Judith Olszowy-Schlanger FBA (née Olszowy; born 1967) is a French academic palaeographer who specialises in medieval Jewish manuscripts.
She studied modern Hebrew at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales from 1987 to 1991, and Semitic and Ancient Near Eastern languages at the École des Langues Orientales Anciennes of the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1987 to 1990.
[1] She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1995 with a thesis titled "Karaite marriage contracts in the Middle Ages: a Cairo Geniza study".
[3] Since 2002 Olszowy-Schlanger has been Professor of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscript Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris, France, a position she continues to hold in conjunction with her appointment at Oxford.
[1][2][4][5] She took up the appointment on 1 September 2018, and was additionally elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.