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How Iraqi Jews are reclaiming their cultural legacy in Israel

Grad Fellow Pablo Maldonado explains how, following their forced migration in the 1950s, Israel's Middle Eastern Jewish community is reconnecting with its heritage through music.

By Stroum Center Admin| 2018-04-05T13:04:19+00:00 March 27th, 2018|Categories: Arts & Culture, Global Judaism, Grad Student Writing, Israel & Hebrew Studies, Student Writing|Tags: Middle East, Mizrahi, Music, Refugees|0 Comments
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“An unjustified s(ch)mear campaign”: Narratives of American Jewish food

Rachel Gross tracks popular narratives around American Jewish cuisine- and deli food's recent resuscitation.

By Emily Thompson| 2018-01-22T10:14:13+00:00 November 15th, 2017|Categories: Arts & Culture|Tags: American Jewish Community, Events, Food, Jewish Identity|0 Comments
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  • Estrea Chiprut, Matilda Barkey & Diana DeLeon

Announcing the Benmayor Collection of Eastern Sephardic Ballads

Dr. Rina Benmayor tells the story of the Benmayor Collection of Eastern Sephardic Ballads, a new addition to the Stroum Center's Sephardic Digital Library.

By Stroum Center Admin| 2017-09-04T22:41:11+00:00 February 7th, 2017|Categories: Arts & Culture, Digital Jewish Studies, News, Sephardic Studies|Tags: Music, Sephardic Studies, Sephardic Studies Digital Library & Museum|0 Comments
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Is It Time to Reconsider Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s Jews?

New theories about Shakespeare's collaborative authorship could shed light on his portrayal of Jewish characters.

By Hannah Pressman| 2017-09-04T22:41:16+00:00 December 4th, 2016|Categories: Arts & Culture, Featured, Grad Student Writing|Tags: Europe, Graduate Fellows, Jewish Identity|0 Comments
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  • Rachel Weisz as writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt in "Denial." Photo Credit: Laurie Sparham, Bleecker Street.

Questions of Denial

Where is the line between truth and opinion? One among many questions raised at a recent screening of "Denial," about Deborah E. Lipstadt's court battle.

By Esra Bakkalbasioglu| 2017-09-04T22:41:19+00:00 November 7th, 2016|Categories: Arts & Culture, Grad Student Writing|Tags: Esra Bakkalbasioglu, Europe, Graduate Fellows, Holocaust|0 Comments
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Reading the Bible Between the Lines in Aviya Kushner’s Grammar of God

One of the deep pleasures of exploring the Bible with Aviya Kushner is finding the foreignness in a familiar text.

By Hannah Pressman| 2017-09-04T22:41:24+00:00 June 16th, 2016|Categories: Arts & Culture|Tags: Comparative Religion, Hannah Pressman, Hebrew, New Books, Religion & Ritual|0 Comments
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  • Dara Horn spoke about S.Y. Agnon, Hebrew in America, and reading herself in translation at her Stroum Lecture. University of Washington, May 23rd, 2016. Photo by Meryl Schenker.

Denise Grollmus interviews Dara Horn about Hebrew and Yiddish

Novelist Dara Horn spoke with Denise Grollmus about her relationship with Hebrew, a language with "emotional and cosmic significance."

By Denise Grollmus| 2017-12-29T13:29:33+00:00 June 9th, 2016|Categories: Arts & Culture, News, Our Events|Tags: American Jewish Community, Hebrew, Seattle|0 Comments
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Surviving the Survival on Göran Rosenberg’s Road from Auschwitz

The Swedish journalist Göran Rosenberg retraced his father’s wartime journeys from one hellish landscape to another. Find out more about his evocative memoir and recent Seattle visit.

By Hannah Pressman| 2017-09-04T22:41:38+00:00 December 9th, 2015|Categories: Arts & Culture, News, Our Events|Tags: Book Talk, Europe, Hannah Pressman, Holocaust, Yiddish|0 Comments
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