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Human Rights and Antisemitism in the Current Climate

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Hosted by NC Hillel and Co-sponsored by the Center. Directions and Parking for the UNC Genome Science Building can be found here . For additional information and to register, visit NC Hillel.  

Gertrude Weil’s Fight for Suffrage: A Southern Lady and New Jewish Woman

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Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South   Gertrude Weil (1879-1971), leader of the state’s women’s suffrage campaign, embodied North Carolina’s liberal and traditional paradoxes. Rooted in the small-town South, she fought not just … Read more

On Orientalist Genealogies: The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited

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Community lecture with Ella Shohat of New York University.   This lecture will offer a genealogical reading of the gradual splitting of the once-linked Semitic figure into “Arab” and “Jew” and its ramifications for contemporary discourses about Jews and Muslims. … Read more

Uhlman Family Seminar: Learning from the Holocaust

The Uhlman Family Seminar, a collaboration of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and Carolina Public Humanities   Recent controversies over monuments featuring leaders and soldiers of the Confederacy in the American Civil War have sparked heated debates—and violent acts—over … Read more

15th Anniversary Showcase

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Sunday, March 25, 2018, 1:00-3:00pm Carolina Union Auditorium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Free and open to the public, no tickets or reservations are required.   You're invited to campus to experience what we mean by “Jewish Studies… … Read more

Stuart Eizenstat ’64: President Carter: The White House Years

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event. Stuart Eizenstat: President Carter, The White House Years September 25, 2018 4:00pm lecture in Graham Memorial Hall Room 039, followed by reception and book signing at 5:15pm in Room 109  

Free

Monumental Histories

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The Center's Flora Cassen is speaking at this campus event: MONUMENTAL HISTORIES Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Time: 4:30-6pm Place: Room 1005, FedEx Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro St., UNC Chapel Hill   Please join us for a panel discussion and Q&A … Read more

Free

Lesley Sachs: Women of the Wall

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event which is hosted by Hillel:   Lesley Sachs, the Executive Director of Women of the Wall in Jerusalem on Thursday, October 25 at 7pm. Lesley will speak about the struggle of "Women of the Wall": a group … Read more