Malachi Hacohen, Duke University, will give this year's Graduate Student Network academic lecture, titled: Jacob and Esau, Isaac and Ishmael : The Future of Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim Relations The Holocaust and the State of Israel transformed the traditional paradigms … Read more
Converting the New Testament?: Hebrew Translations of the New Testament in the Early Modern Period “Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect”. This quotation, taken from the writings of the second century church … Read more
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event, which is oriented towards Carolina faculty, staff, and graduate students. The Museum of the Bible and the Academy with Joel Baden of Yale. Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 3:30 … Read more
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor the following event, organized by NC German Studies: OFER ASHKENAZI I Hebrew University, Department of History and Minerva Center for German History Toward a Critical Zionist Vision: German-Jewish Photographers and Filmmakers … Read more
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 … Read more
An academic lecture with Mikhail Krutikov. Co-sponsored by CSEEES. The Kaplan-Brauer Lecture in Jewish Studies "History Will Judge Us by Our Buildings": Der Nister on Architecture and Revolution Mikhail Krutikov is Preston R. Tisch professor of Slavic and Judaic … Read more
Update November 28, 2018: Please note a change to date and meeting room. January 22, 2019, 5:30p, Dey Hall, Fourth Floor Toy Lounge Directions/Parking “Hasidism: A New History” This lecture will present the major findings by a team of scholars … Read more
Our annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event with Barry Trachtenberg of Wake Forest University. The Holocaust and the new post-war order brought about a near-total end to the Yiddish culture that had sustained Eastern European Jewry for centuries. This talk, … Read more
An academic lecture with Edwin Seroussi. Whither Sephardic Music? As Sephardic studies develop with great impetus as a new field within American Jewish Studies the question of how musicology participates in them remains open. Surveying the present state of Sephardic … Read more
Lecture with Jacqueline Vayntrub of Yale University. How Biblical Poetry Works What makes the poetry of the Bible different from other ancient poetic traditions? Placed in its ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean context, Professor Vayntrub highlights the unique characteristics of … Read more
