April 2018
Seminar: Yaakov Deutsch
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 father Irenaeus, presents an idea that was quite widespread during the first centuries of Christianity. However, there is no proof to support the existence of an early Hebrew version of one of the Gospels, and the first translationsof an entire Gospel…
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1968 in Poland and Czechoslovakia in Comparison
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 spots on the globe, perhaps no more so than in Poland and Czechoslovakia. With a few exceptions, however, 1968 and its aftermath in these two countries largely have been studied in isolation from each other. This conference seeks to compare…
Find out more »January 2019
The Nazi Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture
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, by Wake Forest University historian Barry Trachtenberg, examines the complicated history of Di algemeyne entsiklopedye (The General Encyclopedia, Berlin, Paris, New York: 1932-1966), which was one of the only successful efforts to bridge the pre- and post-Holocaust eras, and to link…
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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…
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