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
Lunch seminars are for UNC faculty and graduate students. Reservations are required: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/events/lunch-seminarsrsvp/ March, 6th, 12:20-1:30 pm: Kerstin von der Krone, research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington DC, In Pursuit of Knowing: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Education and the … 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
One way to encounter misrepresentations and stereotypes—and to understand its meaning—is to study history and culture. This was one of the scholarly goals of the late Jonathan M. Hess, who led the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies for its … 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
Our Margolis lecture for 2019-2020 is with Shari Rabin, Oberlin College. ‘The Jews as a Class’: Between Race and Religion in the Civil War South One of the most infamous instances of American antisemitism is General Ulysses S. Grant’s … 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
UNC: Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Community lecture with Naomi Seidman of University of Toronto. Co-hosted with: "The Navel of the Dream: Freud and/in Yiddish" This lecture explores the role of Yiddish in Freud’s writings and … 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
Lunch seminars are for UNC faculty and graduate students. Speaker/topic per Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. RSVP is required for lunch seminars.
