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The Director
of the Unit is Professor Bernard S. Jackson,
Alliance Professor of Jewish Studies and Co-Director of the
Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. Previously
Queen Victoria Professor of Law at the University of Liverpool
(1989-97), he has held Visiting Appointments in Jerusalem, Oxford,
Harvard, Bologna and Brussels. His books include Theft in
Early Jewish Law (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1972);
Essays in Jewish and Comparative Legal History (Leiden:
E. J Brill, 1975); Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical
Law (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000). He was
the founder editor of The Jewish Law Annual, and edited
the first 12 volumes (1978-97). He has served as Chairman and
President of The Jewish Law Association, and edited several
volumes of Jewish Law Association Studies. He co-edited
An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law
, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1996. For further details,
see http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/religionstheology/academicstaff/bernardjackson/;
a publications list is available at http://www.legaltheory.demon.co.uk/lib_biblioBSJ1.html.
Research
Fellow : Rabbi Dr. Julian (Yehudah) Abel
attended Manchester Talmudical College and has an MA (with distinction)
in Hebrew, Aramaic and Masoretic studies from the University
of Manchester (1998), followed by a PhD (2004) on The Masoretic
Work of Rabbi Yedidyah Shelomoh Refaíel Norzi, Minhat
Shai .
Research Assistant: Avishalom Westreich
is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Unit. He
has recently been awarded his PhD on Hermeneutics and Development
in the Talmudic Theory of Torts at Bar Ilan University. He holds
degrees (MA with distinction) in Hermeneutic Studies and in
Talmud and in Jewish History (BA with distinction). Avishalom
was also a research fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute in
Jerusalem, where he dealt inter alia with halakhic solutions
to the Agunah problem.
Shoshana
Knol holds a Postgraduate Studentship
in the Unit, and is engaged in a PhD on the history of ideological
aspects of the agunah problem. She has studied at
the Universities of Utrecht and Nijmegen, where she has also
lectured on Judaism, and has M.A. degrees in both halakhah
and feminist theology. She has worked for Isha Le'Isha,
Jerusalem, in a house for abused women, has given a number of
conference papers and has publications in Dutch.
Nechama
Hadari also holds a Postgraduate Studentship
in the Unit, and is engaged in a PhD on some of the halakhic
concepts and potential problems which arise in the context of
the possible solutions which have been proposed to the agunah
problem. She holds a BA degree from Leeds University, a post-graduate
Diploma in Theology from Oxford University and spent a number
of years studying the classic rabbinical canon at the Pardes
Institute, Jerusalem.
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