Lectures at the Oxford University Chabad Society 2022

     Prof. Jean Baumgarten

'The Sefer ha-Minhagim 

(Venice 1593) 

by Shimon Guenzburg

and its dissemination

in the Ashkenazi 

communities'

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    Dr. Israel Sandman

'Three Approaches to

Effecting Harmony

Between the

Creation and Divinity'

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    Rabbi Eli Brackman

'Ideas in Jewish mysticism

omitted in the

first edition of the

Tanya by

R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi

at the British Library'

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    Dr. Carmen Caballero

Navas 

'Medicine among

medieval Jews: Books, knowledge and

practice'

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    Professor Yitzchak Kerem

'Sephardic Jewry:

differing paradigms

between East and West'

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Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld

'The Lowest Possible Place:

Uncovering the

Unlimited at the Limit'

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Demystifying Jewish

mysticism series

Painter-Kabbalist

Rabbi Chaim Matsliah

'Lights and Vessels'

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Demystifying Jewish

mysticism series

   Dr. Gila Prebor

‘The Censorship of

Hebrew literature in

Italy in 16th century’

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   Deputy Mayor

of Jerusalem

Ms. Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

'Jerusalem:

Challenges and

Opportunities

for the Holy City’

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Dr. Daniel Matt

'Raising the Sparks:

Finding G‑d in the

Material World'

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Demystifying Jewish

mysticism series

   Dr. Moshe Lavee

‘Reintroduction of

Second Temple literature

in Jewish Customs: 

The Case of Tobit’ 

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   Dr. Hananel Mirski

'The grammatical theory of

10th c. Spanish Hebrew

grammarian Menahem

ben Saruq'

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  Dr. Israel Sandman

'Kabbalah as organic 

to everyday

Baghdadi Jewish Life'

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Rabbi Eli Brackman

'The Unknown Piyyut:

Ki Anu Amecha'

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Yonatan Reich

'The Yom Kippur Piyyut

Ki Hinei Kachomer:

G‑d as Craftsman'

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Dr. Naftali Loewenthal

'Is there Love

in the Days of Awe?'

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Dr. Yehoshua Granat

' The Akedah in the

Late-Antique Synagogue'

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  Deborah B. Thompson

'One letter speaks twice:

Extraordinary letters and

lessons from the Torah scroll'

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    Dr. Nahum ben Yehuda

'When Rabbi Abraham

Isaac HaKohen Kook and

Professor Abraham  Joshua Heschel 

met'

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  David Selis

'The salvation is near:

The Miracle of

Samaritan Passover 1968'

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  Dr. Shira Weiss

'Dogma and Accidental Heresy

in Medieval Jewish Philosophy ’ 

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  Dr. Rebecca J. W. Jefferson

'Suum Cuique:

Oxford’s Key Role

in the Cairo Genizah

Discovery’ 

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 Prof. Lawrence Schiffman

'Biblical archeology:

friends or foes?' 

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Rabbi Joseph Dwek

'Fundamental Ideas Lost

from Mainstream Judaism' 

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Rebecca Abrams

‘Made in Medieval England:

The Church, the Jews,

and the forging of

English Antisemitism’

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Dr. Anthony Davidson

'From Munkatch to

Manchester:

Surviving Auschwitz'

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Prof. Paul Fenton 

'What Did Maimonides

Say About Islam?'

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Dr. Daisy Dunn

'Not far from Brideshead:

Oxford between the wars'

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Vivien Sieber

‘Kino and Kinder:

A Family's Journey in the

Shadow of the Holocaust’

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Prof. James J. Friedberg

'Ukraine: Putin, Nuremberg,

and International Law' 

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Judge Ram Winograd

'Israeli Law and Jewish:

a contradiction?'

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Dr. Raphael Dascalu

'Glimpses into the

Lost World of Late

Medieval Judaeo-Arabic

Thought and Literature'

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PASSOVER SEMINAR

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Rabbi Eli Brackman

‘It is I, and none other

in Jewish mysticism’

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Brian Deutsch

'The story of the

five rabbis who

reclined in Bnei Brak'

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Dr. Ros Abramsky

‘Jacob’s Ladder:

from the sacred to profane’ 

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Dr. Naftali Lowenthal

‘Aspects of Spiritual

Experience in the

Pesach Festival’

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Avi Blumgart

‘Personalised freedom

in the Haggadah’

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Freddie Assor 

‘Chag Gadya according

to the interpretation of

R. Elijah of Vilna’

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Prof. Chaim Saiman 

‘The Fifth Question:

When Do We Eat?'

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Prof. Robert Alter

‘The canonisation of the

book of Song of Songs’

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 Shavuot Seminar

OU Chabad Society

10 Lectures

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  Professor Shalom Sabar

'The Sephardi Ketubbah

through the ages'

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  Professor James Connelly

'Samuel Alexander:

a philosopher in time

and space'

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  Isaac Meyers Memorial Lecture

Daniel Johnson

'Free speech and religion'

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  Prof. Meron Medzini

'Golda Meir

and Yom Kippur War:

A reassessment'

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  Ilana Ivanova

'Liepaja, Latvia

and the Holocaust'

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  Holocaust Survivor

George Schwab

'Odyssey of a Child Survivor'

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MAIMONIDES SEMINAR

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Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler

'Ashkenazic Versions

of Prayers and Blessings

in Maimonides' Codes’ 

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Professor James A. Diamond

'The inexhaustible

metaphor of light:

Crescas vs. Maimonides'

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Professor Paul B. Fenton

'Why did Maimonides write his

Guide for the Perplexed

in Arabic and how was

it translated into Hebrew?'

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Dr. Israel Sandman

'Suprarationalism in the

Lubavitcher Rebbe's

Reading of Maimonides'

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Rabbi Eli Brackman

‘The commentary of the

Lubavitcher Rebbe on

Maimonides and Rashi:

a common approach’

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Dr. Ros Abramsky

'Testing times'

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Dr Naftali Loewenthal

'Comparing Maimonidean

and Habad Approaches to

Contemplation of the Divine'

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Mason Mandell

'Maimonides and

Leo Strauss' thought'

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Michael Kay

'Maimonides and the holiday of Purim'

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  Rabbi Chaim Rapoport

'Conversion in Jewish theology'

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  Dr. Kim Treiger Bar Am

'Freedom and respect

in Jewish ethics'

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 Dr. Daniel Herskowitz

'New Perspectives on the

Jewish Reception of

Martin Heidegger' 

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   Professor Peter Hacker

'The concept of

good and evil'

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   Prof. Roger Griffin

'Maxing out your credit?

The Mosleys

(and Oxford’s beautiful

laundrette)'

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Prof. Ritchie Robertson

'German - Jewish dialogue:

Mendelsohn,

Heine, Schnitzler'

Introduction by 

Jules Samson

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  Dr. Jaclyn Granick

'International Jewish 

Humanitarianism

in the Age of the Great War'

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CHANUKAH SEMINAR

In honour of Rabbi Lord Sacks

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Rabbi Eli Brackman 

'Rabbi Sacks on Chanukah:

Lighting one candle

from another candle'

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Isabelle Heinemann

'HaLevi's Kuzari and

Abelard's Dialogus'

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David Frisch

'Contract and covenant in

Rabbi Sacks' political theory'

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Dr. Naftali Loewenthal  

'Rabbi Sacks and the

Theme of the

Seven Noahide Laws'

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Dr. Ros Abramsky  

'Speech Acts'

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Freddie Assor 

‘The significance of the

number eight in the

holiday of Chanukah’

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Pammy Brenner 

'The influence of the Yiddish

language on the

holiday of Chanukah' 

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Professor Alan Jotkowitz 

'Rabbi Sacks:

A Giant in our Time'

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Dr. Gerald Schroeder 

'Studying nature is

reading the Torah in 3-D'

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Rabbi Shmuel Lew

'Spiritual encounters

with Rabbi Sacks'

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Samantha (Tzivia) Lish

'Light in Jewish thought'

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Adam Enan 

'The Hebrew language in exile'

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Professor Samuel Lebens

‘Wisdom for Chanukah'

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