Tisha B'Av - Fast of 9th of Av @ Oxford Chabad
 
Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av (evening of 2-3 Aug, 2025), is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, on which we fast and pray Lamentations. It is the culmination of the Three Weeks, a period of time during which we mark the destruction of the two Holy Temples in Jerusalem in 585 BCE by the Babylonians and 70CE by the Romans. Click here for more info.
 
Programme:
 
Saturday, 2 August:
 
Meal before the fast: 7pm at Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR
 
 
Fast begins 8.48pm 
 
Lamentations at 10.15pm at the Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
 
Sunday, 3 August:
 
Morning service and Lamentations (Kinus): 9am at Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
 
Afternoon service: 7pm at Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

 

 
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Tisha B'Av Seminar in Jewish Studies 

 

Sunday, 3 Aug, 8pm-9.30pm

 

Programme:

 

8pm Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann 


'The Fascinating and Multifaceted 3,300-year Emergence, Tragic Death and Regenesis of Hebrew'

 

Ghil‘ad Zuckermann is the author of Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond (OUP, 2020), the seminal bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language; Am Oved, 2008), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan), among other works. 

 

8.15pm  Professor David Patterson

 

'Back to the Beginning: Bereshit'

 

David Patterson holds the Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas, and is a Senior Research Fellow for ISGAP. His books include: Eighteen Words to Sustain a Life (Wipf & Stock); Judaism, Antisemitism, Holocaust: Making the Connections (Cambridge); Shoah and Torah (Routledge); Portraits: Elie Wiesel’s Hasidic Legacy (SUNY), The Holocaust and the Non-Representable (SUNY), Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins (Cambridge), and A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad (Cambridge).

 

8.30pm Professor Yang Meng

 

'Antisemitism in China and Its Global Implications'

Yang Meng is Assistant Professor at Peking University and the founder of the general education courses “Jewish Civilization in a Global Context” and “Yiddish Language and Jewish Culture” in China. She also serves as academic advisor of Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum and fellow of London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. Her doctoral research focused on the Jewish community in Shanghai during the Shoah. 

 

8.45pm Dr. Sharon A. Vance-Eliany

 

'Response to pogroms in Europe and 7th October in the American Press'


Dr. Vance-Eliany’s current research interest is on antisemitism in colonial Algeria and France. Her publications include “Antisemitism in France and colonial Algeria;” “Sol Hatchuel, ‘heroine of the 19th Century:’ Gender, the Jewish Question, and Colonial Discourse” in Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (Indiana University Press, 2011); and The Martyrdom of a Moroccan Jewish Saint (Brill, 2011), among others.

 

9pm Professor Dan Michman

 

'Dan Pagis' poem on the Shoah: Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car'
 

Prof. Dan Michman is Head, The International Institute for Holocaust Research; and Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem. He serves as Professor (Emeritus) of Modern Jewish History, and the Abe and Edita Spiegel Family Chair of Holocaust Research, at Bar-Ilan University.

 

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Break the Fast: 9.32pm at 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

 

RSVP for pre & post Fast meals: click here for the booking form for pre Fast and break-fast buffet dinner.

 

All are welcome!