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
Lecture with Paul Mendes-Flohr of University of Chicago. Update October 2: Please note new location for this lecture: Dey Hall, Toy Lounge Martin Buber. A Life of Faith and Dissent This lecture will focus on Buber’s concept of … Read more
Signature Event: A lecture by Ken Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate 5: 30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 | Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center Author and attorney Kenneth S. Stern has argued before the … Read more
Academic Lecture with Michael Legaspi, Penn State University. On Embedding the Bible in the Human Past: The Beginnings of Historical Criticism February 26, 2020, 5:30pm, Dey Hall, Toy Lounge . Free and open to the public. Though varieties of historical … Read more
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora with Devi Mays, University of Michigan. This lecture is made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor through an endowed lectureship in Sephardic Judaism. 5:30p start time in Hill … Read more
The Center is please to co-sponsor this remote event. UNC World View will be featuring its recently released podcast A Hidden Child of the Holocaust, with Holocaust survivor Shelly Weiner as the focus of an online Twitter chat on Wednesday, … Read more
This event is free, open to the public, and will be held via Zoom. Pre-registration is required, please visit Eventbrite to sign up. The Zoom link will be emailed through Eventbrite to “ticketholders”. Contact jewishstudies@unc.edu if you encounter any difficulties. … Read more
The Center is co-sponsoring this upcoming event: Four Elections in Two Years? A Guide to Israel's Never-Ending Political Crisis March 16, 12:00-1:15pm Israeli journalist Amir Tibon (Haaretz Newspaper) will discuss the stakes of the March 23 Israeli election, and the … Read more
