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
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 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 Ella Shohat of New York University. This lecture will offer a genealogical reading of the gradual splitting of the once-linked Semitic figure into “Arab” and “Jew” and its ramifications for contemporary discourses about Jews and Muslims. … Read more
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South Gertrude Weil (1879-1971), leader of the state’s women’s suffrage campaign, embodied North Carolina’s liberal and traditional paradoxes. Rooted in the small-town South, she fought not just … Read more
