{{Short description|UK charitable organization}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox school | image = Yarnton Manor east.JPG | caption = Yarnton Manor, the former location of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies | location = Walton Street, Oxford, England | founded = 1972 | founder = David Patterson | president = Judith Olszowy-Schlanger | website = http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/ }}
The '''Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies''' ('''OCHJS''') is a recognised independent centre of the University of Oxford, England. Its research fellows teach on a variety of undergraduate and master's degrees in Oriental studies, and it publishes the ''Journal of Jewish Studies''.
==History and case statement== The centre was founded in 1972 by Dr David Patterson to help restore Jewish Studies in Europe in the aftermath of the Holocaust.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/home/about/our-vision/ |title=Our vision and mission statement |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=29 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717014932/http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/home/about/our-vision/ |archive-date=17 July 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Currently it is based in the Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford, OX1 2HG, having relocated from Yarnton Manor in 2014. It is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee incorporated in England, under English law.<ref>{{EW charity|309720}}</ref> Today, it is the leading academic Jewish studies centre in Europe.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} Its Fellows and Lecturers provide courses in Hebrew and Jewish studies for undergraduates and postgraduates up to doctoral level in many faculties within the University of Oxford. The centre also promotes Jewish studies based on the Bodleian Library's Hebrew and Jewish collections by supporting research, by development projects, and by shared staffing with the centre's Leopold Muller Memorial Library.
==Leopold Muller Memorial Library== thumb|upright|Muller Library collections The centre's library is named the '''Leopold Muller Memorial Library'''. It is housed in the basement of the Clarendon Institute. It comprises one of the best collections of books and periodicals in Jewish Studies in Europe and serves as a resource for scholars, students and visiting fellows of the centre. The core of the Library consists of several rare collections and archives; among those one finds a large collection of materials donated by Rabbi Louis Jacobs,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/louisjacobs.html |title=Louis Jacobs Collection – Leopold Muller Memorial Library |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=3 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331201859/http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/louisjacobs.html |archive-date=31 March 2015}}</ref> Loewe Pamphlets Collection<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/loewe.html |title=Loewe Pamphlets – Leopold Muller Memorial Library |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=3 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315100643/http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/loewe.html |archive-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> from Herbert Loewe and his elder son, the library of Jacob H. Coppenhagen<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/copp.html |title=Coppenhagen Library – Leopold Muller Memorial Library |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=3 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331201854/http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/copp.html |archive-date=31 March 2015}}</ref> (1913–1997), Kressel Archive,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/kressel.html |title=Kressel Archive – Leopold Muller Memorial Library |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=3 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315100811/http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/kressel.html |archive-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> Foyle-Montefiore Collection<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/foyle.html |title=Foyle-Montefiore Library – Leopold Muller Memorial Library |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=3 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315100830/http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/foyle.html |archive-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> (which incorporates the library of Leopold Zunz), Lipson-Shandel and Moses Montefiore Archives<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/mont.html |title=Montefioriana – Leopold Muller Memorial Library |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=3 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315100837/http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/mont.html |archive-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> of rare documentation regarding life and activities of Sir Moses Montefiore, one of the largest collections of Yizkor Books in Europe – it counts over 800 memorial volumes for communities destroyed in the Holocaust,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/yizkor.html |title=Yizkor Books Collection – Leopold Muller Memorial Library |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=3 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315100841/http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/yizkor.html |archive-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> and the Archive of Rabbi Hugo Gryn.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/hugogrynabout.html |title=About the Hugo Gryn Archive – Leopold Muller Memorial Library |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=3 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315100858/http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/collections/hugogrynabout.html |archive-date=15 March 2012}}</ref> Among the Library's most recent enterprises are the Digital Haskalah Library project<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/haskalah.html |title=Digital Haskalah – Leopold Muller Memorial Library |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=3 January 2012}}</ref> and the Raphael Loewe Archives Digital Exhibition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/Intranet/Loewe/stainedglassdesign/Loewe.html |title=Raphael Loewe Archives Digital Exhibition |publisher=Ochjs.ac.uk |access-date=29 August 2012}}</ref>
==Notable academics== {{see also|Category:Academics of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies}}
* Norman Solomon * Géza Vermes
===List of presidents===
* David Patterson (1972–1992)<ref name="Guardian DP">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jan/20/guardianobituaries.highereducation|title=David Patterson|work=The Guardian|date=20 January 2006 |access-date=24 September 2018 |last1=Alexander |first1=Philip }}</ref> * Philip Alexander (1992–1995)<ref name="Philip Alexander">{{cite web|url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/philip.alexander/|title=Philip Alexander|publisher=Manchester University|access-date=16 November 2016}}</ref> * Bernard Wasserstein (1996–2000<ref name="Bernard Wasserstein">{{cite web|url=https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/bernard-wasserstein|title=Bernard Wasserstein|publisher=Chicago University|access-date=16 November 2016}}</ref> * Peter Oppenheimer (2000–2008)<ref>{{cite web|title=Board of Governors, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies|url=http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/about/board-of-governors/|website=ochjs.ac.uk|access-date=16 November 2016}}</ref> * David Ariel (2008–2014)<ref name="Newsletter 1 May 2009">{{cite web|url=https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Newsletter-1-May-2009.pdf|title=New President David Ariel joins the Centre|publisher=ochjs.ac.uk|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref> * Martin Goodman (2014–2018) * Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (2018–)
==Emeritus governors== *Martin Blackman *Elizabeth Corob *Michael Garston OBE *Sir Richard Greenbury *Professor Alan Jones *The Lord Marks of Broughton *Peter Oppenheimer *Felix Posen *Sir Maurice Shock *Dennis Trevelyan, CB *The Rt Hon The Lord Woolf *The Rt Hon The Lord Young CH DL
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish studies}} * {{official|http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/}} * [http://www.jjs-online.net/ ''Journal of Jewish Studies'' website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110524140139/http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/hjs/index.html Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies – University of Oxford website] * [http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/haskalah.html Digital Haskalah Library website] * [http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/Intranet/Loewe/stainedglassdesign/Loewe.html Raphael Loewe Archives Digital Exhibition]
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