Oxford University Chabad Society
Hilary Term Card, 2012
Supported by
Kosher Deli West One London W1
Flaggs Oxford
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Week 1
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Welcome Back
Shawarma & Drinks Party
Tues, 17 Jan, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Chinese Shabbat Dinner
Friday, 20 Jan, 7:30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Week 2
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The Annual Isaac Meyers Memorial Lecture
Professor Tessa Rajak
Tessa Rajak is Professor of Ancient History Emeritus in the University of Reading, Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and a Member of the Jewish Studies Unit at the Oriental Institute, Oxford. She is also Honorary Visiting Professor in the History Department at University College, London. In Spring 2012 she will be a Sackler Fellow at Tel Aviv University.
Between 2002 and 2007, she co-directed the AHRC Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World Project at Reading and Southampton Universities & has served as Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies and Classics at Yale, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Visiting Professor at the Max Weber Kolleg of Erfurt University, and at the Humboldt University and the Freie Universität, Berlin. She was also a Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem and editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies (Oxford).
Her most recent book is Translation and Survival: the Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora (OUP). She has also published The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome (Brill, Leiden); and Josephus: The Historian and His Society (Duckworth). She is currently writing a book on the impact of the historian Josephus on Jews and Christians through the ages for Harvard, and commentaries on the Fourth Book of Maccabees for de Gruyter, Berlin and Yad ben Zvi, Jerusalem.
"The Greek Translation of the Torah and its Consequences"
Tues, 24 Jan, 8pm
Buffet Reception at 7pm
Isaac Meyers was a student at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish studies and St Peter’s College, Oxford, in 2003, who tragically passed away at 28 years while teaching in the Harvard Classics Department. He was a close friend of the OU Chabad Society and supporter of Jewish life in Oxford.
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American Cuisine Shabbat Dinner
With visiting George Lynn Cross Professor of English & Women Studies at University of Oklahoma
Professor Eve Bannet
'An American Jewess' encounter with English 19th c. Anti-Semitism: Anglo-Irish author, Maria Edgeworth'
Fri, 27 Jan, 7.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
(One day in August 1815, out of the blue, the celebrated Anglo-Irish author, Maria Edgeworth, received her first letter from an anonymous and unknown young woman in Warrenton, North Carolina -- a young woman protesting Edgeworth's negative and stereotyped representations of Jews, who told her: "it is a Jewess who addresses her...")
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Shabbat Lunch
"Jewish women in society & culture: new approaches"
Prof. Kate Miriam Loewenthal
Kate Miriam Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychology in Royal Holloway College, and Professor of Abnormal Psychology at New York University in London. She received a PhD from University College London in 1967 and her research focuses on mental health, religion and culture, particularly mental health in the Jewish community. She has published many articles, several books, and is editor of the journal Mental Health, Religion and Culture. Prof. Loewenthal also is a mother and grandmother of a large Chasidic family.
Professor Eve Bannet
George Lynn Cross Professor of English & Women Studies at University of Oklahoma
Dr. Naftali Loewenthal
Lecturer in Jewish spirituality at University College London and author of Communicating the Infinite (Chicago)
Sat, 28 Jan, 1pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Week 3
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Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Auschwitz Survivor Victor Greenberg
Victor Greenberg grew up in the village of Majdan, now in Slovakia. In 1941 he and his family were among very few to escape when almost the entire Jewish population of the town was massacred. Their reward was to be transported to Auschwitz in 1944. Victor's family were murdered but somehow he survived to be transported to Matthausen and Gunkirchen, where he was liberated by the Americans. Victor arrived in Britain in 1946 (he is pictured above just after the war) where he manufactured costume jewellery. He has two sons, a daughter and eight grandchildren.
Alexandra Lloyd
Alex Lloyd is Lecturer in German at St Edmund Hall and Magdalen College, Oxford. Her research focuses on the depiction of childhood in German culture. Her doctoral thesis – “Growing up in the Third Reich: Representations of Childhood under Nazism in Post-1990 German Culture” – examines the range of childhood experience during that era as it is recalled, represented, and imagined in contemporary Germany. She is also the Editorial Assistant for Oxford German Studies.
'Jewish Childhood under the Third Reich'
Kindertransport refugee from Vienna
Fritz Sternhell
Fritz was born in Vienna in 1924 and is a Kindertransport refugee to Britain. He served in the British forces in the Middle East, stationed in Palestine between 1945-46 and currently lives in Oxford.
Sun, 29 Jan, 7pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Kivi Bernhard
“Leopardology & Judaism: The Hunt For Profit In A Tough Global Economy”
Kivi Bernhard, an Orthodox Jew, is one of the best business motivational speakers in the world today and author of internationally acclaimed “Leopardology – The Hunt For Profit In A Tough Global Economy” (Morgan James 2009), which has been incorporated into the MBA programmes round the world. He has been described by the NY Times as the “Jungle Jew” and is CEO and founder of Kivi International LLC, an internationally known wholesale loose diamond distributor.
Tues, 31 Jan, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Italian Shabbat Dinner
Fri, 3 Feb, 7:30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Week 4
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Special Event
Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs
Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs was born and brought up in Amsterdam. The first members of the Jacobs family were already in the Netherlands around 1400! After his Gymnasium Exams and a study of 8 years at the Ecole Rabbinique of Paris, the Lubavitcher Talmudic Highschool of Brooklyn and the Talmud College of the Negev (Israel) he returned to the Netherlands in 1975, to devote himself to Dutch Jewry. Rabbi Jacobs is the Chief Rabbi of the Interprovinciaal Opperrabbinaat (covering 11 of the 12 provinces), chairman of the Rabbinical Council for the Netherlands and the rabbi (chaplain) of the Sinai Centre in Amstelveen, the only Jewish psychiatric hospital in Europe. Chief Rabbi Jacobs is known for having a large network within both the national and local politics, as well as with the leadership of other religions in the Netherlands. He is on the board of the RCE, the Rabbinical Centre of Europe.
"The Future of Jews in Europe"
Tues, 7 Feb, Buffet reception at 7pm, lecture at 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Shabbat Dinner
In honour of the late illustrious Rhodes Scholar Sir Zelman Cowen O"H
With the Warden of Rhodes House Professor Don Markwell
Dr Markwell is the eighth Warden of Rhodes House and the first to be himself a Rhodes Scholar (Queensland & Trinity 1981). Prior to assuming the Warden’s role in 2009, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia and Warden of Trinity College, University of Melbourne. His recent publications include John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace (OUP, 2006) and 'A large and liberal education': higher education for the 21st century (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007). Professor Markwell was a very close friend of Sir Zelman Cowen and spoke at his State funeral in Australia.
"Life of Sir Zelman Cowen, former Jewish Governor-General of Australia and Provost of Oriel College, Oxford'
Fri, 10 Feb, 7:30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Week 5
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Yom Limmud Seminar on Maimonides & Jewish Thought
Sun, 12 Feb, 10am-4pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
Programme:
10am Professor Joshua Getzler
Joshua Getzler joined the Oxford Law Faculty in 1993 and became a professor last year. He writes in modern law on financial markets, ownership and fiduciary duties. As an historian of the law he studies property, public finance and banking, trusts, corporations, charities, especially in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries but also in earlier times. He is also studying the role of the lord chancellors in law and politics before the Great Reform Act. His first degrees in law and history were taken at the Australian National University in Canberra, and his doctorate in Oxford, as a member of Balliol and Nuffield Colleges. He has taught and researched at the Australian National University, the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Chicago. He maintains links to Australia as Conjoint Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales. In March & April 2012 he will serve as Bok Visiting International Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
"Maimonides' Conceptions of Slavery and Freedom in Historical Perspective"
11am Dr. Asaf Yedidya
Asaf Yedidya is lecturer in Jewish History at the Center for Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University; Kennedy Leigh Fellow at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; former Fellow at the Center for Holocaust Studies, Washington, DC; and former Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. He is author of Criticized Criticism: Orthodox Alternatives to Wissenschaft des Judentums 1873-1956, and Jerusalem: Bialik Institute (forthcoming).
"The Nazis’ Attacks on the Talmud in the 1920's and 1930's"
12pm Lunch & Paul Jacobsthal Exhibition at Oxford Town Hall
Visit exhibition on the life of German Jewish refugee to Oxford, Paul Jacobsthal, Professor of Celtic Archaeology at Christ Church, Oxford, who was forced to leave Germany in 1937 because of the Nazi persecution against the Jews. The Exhibition is at Oxford Town Hall and features oral memories from Jews who arrived in Oxford in the 1930s.
1.15pm Dr. Naftali Loewenthal
Maimonides: Rationalist or Mystic?
Lecturer in Jewish spirituality, University College London
2.15pm Dr. Israel Sandman
Dr. Israel M. Sandman is an AHRC postdoctoral research fellow at University College London's Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies. His areas of research and teaching include medieval Jewish thought, medieval Hebrew manuscripts, and comparative medieval thought.
'Necessary Being & Prime Mover: Maimonides use of the philosophical tradition in his legal code'
3.15pm Prof. Shlomo Berger
Professor of Yiddish studies and Fellow at the dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is currently visiting Fellow of the European seminar on Old Yiddish at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
"The Bible in Yiddish: three cases, three approaches"
Info@oxfordchabad.org
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Shabbat Dinner
With Dr. Ben Morgan
Fellow and lecturer in German, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, Dr. Morgan is part of the Oxford-Princeton Benjamin Research Group researching the philosophical work of German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin. Ben Morgan's research interests are in German intellectual history (medieval mysticism, Nietzsche, early psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt School) and German film (Fritz Lang, Leni Riefenstahl). He has also worked on contemporary women's writing (Jelinek).
Marking 120 years since Walter Benjamin's birth that is being celebrated this year.
"Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka"
Fri, 17 Feb, 7:30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Week 6
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Eddie Ross memorial lecture
Dr. Charlotte Knobloch
Charlotte Knobloch, a Holocaust Survivor, is former President of the Central Council for Jews in Germany; Vice President of the European Jewish Congress; and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress. She has for many years been one of the primary leaders of the Jewish community in Munich, as President of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern since 1985.
“Between Past and Future – Challenges facing Jewish Life in Germany today”
Mon, 20 Feb, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
RSVP: info@oxfordchabad.org
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Jerry Cohen Memorial Lecture
Shabbat Dinner
With Professor Jeremy Waldron
Jeremy Waldron is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford University, professor of law and philosophy at the New York University School of Law and adjunct professorship at Victoria University. He is successor of former Chichele Professors of Social and Political Theory at All Souls, Sir Isaiah Berlin and Prof. Jerry Cohen.
Introduction by Professor Joshua Getzler
Fri, 24 Feb, 7:30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Week 7
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Baruch Samuel Brackman memorial lecture on Science and Religion
Professor Geoffrey N. Cantor
Geoffrey Cantor is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Science & Technology Studies at University College, London. He has written extensively on the history of science since the 17th century, including books upon Michael Faraday, the wave theory of light and the responses of the Quaker and Jewish religions to science. With John Hedley Brooke he delivered the 1995–1996 Gifford Lecture at the University of Glasgow which was subsequently published as Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion in 1998.
Sun, 26 Feb, 6pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a Franco-German Jewish politician, active in both countries, is famous for being a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for "Danny the Red", because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, becoming "Dany le Vert" (French for "Danny the Green", because of his new fight for ecology), and co-chair of the Spinelli Group, a European parliament intergroup aiming at relaunching the federalist project in Europe.
In 2010, he was involved in founding JCall, advocacy group based in Europe to lobby the European parliament on foreign policy issues concerning the Middle East.
Wed, 29 Feb, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
RSVP: info@oxfordchabad.org
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Greek Cuisine Shabbat Dinner
With the Greek Ambassador
His Excellency Mr Aristidis C Sandis
'Greek and Jewish Relations'
Fri, 2 March, 7:30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
RSVP: info@oxfordchabad.org
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Week 8
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Hawaiian Purim Party
Balalaika music
Jewish Comedy with famous Jewish comedian David Schneider
Barmitzvahed at the now disappeared Hornsey and Wood Green United synagogue, David Schneider researched a Ph.D in Yiddish drama at Oxford before coming to prominence as a writer, actor and comedian in award winning comedy shows such as I’m Alan Partridge, Knowing Me Knowing You, The Day Today. He has appeared in numerous TV shows and films including Mission Impossible, A Knight’s Tale and 28 Days Later. David Schneider is Jewish.
Exotic Hawaiin cuisine & cocktails
Megillah reading
Fancy dress (optional)
Wed, 7 March, 7pm - 2am (come by anytime)
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
All are welcome!
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Purim Celebration
Scroll of Esther Megillah Readings
Thurs, 8 March, 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Purim Feast & Pony Rides
Thurs, 8 March, 4pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
All are welcome!
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Week 9
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Prof. Charles L. Sprung
Director, General Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
‘Israeli Terminally Ill Law’
Thurs, 15 March, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Turkish Shabbat Dinner
Dr Laurent Mignon
Lecturer in Turkish and Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford
“Recovering lost wor(l)ds: Turkish Jewish Authors”
Fri, 30 March, 8pm
At Chabad House, 75-75A Cowley Road
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Italian Shabbat Dinner
Professor M.L. McLaughlin
Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies, Fellow of Magdalen College
27 April, 7.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Kindertransport Refugee
Professor Sir Guenter Treitel, QC, FBA
Sir Guenter Treitel is Emeritus Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls College, Oxford, and was Fellow of Magdalen College, 1954 to 1979. Treitel is the son of a leading Berlin lawyer and came to England on the Sainsbury's Kindertransport. Treitel was once described by Lord Steyn as 'one of the most distinguished academic writers on the law of contract in the English speaking world', and has often been described as the leading authority on English contract law. He is the author of Treitel on the Law of Contract, the seminal work on English contract law.
"Kindertransport: some recollections"
Tues, 8 May, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Professor Norbert Samuelson
Summer term
TBC
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Future lecture - Michaelmas, 2012:
Israel Shabbat Dinner
With Oxford University's first Stanley Lewis professor of Israel studies
Derek Jonathan Penslar
Prof. Penslar is Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History at University of Toronto and has been appointed as Oxford's first Stanley Lewis professor of Israel studies by the School of Interdisciplinary Area studies, as well as the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, a chair created with a £3m benefaction from the Stanley and Zea Lewis family foundation.
"Uniform Identites: Jews and the Military in Modern History"
Fri, 19 Oct, 7:30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Anne Frank’s Last Living Relative
Buddy Elias
Buddy Elias is Anne Frank's first cousin and last living blood relative, who had a close friendship with Anne Frank as a child. He is also trustee of The ANNE FRANK-Fonds in Basel.
'Insight Into Anne’s Life and Her Famous Diary'
Oct, TBC
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
RSVP: info@oxfordchabad.org
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Spice & Spirit - Shabbat Cooking Course
Let’s do Challah - Learn how to bake one of the most delicious, traditional Jewish breads
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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Classes & Courses
At the Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
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The Samson Judaica Library & Tajtelbaum Jewish Study Hall
The Samson Judaica Library and Tajtelbaum Jewish Study Hall is open daily for you to study with a fully stocked diverse Judaica library with close to 3,000 books, wireless internet and FREE coffee and refreshments on offer.
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford
Info: info@oxfordchabad.org
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Lunch 'n' Learn
Jewish philosophy
By Rabbi Eli Brackman
Mondays, 1pm
Brasenose College, Platnauer Room, Radcliffe Square, Oxford
All welcome!
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Lunch & Learn - Jewish Medical Ethics
By Rabbi Eli Brackman
Tuesdays, 12:30pm
Canns Library, The Graduate Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital
RSVP: info@oxfordchabad.org
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Lunch & Learn at Brookes University
Wednesdays, 12pm
The Gibbs Building, Brookes University
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Modern Hebrew Course
Beginning Wed, 25 Jan, 5pm
6-week course consisting of 9 hours of lessons
Studying on Wednesdays from 5:00-6:30 pm
Students are taught by Rachel Harvith, a fully qualified native teacher from Israel
Lively course format
At the Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
£5 per session / non students £6
To register: info@oxfordchabad.org
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Biblical Hebrew Course
Beginning Thursday, 26 Jan, 5pm-6.30pm
6-week course consisting of 9 hours of lessons
Students are taught by Oded Steinberg, a qualified native teacher from Israel
Lively course format
At the Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
£5 per session / non students £6
To register: info@oxfordchabad.org
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Jewish Mysticism - Insights
Friday Nights, 7pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
Before the Shabbat Dinner
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Oxford Kosher Cafe
Enjoy a full menue of delicious Kosher food, which is situated in our spacious lounge with internet wireless connection, Wii, Jewish newspaper and satellite TV, in addition to our well stocked and diverse Judaica library with over 2000 interesting titles.
Drop by for soups, deluxe sandwiches, bagels, salads, schnitzel, soft drinks and a range of delicious pastries.
OPEN daily: 11am-4pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St
Info: cafe@oxfordchabad.org
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Sign Up
If you or a friend would like to sign up to the Chabad Society, please email info@oxfordchabad.org
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Oxford University Chabad Society Committee
Oxford University Chabad Society President
Directors: Rabbi Eli & Freidy Brackman
Student Committee:
Oleg Giberstein (St Antony's), President
Matt Kaplan (St Antony's), Vice President, Jessica Cohen (Pembroke), Secretary, Michael Bodansky (Pembroke), Treasuere, Elliot Friedland (Somerville), Yishai Mishor (Lincoln), Esteban Hubner (Hertford), Treasurer, Gaston Yalonetzky (Oriel) - Library officer, Joe Herman (St Cross), Melissa Friedman (Wolfson), Ruvi Ziegler (Lincoln), Sara Tisch(Brookes), Claire Strauss (Trinity) - Medical school officer, Mark Tilse (Oxon) - Drinks officer, Dani Rabinowitz (Somerville), Adam Etinson (New), Sophie Hanina (Brasenose), Joachim Behar (St Hildas), Josh Feldberg (Mansfield), Babak Somekh (Keble), Natasha Taylor-Gatigno (Wolfson)
Brookes:
Isaac Schnelling, President
