The Oxford University Chabad Society has recently significantly expanded its Samson Judaica library at the Slager Jewish student centre with a major new collection of Judaic books received from the family of the late Professor Siegbert Salmon Prawer FBA, distinguished Taylor Emeritus Professor of German Language and Literature at University of Oxford, who passed away 5 April, 2012.
S.S. Prawer, who was born into a Jewish family in 1925 in Cologne, Germany, was world renowned in the field of German literature, affectionately loved and widely respected, and a close friend of the Oxford University Chabad Society. He corresponded with Rabbi Eli Brackman, director of Chabad of Oxford, for a number of years, and in 2010 lectured at the… Read More »