Community Events
All events are free and open to the public, with the exception of the Uhlman Family Seminar. 
Jews, and the Civil War: Reevaluating the
Legacy of the Civil War
for America’s Jews
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture
on the
Jewish
Experience
in the American South
Monday, September 19, 2011,
7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education parking map
ADAM MENDELSOHN, assistant professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, will reassess the impact and importance of the Civil War for the American Jewish community, arguing that the focus on the battlefield exploits of Jews conceals more than it reveals.
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The Stages of Memory
After 9/11:
From Berlin
to New York
Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture
in Jewish Studies
Monday, November 14, 2011,
7:30 p.m.
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JAMES YOUNG, professor and director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will share a vividly illustrated slide lecture that examines Germany’s national Holocaust memorial and the World Trade Center Site Memorial and explores how the idea of a memorial has evolved to express irredeemable loss.
We’re No Angels: Striving for Perfection in Ancient Jewish Literature
Monday, March 19, 2012,
7:30 p.m.
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CHRISTINE HAYES, professor of Religious Studies at Yale University, will lead an exploration of diverse ancient Jewish conceptions of the nature of human perfection and whether or not humans are, or should aspire to be, like angels.
Material Culture and Jewish Identity:
Or, What Makes a Jewish Home Jewish?
Monday, April 16, 2112,
7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education parking map
VANESSA OCHS, an anthropologist of contemporary Jewish life and professor at the University of Virginia, will explore the ways that different
kinds of things make homes Jewish, and how things found in the home facilitate Jewish living, creating, maintaining and transmitting Jewish identities.
Academic lectures are open to the general public, but discussion will be more indepth and geared to a scholarly audience.
Undzere Kinder (Our Children)
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. ,
Chapman Hall, Room 201
Lost From Memory:
19th-centuryJewish Merchant Communities in
Small-Town America
Kaplan-Brauer Lecture on the Contribution of Judaism to Civilization
Monday, November 7,
5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall parking map
David Katzman,University of Kansas
Competing Memories: The Arabs and the Holocaust
The Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lectureship in Jewish Studies
Monday, December 5,
5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall parking map
Omar Kamil, Dubnow Institute, Germany
“To Write Poetry After Auschwitz is Barbaric”:
44 Years of Living Among the Barbarians
Monday, February 6, 2012,
5:30 p.m., location TBA.
SIDRA DEKOVEN EZRAHI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anti-Semitism: The History of an Idea
The Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lectureship in Jewish Studies
Monday, February 27, 2012,
5:30 p.m., location TBA.
JONATHAN ELUKIN, Trinity College
The Wise Men of Chelm: Eastern European Jewry’s Favorite Folk Tradition and Its German Origins
Thursday, March 1, 2012,
5:30 p.m., location TBA.
RUTH VON BERNUTH, UNC Chapel Hill
Lunchtime Seminars
The Center is hosting academic seminars throughout the year, allowing scholars to discuss their current research or recent books during an informal lunch. The seminars are for faculty and students at UNC.
* Reservations are required for the lunchtime seminars.
Please call or email for details and to R.S.V.P.
Phone: 919-962-1509 Email: ccjs@unc.edu
Lunchtime Seminar Schedule:
Fall 2011
September 21- The Last Spanish Expulsion in Europe: Milan 1565-1597, with Flora Cassen, the Center’s newest faculty member
October 10 - Johnny Cash in the Holy Land, with Shalom Goldman of Duke University
2011-2012 Uhlman Family Seminar
The Uhlman Family Seminar, scheduled for April 27-28, 2012, will focus on the theme of Jewish life and the American South. Seminar speakers include Marcie Ferris from UNC, Stuart Rockoff, the head historian of the Institute of Southern Jewish Life, and Adam Mendelsohn from the College of Charleston. Please check back for event details and registration fees.
The seminar is offered by the Program in Humanities and Human Values and is made possible by a grant from the Uhlman Family Fund.
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