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
5/23 Event | An Evening with Israeli/Druze Journalist Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh
May 23, 7:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. PT
Location: HUB 145
5/24 & 26 | Graduate Fellows Colloquia
Tuesday & Thursday, May 24 & 26, 12:00 p.m. PT
Zoom webinar
6/1 TALK | Silenced Horrors: Sexual Violence During the Holocaust in Ukraine
Wednesday, June 1, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PT
Zoom webinar
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What is Israel’s policy on Africa under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett?
Benjamin Netanyahu was known for strengthening ties between Israel and Africa. Will Israel's new government follow the former prime minister's lead? Grad fellow Francis Abugbilla explains the situation.
How imagined “bizarro worlds” invite us into the real worlds of ancient Israel and Egypt
Looking at ancient texts' "topsy-turvy" visions of the world can reveal a lot about the authors' assumptions, writes grad fellow Forrest Martin.
The shadow of the death penalty in Israel: Why is a legal punishment never used?
The death penalty is almost never used in Israel, but is still controversial. Postdoctoral fellow Smadar Ben-Natan explains.
What does it mean to be a minority? Anti-Jewish violence in medieval Egypt offers insights for today
Popular ideas about what it means to be a minority may change, but incidents of state-sanctioned violence remain eerily similar across millennia, explains Hazel D. Cole Fellow Brendan Goldman, a historian of the medieval Islamic world.
Crowdsourced photos capture Purim costumes inspired by Ottoman fashion
Archival photos capture Purim costumes worn by Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire and its offshoots.
Building a Sephardic Seattle community archive: Using many types of materials to preserve community history
Graduate fellow Lili Brown explains how community archives — community-centered archives that preserve all kinds of documents and materials — help researchers to construct richer pictures of the past, and how this approach is helping to preserve Seattle Sephardic history.
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