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Jewish Annotated New Testament

The Center is co-sponsoring this event at Duke University, featuring our Assistant Director, Yaakov Ariel. In this panel discussion about the publication of the second edition of The Jewish Annotated New Testament, editors Marc Brettler, Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor … Read more

Between Utopia and Reality: Stefan Zweig’s Europe

Dey Hall

Academic Lecture/Film Discussion with Gregor Thuswaldner, North Park University Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) is known for his humanistic and pacifistic attitude which is recognizable in all his writings. Zweig’s notion of humanism is deeply connected with his idea of a transnational … Read more

Holocaust Remembrance Day Event: Kaja Finkler

Dey Hall

Lives Lived and Lost in Memory of Golda and Haim Finkler. Our annual event in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day will be January 29, 2018 at 5:30pm with guest Kaja Finkler, professor of Anthropology emerita. Join Professor Kaja Finkler as … Read more

Seminar: Yaakov Deutsch

hyde hall

  Converting the New Testament?: Hebrew Translations of the New Testament in the Early Modern Period “Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect”. This quotation, taken from the writings of the second century church … Read more

The Museum of the Bible and the Academy

UNC FedEx

    The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event, which is oriented towards Carolina faculty, staff, and graduate students.   The Museum of the Bible and the Academy with Joel Baden of Yale. Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 3:30 … Read more

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German-Jewish Photographers and Filmmakers in 1930s Palestine

UNC Hamilton Hall Room 569

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor the following event, organized by NC German Studies:   OFER ASHKENAZI   I   Hebrew University, Department of History and Minerva Center for German History Toward a Critical Zionist Vision: German-Jewish Photographers and Filmmakers … Read more

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Wandering Objects

Join curators, art historians, folklorists, anthropologists, religious scholars, philosophers, cultural critics, private collectors, and community leaders for an international symposium probing the changing meanings of Jewish ritual objects and material culture today through their display and interpretation in museums, and … Read more

Mikhail Krutikov: “History Will Judge Us by Our Buildings”

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An academic lecture with Mikhail Krutikov. Co-sponsored by CSEEES. The Kaplan-Brauer Lecture in Jewish Studies "History Will Judge Us by Our Buildings": Der Nister on Architecture and Revolution   Mikhail Krutikov is Preston R. Tisch professor of Slavic and Judaic … Read more

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David Biale: Academic Lecture: Hasidism: A New History

Dey Hall

Update November 28, 2018: Please note a change to date and meeting room. January 22, 2019, 5:30p, Dey Hall, Fourth Floor Toy Lounge Directions/Parking “Hasidism: A New History” This lecture will present the major findings by a team of scholars … Read more

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