This event celebrates the book launch for Prof. Stern’s recent book: ‘Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages’ (Leiden 2021).

Sacha Stern is Professor of Rabbinic Judaism and Head of Department at the UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He holds a BA in Ancient History from Oxford (1986), an MA in Social Anthropology from UCL (1988), and a D.Phil in Jewish Studies from Oxford (1992). He has also studied in Yeshivot in Israel. Before joining UCL in 2005, he was Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Jews’ College, London and then Reader in Jewish Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies). He is author of: ‘Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages (Leiden 2021).

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