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Video: Ladino Day 2018 celebrates Sephardic folktales, language and culture

Watch folklorist François Azar's talk on Jewish folktales of the Mediterranean and a Ladino-language performance of "The Jewish Parrot" in 2018's International Ladino Day celebration.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2019-02-08T11:41:29-08:00January 24th, 2019|Categories: Our Events, Sephardic Studies, Video|Tags: Folktales, Ladino, Ladino Day 2018, Sephardic Studies|3 Comments

Stroum Center faculty respond to Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Jewish Studies faculty share perspectives on anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic violence.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-11-21T11:17:48-08:00November 12th, 2018|Categories: News, Our Events, Video|Tags: Anti-Semitism, Devin Naar, Pittsburgh Shooting, Refugees|0 Comments

Video: Gary Shteyngart discusses his new novel and “the new dystopia” of America in the 2018 Stroum Lectures

Author Gary Shteyngart shares tales from the world of hedge fund management and Trump's America that informed his new novel "Lake Success."

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-08-19T21:15:16-08:00August 8th, 2018|Categories: Our Events, Video|Tags: Literature, Politics, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments

Video: Gary Shteyngart reflects on immigration, memory, and Russian Jews in the 2018 Stroum Lectures

Author Gary Shteyngart, in conversation with Professor Sasha Senderovich, shares stories from his memoir "Little Failure."

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-09-03T13:45:39-08:00August 3rd, 2018|Categories: Our Events, Video|Tags: Immigrants, Literature, Russia, Soviet Union, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments

Video: Jonathan Israel on Spinoza as a Revolutionary

Professor Jonathan Israel explores Spinoza's role as a revolutionary thinker and precursor to the modern human rights movement in the 2017 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies.

By Kara Schoonmaker|2017-09-25T16:29:17-08:00July 20th, 2017|Categories: Digital Jewish Studies, Jewish History & Thought, Our Events, Video|Tags: Enlightenment, Europe, History, Jonathan Israel, Philosophy, Spinoza, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments

Devin E. Naar’s “Jewish Salonica” Book Release

Mazel tov to Dr. Devin E. Naar, whose archival work for "Jewish Salonica," his first book, won two National Jewish Book Awards.

By Hannah Pressman|2018-01-22T10:24:17-08:00January 18th, 2017|Categories: News, Our Events, Sephardic Studies, Video|Tags: Devin Naar, Faculty Publications, Ladino, Ottoman Empire, Our Events, Sephardic|0 Comments

UW Grad Creates Digital Museum Exhibit on a “Sephardic Lighthouse”

Ashley Bobman, UW Class of 2016, helped create an online exhibit about the Sephardic intellectual Albert D. Levy--her own great-grandfather.

By Hannah Pressman|2018-08-05T21:58:47-08:00November 4th, 2016|Categories: Sephardic Studies, Video|Tags: American Jewish Community, Devin Naar, Ladino, Sephardic, Ty Alhadeff|1 Comment

Hebrew and the Humanities Symposium offers views on the future of Hebrew

How does Hebrew study reflect the position of the humanities in higher education? Watch (and read) 2016 conference participants' answers to this and other questions about Hebrew's place in the United States and in higher ed.

By Hannah Pressman|2017-12-29T13:23:39-08:00June 25th, 2016|Categories: Digital Jewish Studies, Israel & Hebrew Studies, Our Events, Video|Tags: Hannah Pressman, Hebrew, Naomi Sokoloff, Our Events, Stroum Lectures, Video|0 Comments