Upcoming Events
3/28 LECTURE | Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Ladino Folksongs Today
Thursday, March 28, 7:00 pm PDT - 8:30 pm PDT at Kane Hall 220Edwin Seroussi of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will discuss Judeo-Spanish folk songs in modern times.
4/11 LECTURE | Contemporary Ethiopian Artists in Israel and the Question of Hyphenated Identity
Thursday, April 11, 7:00 pm PDT - 8:30 pm PDT at Thomson Hall 101Artist and researcher Efrat Yerday will present on how Ethiopian Jewish artists in Israel navigate challenges around their work and their identities.
5/7 STROUM LECTURE | The Complexities of Jewish Friendships: Jews and Non-Jews in Imperial Germany
Tuesday, May 7, 7:00 pm PDT - 8:30 pm PDTHistorian Marion Kaplan will explore grassroots social interactions between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans in Imperial "Enlightenment" Germany.
5/9 STROUM LECTURE | Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal
Thursday, May 9, 7:00 pm PDT - 8:30 pm PDTIn this lecture, historian Marion Kaplan will discuss the experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and lived in limbo in Portugal, seeking safer havens abroad.
Annual Programs
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell: Words, Music, Yiddish, and Culture
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, a classically trained and internationally acclaimed vocalist, composer and arranger specializing in music in the Yiddish language, performs with accompanist Dmitri Gaskin.
VIDEO | Stroum Lectures 2023 Pt. 2 — Between Me and the Other World: A Tikkun
In a multi-faceted performance, Anthony Russell and accordionist Dmitri Gaskin explore W.E.B. DuBois' provocative question, "How does it feel to be a problem?" refracted through the texts and musical idioms of the African American South and Jewish Eastern Europe.
VIDEO | Stroum Lectures 2023 Pt. 1 — “Melodeklamatsiye”: A Yiddish Performance Genre 🎼
Anthony Russell and accompanist Dmitri Gaskin perform a combination of oration and art music that investigates disparate elements—Black religiosity, the music of Chopin, queerness, the ambiguities of diaspora—through the mediums of Jewishness and sound.
About SCJS Events
- The Stroum Center brings world-class speakers and performers to the UW
- Nearly all Stroum Center events are offered to students and the public free of charge!
- Our programming partners on campus include the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the UW School of Drama, the Department of Philosophy, the Ethnomusicology Program, and the Henry Art Gallery.
- Our annual marquee event, the Stroum Lectures, began in the 1970s and is still going strong
- The Stroum Center frequently partners to support events happening in the community, such as the Seattle Jewish Film Festival and Torathon.
- Examples of recent innovative program series: Judaism Confronts Human Injustice (Winter 2012) and New Voices in World Jewish Music (Winter 2013)