Carolina students: Don’t miss this chance to take one of our most popular courses! This year’s Capstone course is offered in spring 2023 semester. A Capstone Course is required for the RELI/JWST major, the JWST minor and the JWST grad … Read more

Since our founding in 2003, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies has created programming, developed courses, organized conferences, and hosted community events to address the challenges described in this pledge. We take seriously our responsibility to promote a better understanding … Read more

Thanks to  generous private support, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is able to offer several different types of grants supporting graduate student research and travel, including: dissertation completion fellowships for 2023-24 – deadline January 23, 2023 Jewish language instruction … Read more

If you missed any of our lectures and events this fall semester, they are all posted on our YouTube channel for viewing. September’s Evans Lecture with alumna Naomi Graber October’s special event with poet Ronny Someck November’s Margolis Lecture with … Read more

Assistant Professor in Medieval/Early Modern Jewish History The Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, invites applications for a tenure-track position as assistant professor in medieval/early modern Jewish history. The successful applicant will also hold the … Read more

Join us online for our next Emerging Scholars talk:   “Breathing out violence:” Fake News and other dangerous speech in Ancient Israel Emerging Scholars Lecture with Emily Branton, department of religious studies   Monday, November 14, 2022, 5:30pm Remote event … Read more

Join us for this in-person lecture: Southern Jews and the Lost Cause: Confederate Memory and Jewish Identity Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South with David Weinfeld, Rowan University. Monday, November 7, 2022, 5:30pm, … Read more

Carolina Students: Learn more about the Jewish Studies academic program offerings!   The Jewish studies academic program offers courses in departments across the humanities and social sciences, meeting a wide-range of General Education requirements. Students also can choose Modern Hebrew … Read more

Next semester, we’re again offering a wide range of Jewish studies courses, including our Capstone Course (this year focusing on Holocaust studies), modern and classical Hebrew language courses, and the one-credit Confronting Antisemitism course. Many other courses meet UNC’s general … Read more

We are pleased to announce that Jocelyn Burney is our inaugural Uhlman Fellow in Jewish Studies Public Humanities. The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, in collaboration with Carolina Public Humanities (CPH), established the Uhlman Fellowship in Jewish Studies Public Humanities … Read more