The Uhlman Family Seminar, a collaboration of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and Carolina Public Humanities Recent controversies over monuments featuring leaders and soldiers of the Confederacy in the American Civil War have sparked heated debates—and violent acts—over … Read more
Sunday, March 25, 2018, 1:00-3:00pm Carolina Union Auditorium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Free and open to the public, no tickets or reservations are required. You're invited to campus to experience what we mean by “Jewish Studies… … Read more
Lunch seminars are for Carolina graduate students and faculty members. Archaeology and Jewish settlements in seventh century Palestine Speaker: Gideon Avni, head of the Archaeological Division in the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at … Read more
This event is cancelled. We hope to reschedule in 2018-2019. Revealed Beauty and Hidden Danger: On Jewish Books of Time in Early Modern Europe Early modern Jews developed a beautifully illustrated manuscript tradition about their calendar. The need to … Read more
Converting the New Testament?: Hebrew Translations of the New Testament in the Early Modern Period “Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect”. This quotation, taken from the writings of the second century church … Read more
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this conference. 1968 in Poland and Czechoslovakia in Comparison UNC-Chapel Hill, Friday, August 31 and Saturday, September 1, 2018 Institute for the Arts and Humanities The year 1968 was a momentous one in many … Read more
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event. Stuart Eizenstat: President Carter, The White House Years September 25, 2018 4:00pm lecture in Graham Memorial Hall Room 039, followed by reception and book signing at 5:15pm in Room 109
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event, which is oriented towards Carolina faculty, staff, and graduate students. The Museum of the Bible and the Academy with Joel Baden of Yale. Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 3:30 … Read more
The Center's Flora Cassen is speaking at this campus event: MONUMENTAL HISTORIES Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Time: 4:30-6pm Place: Room 1005, FedEx Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro St., UNC Chapel Hill Please join us for a panel discussion and Q&A … Read more
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event which is hosted by Hillel: Lesley Sachs, the Executive Director of Women of the Wall in Jerusalem on Thursday, October 25 at 7pm. Lesley will speak about the struggle of "Women of the Wall": a group … Read more
