{"id":213,"date":"2011-12-21T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandfam.net\/dev\/wordpressmu\/college\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-12-21T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T14:05:16","slug":"tanenbaums-endow-professorship-in-jewish-history-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Tanenbaums Endow Professorship in Jewish History and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jay Tanenbaum and his wife, Babette, have donated more than $1 million to establish a distinguished professorship in Jewish studies and culture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jay and Babette Tanenbaum of Atlanta may not be Carolina alumni or have a strong connection to the university, but when they found out about the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, they were impressed with its work and wanted to help.<\/p>\n

The Tanenbaums recently donated more than $1 million to establish a distinguished professorship in Jewish Studies, providing an endowment that will support a tenure-track faculty member who specializes in Jewish history and culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very grateful to Babette and Jay Tanenbaum for their support of Jewish Studies at Carolina,\u201d said Jonathan Hess, director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. \u201cTheir support of our faculty will not only help us hire, or retain, an outstanding teacher and researcher, it will also have a lasting impact on Carolina\u2019s future students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jay Tanenbaum, founder and president of Primus Capital LLC, a structured finance and investment company based in Atlanta, is former chair and current executive committee member of the Goldring\/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL).<\/p>\n

\u201cMy work with ISJL has fueled my interest in preserving the legacy and history of Jews in the American South and in developing programs and opportunities for Jewish communities throughout the South,\u201d Jay Tanenbaum said. \u201cHaving a strong Jewish studies program at a leading public university that just happens to be in the South further strengthens this effort. It is my hope that our endowed chair helps Carolina continue to build its outstanding academic and community programs in Jewish studies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jay Tanenbaum\u2019s great-grandfather immigrated from Sejny, Poland, to Dumas, Ark., in the 1890s, and three subsequent generations grew up in the small southern town. Babette\u2019s family similarly made its way from Alsace, France, to Mandeville, La.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family\u2019s story is repeated in countless other families throughout the South. I think it\u2019s important that Jews settled across the country and became an important thread throughout the American tapestry,\u201d Tanenbaum said. \u201cWe\u2019re not alumni of Carolina, and we have no strong link to the campus, but when I learned of the Jewish Studies program, I thought it was doing vital work in contributing to this ongoing study of the Jewish experience in the American South.\u201d<\/p>\n

State funds provide basic faculty salaries for Carolina\u2019s distinguished scholars while permanent endowed chair funds, which are created by philanthropic gifts, further support teaching and research. By creating a reliable source of annual support, endowed faculty chairs provide a powerful incentive to come to, and stay at, Carolina. This gift qualifies for a matching $500,000 grant from the State of North Carolina\u2019s Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund.<\/p>\n

For more information on supporting the programs, faculty and students at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, please contact Margaret Costley at the Arts and Sciences Foundation: 919.843.0345 or margaret.costley@unc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, visit ccjs.unc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jay and Babette Tanenbaum of Atlanta may not be Carolina alumni or have a strong connection to the university, but when they found out about the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, they were impressed with its work and wanted to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foundation","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}