April 16, 2012: VANESSA OCHS, anthropologist of contemporary Jewish life and professor at the University of Virginia, explored the ways that different things make homes Jewish, and how "things" facilitate Jewish living.
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First speaker begins at 3:50. Vanessa Ochs from UNC Jewish Studies on Vimeo.
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March 19, 2012: CHRIS HAYES, professor of Religious Studies at Yale University, lead an exploration of diverse ancient jewish conceptions of the nature of human perfection.
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First speaker begins at 4 minutes.
Chris Hayes from UNC Jewish Studies on Vimeo.
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February 15, 2012: GIL COHEN-MAGEN, shared exciting and surprising moments in the lives of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews.
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Gil Cohen-Magen from UNC Jewish Studies on Vimeo.
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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 explored how the idea of a memorial has evolved to express irredeemable loss.
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James Young from UNC Jewish Studies on Vimeo.
First speaker begins at :45.
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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.
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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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To watch past lectures on the internet, please visit:
http://www.jewishsparks.net/videolist.html
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