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Transformative Gift for Graduate Student Recruitment and Support

FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK: In the previous edition of this newsletter, the Center announced that an anonymous donor had REFLECTING ON THE PAST, committed $250,000 to create an endowment for PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE graduate student support in in As you read through this celebratory issue the name of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity (TEP). of News from the Center , I hope you A group of former TEP members from recent share our pride in all that Carolina has decades has now added $675,000 to this fund, bring - accomplished over the ing the total committed to $875,000. This generous gift was made from the proceeds of the sale of the course of the last decade. “These gifts will have a Today, we have a Jewish former TEP fraternity house on Rosemary Street, Studies program boasting and reflects the commitment of these TEP brothers tremendous impact on an undergraduate major, to the continued success of the Center. The a graduate certificate, and a vibrant ultimate goal of the TEP brothers is to bring the Carolina’s ability to offering of public events and lectures. value of the graduate support fund to $1.2 million recruit the most promising The 15 of us who teach Jewish Studies so that it can support a new Tau Epsilon Phi courses in the College of Arts and graduate student fellow each year in perpetuity. graduate students and also “These gifts will have a tremendous impact Sciences are keenly aware that very little give the Center wonderful of what we’ve accomplished over the on Carolina’s ability to recruit the most promising last 10 years would have been possible graduate students and also give the Center opportunities to provide without the inspiring generosity of wonderful opportunities to provide ongoing Carolina alumni and friends. So please support for their research efforts,” said Jonathan ongoing support for their know how much your investment in Hess, director. “In the years to come, these funds research efforts.” Jewish Studies is appreciate d— by the will support outstanding scholars who will go on to new faculty we’ve brought in and the become faculty at leading institutions worldwide, students whom they teach; by the where they will in turn inspire future students members of the general public who come and contribute important research to the field working on topics in Jewish Studies in varying to our lectures; and by the remarkable of Jewish Studies. It is simply awe-inspiring to stages of their academic careers. students whose research in Jewish ponder the long-term impact of these gifts, and I “Securing graduate student support is one Studies we’ve been able to support. am very thankful to the TEP fraternity brothers.” of our main goals for the next 10 years, and the Carolina’s ability to recruit and support the TEP gifts certainly give this goal a fantastic jump With this issue of News from the Center , best and brightest graduate students will further start. We have more to do in this area, but having we invite you to take a moment to reflect its reputation as a university that produces up- this support now will have an immediate positive on the past decade with pride. But we and-coming teacher-scholars in the field. Carolina impact on our academic program and a lasting also want to focus your attention on routinely competes with leading universities impact on the field of Jewish Studies,” added Hess. what lies ahead. Indeed, here in Chapel worldwide for top graduate students in the To learn more about making a gift to the Hill we’re using our tenth anniversary to humanities, and the TEP fellowship will help give Center, contact Margaret Costley at the Arts a competitive edge. The new Tau Epsilon Phi Fund and Sciences Foundation: 919-843-0345 or

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JONATHAN HESS PETTIGREW HALL, SUITE 100 P: 919-962-1509 DIRECTOR CAMPUS BOX 3152 E: [email protected] CHAPEL HILL, NC 27599-3152 W: CCJS.UNC.EDU

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Ten Reasons to Celebrate In spring 2003, a group of Carolina faculty, administrators and alumni banded together to lay out an ambitious plan for Jewish Studies at Carolina — a particularly bold plan for a state-funded research university located in the American South. In the ensuing decade, the goals that were initially considered rather audacious started to be achieved, one by one, with the top goal, a major in Jewish Studies, being accomplished this academic year. Here are our top 10 reasons to celebrate 10 years of excellence:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 SUCCESSFUL MEANINGFUL EXPANDED COURSE IMPACT ON PROMISING ENLIGHTENING TALENTED GRAD RENOWNED GROUNDBREAKING OUTSTANDING ALUMNI SPEAKER’S BUREAU OFFERINGS CAMPUS CULTURE UNDERGRADUATES PUBLIC EVENTS STUDENTS FACULTY MAJOR FRIENDS

Carolina alumni who have With the support of the Over the past decade, faculty Jewish Studies faculty are Each year, more than 1,000 The Center has hosted more Each year, Carolina attracts With nine new faculty When Carolina launched Friends have made it all minored in Jewish Studies or Charles H. Revson Founda - have created numerous new based in seven different Carolina undergraduates than 80 events since 2003, an international group of recruitments in the past the interdisciplinary B.A. possible. From annual who have pursued research tion, Carolina’s Jewish courses and revised existing academic departments in register for Jewish Studies in addition to co-sponsoring future teacher-scholars in 10 years, Carolina has the undergraduate degree — gifts to endowments projects and courses in Jew - Studies faculty have courses with strong Jewish the humanities, which courses. Some of these many other campus events a wide range of academic fastest growing Jewish the first official Jewish and planned gifts, all ish Studies are now making been able to give lectures Studies content, with topics gives the College of Arts students are pursuing a and lectures. These events fields related to Jewish Studies program in the Studies major in the state of the generous donations their mark on the academic, to community groups ranging from Israeli Cinema and Sciences unique oppor - Jewish Studies major or minor, bring international experts Studies, from anthropology nation, in terms of faculty North Carolina —in 2012, from alumni and friends non-profit and corporate across the state of North to Classic Jewish Texts, tunities to incorporate while others are fulfilling their to Chapel Hill to enrich the to archaeology, music, growth. Carolina currently it made it possible for throughout the past decade arenas. Recent alumni have Carolina, sharing their Jewish Women in America, Jewish Studies themes into foreign language requirements academic experience of history and religious has 15 faculty members undergraduates to make have had a powerful impact gone on to pursue Ph.D.s expertise well beyond the Ancient Synagogues, and an array of courses. It also or simply taking an elective students, faculty and the gen - studies. These exceptional in Jewish Studies and has Jewish Studies the center - on Carolina’s Jewish Studies in various fields of Jewish borders of the campus and History of the Holocaust. A allows for collaboration course to enhance their eral community. Events have graduate students are funding in place to recruit piece of their academic program and will continue Studies, such as Abigail the town of Chapel Hill. new core course, Introduc - among faculty from a wide college experience. Jewish ranged from community lec - mentored by our faculty three more in the near program. Carolina also to have a lasting impact Lewis, who graduated from These speaking events, tion to Jewish Studies, was range of disciplines and Studies courses attract a tures and academic symposia as they pursue their own future. Their depth and created a truly modern, long into the future. Carolina in 2012 and is which have been held at introduced in 2009 and between the Center and diverse group of students to musical performances, film original research projects breadth of scholarly expert - multidisciplinary liberal arts Without this support, the now working on her Ph.D. at libraries, schools and local now attracts about 100 other units on campus, with a wide range of screenings, lunchtime discus - and prepare for an ise, combined with a caliber program that will serve as a Center and the Jewish the University of Wisconsin- organizations, have been undergraduates each fall such as the Program for academic interests and unique sions and annual continuing academic career. Carolina’s of teaching and scholarship model for other institutions. Studies program would Madison, while other alumni a crucial component of semester and serves as the Medieval and Early Modern cultural experiences, which education seminars, with each Ph.D. alumni have gone that is second to none, have Hayley Wright, the first not be what it is today. have gone into career fields the Center’s community gateway course for the Studies and the Center for has a tremendous influence event delving into a unique on to join the faculty at made it possible to expand Carolina student to declare as diverse as non-profit outreach mission. new major. In 2012, the the Study of the American on classroom discussions. In aspect of Jewish history and peer institutions, such as the Jewish Studies program a Jewish Studies major, management and broadcast University introduced a South. All this in turn has addition, there has been a culture. In addition to funding Ria Van Ryn at at an unprecedented rate. will graduate this May. journalism. new Capstone Course in a tremendous impact on growing number of under - University and Waitman from grants and annual fund PHOTO: Professor Ruth von PHOTO: Hayley Wright in Jewish Studies, an upper- the course offerings and graduates who are conducting Beorn at the University of Bernuth joined the Carolina Germany in 2012. PHOTO: Ruthie Warshenbrot ’05, contributions, five endow - faculty in 2008. who graduated from Carolina with a level research seminar for extracurricular activities independent research projects ments have been established Nebraska. minor in Jewish Studies, won the advanced undergraduates, available to Carolina’s with Jewish Studies themes. by alumni and friends to Jewish Communal Service Associa - PHOTO: Alumna Carrie Duncan which is also required for students. is an assistant professor at the AND ONE MORE REASO N... tion’s Young Professional Award in PHOTO: Caroline Carter, ’14, is support the Center’s vibrant University of Missouri. 2009, and is now Associate Program the new major. majoring in Classical Archaeology community outreach efforts. Director at The Wexner Foundation. An ambitious plan for the future of Jewish Studies. and has spent two summers on the PHOTO: Professor Yaron Shemer Huqoq dig. Photo by J. Haberman. PHOTO: Ethan Bronner of the New Turn the page to read about Carolina’s bold vision for the next with Modern Hebrew students. York Times visited campus in 2011. decade of excellence.

2 NEWS FROM THE CENTER NEWS FROM THE CENTER 3 Faculty and Student Jewish Studies and the Carolina Difference GRANT “Please know what a significant difference you’ve AVIS ION AWARDS been able to make over the last decade.” for the Next Decade of Excellence Thanks to generous private support, this year the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies was able to offer more funding awards than ever before to undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty.

BY JONATHAN HESS, DIRECTOR Becoming a national leader, the next decade Funding for these awards was made possible by the Howard R. Levine Student Excellence Fund, the Rhonda A. and Robert Hillel Silver Fund for Graduate Support, the Jerry and Huddy Cohen Faculty Carolina does not aim to have the biggest Jewish Directo r’ s Desk When the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies was Excellence Fund, the Joseph Kittner endowment fund, the Shapiro/ZBT Undergraduate Research Studies program offered by a major research (continued from page 1) created in 2003, we had a clear sense that building Fund, the Advisory Board Director’s Expendable Fund, and the Fund for Jewish Studies. a program in Jewish Studies at Carolina would university. But given the momentum we’ve begin realizing our ambitious be different. For us, it represented an opportunity developed for Jewish Studies at Carolina over goals for the future. We have to envision an academic program that would be the last decade, we can emerge as one of the already made remarkable strides far more integrated into the liberal arts than leading Jewish Studies programs in the nation Undergraduate Research and Faculty Research and Travel Awards in securing the type of funding many Jewish Studies programs created at peer by embracing a different, broader approach. The that will enable us to bring in even institutions. goal for the next decade is to make the Carolina Travel Award FLORA CASSEN , to research the complicated more of the very best graduate Given the program a nationally recognized leader in the field. JOCELYN BURNEY , to participate in the excavation relationship between Philip II of Spain and European Jewish Studies is a highly interdisciplinary field students in the world to pursue Achieving this depends on our ability to continue of an ancient synagogue in Huqoq, while Jewish communities in the sixteenth century; momentum that concerns itself with the history, culture, and their studies at Carolina. We are to develop innovative curricular offerings, to researching mosaics for her honor’s thesis. JEANNE FISCHER , to prepare a recital of Yiddish religious traditions of in their interactions art songs for the Fall 2013 semester; JOSEPH LAM , supporting undergraduate and we’ve developed expand our network of faculty across disciplines, with others from the ancient period to the present. to present his research on legal motifs found within graduate student research and and to promote interdisciplinary research and The Elsie Kaplan “Mother” Shapiro It draws faculty strength from religious studies, Psalm 2 at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual travel like never before. And we for Jewish teaching that reflect our global and historical ZBT Undergraduate Research and history, languages and literatures, archaeology, Meeting in Chicago; YARON SHEMER , to finalize continue to support our faculty in approach. This in turn requires us: Travel Fund in Jewish Studies Studies at political science and other disciplines in the his book manuscript on Mizrahi ethnic identity in developing new and innovative Israeli cinema. humanities and social sciences. Jewish Studies 1) to create graduate fellowships that enable LILIANA GREGORY , to carry out an internship Jewish Studies courses for our at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland. Carolina over thus exemplifies what a liberal arts education departments in the College to recruit and students. As we transform Carolina Faculty Course Development and can be in the 21st century. support top graduate students who will into a national leader in the study Graduate Student Research and the last decade, eventually go on, as Carolina Ph.D.s, to teach Enhancement Awards of Jewish history and culture over Travel Awards we can emerge Building Jewish Studies at Carolina, 2003 –2013 and conduct research in Jewish Studies at JONATHAN BOYARIN , to bring students to New the course of the next decade, your The strategic goal guiding our first decade has other leading colleges and universities. BRIAN COUSSENS , to work as the Assistant Area York City as part of his new course on Jewish life support will be more important as one of been to assemble a comprehensive faculty in Jewish Fund-raising goal: $4 million Supervisor of the modern Arab village at the in City; YARON SHEMER , to develop than ever. So please know what a excavation site in Huqoq; SAMUEL KESSLER , to a course on the history and traditions of the Arab- Studies through a combination of private giving 2) to create three new faculty positions that significant difference you’ve been travel to Germany to study Jewish-Protestant Jewish community; HANNA SPRINTZIK , to provide the leading and state support. Of the more than $15 million the able to make over the last decade. enable us to address impending retirements interactions and theological exchanges at the extracurricular activities and events for Hebrew Center has raised to date, the lion’s share has gone while continuing to grow an interdisciplinary Jewish Studies University of Leipzig; ERIN MAHER , to research the language students; SHAI TAMARI , to organize a Your continued support will be to professorship funds, and the College of Arts and Jewish Studies faculty with strategic strengths. student trip to Washington, DC for his course on musical history of Jewish-French composer Darius crucial as we work together to Sciences now boasts eight endowed professorships Fund-raising goal: $6 million Milhaud during his time in the ; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. programs create a Jewish Studies program in Jewish history and culture, five of which have ANNEGRET OEHME , to improve her Yiddish 3) to create multiple endowment funds to support at Carolina that is truly second in the nation. already been filled. All in all, since 2003, the College language skills at the Naomi Prawer Kadar has recruited nine new Jewish Studies faculty innovative research and teaching that inspire International Yiddish Summer Program at Tel Aviv to none. in five different departments — this is a hiring our students and help us retain and develop the University; DANIEL SCHINDLER , to study the rate that has no parallel anywhere in the nation. strong faculty. Fund-raising goal: $2 million ancient pottery excavated from the site in Huqoq; Rhonda A. and Robert Hillel Silver Creating a program from scratch has also enabled GUY SHALEV , to research the role of Palestinian Graduate Fellowship Dr. Jonathan M. Hess We anticipate meeting these goals by building on Director us to envision an academic curriculum that realizes physicians in the state of Israel; EMMA WOELK , This non-service fellowship, made possible through the Center’s success in fund raising. In the next to present her research in Germany on Berlin’s Carolina Center for Jewish Studies Jewish Studies’ potential to be a model for liberal the generosity of Rhonda and Robert Hillel Silver, decade we plan to raise an additional $12 million Yiddish theater revival. Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin arts education. The new B.A. degree in Jewish Stud - ’77, supports a graduate student working in Jewish to take the Jewish Studies program to the next Studies in the advanced stages of his or her career Distinguished Professor of ies that the Department of Religious Studies rolled Jewish History and Culture stage. All of us at the Center, and the College of Graduate Student Summer Stipend at Carolina. This fellowship enables a student to out in 2012 embodies the three-pronged approac h— Arts and Sciences, look forward to partnering with ANNA KUSHKOVA , to travel to Russia to conduct focus full time on his or her dissertation, improving Professor, Department of Germanic Jewish Studies as interdisciplinary, historical, and alumni and friends to make the next 10 years as and transcribe interviews relating to her dissertation quality and shortening the time required to and Slavic Languages and Literatures globa l— that makes Jewish Studies both such an exceptional as the first 10 years. on Jewish economic practices under socialism complete a Ph.D. degree. Applications for the [email protected] exciting and innovative field of inquiry unto itself as a marker of Jewish collective identity. 2013 –14 academic year are currently under review. (919) 962-4866 and an integrative force within the humanities.

4 NEWS FROM THE CENTER NEWS FROM THE CENTER 5 Graduate Student Profiles

Naomi Graber Patrick Tobin

When Naomi Graber first learned that that have taken Graber across the country, Patrick Tobin was drawn to Carolina in when things were very different. Initially, Since 1945 , History of the Holocaust , History there were new sources of information related she has sought to understand how Weill’s order to work with Christopher Browning, there was very little discussion of the of the Middle Ages , Western Civilization and to her dissertation topic, she had mixed Jewish-German background shaped his views the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Holocaust, and Jews were often identified as Global History of Warfare . feelings. The information certainly piqued her on — and ultimately the music he create d Professor of History, who is one of the just one group of a wide array of civilian “Teaching for me is a perfect complement interest, but she was, after all, nearly done in — the United States. preeminent scholars on the Holocaust. victims in the war. Largely as a result, there to the research aspect of graduate school. with the intensive project. Ultimately, the For example, one of his unfinished works “I honestly didn’t know a lot about North were very few prosecutions of Holocaust While much of grad school has been about opportunity to review these new materials at during the time period, a musical called Carolina before applying, but I knew about perpetrators after the 1940s and many of sitting quietly in an office or archive, toiling the American Film Institute, even if it meant “Ulysses Africanus,” used symbolism of Professor Browning. I’d read his book, these perpetrators were able to reintegrate away on a project whose completion is years having to suddenly revise sections of her Jews in Egypt and the Seder to tell a story of Ordinary Men , as an undergraduate and it into society. But my research shows that this away, teaching is very much the opposite. dissertation, was simply too important to African Americans in the Reconstruction wholly reshaped my interests. Prior to that, It’s about engaging with students directly, overlook. So in late January 2013, Graber South. “Music can express something inter - I’d been learning ancient Greek and prepar - “I honestly didn’t know a lot about sharing information, opening minds, and made hasty arrangements for an “emergency views, letters, and so on can’t,” Graber ing for some kind of future in Classics. But North Carolina before applying, but making new connections. There’s an research trip” to Los Angeles, not knowing explains. “It can contradict interviews, and Graber and Tobin at Professor Browning’s book got me interested immediate gratification and reward that you what she might find. it can express multiple perspectives at once. the Carolina Institute in Holocaust studies, so I dropped Greek for I knew about Professor Browning. get from teaching. It works as something for the Arts and Graber, the inaugural recipient of the In this case, you have African-American Humanities, 2013. German and began to pursue UNC.” I’d read his book, Ordinary Men , like a short-term fuel boost to push me along Rhonda A. and Robert Hillel Silver Graduate tropes, Jewish tropes, even hillbilly tropes.” The Michigan native received his B.A. as an undergraduate, and it wholly on my long-term research.” Fellowship, will graduate this spring with a This May, Graber will earn the doctorate from Kalamazoo College, his M.A. in history Tobin, who has served as the Center’s Ph.D. in musicology. After attending Brandeis in musicology that has been her dream since social-problems film, “You and Me.” Weill’s from Carolina and will graduate this May reshaped my interests.” graduate assistant for the past two years, University as an undergraduate, she came to attending a conservatory summer camp when influence on this film and other works on with a Ph.D. in history. In 2010 –11, he received plans to continue to work on Holocaust the Carolina Department of Music in 2007 she was 15. In previous years at Carolina, American screen and stage has long been a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship, which began to change quite dramatically by the aftermath studies for the foreseeable future. with the initial interest in studying Mozart. she’s served as a teaching assistant for all overlooked. Thanks to Naomi Graber, this allowed him to spend a year in Stuttgart, end of the 1950s. A massive trial — the subject “This remains a growing field of study, In the course of a research project, however, manner of courses, from Music and War to story can finally be told. Germany, focusing on his research on how of my dissertation — began in 1958 in Ulm, as we try to understand not just how the she stumbled across a new subject, which has Ear Training . This year, though, due to the Germans came to terms with the Holocaust West Germany, and it targeted 10 Holocaust Holocaust happened, but also how societies The Rhonda A. and Robert Hillel Silver,’77 Graduate evolved into her dissertation on the American support from the Silver Fellowship, she’s been Fellowship supports a promising graduate student in the postwar era. perpetrators. By the end of the decade, a have responded to the legacy of the works of the Jewish-German composer able to focus entirely on her dissertation. working in Jewish Studies in the advanced stages of his or “Today, Germany is dotted with central agency for Nazi crimes investigations Holocaust. Looking forward, I’m interested her career at Carolina. This fellowship enables a student Kurt Weill, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933. Freed to research and write, Graber was to focus full time on his or her scholarship, thereby improv - memorials and museums dedicated to victims opened, and in the 1960s, for the first time, in pushing myself beyond the boundaries of The decision to focus on Kurt Weill, the able to make her impromptu research trip to ing quality and shortening the time required to complete of the Holocaust. My interest is to understand the public began a sustained and ongoing Germany to look at this broader question.” a Ph.D. degree. Private support for graduate student acclaimed composer of The Threepenny the American Film Institute this winter. Once fellowships and stipends for graduate student research how this happened. How did the worst event discussion about the need to more seriously Opera , took even Graber by surprise. “I knew there, she became one of the first scholars to and travel help nurture young scholars, create relevant in German history become central to modern deal with the legacy of the Holocaust, Patrick Tobin, Professor Browning, and three other scholarly works, train the next generation of leading recent graduate students will lead this year’s Uhlman ‘Mack the Knife,’ and that was it,” she admits. look through newly released papers from the teachers and researchers, and further Carolina’s commit - Germany’s identity?” asked Tobin. “To try to judicially, politically, and culturally.” Family Seminar on New Directions in Holocaust “But I started listening to his work more and estate of pioneering filmmaker Fritz Lang. ment to student-focused research. For more information, understand this question, my dissertation has Tobin has taught and helped teach several Research, scheduled for April 13. Pre-registration is contact Margaret Costley at the Arts and Sciences Founda - required. For event details and registration information, fell in love with it.” Through research trips He and Weill had collaborated on the 1938 tion at (919) 843-0345 or at [email protected]. looked at the years after the war through 1960, courses at Carolina, including The World visit the events page on the Center’s web site: ccjs.unc.edu.

News Briefs

ALUMNUS WINS NATIONAL AWARD: T. Fielder Valone Jr.’s UNC MAYMESTER COURSE: Professor Jonathan Boyarin has created a new DISTINGUISHED FACULTY APPOINTMENT: Jonathan M. Hess, director PRESTIGIOUS HONOR: The Stanford Humanities Center has awarded honors thesis recently won a national award from the American Historical course that will be held during Maymester, an intensive three-week term of the Center, shown with Dean Karen M. Gil, was recently honored at a a faculty fellowship for 201 3–14 to Yaron Shemer, the Levine/Sklut Fellow Association. The Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for the best article by an held every spring. The course, titled Jewish New York , will include a five-day reception for newly appointed distinguished faculty. The College of Arts and in Jewish Studies and assistant professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and undergraduate published in a history department journal was awarded to trip to , made possible in part through a course enhancement Sciences awards distinguished professorships to selected faculty for their Israeli Culture in the Department of Asian Studies. This is a highly selective, Valone for his research paper titled Destroying the Ties that Bind: Rituals of grant from the Center. Students will learn about New York Jewish history outstanding research and teaching. “You inspire our colleagues and students residential fellowship which offers Professor Shemer a full year to focus on Humiliation and the Holocaust in Provincial Lithuania . Valone is a past student and culture on campus through readings in history, fiction and ethnography and you inspire me,” Gil told the faculty honorees. “All of us in the dean’s his research at the Stanford campus. representative for the Center’s Advisory Board and was the first undergradu - and through films. Once in New York, students will be introduced to some office are grateful for your exceptional scholarship, teaching and service.” ate to receive the Center’s Shapiro grant for undergraduate research. He used of Manhattan’s Jewish “palaces of prayer,” to the historic and still-vibrant Hess holds the Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin Distinguished Professor of the grant funds to help cover expenses in New York when he was conducting Lower East Side and to the bustling contemporary Jewish communities of Jewish History and Culture endowed faculty chair. The Malkin professorship the research for his honors thesis. Valone graduated from Carolina in 2011 Brooklyn. The course is available to current Carolina students and visiting was established through a generous gift from Moses and Hannah Malkin, with highest honors and is now a graduate student at Indiana University, students of Carolina’s summer school. both members of the Class of 1941. where he is continuing his work on European History and the Holocaust.

6 NEWS FROM THE CENTER NEWS FROM THE CENTER 7 NONPROFIT Carolina Center for Jewish Studies U.S. POSTAGE Pettigrew Hall, Campus Box 3152 PAID Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3152 UNC-CHAPEL HILL Spring 2013

UPCOMING EVENTS

THE UHLMAN FAMILY SEMINAR Saturday, April 13, 2013 This year’s Uhlman Seminar will focus on the theme of New Directions in Holocaust Research . Seminar speakers include Carolina’s Christopher Browning, the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of History, and four of his recent graduate students: Michael Meng, Waitman Beorn, Patrick Tobin, and Richards Plavnieks. Pre-registration is required. For event details and THE 10 TH ANNIVERSARY registration information, visit the events page on the Center’s web site: Fund for ccjs.unc.edu. Jewish Studies ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Challenge Sunday, April 14, 3:00 p.m. UNC Friday Center Yosl Rakover Speaks to G-d , the Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish As part of the 10th anniversary graduate students, sponsored student and Studies — David Mandelbaum, artistic celebrations, the Center initiated a challenge faculty research, and underwritten dynamic director of the New Yiddish Rep theater for annual fund supporters to increase their public programs. The Fund for Jewish Studies is company, will perform a one-man stage adaptation that explores the final unrestricted contributions that are so vital to the a key component to the Center’s overall fund-raising testament of a Jew named Yosl Rakover, Center’s programs. program. The unrestricted dollars provided by who examines his relationship with God “We are very grateful to all of you who have alumni and friends have a tremendous impact on during the end of the Warsaw ghetto. contributed to the Fund for Jewish Studies already students and programs. Gifts at all levels help the The production is in Yiddish, with this year. As of December 31st, the halfway point Center to maintain its reputation for excellence English subtitles. A special anniversary of our academic and fiscal calendars, gifts to the while expanding its academic and public outreach reception will follow the performance. Annual Fund are on track to exceed last year’s programs for future generations. giving levels, but there is still a ways to go if we Please use the enclosed gift envelope to make COMMUNITY LECTURE are to reach our goal by June 30th,” said Jonathan your donation, or make an online gift to Fund #7361 Monday, April 22, 7:30 p.m. Hess, director. at ccjs.unc.edu. The university’s fiscal year ends UNC Friday Center The Center depends on private support in order June 30, 2013. Together we can meet this special 10th The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Begin - to fully realize its mission, and generous donations anniversary challenge. Thank you for considering nings of Biblical Interpretation — have established endowed faculty chairs, supported the Center as a beneficiary of your philanthropy. James Kugel, director of the Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible at Bar Ilan University, will discuss how the Dead Sea scrolls provide us with evidence of an important moment of transition in the development of texts that were to become the Hebrew Bible.

Please visit our Web site at ccjs.unc.edu for more event information. If you’d like to receive updates about upcoming events, please join our listserv by emailing us at [email protected]. In the RECENT EVENTS — LEFT: In January, UNC’s Jodi Magness spoke to a full auditorium when she shared images email message, please provide both and details regarding her excavations in Galilee. (Professor Magness is shown at far right, at the reception following her your email and mailing addresses. lecture.) RIGHT: Carol Newsom, who spoke to a packed auditorium in November, shared her thoughts on the origins of demonic forces.

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