The 3rd All-Russia Conference “Hebraistics Session” in memory of Pavel Konstantinovich Kokovtsov (1861‒1942), Academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Sciences, will take place at the IOM RAS on March 11 (Wednesday), 2026. The goal of the conference is to bring together specialists conducting research on the written and oral culture of the Jewish people, source studies and philology.

The conference is dedicated to the 165th birthday anniversary of the Hebrew and Semitic studies scholar, Pavel Konstantinovich Kokovtsov, Academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and later of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His role in the establishment of Semitic studies in Russia is inestimable: as a researcher and academician he spent 27 years teaching at the Department of Jewish, Syriac and Chaldean philology at the Saint Petersburg University. His tireless work a hundred years ago, in a difficult historical period, made possible the emergence of later generations of researchers and teachers in the field of Semitic studies in Russia. Pavel K. Kokovtsov was the only scholar in Russian Semitic studies who was fluent in all Semitic languages and who could read texts in all kinds of Semitic writing. He made most important contributions to Semitic epigraphic studies, papyrology, archeography and ancient history. He also published numerous texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Ethiopic and other languages.

This year’s “Hebraistics Session” is a tribute to one of the founders of Semitic studies and an eternal paragon of a true Hebrew studies scholar.

The following topics will be discussed at the conference:
- Research on Jewish genizahs, manuscripts and archives;
- Contribution of Russian and foreign Hebraists to research on the Jewish written and oral culture;
- Current philological studies of Jewish languages;
- Epigraphic texts as sources on Jewish culture;
- New technologies and databases in research on Jewish sources;
- Conservation and restoration of the Jewish manuscript heritage.

Please send your application by February 22, 2026 to the following email: hebrewconf_iomras@mail.ru

The application should include the following information:
1) full name (in Russian and English);
2) email;
3) phone number;
4) academic degree, academic title, place of work and position (in Russian and English);
5) presentation title (in Russian and English);
6) presentation abstract, 200 words maximum (only in Russian).

The working language of the conference is Russian.