November 2021
Kaplan-Brauer Lecture: Birds as Dads, Babysitters, and Hats: An “Indistinction” Approach to the Mother Bird Mitzvah in Deuteronomy 22:6-7
Kaplan-Brauer Lecture with Beth Berkowitz, Barnard College. Hybrid event. We are looking forward to seeing you in person! In person: No registration required. Stone Center Aud. Directions/Parking MASKS are required when inside a campus building. Night parking policy in effect. If you are unable to join us on campus, we invite you to join us on Zoom! Zoom: Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link. https://birdsasdads.eventbrite.com Birds as Dads, Babysitters, and Hats: An…
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Too Long, Too Foreign. . . Too Jewish
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience This is currently planned as a hybrid event. No registration is required to attend in-person at the UNC Stone Center. To join via Zoom, registration is required in order to receive the Zoom link. Registration is open on Eventbrite: https://toojewish.eventbrite.com Too Long, Too Foreign. . . Too Jewish: Antisemitism, upward mobility, and name changing in New York City, 1917-1945 with Kirsten Fermaglich, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at…
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Ambivalent Appropriation: Apollo in Jewish Texts and Material Culture
The Center's Graduate Student Network is hosting Olivia Stewart Lester for an evening community lecture. This event, supported by the Uhlman Family Seminar, is currently planned as in-person only. 5:30pm, UNC Stone Center, Auditorium “Ambivalent Appropriation: Apollo in Jewish Texts and Material Culture” This lecture considers ancient Jewish engagement with Apollo traditions in texts and material objects that range from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity, found in locations across the ancient Mediterranean. It tracks a shared strategy in…
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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…
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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…
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