Forthcoming Spring 2022 Events
YV traveling exhibit “Shoah: How Was it Humanly Possible?” (Image courtesy: Yad Vashem, Jerusalem)
Pandemic conditions permitting, the Center will offer a combination of virtual and in-person programs. ZOOM registration links will be made available via the Center website. The Spring 2022 Highlights include:
March 24-25. Fourteenth Annual Workshop of the Southeast German Studies (SEGS) Consortium with 50 scholars from across the Southeastern U.S. and Tel Aviv, Israel. The workshops panels this year focus on “The Haskalah and European Enlightenment Revisited”; “Teaching German and German-Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century” and “Democracy: Past, Present, Future.” Co-organized by the SEGS Steering and Org Committees with the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies.
March 24, 4:30 pm EST, Reich College of Education, Room 124. Lecture by Prof. Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University, Israel). Prof. Feiner, the incumbent of the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia, will discuss the topic of “The Haskalah Project of Secularization: Challenging ‘The Religious Turn.’” The talk by the prominent Israeli scholar also serves as keynote lecture of the Fourteenth Workshop of the Southeast German Studies (SEGS) Consortium.
March-April. The noted traveling exhibit “Shoah: How Was it Humanly Possible?” from Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem will be on display on the first floor of Belk Library and Information Commons. The exhibition examines major historical aspects of the Holocaust, beginning with Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Europe and ending with the liberation of Nazi concentration and extermination camps across the continent and the remarkable return to life of the survivors.
April 28. The Center marks Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) with a public commemoration that includes a reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust.
March 24-25. Fourteenth Annual Workshop of the Southeast German Studies (SEGS) Consortium with 50 scholars from across the Southeastern U.S. and Tel Aviv, Israel. The workshops panels this year focus on “The Haskalah and European Enlightenment Revisited”; “Teaching German and German-Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century” and “Democracy: Past, Present, Future.” Co-organized by the SEGS Steering and Org Committees with the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies.
March 24, 4:30 pm EST, Reich College of Education, Room 124. Lecture by Prof. Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University, Israel). Prof. Feiner, the incumbent of the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia, will discuss the topic of “The Haskalah Project of Secularization: Challenging ‘The Religious Turn.’” The talk by the prominent Israeli scholar also serves as keynote lecture of the Fourteenth Workshop of the Southeast German Studies (SEGS) Consortium.
March-April. The noted traveling exhibit “Shoah: How Was it Humanly Possible?” from Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem will be on display on the first floor of Belk Library and Information Commons. The exhibition examines major historical aspects of the Holocaust, beginning with Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Europe and ending with the liberation of Nazi concentration and extermination camps across the continent and the remarkable return to life of the survivors.
April 28. The Center marks Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) with a public commemoration that includes a reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust.