| Yaakov Ariel, Dept. of Religious Studies
- American Judaism: Decline or Renewal?
- Evangelicals and Jews: A Unique Relationship
Jonathan Boyarin Dept. of Religious Studies
- A Modern Meeting: Or, How Jewish Was The Man With The Scar?
- A reading from a chapter of Boyarin’s book The Education of Shlomo Nobel in Europe and America, about immigration and Jewish identity at the turn of the 20th century.
- From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry
- Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Rebbe of Kotsk
Christopher Browning, Dept. of History
(Please book lecture one year in advance of your desired lecture date)
- Hitler and the Decisions for the Final Solution: Explaining the Holocaust Perpetrators
- Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Campus
- Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom: The Historian as Expert Witness in the Zuendel and Irving-Lipstadt Trials
Erin Carlston, Department of English and Comparative Literature
- The Rosenberg Trial
- The Dreyfus Affair, French Liberalism and Secularism
- 19th Century French Jewry
- James Joyce and Jewishness
Marcie Cohen Ferris, Dept. of American Studies
- Shalom Y’all: Exploring Southern Jewish History and Culture
- Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales in the Jewish South
Jonathan Hess, Dept. of Germanic Languages
- Germans, Jews, and the History of Anti-Semitism
- Germans, Jews, and the Experience of Modernity
- Assimilation and Its Discontents: Untold Tales From the Early History of Reform Judaism
Jodi Magness, Dept. of Religious Studies
- The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Masada: Last Stronghold of the Jewish Resistance Against Rome
- Jerusalem in the Time of Herod
- Biblical Jerusalem
- Ancient Jewish Tombs and Burial Customs
- Ancient Synagogues
Rosa Perelmuter, Dept. of Romance Languages
- Reflections on Cuban-Jewish Exile
- Yiddish Cuba
- The Jews of Cuba: Then and Now
Bennie Reynolds, Dept. of Religious Studies
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Is there a god of human sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible? What or who is Molek?
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Zeus in the Holy of Holies: The Book of Daniel in its Historical Context
- Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! The Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch
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Reading the Tea Leaves: Divination in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
- It Just Keeps on Coming: Rewriting Failed Prophecies of the End of the World in Second Temple Judaism
Yaron Shemer, Dept. of Asian Studies
- The Journey of Vaan Nguyen: screening/ discussion of overseas labor migrants in Israel
- Ethnic Identities in Israeli Cinema: lecture includes clips from various Israeli films
- The Holocaust in Contemporary Israeli Films: lecture includes clips from various Israeli films
Jeff Spinner-Halev, Dept. of Political Science
- Religion, Politics and Society in Israel
- Zionism and Post-Zionism
- Zionism and Arab Nationalism Since 1900
Jonathan Weiler, Russian and East European Studies
- Jews in American Sports: An Informal History
- Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: From Humanitarian Intervention to Human Trafficking
- The Jewish Vote in America
- Jews in Contemporary Russia
- Is There Still a Peace Process in the Middle East?
Speaker's Bureau contact:
Karen M. Gajewski, (919) 962-1509 or kgajewski@unc.edu
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