Video and Audio Archives

2011- 2012

The Stages of Memory After 9/11:
From Berlin to New York
The Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
November 14, 2011: JAMES YOUNG, professor and director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, shared a vividly illustrated slide lecture that examined 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.

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James Young from UNC Jewish Studies on Vimeo.
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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
September 19, 2011: ADAM MENDELSOHN, assistant professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, examined 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. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South.

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Adam Mendelsohn from UNC Jewish Studies on Vimeo.

2010

Center's Promotional Video

Produced in 2010, the video features UNC students, faculty and supporters, all speaking about the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and the Jewish Studies program at UNC Chapel Hill.

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