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I lt is really an honor to speak on this occasion, and to return to the National Foundation. This is my own 30th year as a Jewish academic, having fin ished my doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1974. I spent close to ten years at the University of Maryland, a large public university. I then was at Yale, and it is wonderful to see all my former colleagues from this institution who are here this evening And then I came to the University of Pennsylvania, where I've had the privilege during the past ten years of directing an institute for advanced study in Jewish civilization, which has already graduat ed-if we can speak of them graduating our programover 250 scholars. They come to study one area of Jewish learning; they hold weekly seminars; and they produce at the end of the year a book as well as a new collective vision of Jewish learning. From the prospective of sitting in the seat of the directorship of this pro gram, I've had the wonderful honor and opportunity of seeing many scholars, young/old from all over the world, and with this 1 bring a certain perspective, I hope, to these personal observations. I would love to begin by recognizing my professional ancestors. If only Leopold Zunz, Morits Steinschneider or David Kaufmann were alive-I could mention many other names-but those are the big three for me of the 19th Century.
Description: The Old Jewish Library of Mainz was saved during World War II. The books were hidden in a coal cellar and survived in rather good condition. The collection of almost 5,500 volumes, among them rare Hebraica and manuscripts, is one of the very few libraries saved from the persecutions in Germany. In 1946, the books were brought to the newly founded university of Mainz. Most interesting is the reconstruction of the ownership of some of the books. Some of the books came from the private libraries of Rabbis and preachers of the Mainz community; most famous are Marcus Lehmann (1831-1890) and Siegmund Salfeld (1843-1926).The presentation will give an overview of the most precious volumes and the libraries history.
IJS Studies in Judaica, Volume: 21 (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 2021
https://brill.com/view/title/58518 Representing Jewish Thought originated in the conference, convened in honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert in 2015, on the theme of visual representations of Jewish thought from antiquity to the early modern period. The volume encompasses essays on various modes and media of transmitting and re/presenting thought, pertinent to Jewish past and present. It explores several approaches to the study of the transmission of ideas in historical sources, zooming in on textual and visual hermeneutics to material and textual culture to performative arts. The volume has brought together scholars from different subfields of Jewish Studies, covering thousands of years of Jewish history, who invite further scholarly reflection on the expression, transmission, and organisation of knowledge in Jewish contexts.
The 2021-2022 academic year marked the 50th anniversary of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (OCHJS). A golden anniversary is an opportunity for us to remember our history and look forward to ambitious future projects. This celebratory issue of our Annual Report is a tribute in particular to the OCHJS's founder-Dr David Patterson-who in 1972 realized his dream of building a home for Jewish Studies affiliated with the world-leading University of Oxford. It is also a tribute to our past and present Governors, Fellows, staff, students and benefactors who throughout these fifty years have worked to make the OCHJS what it is today: an exceptional research centre, a unique hub for Hebrew and Jewish Studies teaching and an incubator for new approaches in the field. This year saw the retirement of our esteemed colleague and former President of the OCHJS Martin Goodman, Professor of Jewish History in the Graeco-Roman Period. We take this opportunity to thank him warmly for his tremendous contribution to our Centre and are delighted to report that Professor Goodman will continue supporting the OCHJS as an Emeritus Fellow. Additionally, at the end of