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November 2022
Southern Jews and the Lost Cause
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South with David Weinfeld, Rowan University. Monday, November 7, 2022, 5:30pm, in-person event: UNC Stone Center, auditorium. Parking: Bell Tower Deck Co-sponsored by: UNC Department of American Studies, UNC Center for the Study of the American South Carolina Students: earn Heel Life credit by attending the event! Southern Jews and the Lost Cause: Confederate Memory and Jewish Identity It is well-known that some Jews in the American South owned enslaved…
Find out more »Region of Suffering and Hope: The Czechoslovak Borderlands after World War II through the Eyes of Local Jews
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event hosted by the department of history: Region of Suffering and Hope: The Czechoslovak Borderlands after World War II through the Eyes of Local Jews Kateřina Čapková, Institute of Contemporary History, Prague Monday, November 14 at 4:00 in the Global Education Center, room 2008 After the Second World War, the Czechoslovak borderlands (known as the Sudetenland during the war) endured continued violence and ethnic cleansing, which also affected German-speaking Jews, many…
Find out more »“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…
Find out more »Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture
Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture Jewish Perceptions of Justice Kaplan-Brauer Lecture in Jewish Studies with Dr. Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University. January 30, 5:30pm. In-person lecture, free and open to the public. UNC Stone Center, Multi-Purpose Room Parking: Bell Tower Deck. This event will not be recorded. “If you survive, you must take revenge”: Jewish vengeance during and after the Holocaust Revenge was ubiquitous among European Jews during the Holocaust. It included direct acts—i.e. violence against Nazi perpetrators and their…
Find out more »February 2023
Mizrahim and Zionism: A History
This lecture is made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor through an endowed lectureship in Sephardic Judaism. Tuesday, February 7, 2023. 5:30pm, Hyde Hall University Room . Free and open to the public. Parking: Swain Lot. (A limited number of reserved/free parking spaces are available in Swain lot; otherwise night parking is just $1.) Mizrahim and Zionism 1893-1959: A History in Three Keys As the recent elections in Israel showed us again, the encounter between European…
Find out more »Co-sponsoring: A Tar Heel in the Knesset
We are pleased to co-sponsor this event hosted by UNC Hillel: A TAR HEEL IN THE KNESSET: MAKING SENSE OF ISRAEL’S TUMULTUOUS PARLIAMENT WITH ALON TAL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 AT 7:00PM Hitchcock Room, Stone Center, 150 South Road, UNC-Chapel Hill As the seventh American citizen (and the first North Carolinian!) to serve in Israel’s Knesset, seeing Israel’s complex and colorful legislative and government decision making up close was sometimes uplifting, sometimes appalling and always fascinating. Based on dozens of idiosyncratic and often humorous…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »March 2023
Grad Student Network: Career Roundtable with Center Alumni
March 1, 2022, 4:30pm, Hyde Hall Incubator Room. Hybrid Event. The Center's grad student network event for 2022-23 will feature a panel of our alumni, and our recently hired faculty member, in a variety of academic and academic-adjacent positions to discuss career opportunities and job hunting skills with current grad students and alumni of the Center. Additional alumni in other career fields may join us online. Organized by Jocelyn Burney, this year's Uhlman Fellow, this hybrid event is open to…
Find out more »Daniel Zamir Jazz Duo / 20th Anniversary Celebration
Please help us celebrate our 20th anniversary at our March 2nd reception and jazz performance! Schedule: 6:00-6:45pm: Community Reception, Hill Hall, Rotunda 7:00-8:15pm: Performance, Hill Hall, Moeser Aud Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Event in Jewish Studies In person event, free and open to the public. FREE Parking: Swain Lot. Map of Hill Hall and Swain parking, located between Franklin St. and Cameron Ave. Daniel Zamir Duo with Gadi Lehavi Internationally renowned saxophonist and composer Daniel Zamir, together with…
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