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.
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.
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.
Dr. Gilah Kletenik and Dr. Devin Naar discussed the past, present and future of Jewish Studies with Dr. Daniel Heller in "Today's Campus Conflicts and the Future of Jewish Studies," a conversation on March 11, 2025.
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.
2024 Stroum Lecturer Marion Kaplan discusses how German Jews reacted emotionally in the hopeful era after Emancipation (1870-1918), and in their odyssey fleeing from Nazi persecution (1933-1945).
In the 11th annual Ladino Day, author Elizabeth Graver discusses her new novel, “Kantika,” a moving, multi-generational saga inspired by Graver’s grandmother.
In a multi-faceted performance, Anthony Russell and accordionist Dmitri Gaskin explore W.E.B. DuBois' provocative question, "How does it feel to be a problem?" refracted through the texts and musical idioms of the African American South and Jewish Eastern Europe.
