studies Fabeckstr. 23-25, Room 2.2058
Hebrew Manuscripts in the Early Modern World
The summer workshop "Hebrew Manuscripts in Early Modernity" takes place on 4-8 July 2022. The workshop will be led by Judith Schlanger (OCHJS and Corpus Christi College), César Merchán-Hamann (OCHJS and Bodleian Library), and Agata Paluch (Freie Universität Berlin). This event is hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and generously sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation. For more details click here .
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Knowledge, Material Texts, and Jewish History: Meeting 4
Location: Online-seminar
A Panel Discussion with Dr. Andrea Gondos
Please join a virtual panel with Dr. Biti Roi, Dr. Noam Zadoff, and our research associate, Dr. Andrea Gondos, and their conversation on The development of the academic study of Kabbalah: A central theme in the history of Humanities in Israel at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies . Marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Gershom Scholem, the founder of the discipline at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the panelists review some of the main questions, topics and characters that have defined the field over the decades.
Location: Virtual Meeting
Knowledge, Material Texts, and Jewish History: Meeting 3
Location: Online-seminar
