Dear Carolina Community, Today, a tragic act of anti-Semitic violence unfolded at the Chabad of Poway synagogue outside of San Diego. One person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting on the last day of Passover, a … Read more
Tuesday, April 9 is Giving Day at Carolina and we hope you’ll consider supporting the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Every single thing we do is made possible by private gifts from alumni and friends. The Fund for Jewish … Read more
Thinking of a Jewish Studies major or minor? If so, JWST 100 is a required course. It also meets other general ed requirements. Register soon for fall semester! The course meets M and W afternoons, with Professor Cooper.
Fall 2019 Semester: JWST 697: Capstone Course in Jewish Studies Sounding “Jewish”: Music, Race, Memory In this course, we will explore the diversity of Jewish sound, including traditional/classical/folk/popular musics and sacred liturgical practices from a variety of contexts (Africa, Europe, the Middle … Read more
Summer Session opportunity: Register for the Israeli Popular Culture: The Case of Music [ASIA 106] course with Hanna Sprintzik. Join us on a journey through different genres and styles that represent the cultural richness of Israeli popular music developed since … Read more
Register for the upcoming JWST Maymester course Beyond Hostilities with Professor Yaron Shemer. The course runs May 15-31and it meets criteria for several majors/minors/general ed requirements.
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
