As a premiere hub for Jewish Studies, the Stroum Center features an internationally recognized Sephardic Studies Program, a growing Israel Studies Program, and a vibrant undergraduate and graduate community.
Upcoming Events
2/23 EVENT | Jews and Race with Susan Glenn
Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 7:00pm.
EVENT | Muestras Artistas
Coming in late February of 2023. More details to come.
11/15 TALK | Territories of Ladino in its Postvernacular Mode
Tuesday, November 15, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PT
Location: Denny Hall 213, UW Campus
Latest Articles
Learning Ladino to preserve Sephardic culture for future generations
Anna Jacoby as a baby with her great-grandmother, Beya "Betty" Policar Alhadeff (1912-2004). Betty and her family, including her parents
Why Israel isn’t a settler colonial state
Dr. Alan Dowty analyzes various aspects of Israel's past and present to determine that it is not a settler colonial state, at least not by the usual definition.
Expanding what it meant to be Jewish in East Germany as the Berlin Wall fell
Ph.D. candidate Katja Schatte explains how ideas of Jewishness gradually expanded in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) starting in the mid-1980s.
Soletreo lessons from my great-grandfather
Hannah S. Pressman describes her journey learning soletreo, and how it can help scholars and family historians alike access their Sephardic pasts.
UW sophomore Lauren Zarlingo applies digital text encoding tools to Ladino newspapers
With the tools learned in a textual studies course, Lauren Zarlingo encoded two English sections from La Vara, New York's longest running Ladino newspaper.
Activist ancestors: Reaching towards the Jewish Labour Bund’s strategies for cultural organizing
Graduate fellow Shelby Handler shares the history of the General History Labor Bund, the 20th-century Jewish socialist organization that inspired her new collection of poetry.
