Community Events Hosted by the Center: 2003 - 2012
"To Trust the Souls of Those You Love": A Jewish Family Confronts the Evangelical South
Emily Bingham 9/23/2003
Who were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?
William G. Dever 10/9/2003
Scholars, Scrolls, and Scandals: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism Laurence Schiffman 11/4/2003
Criminology and Jewish Degenerationism at the Fin-de-Siecle M
arilyn Reizbaum 1/27/2004
Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of WWII
Stuart Eizenstat 2/4/2004 Kaplan-Brauer Lecture
Abraham Miguel Cardozo: The Visions of a Mystical Messiah
David Halperin 3/30/2004
2004 -2005
How to Make God Talk
Jack Sasson 9/2/2004
A Call for Candlesticks: What We Can Learn from Stories and Things
Dale Rosengarten 9/13/2004
The Emergence of American Judaism Jonathan Sarna 10/4/2004 Kaplan-Brauer
Southern Jews Before and After the Lynching of Leo Frank
Steve Oney 11/9/2004 Revson Lecture
Morality and Universalism in Jewish Thought
Michael Walzer 1/26/2005 Revson Lecture
Southern Jewish Activists: The Response of 19th Century Women to Anti-Semitism
Jennifer Stollman 2/10/2005 Revson Lecture
350 Years of Jewish Cooking in America
Joan Nathan 2/15/2005 Revson Lecture
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Design Insights
Ralph Appelbaum 3/8/2005 Revson Lecture
Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the US-Israel Alliance
Warren Bass 3/22/2005 Revson Lecture
Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz
Bernice Steinhardt 3/29/2005 Revson Lecture
From Haven to Home: Celebrating 350 Years of American Jewish Life
Pamela Nadell 4/5/2005 Revson Lecture
2005-2006
We Write the Books We Want to Read: The Compelling Jewish Narrative
Naomi Ragen 9/22/2005 Revson Lecture
Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art
Samantha Baskind 1/25/2006
Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina
Leonard Rogoff / Steve Channing 2/8/2006
Passing the Torch of Idealism: Gertrude Weil as Southern Jewish Citizen-Activist
Joyce Antler 3/21/2006 Margolis Lecture
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
Mark Slobin 3/23/2006
History on Trial: My Day in Court with the World's Leading Holocaust Denier Deborah Lipstadt 4/10/2006 Green and Revson Lecture
2006-2007
Film Screening and Discussion of "Lasting Impressions"
Drew Levinson 9/12/2006 Revson Lecture
Gender, Antisemitism, and Modern Jewish Identity
Paula Hyman 9/26/2006 Revson Lecture
The (Harry) Golden Era of Civil Rights
Stephen Whitfield 10/16/2006 Margolis Lecture
The Son of Man: A Jewish Life
Daniel Boyarin 10/25/2006 Revson Lecture
Midrash as Visualization: Depicting the Binding of Isaac in Text and Image
Marc Bregman 11/16/2006
The Judaic Art Gallery at the North Carolina Museum of Art
John Coffey 1/31/2007 Revson Lecture
Ancient Judaism and the Prism of Orthodoxy
Michael Stone 2/15/2007 Revson Lecture
The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jodi Magness 2/28/2007 Kaplan-Brauer Lecture
Mysticism, Magic and Rabin's Murder: The Pulsa DeNura Ritual
Zion Zohar 3/20/2007 Heilig Lecture
Kurt Weill's Kol Nidre and Jewish Memory
Tamara Levitz 4/16/2007 Revson Lecture
2007-2008
Hank Greenberg: Famous for the Day He Did Not Play
Aviva Kempner 9/23/2007
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
Aviva Kempner 9/24/2007 Revson Lecture
Just Jewish Enough: Thinking Jewish in the Self-Portraits of Rafael Goldstein
Jonathan Boyarin 10/11/2007 Kaplan-Brauer Lecture
G.I. Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation
Deborah Dash Moore 10/29/2007 Evans Lecture
A Poet's Life in Warsaw
Piotr Sommer 11/13/2007 Revson Lecture
Israel and the Diaspora: Convergence or Rupture?
Derek Penslar 1/14/2008 Heilig Lecture
Jewish Merchants and Former Slaves: The Economic Relationship in the Post-Civil War South
Eric Goldstein 2/4/2008 Margolis Lecture
Jewish Music and All That Jazz
Joshua Jacobson 3/3/2008 Kaplan-Brauer Lecture
Remembering Survival: Postwar Testimonies of the
Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps
Christopher Browning 4/14/2008 5th anniv. Event
2008-2009
Klezmer Trio Concert with Walter Zev Feldman, Christina Crowder and Alex Fiterstein
Walter Zev Feldman 10/27/2008 Revson Lecture
Rediscovering the Dance of Klezmer Music
Walter Zev Feldman 10/28/2008
Communal Genocide: Personal Accounts of the Destruction of Buczacz, Eastern Galicia, 1941-44
Omer Bartov 11/17/2008 Evans Lecture
Evangelical Christian Support of Israel
Stephen Spector 2/23/2009 Margolis Lecture
The Settlement Cookbook and the Transformation of Jewish American Identity Nora Rubel 3/30/2009 Revson Lecture
New Light on the Period of the Maccabees: the Excavations at Tel Kedesh
Andrea M. Berlin 9/22/2008 Kaplan-Brauer Lecture
Pleasures among the Jews in 18th-Century Europe and Their Meaning
Shmuel Feiner 2/9/2009 Heilig Lecture
Edward Said in Jerusalem: Exile, Criticism, and Global Culture
Aamir Mufti 3/2/2009 Revson Lecture
2009-2010
Sixty Years of Wrestling with the Dead Sea Scrolls
Geza Vermes 9/14/2009 Evans Lecture
Ritual Murder in Norwich, 1144
Miri Rubin 11/16/2009 Heilig Lecture
The New Age of Kabbalah: The Revival of Jewish Mysticism in the Late 20th Century
Boaz Huss 1/25/2010 Revson Lecture
Film Screening: The People v. Leo Frank
Ben Loeterman 4/19/2010 Margolis Lecture
‘And we were together’: Solomon’s Window on Two Biblical Worldviews
Diana Lipton 9/1/2009
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
Eric Sundquist 10/1/2009
Jewishness and the Remaking of Ethnic Identities
Jonathan Freedman 10/19/2009 Kaplan-Brauer Lecture
Contrapuntual Critique: Secularism and Orientalism in the Early Jewish Enlightenment
Andrea Schatz 11/6/2009
My Histories: The Poetics and Politics of the Public Word
Ammiel Alcalay 2/8/2010 Revson Lecture
Hebrew Printing and Jewish Knowledge in 18th Century Germany
Dirk Sadowski 3/22/2010 Revson Lecture
Book Launch: The Unconverted Self
Jonathan Boyarin 2/22/2010
Book Launch: Remembering Survival
Christopher Browning 3/1/2010
2010-2011
The Death of the Gods: Or Why a Monotheistic God Speaks in the Plural
Richard Elliott Friedman 9/27/2010 Evans Lecture
Co-Sponsor for Against Indifference: Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel 10/10/2010
Film Screening: Down Home
Panel Discussion 10/23/2010 Margolis Lecture
Fitting Memorials: Postwar American Jews and the Memory of the Holocaust
Hasia Diner 12/6/2010 Revson Lecture
The Israeli-Palestinian Dispute: A Report from the Field
Ethan Bronner 2/28/2011 Revson Lecture
Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic,
and the Rescue of European Jews during WWII
Allen Wells 11/15/2010
The transformation of the Jews: A historical outline 1750-1950
Dan Diner 3/21/2011
2011-2012
Jews, and the Civil War: Reevaluating the Legacy of the Civil War for America's Jews
Adam Mendelsohn 9/19/2011 Margolis Lecture
Lunch Seminar: The Last Spanish Expulsion in Europe: Milan 1565-1597
Flora Cassen 9/21/2011
Lunch Seminar: Johnny Cash in the Holy Land
Shalom Goldman 10/10/2011
Film Screening: Undzere Kinder (Our Children)
Panel Discussion 10/27/2011
Lost From Memory: 19th-Century Jewish Merchant Communities in Small-Town America
David Katzman 11/7/2011 Kaplan-Brauer Lecture
The Stages of Memory After 9/11: From Berlin to New York
James Young 11/14/2011 Evans Lecture
“To Write Poetry After Auschwitz is Barbaric”: 44 years of living among the barbarians
Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi 2/6/2012 Revson Lecture
Anti-Semitism: The History of an Idea
Jonathan Elukin 2/27/2012 Heilig Lecture
The Wise Men of Chelm: Eastern European Jewry’s Favorite Folk Tradition
and Its German Origins
Ruth von Bernuth 3/1/2012
We’re No Angels: Striving for Perfection in Ancient Jewish Literature
Christine Hayes 3/19/2012 Revson Lecture
Material Culture and Jewish Identity: Or, What Makes a Jewish Home Jewish?
Vanessa Ochs 4/16/2012 Revson Lecture
