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Jonathan Weisman Event

October 30, 2018

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, … Continued

Antisemitism and the Jewish Experience in the South

October 26, 2018

Antisemitism and the Jewish Experience in the South Please join us for our next community event on Monday [Oct 29, 7p, UNC Friday Center] with NY Times reporter Jonathan Weisman. You won’t want to miss it! Event and driving/parking: Details … Continued

Community Events

October 11, 2018

Fantastic lecture Monday night with Sidnie White Crawford… we had well over 100 students attend… with their laptops! Our next community event is Oct 29 with NY Times reporter Jonathan Weisman. We hope you can join us.  

Assistant Professor in German-Jewish Studies [now closed]

October 5, 2018

  Update March 1, 2019: This search is closed. The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (http://gsll.unc.edu/) invites applications for a full time, tenure track position: Assistant Professor in … Continued

Seymour and Carol Levin Distinguished Professorship

October 4, 2018

Ruth von Bernuth, director of the Center and professor in the department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, has just been named the founding Seymour and Carol Levin Distinguished Professor. This professorship supports programming for the Center’s students and … Continued

Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran: A New Synthesis

October 2, 2018

MONDAY: Please join us for a community lecture with Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska, Lincoln: Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran: A New Synthesis. October 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Hill Hall. Free and open to the public.

Lunch Seminars: Fall 2018

September 14, 2018

Lunch Seminars at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies Each semester, the Center hosts informal lunch seminars to discuss academic topics related to the field of Jewish Studies. The lunch seminars are for Carolina’s faculty and graduate students, and interested undergraduates. … Continued

Fall Newsletter

September 11, 2018

  Our fall 2018 newsletter is available online, featuring a tribute to Jonathan Hess, plus news on our upcoming events, a grad student in Paris, the campaign update, and news briefs. If you’d like to join our mailing list to … Continued

Wandering Objects Conference

August 30, 2018

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 … Continued

Undergraduate Internships 2018-2019

August 27, 2018

Apply now: Undergraduate Internships 2018-2019 Updated: the application deadline is now extended to September 21st, due to campus closures. The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is accepting applications for two paid, undergraduate student interns for the 2018-2019 academic year. We … Continued