Position:
Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Lecturer in Liturgy at Leo Baeck College, London
Faculty / College Address:
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Email:
jeremy.schonfield@blueyonder.co.uk
Research Interests:
- Jewish liturgy
- Jewish annual and lifecycle rituals
- Piyyut
- Literary readings of midrash and aggadah
Current Projects:
- A literary analysis of the Jewish morning liturgy
- A psychological and anthropological survey of the Jewish annual and lifetime cycles
Courses Taught:
Recent Publications:
- Review of: Lawrence A. Hoffman (ed.) Who by Fire, Who by Water: Un’taneh Tokef (Jewish Lights Publishing, Vermont, 2010) in Manna 109 (2010) 20-1
- Sabbath Morning Prayers of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation, London (London 2011): general editor; collaborator in translation and layout
- People, Text and Time: Decoding Jewish Culture (Romanian translation: Bucharest, 2015, in press)
- Obituary for Professor Raphael Loewe, The Daily Telegraph, 27 June 2011, p. 31
- Obituary for Professor Raphael Loewe, The Sephardi Bulletin 67:1 (Sept 2011) 12-14
- The Bnei Brak Megillah: Companion Volume to the Facsimile Edition of an Illuminated Manuscript Created by Leela Ganin (London 2011): general editor
- Review of Jonathan Sacks, The Koren Rosh Hashana Mahzor (Jerusalem 2011), in The Jewish Chronicle 23 September 2011
- ‘Why the Messiah Has Not Come: Liturgy and the Limits of Language’ European Judaism 46/2 (2013) 79-90