2025 Impact Report
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Marking 50 years of impact on campus, in the community, and around the globe
On March 11, 2025, faculty, students, and members of the public gathered to celebrate 50 years of impact at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and to reflect on Jewish Studies in the current climate.
UW and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum host AI and Holocaust Symposium
Faculty member Ben Lee discusses the impact of AI on Holocaust studies and a recent symposium discussing the use of these technologies in Holocaust research.
Roma Holocaust experience and relational memory
Professor Liora Halperin summarizes Ari Joskowicz's UW lecture (and research) into the Roma experience during the Holocaust. This includes touching on the role of relational memory.
Native New Yorkers Jack Zaraya and Wendy Sabin create new fund to support the Sephardic Studies Program at the UW
Jack Zaraya and Wendy Sabin, longtime residents of New York City, have created an endowed fund to support Sephardic Studies and honor the memory of Danny and Lily Zaraya.
The building of the UW’s Sephardic Studies Program, from “Safeway archives” to one of the world’s largest Sephardic digital collections and more
In a panel on March 11, 2025, speakers discussed the history of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington as part of the Stroum Center's 50th anniversary celebration.
Nearly one hundred years ago a group of American Jews hatched a plan to end the kibbutz. Today it looks like their plan might have worked
As kibbutzim (Jewish collective farms) began to form in British Palestine in the early 1900s, American Jewish businessmen worked hard to promote an alternate model of private homeownership — one that has largely won out today, writes graduate fellow Jake Beckert.
STROUM LECTURES 2025 | Jewish Women in Antiquity: Untold Stories of Leadership and Desire
Dr. Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis University) discusses the surprising roles and relationships held by women — and individuals categorized as neither women nor men — in synagogues and churches in the Early Roman Empire.