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February 2022
Job talk: Women’s and Gender Studies and Jewish History and Culture
Job talk: candidate for Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and Jewish History and Culture This job talk is for faculty and current graduate students at Carolina. Remote event: please email us for the Zoom link if you will join remote: jewishstudies@unc.edu
Find out more »Emerging Scholars: Memories of Cultural Contact in Egyptian Jewish Oracles
Emerging Scholars: Memories of Cultural Contact in Egyptian Jewish Oracles Miguel Vargas, PhD candidate in department of religious studies Online Zoom event. Free and open to the public, registration required on our Eventbrite site. https://egyptianjewishoracles.eventbrite.com The Eventbrite system will email the Zoom link starting a few days before the event and again the afternoon of the event. Please check your spam/junk folders for these emails. Contact us at jewishstudies@unc.edu if you have any questions. This event will not…
Find out more »March 2022
Job Talk: Medieval/Early Modern Jewish History
Hold for job talk: candidate for Assistant Professor in Medieval/Early Modern Jewish History. This job talk is for faculty and current graduate students at Carolina. Remote event: please email us for the Zoom link if you will join remote: jewishstudies@unc.edu
Find out more »Job talk: Women’s and Gender Studies and Jewish History and Culture
Job talk: candidate for Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and Jewish History and Culture This job talk is for faculty and current graduate students at Carolina. Remote event: please email us for the Zoom link if you will join remote: jewishstudies@unc.edu
Find out more »April 2022
Reflections in a Time of War: Yiddish Culture and Jewish History in Ukraine
Reflections in a Time of War: Yiddish Culture and Jewish History in Ukraine The community is invited to join this online event featuring a panel of speakers, including musician Daniel Kahn. This event will be remote, via Zoom. Registration required on Eventbrite: https://reflectionsintimeofwar.eventbrite.com The Eventbrite system will email the Zoom link a couple day prior to the event and again the afternoon of the event. This panel discussion, featuring Berlin-based singer and songwriter Daniel Kahn, will discuss Jewish history…
Find out more »September 2022
REMOTE: Jews, and the Transformation of American Folklore
If you missed this event, you can view it on our YouTube channel. This is now a remote/Zoom event. Remote-only event. Registration is required on Eventbrite site in order to get the Zoom link. https://evanslecture.eventbrite.com Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Dr. Naomi Graber, University of Georgia. The Center's inaugural Alumni Lecture. Co-sponsored by the department of music and the department of American studies. Opening remarks by Patricia Rosenmeyer, Elizabeth Engelhardt and…
Find out more »October 2022
Co-sponsoring: Five Elections in Three Years
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event hosted by the UNC Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies Five Elections in Three Years: Inside the battle over Israeli Democracy Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | 1:00 -2:00 PM Virtual Webinar, UNC On November 1, 2022, Israelis will go to the polls for the fifth time since 2019. What are the reasons for this upcoming election? Who are the parties and personalities running for a seat in the Knesset?…
Find out more »November 2022
“Breathing out violence:” Fake News and other dangerous speech in Ancient Israel
Emerging Scholars Lecture with Emily Branton, department of religious studies. Remote event via Zoom. Registration is required on Eventbrite: https://breathingoutviolence.eventbrite.com Monday, November 14, 2022, 5:30pm, remote event: Zoom Co-sponsored by: UNC Department of Religious Studies “Breathing out violence:” Fake News and other dangerous speech in Ancient Israel In the era of social media, we are acutely aware of how dangerous a tweet, a sound bite, or a pernicious piece of medical misinformation can be. This might feel like…
Find out more »January 2023
No Fairy Tale: German Zionism and the Politics of Literature
Emerging Scholars Lecture with Joshua Shelly, Carolina-Duke German Program. Remote event via Zoom. Please NOTE: early start time . This remote event requires registration on Eventbrite in order to receive the Zoom link. Registration is now open: https://nofairytale.eventbrite.com Co-sponsored by the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures and Carolina-Duke German studies. No Fairy Tale: German Zionism and the Politics of Literature In 1902, the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, published the German novel Altneuland (The Old-New Land). In…
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A Galician Wedding: Yiddish Popular Culture
Emerging Scholars Lecture with Oskar Czendze, department of history. Remote event via Zoom. Registration will be required on Eventbrite in order to receive the Zoom link. Registration is open: https://galicianwedding.eventbrite.com Co-sponsored by the department of history, and the department of American studies. Heel Life credit available; link will be posted in February. A Galician Wedding: Yiddish Popular Culture and Regionalism in American Jewish Immigrant Life, 1910-1938 Between 1881 and 1910 more than 200,000 Jews left the Habsburg province of…
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