Learn more about our incoming faculty director and the Center’s plans for the future in this Daily Tar Heel article:
Raised in an academic family with a Jewish background, PatriciaRosenmeyer’s interests in Jewish studies and history is twofold. The UNC classics professor was recently appointed as the director of the Carolina Center for Jewish studies.
Rosenmeyer starts her new position at the center on July 1.
Rosenmeyersaid her parents were refugees who fled Germany before the outbreak of World War II and many members of her family were victims of the Holocaust. This personal connection to history is only one reason for Rosenmeyer’s interest in Jewish studies.
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Patricia Rosenmeyer named director for the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies – The Daily Tar Heel