The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event, hosted by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures:             Bitter Spirits: Jewish Romanticism and the Demons of Unbelief with Olga Litvak (Cornell University, Department … Read more

Community Lecture with Henriette Dahan Kalev, Ben Gurion University The Mizrahi Protest: Lessons from History April 8, 2024, 5:30pm. In-person event. UNC Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Room Directions & Parking in Bell Tower Deck ($1 after 5pm) Free and … Read more

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event hosted by Hillel:   Join UNC Hillel to meet Sarah Hurwitz, a former senior White House speechwriter for the Obamas, and learn about her Jewish journey. Dessert reception to follow. Cosponsored by … Read more

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event hosted by the Department of Classics:   April 11, 5:30pm, Murphey Hall 104.   Hospitality in Times of War The starting point of the talk is a photo taken on October 23, … Read more

Fiction as History, History as Fiction: a Novel about Nazi Looted Art Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor 2023-2024 Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign   What happens when different displaced people come into convergence with each other? This talk will … Read more

Save the Date: September 16, 2024, check back for start time. Kaplan Brauer Lecture in Jewish Studies   Scribes as Authors in the Dead Sea Scrolls with Molly Zahn, Yale University   The discovery and publication of the Dead Sea … Read more

Save the Date: October 28, 5:30pm Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies   Decentering the 1948 Palestine War: From the Local to the Global with Derek Penslar, Harvard University   This talk links the Palestine Question with the … Read more