Amy Baron

Oxford University

Track 1: Seminar Leader Leora Batnitzky

Amy Baron  (Oxford University), 21, is about to enter her final year at Oxford University, where she studies for her BA in European and Middle Eastern Languages. Within her degree course, Amy focuses on the languages and literatures of Classical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Medieval Spanish and Modern Spanish. She spent the second year of her degree in the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Amy is particularly interested in Judaeo-Spanish relations in the medieval period, and is about to start a dissertation project on the Hebrew translation of the medieval Spanish tragicomedy: the Celestina. Her other academic passions lie in the biblical Hebrew language and biblical literature. Amy is an active member of the Oxford University Jewish Society, and she recently organized a speaking event at the Oxford Union by the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Lord Jonathan Sacks. Amy is very excited to approach the ideas, philosophies, literatures and themes which arise from Judaism and its literature in a different academic environment to that which she is used to, and with a different focus. She looks forward to the intellectual challenges and stimulation that the Tikvah Seminar will provide this summer, within a number of the academic fields in which she is most interested.