The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event, which is hosted by the UNC Friday Center. Film screening: Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII Join us for a screening of this important documentary film, followed by a discussion with … Read more
Community lecture with Jonathan Weisman, The New York Times. The Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lectureship on the Jewish Experience in the American South Antisemitism and the Jewish experience in the South Please join us for a conversation between … Read more
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor the following event, organized by NC German Studies: OFER ASHKENAZI I Hebrew University, Department of History and Minerva Center for German History Toward a Critical Zionist Vision: German-Jewish Photographers and Filmmakers … Read more
Join curators, art historians, folklorists, anthropologists, religious scholars, philosophers, cultural critics, private collectors, and community leaders for an international symposium probing the changing meanings of Jewish ritual objects and material culture today through their display and interpretation in museums, and … Read more
An academic lecture with Mikhail Krutikov. Co-sponsored by CSEEES. The Kaplan-Brauer Lecture in Jewish Studies "History Will Judge Us by Our Buildings": Der Nister on Architecture and Revolution Mikhail Krutikov is Preston R. Tisch professor of Slavic and Judaic … Read more
David Biale will be coming to UNC as this year's graduate student speaker for the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Professor Biale has been at the forefront of Jewish Studies since the end of the 1970s and has written a … Read more
Update November 28, 2018: Please note a change to date and meeting room. January 22, 2019, 5:30p, Dey Hall, Fourth Floor Toy Lounge Directions/Parking “Hasidism: A New History” This lecture will present the major findings by a team of scholars … Read more
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
