January 13, 3pm, Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Duke University: Derek Penslar, History and Jewish Studies, University of Toronto: "The German Jewish Soldier: From Participant to Victim"

February 3, 3pm, Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Duke University: Eric Goldstein, History and Jewish Studies, Emory University: "Turning A Page: How Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants to America were Transformed Through Reading"

February 10, 3pm, Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Duke University: Yfaat Weiss, Jewish History, University of Haifa: "'Persians and Indians and Blacks': Leah Goldberg and the Orientalism Seminar in Bonn in the 1930s"

April 6, 3pm, Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Duke University: Michael Brenner, Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich, "Grand Histories" of the Jews in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Israel vs. the Diaspora

May 4, 3pm, Religion Seminar Room, UNC: David Weinstein, Political Science, Lake Forest University, Leo Strauss and the Exile of Interpretation

Additional events may be announced. Please check the website often. Participants will be notified via email (and, when requested, by mail). If you wish to be placed on the seminar list, please contact: Sandra_Greene@unc.edu

The Jewish Studies Seminar wishes to acknowledge with gratitude our sponsors:
The Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University
The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, UNC - Chapel-Hill
The Carolina Seminars

Administrative support for the program is provided by The Carolina Seminars.

The Coordinators:

Yaakov Ariel, Professor of Religion, UNC - Chapel Hill

Malachi Hacohen, Associate Professor and Bass Fellow, History, Political Science and Religion, Duke University