Pre-registration is required for this free, online Zoom lecture. Sign up on Eventbrite… all “ticketholders” will receive the Zoom link via email a few days prior to the event [and again a couple hours prior to the event]. If … Read more

If you are a Carolina graduate student, please join us for the Center’s special Graduate Student Network meeting with Prof. Christopher Browning on Monday, Nov. 9, at 5:30pm. Prof. Browning is a leading expert on the Holocaust and a professor … Read more

Alison Curry is a PhD student in the department of history. She studies modern Polish-Jewish history, the Holocaust, and collective memory and her current research focuses on the function of Jewish cemeteries in Poland during World War II and the … Read more

Interpretation and Innovation: Jewish Studies from the Rabbinic Era to Today November 3 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Join Carolina Public Humanities and our partners at Wake Tech for a talk by Dr. Andrea Cooper, Associate Professor and Leonard … Read more

Many thanks to everyone that joined us for Elliot Wolfson’s lecture “Melancholic Redemption and the Hopelessness of Hope: From Kafka to Dylan” on October 28th! This was our 2020-21 Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lecture in Jewish Studies. If you … Read more

The Center’s new Undergraduate Advisory Committee in Jewish Studies is hosting its first event – a Netflix party on November 9, 2020, 7:30pm. All Carolina undergraduate and graduate students are invited, see details below on how to sign up. The … Read more

Emily Branton is a PhD student in the department of religious studies at Carolina. She is currently the head teaching assistant for JWST 106: “Introduction to Early Judaism,” taught by professor Jodi Magness. In her role as head TA, Emily is … Read more

Prof. Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, department of religious studies, and member of the Center’s faculty steering committee, sits down with Monocle & Spade to talk archaeology and Second Temple Judaism. Watch it online.

Many thanks to everyone that joined us for Daniela Weiner’s lecture on “Advocacy for Holocaust Education in Late 1950’s West Germany” last week! If you missed it, the presentation is now available to view on our Vimeo site and our … Read more

The Uhlman Distinguished Scholar Program for 2020 features Christopher Browning, the Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill and professor emeritus of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Initially scheduled for April 2020, the Uhlman Seminar is now rescheduled … Read more