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Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is a renowned scholar in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She previously held the chair in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (PSL University, Paris) and was a Senior Researcher at the CNRS in Paris.
- Education: INALCO (BA in Hebrew and Oriental Languages, 1991), University of Cambridge (PhD, 1995)
Her research focuses on the diplomatic study of medieval Hebrew legal documents from the Cairo Geniza and England, Hebrew paleography, Jewish book culture, and interactions between Jewish and non-Jewish intellectual traditions. She leads the international project 'Books within Books,' which identifies and digitizes Hebrew manuscript fragments in European library bindings.
Recent publications and projects highlight her expertise in medieval manuscript fragmentology, cross-cultural textual exchanges, and codicological analysis of Hebrew documents. She has supervised 17 doctoral dissertations and organized Hebrew paleography workshops globally.
- Scientific Awards: Junior Research Fellowship (Somerville College, Oxford), Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
In her full_description, she emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, digitization of fragmented texts, and the reconstruction of Jewish intellectual history through manuscript studies. Her work bridges religious, legal, and cultural dimensions of medieval Jewish communities.
