Annual report highlights Stroum Center’s impact in 2023-2024
View highlights from the 2023-2024 year, which focused on student support, responsive programming, and initiatives in Sephardic Studies.
View highlights from the 2023-2024 year, which focused on student support, responsive programming, and initiatives in Sephardic Studies.
View the Impact Report as a PDF
Stroum Center Director Mika Ahuvia writes about the past year and the Stroum Center's public education mission.
In the 12th annual Ladino Day, bestselling fantasy author Leigh Bardugo ("Shadow and Bone") discusses her new novel, "The Familiar," its use of Ladino, and the family history that inspired it, with UW professor Canan Bolel.
Presented with the Sephardic Brotherhood of America, this writing contest opened a new space for Sephardic stories.
Winner, general category. A conscripted husband miraculously reunites with his pregnant wife after fighting in the Balkan Wars in the Ottoman army — the great-grandfather and great-grandmother of author Nuia Menda Malki.
Runner up, general category. Gloria DeVida Kirchheimer offers a hilarious tribute to her feisty, theatrical mom, who came from Alexandria, Egypt, to New York in the 1930s.
Winner, student category. Liza Cemel tells the story of her family's history, first across cities in Turkey, then across countries, bringing their validjas of memories and relationships with them.