The Center is co-organizing, in collaboration with the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures, a symposium honoring Hess and his work. The symposium will capture the breadth and depth of his scholarship and teaching under the title: Moments of … Read more

The Center offers numerous grants for undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members working in a field of Jewish studies. And there are some new grants available this year. Grant applications are due on February 25th. Details and applications  

Thanks to generous private support, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies will be offering two top-up stipends for graduate student recruitment for the 2019-2020 academic year. The Jewish Studies Top Up grant is a $7,000 stipend to enhance what departments … Read more

Our annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event with Barry Trachtenberg of Wake Forest University. January 28, 5:30pm, Hyde Hall The Holocaust and the new post-war order brought about a near-total end to the Yiddish culture that had sustained Eastern European Jewry … Read more

January 22, 2019, 5:30pm, Dey Hall Academic lecture with David Biale of UC Davis. This lecture will present the major findings by a team of scholars about the history of Hasidism, from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the … Read more

We’re still finishing up the fall semester but it’s also time to finish planning for spring semester. You still have time to add a Jewish Studies course, such as Introduction to Jewish Studies, to your spring schedule. Visit our web … Read more

We’re excited to host so many community members at the upcoming Wandering Objects conference, co-hosted by the NC Museum of Art. The conference is sold out, but we’ll have video of the talks to share for those who cannot attend. … Read more

If you missed our Oct 29 Margolis Lecture with NY Times reporter Jonathan Weisman, video of the talk is now available to view on our Vimeo site. This event was a conversation between author Jonathan Weisman and Ryan Thornburg, UNC … Read more

On November 1, the UNC community gathered at the Pit to stand in solidarity for those who lost their lives in the synagogue shooting on Saturday, October 27th, 2018. The event’s guest speakers discussed the tragedy to mourn the loss … Read more

Thank you for joining us last night for the conversation with author/reporter Jonathan Weisman. We filled the 400-seat auditorium and even had a few people in an overflow room. Special thanks to our co-sponsor Duke Center for Jewish Studies. Also, … Read more