BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T113000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055018 CREATED:20240923T185920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250716T164210Z UID:43602-1733652000-1733657400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:12/8 LADINO DAY | "The Familiar" with Author Leigh Bardugo DESCRIPTION:In Ladino Day 2024\, acclaimed fantasy author Leigh Bardugo (“Shadow and Bone”) discusses her new novel\, “The Familiar\,” which features a Sephardic Jewish heroine in 16th-century Spain who draws magic and power from her family’s secret language\, Ladino\, also known as Judeo-Spanish. \n\nAbout the event\n\nIn this event\, author Leigh Bardugo discusses her new novel\, “The Familiar\,” and its use of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)  with UW faculty member Canan Bolel\, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. \nIn the novel\, Bardugo follows the struggles of a “converso” heroine — from a family forced to convert to Christianity and keep its Jewish heritage secret in 16th-century Spain — who draws magic from her family’s secret language\, Ladino\, and the refranes (sayings) that preserve Sephardic Jewish wit and wisdom across time. \nIn the conversation\, Bardguo discusses what drew her to this story and setting\, how she wove Ladino into her narrative\, the family history that inspired her\, and the collaboration with Bolel that led to the selection of refranes included in the book. \nAbout Leigh Bardugo & Canan Bolel\n\nLeigh Bardugo is the New York Times bestselling author of “The Familiar” and “Ninth House\,” and is the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy\, the Six of Crows duology\, the King of Scars duology. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University.\n \nCanan Bolel is a historian of the Ottoman Empire’s Jewish communities and is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Her first book project\, “Constructions of Jewish Modernity and Marginality in Izmir\, 1860–1907\,” explores how Sephardic Jews constituted their identities in imperial and communal settings\, focusing on marginalized Jews — the diseased\, criminals\, and converts to Christianity. She teaches courses on Ladino every year at the UW\, and consulted on the use of Ladino in “The Familiar.”\n\nLadino Day 2024 is supported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies. This event is cosponsored by the Departments of History\, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures\, Spanish & Portuguese Studies and the Arts & Sciences Humanities Division at the University of Washington\, as well as the American Ladino League\, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2024-the-familiar-leigh-bardugo-sephardic-jews/ LOCATION:Kane Hall 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105 CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ladino-Day-2024_for-website-V-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055018 CREATED:20240103T000837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T183123Z UID:42822-1712862000-1712867400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:4/11 LECTURE | Contemporary Ethiopian Artists in Israel and the Question of Hyphenated Identity DESCRIPTION:Artist and researcher Efrat Yerday will draw upon the work of several contemporary visual artists\, including Zauditu Yossef-Seri\, Tgst Ron Yossef\, Michal Mamit Worku\, and Nirit Takele\, as well as the works of younger artists\, including Ephraim Wasse\, Jenet Belai\, and Rachel Aniyu\, to illustrate the challenges faced by Ethiopian Jewish artists in Israel today. \nYerday will discuss how Israeli artists of Ethiopian descent often feel forced to choose one side of their identity in their lives and work\, along with the diverse strategies these artists use to navigate these challenges. \nRegister Now >\n\nAbout the speaker\nEfrat Yerday is an artist and researcher\, poet and cultural entrepreneur. She is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Tel Aviv University\, writing about Ethiopian Jews in Israel between 1955-1975 and the struggle for citizenship. Yerday is also the chairwoman of the Association for Ethiopian Jews and in 2020 won New Israel Fund’s Gallanter Prize for emerging Israeli social justice leaders. \nYerday is the co-editor of “The Monk and the Lion: Contemporary Ethiopian Visual Art in Israel” (Achoti Press\, 2017) and wrote the epilogue for the 2018 Hebrew translation of Zora Neal Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” In 2018\, Yerday joined film director Bazi Gete in coordinating the Atesib! African film festival\, the first of its kind in Israel. \nHer scholarly work has appeared in the journal Anthropology of the Middle East and she was a panelist and presenter at the Annual Israeli Sociological Society Conference in 2020 and 2021. \n\nThis event is cosponsored by the UW African Studies Program. \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/efrat-yerday-ethiopian-artists-in-israel-hyphenated-identity/ LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/פרופיל-2022-Efrat-Yerday-1-scaled-e1704240456264.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240328T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240328T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055018 CREATED:20231107T215930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T173119Z UID:42645-1711652400-1711657800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:3/28 LECTURE | Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Ladino Folksongs Today DESCRIPTION:Drawing on his forthcoming book\, “Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today\,” musicologist Edwin Seroussi will examine a repertoire of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) folksongs transmitted by Sephardic Jews\, a process made possible by a complex network of people and forces extending from the distant past to the “post-tradition era” of the present. \nIn addition to the lecture\, Ke Guo\, musician and Ph.D. candidate in the UW School of Music\, will perform Sephardic folksongs. \nRegister Now >\n\nAlso register for Edwin Seroussi’s talk on Wednesday\, March 27\, at 7:00 p.m.:\nA Spark of King David: The Musical Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara Then and Now \n\nAbout the speaker\nEdwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre\, Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College and\, in 2023/4\, Fellow at the Herbert G. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on Jewish musical cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East and their interactions with Islamic cultures\, Judeo-Spanish song and music in Israel. He explores processes of hybridization\, diaspora\, nationalism and transnationalism in diverse contexts and historical periods such as the Ottoman Empire\, colonial Morocco and Algeria\, Germany’s Second Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire\, the Zionist settlement in Palestine and the Judeo-Spanish-speaking diaspora. \n\nThis series is cosponsored by the UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the UW Middle East Center\, the UW Near and Middle East Studies Ph.D. Program\, ArtsUW\, part of the College of Arts and Sciences\, and by the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington. \nIt is presented by the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement\, created in partnership with the Isaac Alhadeff Foundation and the Benoliel Family Fund\, with additional support provided by Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, as well as Jack I. Azose\, Howard Behar\, Harley and Lela Franco\, Jeff and Jamie Merriman Cohen\, Jack Schaloum and Marlene Souriano Vinikoor.\n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or by emailing jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/edwin-seroussi-judeo-spanish-folksongs/ LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98103\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Sonic-Ruins-of-Modernity-photo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240327T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240327T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055018 CREATED:20240109T185931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T192246Z UID:42827-1711566000-1711571400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:3/27 EVENT | A Spark of King David: The Musical Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara Then and Now DESCRIPTION:Can a 16th-century religious Hebrew poet remain relevant to contemporary audiences? Rabbi Israel Najara’s poetic legacy proves that this is indeed possible. A Middle Eastern contemporary of William Shakespeare\, nicknamed “A Spark of King David” by his followers\, Najara’s poems continue to be used for Jewish rituals and festivities in the present day. \nJoin us to hear from Professor Edwin Seroussiwhy Rabbi Najara’s poetry of hope and redemption has persisted in synagogues\, in Jewish homes\, and on Israeli pop stages to this very day. \nRegister Now >\nAlso register for Edwin Seroussi’s talk on Thursday\, March 28\, at 7:00 p.m.:\nSonic Ruins of Modernity: Ladino Folksongs Today \n\nAbout the speaker\n \nEdwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre\, Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College and\, in 2023/4\, Fellow at the Herbert G. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on Jewish musical cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East and their interactions with Islamic cultures\, Judeo-Spanish song and music in Israel. He explores processes of hybridization\, diaspora\, nationalism and transnationalism in diverse contexts and historical periods such as the Ottoman Empire\, colonial Morocco and Algeria\, Germany’s Second Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire\, the Zionist settlement in Palestine and the Judeo-Spanish-speaking diaspora.\n\nThis series is cosponsored by the UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the UW Middle East Center\, the UW Near and Middle East Studies Ph.D. Program\, ArtsUW\, part of the College of Arts and Sciences\, and by the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington. \nIt was made possible with the support of the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement\, which was created in partnership with the Isaac Alhadeff Foundation and the Benoliel Family Fund\, with additional support provided by Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, as well as Jack I. Azose\, Howard Behar\, Harley and Lela Franco\, Jeff and Jamie Merriman Cohen\, Jack Schaloum and Marlene Souriano Vinikoor.\n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or by emailing jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/musical-poetry-of-rabbi-israel-najara/ LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Israel Studies,Sephardic Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Edwin_Seroussi-Najara-collage-e1704826813888.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055018 CREATED:20240209T183135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T233026Z UID:43011-1709121600-1709125200@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:2/28 LUNCH & LEARN | The Invention of the Postcard: The Circulation of Jewish Visual Culture in Ottoman and Greek Salonica with Shalom Sabar DESCRIPTION:The invention of the postcard in the late nineteenth century revolutionized how people exchanged information and images. While first introduced in the United States\, the postcard quickly spread across the world. In the realm of the Ottoman Empire\, where post offices had operated since the middle of the nineteenth century\, the postcard added a new dimension to the emerging technologies of communication. \nJoin us to hear Professor Shalom Sabar discuss how his review of extensive collections of Jewish postcards from Salonica (1897-1917) helps us to understand the self-perception and the experience of the Jews living in the city. \nLunch will be provided. This event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Click the button below to register: \nRegister Now > \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Division of Art History at the University of Washington. \n \nAbout the speaker\nShalom Sabar is a Professor Emeritus of Jewish Art and Folklore at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. in Art History at the University of California\, Los Angeles in 1987. He is the author of more than 250 publications exploring Jewish art and the material culture of Jewish communities in the Sephardi and Ashkenazi worlds in Europe and the Islamic East. His research areas include Jewish ceremonies and rituals\, life cycle events\, objects of daily life\, ephemera\, folk art\, amulets\, and magic\, as well as the visual culture of illustrated Hebrew books and manuscripts. Shalom Sabar is also an avid collector of Israeli and Jewish ephemera and has guided numerous traveling seminars to Jewish sites in Europe\, North Africa\, India\, and Central Asia \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. \n  URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/shalom-sabar-lunch-and-learn-winter-2024/ LOCATION:Thomson Hall 317\, Thomson Hall 317\, Seattle CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sephardic-postcard.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240222T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20240102T220219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T222328Z UID:42778-1708628400-1708633800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:2/22 LECTURE | Jerusalem in Rome and Galilee: Encountering the Holy City in Jewish and Christian Mosaics DESCRIPTION:The city of Jerusalem has long been of vital importance to numerous religious groups\, from antiquity to the present. But where did rank-and-file believers in the ancient world actually encounter images of the “Holy City” in their daily lives? And what cultural and social work did these images perform? \nJoin Professors Karen Britt and Ra‘anan Boustan as they explore a wide range of depictions of Jerusalem in floor and wall mosaics produced during late antiquity (third to eighth centuries CE). During this period\, which saw the emergence of both orthodox Christianity and novel forms of Judaism\, visual representations of Jerusalem became increasingly prominent in the decoration of religious buildings throughout the Mediterranean\, from the grand basilicas of Rome in the west to rural synagogues and churches in Palestine and Arabia in the east. They will show how images of Jerusalem bridged the great gaps in both space and time that separated the religious communities of late antiquity from Jerusalem and its glorious past. In the process\, these images brought the visual presence of the Holy City into spaces of worship throughout the Roman Empire\, thereby fostering memories of the past\, hopes for the future\, and forging networks of belonging that radiated out from this sacred center into the cities\, towns\, and even villages of the late Roman world. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Middle East Center in the Jackson School of International Studies\, the School of Art + Art History + Design\, the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, and the Department of Classics at the University of Washington. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, however RSVP is required. Click the button below to register: \nRegister Now >\nAbout the speakers\n\nKaren Britt is assistant professor of art history at Northwest Missouri State University. As an art historian engaged in archaeology\, her research focuses on the eastern Mediterranean. She has worked on archaeological projects at various sites in the region\, and is currently the mosaics specialist for the Huqoq Excavation Project in Israel. In her scholarship\, Britt explores how architectural decoration\, in particular mosaics\, can illuminate culture and society in the late Roman\, Byzantine\, and early Islamic worlds. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the U.S. Department of State’s division of Educational and Cultural Affairs\, the J. William Fulbright Foundation\, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation\, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. She is the co-author of The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq (2017) and has authored or co-authored articles published in venues including Studies in Late Antiquity\, Journal of Late Antiquity\, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research\, Mediterranean Studies\, Journal of Art Historiography\, and Journal of Roman Archaeology. Britt has collaborated with Ra‘anan Boustan since 2014 on the publication of the synagogue mosaics in the village of Huqoq in lower eastern Galilee. \n Ra‘anan Boustan has been a Research Scholar in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University since 2017. Before coming to Princeton\, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of History at UCLA. Boustan’s work explores the dynamic intersections between Judaism and other Mediterranean religious traditions in late antiquity\, with a special focus on the impact of Christianization on Jewish culture and society. In addition to publishing numerous articles and edited volumes\, Boustan is the author of From Martyr to Mystic (2005) and co-author of The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq (2017). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of two international journals\, Jewish Studies Quarterly and Studies in Late Antiquity. Boustan is the site historian for the Huqoq Excavation Project and collaborates with Dr. Karen Britt on the publication of the mosaic floor in the site’s late fourth-century synagogue. \nBritt’s and Boustan’s collaboration represents a close partnership between a specialist in late antique material culture who has worked on mosaics at archaeological sites in the eastern Mediterranean and a historian of religion with expertise in literary evidence\, especially the Jewish textual tradition from the Hellenistic\, Roman\, and Byzantine periods. They endeavor not only to bring their respective tools and expertise to bear on their work on mosaics\, but more importantly to develop as much as possible a fully integrated approach that avoids privileging one type of historical source. \n \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jerusalem-rome-galilee-holy-city-jewish-christian-mosaics/ LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Israel Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Jerusalem_Madaba-Map-Mosaic.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20240102T220118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T204758Z UID:42765-1707418800-1707424200@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED | Time's Echo: The Second World War\, the Holocaust\, and the Music of Remembrance DESCRIPTION:Writer\, music critic\, and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler will present on the relationship between music\, war\, and memory\, as presented in his recent book Time’s Echo: The Second World War\, the Holocaust\, and the Music of Remembrance. \nNote: This event has been postponed. Check back soon for more information. \n \nAbout the speaker\n \nAn award-winning writer\, scholar and critic\, Jeremy Eichler is the author of Time’s Echo\, a new book on music\, war and memory that has been named “History Book of the Year” by The Sunday Times and hailed as “the outstanding music book of this and several years” by The Times Literary Supplement. Published by Knopf in North America and Faber in the U.K.\, Time’s Echo was a finalist for the UK’s premier non-fiction prize\, and is currently being translated into six languages. \nEichler is the recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for writing published in The New Yorker\, a fellowship from Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, and a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He earned his PhD in modern European history at Columbia University and has taught at Brandeis University. His criticism has appeared in The New York Times and many other national publications\, and since 2006\, he has served as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe. \n \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/times-echo-second-world-war-holocaust-music-of-remembrance/ LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Untitled-design.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240114T153000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20240105T205320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T192515Z UID:42849-1705240800-1705246200@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:1/14 EVENT | Photojournalist B.A. Van Sise\, “Invited to Life” Survivor Portraits DESCRIPTION:  URL:https://sjcc.org/event/photojournalist-b-a-van-sise-invited-to-life/ CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Invited-to-Life.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20230808T184954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231018T182713Z UID:42055-1698345000-1698350400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED | "Luminous": Book Talk and Art Showcase with Canadian Jewish Author and Artist Linda Dayan Frimer DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Canadian Studies Center (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)\, we are hosting Linda Dayan Frimer\, a Jewish artist with Eastern European roots from Vancouver\, Canada whose art focuses on the dignity and preservation of both culture and nature. \nThis event will start with a happy hour and art exhibit\, followed by a lecture. As part of our Stroum Center 50th Anniversary events\, Frimer will present on her new book\, Luminous: An artist’s story as a guide to radical creativity. She maintains that “radical creativity in this sense reaches the foundational core of self where real change occurs\, through the sharing of story\, art\, nature and culture in a global\, Canadian and Jewish context.” \nIn conversation with faculty member Galya Diment. \nNote: This event has been postponed to a TBD date later in the 2023-24 academic year. Check back soon for more information. \n\nCo-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. \nAbout the author and artist\nLinda Dayan Frimer is an internationally recognized artist and celebrated facilitator\, whose esthetically powerful works of art address memory\, trauma\, culture\, and the environment. Born in the wilderness town of Wells\, British Columbia\, Frimer was immersed in the wonder of the surrounding landscape. At a young age\, she overheard stories of the Holocaust and became determined to champion and protect the sanctity of all life forms. She turned to art as her natural medium. Her work with the Gesher Intergenerational Holocaust project made an astonishing contribution to healing trauma through creativity while her work with Cree artist George Littlechild resulted in a book entitled “In Honor of our Grandmothers”\, sharing reverence and championing dignity of those who have suffered. Frimer’s artworks have supported the work of environmental organizations such as the Trans Canada Trail\, Raincoast Conservation Foundation\, and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. “Some paintings beg comparison with Emily Carr’s famous forests\, but Frimer’s light-filled spaces and Post-Impressionist/Fauvist palette will hit a stronger emotional chord with many people” – in British Columbia Reviews by Michael Kluckner. Her new book\, nominated for many awards\, “Luminous: An artist’s story as a guide to radical creativity\,” reaches the foundational core where real change occurs. \nAbout the moderator\nGalya Diment is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington. Her teaching specialties include Russian literary and cultural history\, the works of Vladimir Nabokov\, and Russian Jewish film. \nProf. Diment received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and is on the editorial boards of Nabokov Studies\, Russian Studies in Literature\, and Studies in Russian and European Literature. She has authored and edited eight books\, among them “Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel” (1997; Paperback 2013)\, and “A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky” (2011; Paperback 2013). \nHer essay about her grandfather\, who was a rabbi near Vitebsk\, and his family was featured in a Vitebsk publication\, “Mishpoka\,” in 2013. Her articles have also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, New York Magazine\, and London Magazine. \nShe is currently working on a book about Jewish painters from Vitebsk at the turn of the twentieth century — “Vitebsk and Beyond: Yehuda Pen\, Marc Chagall\, and Leon Gaspard.” \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/10-26-event-book-talk-and-art-showcase-with-author-and-artist-linda-dayan-frimer/ LOCATION:Kane Hall 225\, UW Campus CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wild_Garden_of_Earthy_Delight-1600x1065-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20230123T235816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T230308Z UID:40877-1683226800-1683232200@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:5/4 STROUM LECTURE | "Between Me and the Other World"\, an Immersive Music Experience DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vrv1qEDeI&list=PL90oKJgqWC2aPPrKo70l0kj0I0ZYDncHa&index=2 LOCATION:Kane Hall 225\, UW Campus CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Anthony-Russell-Trio-Events-Main-Page.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20230225T005309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T230254Z UID:40817-1683054000-1683059400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:5/2 STROUM LECTURE | "Melodeklamatsiye": A Yiddish Performance Genre ? DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0SYoi6rzWo&list=PL90oKJgqWC2aPPrKo70l0kj0I0ZYDncHa&index=4 LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/hi-res-landing-event-page.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230322T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230322T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20230320T180153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230322T220821Z UID:41163-1679511600-1679517000@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:3/22 FILM + CONVERSATION (virtual) | "Divorce Denied" at Seattle Jewish Film Festival DESCRIPTION:Film: DIVORCE DENIED\nDavid Ofek and Mia Webb | Documentary | Israel | 2019 | Hebrew w/English subtitles | 59m | PG-13 \nIn Israel\, no Jewish divorce is complete without the man literally giving the woman back her freedom. The film follows several such “chained” women and their religious lawyer\, Batya\, as they embark on a struggle against the rabbinical courts. \nAccompanied by a Zoom webinar about the film; see below for details. Ticket and pass holders are pre-registered\, and will receive an initial confirmation and a reminder one (1) hour before the program starts. Please join us for this powerful conversation as part of both Israel@75 Birthday Series and Women’s History Month. \nPanel Conversation (March 22\, 7 pm): Dr. Smadar Ben-Natan\, affiliate faculty at UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and Israeli human rights lawyer and Rabbi Moshe Kletenik\, head of the Pacific Northwest Regional Beth Din speak with Prof. Mika Ahuvia of UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \nBuy Tickets > Streaming Window: March 13-26 \nTalk Sign-Up >\n\nTo learn more about the film and watch a trailer\, check out the SJFF event page. To browse the rest of the films offered this year at SJFF\, check out the Films page. For all things SJFF\, including FAQs\, ticket procurement\, etc.\, check out the event program page and watch the event trailer here. \n\nThis screening is sponsored by Jewish Family Service and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/3-22-virtual-film-screening-discussion-divorce-denied-at-seattle-jewish-film-festival/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DivorceDenied.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20230308T224326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T210541Z UID:41160-1678626000-1678633200@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:3/12 FILM | Sephardic Spotlight at Seattle Jewish Film Festival: "Alegría" (Happiness) DESCRIPTION:Film: ALEGRÍA\nVioleta Salama | Narrative Comedy/Drama | Spain | 2021 | Spanish\, Chelja w/English subtitles | 104m | PG \nThe North African city of Melilla—where Jews\, Muslims\, and Christians converge—is the unique backdrop for this moving\, comedic family drama where Alegría must face her Jewish family and rejected heritage during her niece’s Orthodox wedding. \nShowing with short film SONGS OF THE SEPHARDIM IN IZMIR. \nSpecial Event: Sephardic Spotlight + “Echar lashon”\nAt 12:55\, Prof. Canan Bolel of  UW Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures will briefly introduce Alegría and Songs of the Sephardim in Izmir. After the film ends around 3:10\, join us outside the theater to “echar lashon”\, the Sephardic version of schmoozing including coffee\, tea\, and biscochos! \nIn-Person Showtime: March 12 | AMC | 1 pm • Streaming Window: March 20-26 \nBuy Tickets >\n\nShort Film: SONGS OF THE SEPHARDIM IN IZMIR\nBrooke Saias\, Anna Clare Spelman | Short Documentary | Turkey | 2022 | English and Turkish\, Ladino w/Engish subtitles | 16m \nIn Izmir\, an ancient Turkish city rich with religious history and culture\, Ceni grew up hearing Ladino at home\, but the language wasn’t passed down. Through music and song\, Ceni finds a deep connection with her heritage and works to preserve Ladino—the endangered language of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain—for future generations. \n\nTo browse the rest of the films offered this year at SJFF\, check out the Films page. For all things SJFF\, including FAQs\, ticket procurement\, etc.\, check out the event program page and watch the event trailer here. \n\nThis screening is made possible by:\nFilm Sponsors:\nMaureen and Joel Benoliel\nCeleste and David Rind\, in memory of Bernice Rind z”l\nSamis Foundation \nCatering Sponsors: Dancing Goats Coffee\, Sholom Tea \nCommunity Partners: \n\nSeattle Sephardic Network\nSephardic Studies Program of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\nDepartment of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/3-12-film-sephardic-spotlight-at-seattle-jewish-film-festival-alegria-happiness/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine Street\, Seattle\, WA\, United States CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-sjff-alegria-film-SLIDE-1920-resized.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20221121T012950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T182201Z UID:40500-1677609000-1677618000@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:2/28 EVENT | "Muestros Artistas" [Our Artists] Sephardic Arts Symposium DESCRIPTION:Image: ‘The Inquisition’ by Ellen Benjoya Skotheim. \nJoin us for a celebration of Sephardic art\, music\, poetry and prose. “Muestros Artistas” [Our Artists] brings six Sephardic American artists together for the first time in Seattle to share their work with each other\, with our community\, and to explore what it means to create Sephardic art in the 21st century. \nWatch the program now:\n \nFeatured artists include: \n\nAsher Shasho Levy — musician and hazzan\nEllen Benjoya Skotheim — multidisciplinary artist\nHarry Naar — painter\nJane Mushabac — playwright and writer\nSarah Aroeste — singer-songwriter and author\nTom Haviv — writer\, artist\, and publisher\n\nOn Tuesday\, February 28\, the two-day symposium event will culminate in a showcase that is free and open to the public. There\, you can enjoy Sephardic fare\, artist performances and a panel discussion led by Gabriel Solis\, Divisional Dean of the Arts. \nPresented by the Sephardic Studies Program and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.\nSupported by the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement in Sephardic Studies.\nCo-sponsored by HillelUW and the Division of the Arts at the University of Washington. \nAbout the artists\n\n\n Oudist\, vocalist\, and multi-instrumentalist Asher Shasho-Levy is a Syrian Jewish musician and scholar of Sephardic heritage and culture\, who seeks to spread the beauty of the Sephardic tradition through his writing\, recording\, research\, and concerts. He performs and teaches internationally and is the founder and leader of the Aram Soba Ensemble\, a group dedicated to the musical heritage of Syrian Jewry. Studying with elders and scholars in the Sephardic community of Los Angeles\, Asher has amassed a large repertoire of liturgical music\, secular song in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic\, as well as piyyutim\, pizmonim and baqashot\, the religious poetry and song of the Jewish Middle East. \n\n\n A Personal Odyssey from Maimonides to Benjoya bridges the gap between art and life\, the ancestral and the contemporary. Ms. Ellen Benjoya Skotheim’s work combines prints\, artist books and textiles to examine her Sephardic family’s history. This Jewish family left Spain during the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 and migrated to the Ottoman Empire where they remained until the beginning of World War I. Then the family emigrated to Cuba\, South America and the United States. Using a personal lens\, these works focus on a 500 year period of history. \n\nHarry Naar is professor emeritus of Fine Arts at Rider University in Lawrenceville\, NJ\, where he taught drawing\, painting\, and art history for nearly forty years. He served as the founder and director of the university’s art gallery and curator of the art collection. Along with curating several hundred exhibitions\, Naar has conducted interviews and written and published catalogs on numerous artists. Born in New Brunswick\, NJ\, he received his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and his MFA from Indiana University. He also studied in Paris where he met frequently with the figurative painter Jean Hélion. Naar is best known for his still lifes and landscapes\, and has exhibited his work in over thirty one-person exhibitions and over a hundred group exhibitions throughout the country\, including at the Corcoran Museum (D.C.)\, the High Museum (Atlanta)\, the NJ State Museum (Trenton)\, and abroad\, including in Moscow and Havana. His work is also included in numerous public and private art collections\, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters which awarded him the Hassam\, Speicher\, Betts and Symons Fund Purchase Award\, Bristol Myers Squibb Co.\, Vassar College\, The New Jersey State Museum\, Rutgers University\, and Johnson & Johnson. \n Writer Jane Mushabac’s many awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. Her work has been performed on National Public Radio\, at Jazz at Lincoln Center\, and in cities here and abroad; her writing has appeared in periodicals including Jewish Currents\, Midstream\, Aki Yerushalayim\, The Village Voice\, AJS Perspectives\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Sephardic Horizons\, and Chautauqua\, and has been translated into Russian\, German\, Bulgarian\, Turkish\, and Ladino. Her Ladino short stories and other pieces have been published in both Ladino and English.Her novel\, His Hundred Years\, A Tale\, introduces a scrappy Jewish peddler who sells his wares in theOttoman Empire and in New York. Her writing has been called “bold and ambitious” (Sewanee Review). Morris Dickstein praised her novel’s “crisp detail and dappled mosaic”; Ari Goldman said the novel “calls to mind the work of Orhan Pamuk—it’s that good”; Tovah Feldshuh said it’s “rowdy and absorbing.”Since 2018 Dr. Mushabac\, Professor emerita of City University of New York\, has curated the annual New York Ladino Day at the Center for Jewish History.\n\n Inspired by her family’s roots in Northern Macedonia and Greece\, Sarah Aroeste is determined to bring Sephardic culture to new audiences. Since 2001\, Aroeste has toured the globe presenting traditional and original Ladino songs with her unique blend of Balkan sounds\, pop\, and jazz. She has recorded eight albums\, including the all-original Ladino children’s album\, Ora de Despertar\, the bilingual Ladino/English holiday album Together/Endjuntos\, the boundary pushing Gracia\, a feminist musical homage to Sephardic heroine Doña Gracia Nasi\, and the award-winning Monastir\, an international musical tribute to a once thriving Balkan Jewish community. In 2014 she won the Sephardic prize at the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam\, and in 2015 she represented the USA in the International Sephardic Music Festival in Córdoba\, Spain. Sarah is currently co-directing her newest initiative\, Savor: A Sephardic Music & Food Experience\, which unites Sephardic song and cuisine in multi-sensory platforms. In addition to composing songs\, Sarah has published numerous articles and essays about Sephardic cultural preservation and writes Sephardic themed books for children\, including Buen Shabat\, Shabbat Shalom (Kar-Ben 2020)\, and the forthcoming Mazal Bueno (Kar-Ben 2023).\n\n\n \nTom Haviv is a writer\, artist\, educator\, and publisher based in New York. He authored a book of poetry\, Flag of No Nation (Jewish Currents\, 2019)\, and the children’s books\, Woven (Somewhere\, 2018) and The Porcupine Prince (Somewhere\, 2023). He is the cofounder and creative director of Ayin Press as well as the founder of the Hamsa Flag Project. \n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/muestros-artistas/ LOCATION:Kane Hall — Walker-Ames Room and 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Inquisition-Watercolor-resized-e1674013412910.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221204T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221204T113000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20230109T060101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241202T205806Z UID:40099-1670148000-1670153400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:12/4 EVENT | Ladino Day 2022: The Future of Ladino DESCRIPTION:Watch the program now:\n \nScholars\, writers\, and language activists working to preserve and revitalize Ladino join UW’s Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies\, in conversation regarding the future of the traditional language of Sephardi Jews. \nOn the tenth anniversary of Ladino Day\, UW’s Sephardic Studies Program presents four experts from different generations\, all working to revitalize Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)\, the traditional language of Sephardic Jews. \nThe program will feature\, in conversation with Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies: \n\nKaren Gerson Şarhon — editor-in-chief of the Ladino language publication El Amaneser\nNesi Altaras — editor of Avlaremoz\, a Turkish-Jewish online magazine\nRachel Amado Bortnick — founder of the Ladinokomunita online community\nEliezer Papo – Ladino scholar featured in the documentary “The Last Sephardic Jew”\n\nView the recording here. \nAbout the speakers\n\nBorn in Istanbul\, Karen Gerson Şarhon leads all of the projects at the Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center. In addition to founding that organization\, she also earned the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française in 2011 for her contribution to the world culture and her efforts in the preservation of Judeo-Spanish. After earning a BA in English Philology\, an MA in Social Psychology and an MA in Applied Linguistics\, Karen wrote both her MA theses on the Judeo-Spanish language! Now\, you can find her teaching Ladino on social media\, proudly serving as editor-in-chief of el amaneser [the only monthly newspaper in the world entirely in Ladino] and of the Judeo-Spanish page(s) of the Şalom newspaper [the only newspaper of the Turkish Jewish community]\, and singing in the authentic Turkish Sephardic music group she founded: Los Pasharos Sefaradis.\n Nesi Altaras is an Istanbuli Jew and editor of Avlaremoz\, a Jewish news platform in Turkish. He holds an MA in political science\, and his writing in English\, Turkish\, and Ladino has been published in various outlets. Nesi lives in Montreal where he works as the Digital Engagement Officer for the Institute for Reasearch on Public Policy.\n  \nBorn and raised in Izmir\, Rachel Amado Bortnick came to the United States in 1958 on a scholarship to Lindenwood College (now University) in St. Charles\, Missouri\, from which she earned a B.A. in Chemistry. She and American-born architect Bernard Bortnick went back to Izmir to get married and subsequently lived in Holland\, in Israel\, and several cities in the United States before settling in Dallas\, Texas in 1988. Rachel is now retired after teaching ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for 35 years. She has always actively promoted the preservation of Judeo-Spanish language and culture; in 1985\, while living in the San Francisco Bay area\, she founded and led the Ladino-speaking club Los Amigos Sefaradis\, and subsequently she was featured in the documentary film\, Trees Cry for Rain: a Sephardic Journey. In 1999 she founded Ladinokomunita\, the Ladino correspondence group on the Internet\, which now has over 1500 members worldwide.\n\nBorn and raised in Sarajevo\, Eliezer Papo‘s research centers on Hebrew/Jewish oral literatures\, with specialization in the field of Sephardic literatures (oral and written\, rabbinic and secular). His book And Thou Shall Jest with Your Son: Judeo-Spanish Parodies on the Passover Haggadah\, received the prestigious Ben-Tzvi award. Dr. Papo published around 50 articles\, in 10 different languages\, about different aspects of Sephardic culture and literature\, as well as four works of fiction — one in Ladino and three in Serbo-Croatian. \nAbout the facilitator\n\n\nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. As chair\, Naar has spearheaded a project to collect\, preserve and disseminate the rich Sephardic and Ladino historical\, literary and cultural heritage. After serving as a Fulbright fellow to Greece\, his first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. As a fellow in the Society of Scholars at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington in 2013-2014\, Dr. Naar began his second book project\, Reimagining the Sephardic Diaspora. He conducts research in Judeo-Spanish\, Greek\, Hebrew and French. \nSupported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies \nCosponsored by the Departments of History\, Linguistics\, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington\, as well as Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, Sephardic Heritage International (SHIN) DC\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington (TACAWA). \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2022-past-present-future/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Ladino-Day-2015-e1668711315591.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20220504T202308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T202308Z UID:39436-1653332400-1653337800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:5/23 EVENT| An Evening with Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.hilleluw.org/events/an-evening-with-gadeer-kamal-mreeh/#new_tab LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Student ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Gadeer-Kamal-Mreeh-cropped.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T120000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20220404T232418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T232452Z UID:39252-1653042600-1653048000@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:5/20 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In the Shadow of the Holocaust DESCRIPTION: URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/ CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Issachar_Ber_Ryback_-_Town.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T120000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20220404T232041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T232102Z UID:39250-1651833000-1651838400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:5/6 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In the Midst of Pogrom Violence DESCRIPTION: URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/ CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Issachar_Ber_Ryback_-_Town.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220423T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220423T151500 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20220126T002550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220218T005315Z UID:38512-1650722400-1650726900@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:COSPONSORED EVENT | De Inga y Mandinga: A Diaspora Tale from Latin America DESCRIPTION: URL:https://earlymusicseattle.org/events/de-inga-y-mandinga/#new_tab CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/De-Inga-y-Mandinga-artists-e1643156695767.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T120000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20220404T231817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T180801Z UID:39248-1650623400-1650628800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:4/22 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In Anticipation of the Revolution DESCRIPTION: URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/ CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Issachar_Ber_Ryback_-_Town.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T113000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20220318T000620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T210537Z UID:39090-1649584800-1649590200@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:4/10 PANEL | Perspectives on Cosmopolitan Istanbul in the Hit Netflix Series\, “The Club” DESCRIPTION:In this virtual panel\, scholars Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington)\, Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley)\, and Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University) will discuss the historical context and contemporary significance of the hit Turkish Netflix series\, “Kulüp” (“The Club”). A recorded interview with “Kulüp” writer Rana Denizer conducted by Melike Yücel-Koç (University of Washington) will also be screened at the event. \nThis event is supported by the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement in Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington. \nWatch the panel now: \n \n\nView the interview with Rana Denizer\, conducted by Melike Yücel-Koç\n\nAbout this talk\n\nPoster for “Kulüp” (“The Club”). (Source: IMDB) \nDespite the fraught political climate in Turkey today\, Neflix recently released an unprecedented and wildly popular hit series\, “Kulüp” (“The Club”)\, that brings to life the once-cosmopolitan world of 1950s Istanbul. \nThe show features Turkey’s first mainstream depictions of Sephardic Jewish culture\, Ladino language and song\, and multidimensional Jewish characters that challenge common stereotypes on the screen in Turkey and the United States. “Kulüp” also tackles difficult questions not only about the position of Jews\, but also other non-Muslim populations in Istanbul and Turkey more broadly — especially Greeks. \nHow does the show depict controversial historical moments\, such as the Varlık Vergisi affair\, a capital tax imposed by the Turkish state on non-Muslims in 1942\, and the “Events of September 6-7\,” riots in 1955 targeting Istanbul’s non-Muslims? \nWhat social\, political\, and cultural factors help explain the emergence of such a poignant depiction of mid-century Istanbul in the 21st century? \nThese questions\, and many more\, will be addressed by the panel of experts. \nA recorded interview in Turkish (with English subtitles) with “Kulüp” writer Rana Denizer conducted by Melike Yücel-Koç (University of Washington) will also be screened at the event. \nAbout the panelists\n\n Rana Denizer’s family story is the inspiration for “Kulüp.” She began sharing her story first with friends\, then on her blog and Twitter under the pseudonym Ranini. She is a lead writer for “Kulüp.” \n  \n  \nReşat Kasaba (University of Washington)\, Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Professor in American Foreign Policy\, is an expert in the history and politics of the Middle East and has taught undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Washington for over 30 years. Kasaba served as the director of the UW’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies for 10 years\, completing his tenure in June 2020. He is currently researching history of U.S. foreign policy in Turkey\, and the political consequences of rural-urban divide in modern Turkey. \nChristine Philliou (University of California\, Berkeley) is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Programs in Modern Greek/Hellenic Studies and Ottoman/Turkish Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of two books: Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution (University of California Press\, 2011; Greek edition Alexandria Press\, 2021; Turkish edition İş Bankası Kültür Press\, 2022) and Turkey: A Past Against History (University of California Press\, 2021; Greek edition Alexandria Press\, 2022). Philliou is currently working on a third book and developing a collaborative digital humanities project\, the aim of which is a granular reconstruction and analysis of the Greek Orthodox communities of late Ottoman Istanbul/Constantinople (1821-1923) using a wide range of Ottoman and Greek sources. \nAron Rodrigue (Stanford University) is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History and Burke Family Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford University. He teaches courses in Modern Jewish history\, the history and culture of Sephardic Jews\, and the Ottoman Empire. His scholarship focuses on the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in modern times\, and his writings are considered among the most influential in the field. Rodrigue has held fellowships at the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum\, among others. He was awarded the honor of Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013. \nAbout the moderators\n\nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and is faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, “Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\,” was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. \nMelike Yücel-Koç is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington\, where she teaches courses in elementary and intermediate Turkish\, including Turkish Language and Culture; Turkish TV Series: ETHOS; Oral History: The Stories of Immigrants in the U.S.; and an honors course titled Immigrants from the Middle East in the U.S. She also has academic experience as a graduate teaching assistant at Portland State University\, where she served as a Fulbright Scholar\, and as a graduate research assistant at Seattle Pacific University. Since 2017\, Yücel-Koç has been at work on a research project titled “Turkey in Seattle Oral History Project.” \n\nPresented in partnership with the department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Middle East Center\, as well as Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/kulup-the-club-perspectives-cosmopolitan-istanbul-hit-netflix-series-the-club/ CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/AW7Dd.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T210000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20210902T200705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T180824Z UID:37592-1635188400-1635195600@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:10/25 EVENT | "The Hangman": On Adolf Eichmann’s Executioner — Screening & Conversation with Director Netalie Braun DESCRIPTION:Following a screening of the 60-minute documentary\, director Netalie Braun discussed “The Hangman” with faculty member and Benaroya Fellow in Israel Studies Smadar Ben-Natan. \n*Stream “The Hangman” documentary any time as a $5 rental through Movie Discovery\, a distributor of Israeli & other international films.* \nAbout the event\nThe 2010 documentary “The Hangman” (“Hatalyan“) profiles Shalom Nagar\, the Yemenite Jew who guarded\, and eventually executed\, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. In spite of Eichmann’s role as a key organizer of the Holocaust\, Nagar didn’t wish to execute him. \nThe film reflects on the assignment of the executioner role to Nagar as illuminating the position of Mizrahi Jews in Holocaust memory in Israel. Nagar’s reflections on this experience\, and on the meaning of capital punishment even in the face of unforgivable acts\, raises pressing questions about crime and punishment in our time. \nArticles and essays related to the topic\, compiled by faculty member Smadar Ben-Natan\, are available below. \nFurther reading related to the documentary\nCurated by Smadar Ben-Natan\, 2021-22 Benaroya Fellow in Israel Studies \n\nDuring & following the Eichmann trial\n\n\n“Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil” by Hannah Arendt; view online study guide for the book\n“Buber Calls Eichmann Execution ‘Great Mistake’” by Lawrence Fellows\, The New York Times (1962)\n\n\nArticles for a general audience\n\n\n“Who Opposed Adolf Eichmann’s Execution?” by Amit Naor\, The Librarians\, National Library of Israel\n“‘I Don’t Know If This Letter Will Reach You’: The Letters Of Hannah Arendt And Gershom Scholem” by Nathan Goldman\, Los Angeles Review of Books\n\n\nAcademic articles\n\n\n“Theaters of Justice: Arendt in Jerusalem\, the Eichmann Trial\, and the Redefinition of Legal Meaning in the Wake of the Holocaust” by Shoshana Feldman\n“The Eichmann Trial – Toward a Jurisprudence of Eyewitness Testimonies of Atrocity?” by Leora Bilsky\n“Hangman’s Perspective: Three Genres of Critique Following Eichmann” by Itamar Mann\, available as PDF or video lecture\n\n\nBooks\n\n\n“Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial” by Leora Bilsky (University of Michigan Press\, 2004)\n\n\nAbout the participants\nNetalie Braun is a writer\, director and producer of documentary and fiction films\, and has won the Israeli Academy Award for best documentary. She currently teaches at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television in Tel Aviv University\, and was previously the artistic director of the International Women’s Film Festival in Israel. She has a B.A. in literature and philosophy and an M.A. in film studies from Tel Aviv University. Her films include “Hope I’m in the Frame\,” “The Hangman” & “Vow.” \nSmadar Ben-Natan is the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ 2020-2022 Benaroya Fellow in Israel Studies. She is a longtime Israeli human rights lawyer who completed her Ph.D. in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. She specializes in law & society and international law\, with a particular focus on the intersection of criminal justice\, national security and human rights. She holds a master’s in international human rights law\, with distinction\, from the University of Oxford (2011)\, and an LLB from Tel Aviv University (1995). URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/hangman-documentary-screening-conversation-director-netalie-braun/ CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Hangman-poster-cropped.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T171500 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20201229T235153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210416T223619Z UID:36095-1616083200-1616087700@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:VIDEO | Writing Trauma\, from the Holocaust to the Pandemic: Poetry from Immigrant Jewish Writers from the Former Soviet Union DESCRIPTION:In a combined conversation and reading\, writers Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan will discuss their poetry and the ways in which it speaks to traumas past and present with Sasha Senderovich\, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Slavic Languages & Literatures.\nWatch the talk now:\n \nAbout the event\nIn one of the poems addressed to her friend and written the morning after Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah) in April 2020 — as many parts of the United States were entering the second month of lockdowns necessitated by the spread of the Covid-19 virus — Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach queried:\nJust imagine\, one day we will ask our children\,\nRemember when the whole world stopped\ntouching? They’ll hug us and answer\, No.\nIn her poetic response later the same day\, Luisa Muradyan\, answering her friend — a fellow one-time immigrant from the Soviet Union and\, like her\, a mother of two young children born in the United States — speculated:\nI can’t decide what I’m more afraid of. My son\nbarreling across the room to hug strangers\,\nor my son barreling back away from others\,\npermanently terrified of touch.\nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach responded: \nI know you’ve had\nsuch days\, and far worse. It’s not\nthat bad\, we tell ourselves\, and hours later\,\nwe read poems about our dead ancestors\nwhile our children scream in the background\,\nraging against our history\, already inside them\,\nagainst an isolation that is the antonym\nof Jewish family.\n\nIn ways that are often provocatively quirky and brimming with U.S. American pop culture references (Muradyan) and influenced by theories of trauma (Kolchinsky Dasbach)\, each poet’s body of work dwells on the experiences of loss — of people\, lands\, words — across generations\, continents\, and languages.\nRegister for the event now > \nThis online event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. \nAbout the speakers\nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach (www.juliakolchinskydasbach.com) is the author of three poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother\, winner the Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press\, 2019) and finalist for the Jewish Book Award; Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press\, 2020)\, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize; and 40 WEEKS\, forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2023. Her recent poems appear in POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and The Nation\, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and is completing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on contemporary poetry about the Holocaust. She lives in Philly with her two kids\, two cats\, one dog\, and one husband.\nLuisa Muradyan (https://www.luisamuradyan.com) is originally from Ukraine and holds a Ph.D. in Poetry from the University of Houston where she was the recipient of an Inprint Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Fellowship and a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. She is the author of American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press) and was the Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from 2016-2018. She was also the recipient of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the 2016 Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Additionally\, Muradyan is a member of the Cheburashka Collective\, a group of women and non-binary writers from the former Soviet Union. Previous poems have appeared in the Threepenny Review\, The Missouri Review\, Coffee House Press\, Pleiades\, Poetry International\, and Ninth Letter among others.\nSasha Senderovich has published on Russian Jewish literature and culture in the Soviet Union and in the United States. His and Harriet Murav’s translation\, from the Yiddish\, of David Bergelson’s Judgment: A Novel was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017. His first book\, How the Soviet Jew Was Made\, is forthcoming (Harvard University Press\, 2022). URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/writing-trauma-poetry-kolchinsky-dasbach-muradyan/ LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Poet-portrait-II-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T140000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20210227T003528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T003611Z UID:36547-1615125600-1615384800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:3/7-10 COSPONSORED FILM | "From Cairo to the Cloud": SJFF Sephardic/Mizrahi Spotlight DESCRIPTION: URL:https://seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/documentary/from-cairo-to-the-cloud/eventsbycategory/-#new_tab CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cairo-to-the-Cloud-e1614369115109.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20201218T222619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210210T195056Z UID:36024-1613059200-1613062800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:2/11 TALK | Outside of the Frame: Enslaved Persons in New Testament Ethics DESCRIPTION:Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis University) will give a virtual talk on the ways early Christian authors sought theologically to form gender and other relationships. \nRegister Now\n  \nAbout the talk\nWives\, submit yourselves to your husbands\, as is fitting in the Lord.\nHusbands\, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.\nChildren\, obey your parents in everything\, for this pleases the Lord.\nFathers\, do not embitter your children\, or they will become discouraged.\nSlaves\, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it\, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor\, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord.\n— Colossians 3:18-22 \nThe New Testament books Colossians\, Ephesians\, Titus\, and 1 Peter enjoin either the weaker parties in a household (wives\, enslaved persons) or all parties (wives and husbands\, children and fathers\, enslaved persons and owners) to fulfill their respective duties. \nSubordinate persons\, however\, may well not have been able to fulfill these duties. Could an enslaved child obey their parents when the master or mistress said otherwise? Could an enslaved wife be subordinate to her husband? Would the mistress or master even recognize a relationship that an enslaved wife saw as marriage? Did mistresses treat their enslaved laborers differently from masters? \nThe answers to these questions will demonstrate that a child is never just a child\, but rather an enslaved\, freed\, or freeborn child\, who also differs by gender\, and that the same applies to other household members. In this lecture\, I will explore how the early Christian authors of these writings sought theologically to form gender\, freedom and enslavement\, and childhood and parenthood in relation to one another\, and how their ideas influenced the ancient world — and our modern one. \nAbout the speaker\nBernadette J. Brooten\, Brandeis University Professor emerita\, researches Jewish and Christian women’s history in the Roman world; female homoeroticism in the ancient Mediterranean; slavery in early Christianity; and sexual violence\, currently in collaboration with Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson. \nThe Feminist Sexual Ethics Project aims to create Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim sexual ethics rooted in freedom\, mutuality\, meaningful consent\, responsibility\, and the pleasure of each participant\, untainted by slave-holding values. Publications include: Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues (1982\, 2020); Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (1996; revised German edition\, 2020); and\, with the editorial assistance of Jacqueline L. Hazelton\, editor: Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies (2010). \nBrooten was a MacArthur Fellow and has held fellowships from the Harvard Law School\, the Fulbright Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies\, and many other agencies. In 2014\, the University of Bern awarded her a Dr. Theol.\, honoris causa. She previously taught at the School of Theology at Claremont\, the Claremont Graduate School\, the University of Tübingen\, Harvard University\, the University of Oslo\, and Williams College. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/2-11-brooten-household-codes/ LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Female-Slaves-Carthage.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20201216T230521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T223621Z UID:35995-1611763200-1611766800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:1/27 TALK | A Land of Milk and Honey: Biblical Narratives in Modern Israel DESCRIPTION:Ruth Tsoffar (University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor) will give an online talk exploring the “land of milk and honey” in the Bible\, and the way it has been mythologized in modern Israeli discourse. \nThis talk has already taken place\, but a recording is available below. \n\n\n  \nAbout the talk\n“Life in Citations\,” Ruth Tsoffar’s recent book\, tells a complicated story about the relationship of secular Israelis to biblical narratives. From the early days of Zionism\, the Bible has wielded an immense power as a “primal script\,” giving birth to nation\, selfhood and Jewish ontology. \nThe story of the twentieth-century arrival to Zion was conflated with the story of the exodus out of slavery and into the Promised Land. In this talk\, Tsoffar will explore the sublime space of milk and honey in the Bible and the way it has been mythologized in modern Israeli discourse. First\, Tsoffar will interrogate the utterance of “a land of milk and honey” for Moses through the burning bush in Exodus and the narrative of the twelve spies returning from an expedition to the Promised Land in Numbers. \nNumerous examples from art\, poetry and the eco-friendly industry of milk will help in tracing the historical development of the “land of milk and honey” from the Bible to various Zionist manifestations\, showing how the discourse of milk and honey has been mobilized as the cultural elixir of the nation. \nAbout the speaker\nRuth Tsoffar is a Professor of Women’s Studies\, Comparative Literature and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She is the author of “Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture\,” (Routledge\, Studies in Comparative Literature\, 2019) and the award-winning “The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women\,” (Wayne State University Press\, the Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology\, 2006). URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/tsoffar-a-land-of-milk-and-honey/ LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/milk-honey-630x428-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20201113T192810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201113T192810Z UID:35758-1605715200-1605718800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:11/18 DISCUSSION | "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://happenings.wustl.edu/event/book_launch_-_since_1948_israeli_literature_in_the_making#.X67dQNt7mXp#new_tab CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Since-1948-IG-e1605295652142.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200619T190000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20200302T210143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200616T175552Z UID:33825-1592420400-1592593200@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight | The Final Hour DESCRIPTION:Join the Seattle Jewish Film Festival for this year’s Sephardic Spotlight film\, the 2019 documentary “The Final Hour\,” directed by Ҫağlar Malli. The film will stream online from June 17 through June 19\, 2020 as part of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival’s 2020 online programming. \nAbout the film: Deniz Bensusan is a young Sephardic woman who has just come to the realization that her ancestral language\, Ladino (also known as Judeo-Spanish)\, is on the verge of extinction. Alarmed by the imminent demise of her heritage\, she embarks on a journey of discovery in an attempt to uncover the roots of her Sephardic culture\, language\, and traditions. She voyages across Europe through Turkey\, Greece\, Spain\, Portugal\, and Poland to visit sites where her relatives once lived and thrived. \nJoin producer Cem Kitapci\, subject Deniz Bensusan\, and UW Sephardic Studies Chair and Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies Devin Naar for a Zoom discussion of the film on June 21 at 1:00 p.m. \nAbout Cem Kitapci: Cem Kitapci has been in film production for ten years and is the cofounder of Case Productions UK Ltd. He coproduced “The Final Hour” with Selim Kemahli. \nBuy tickets and learn more on the Seattle Jewish Film Festival website. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-sephardic-spotlight-the-final-hour/ LOCATION:WA\, United States CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Final-Hour-doc.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T193000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20190830T171545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190830T190551Z UID:32765-1570471200-1570476600@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:Katja Petrowskaja: A Family Story Between Memory and Forgetting DESCRIPTION:The writer Katja Petrowskaja will discuss family history and memory with Sasha Senderovich. \nAbout the speaker\nKatja Petrowskaja was born in 1970 in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, studied literature at the University of Tartu in Estonia\, and was awarded fellowships to study at Columbia University and Stanford University. She received her doctorate in Moscow. Since 1999\, she has lived and worked as a journalist in Berlin. Maybe Esther (English translation in 2018 by Shelley Frisch) is her first book\,  was awarded the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2013 in Germany\, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Pushkin House Prize in the U.K. \nAbout this talk\nHow do you talk about what you can’t know\, and how do you bring the past to life? \nThe writer Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree\, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents\, some of whom lived through and others died in the 20th century’s many calamities\, including Stalinism and the Holocaust.In the stories of her travels to Russia\, Ukraine\, Germany\, Poland\, and the United States\, Petrowskaja reflects on a fragmented and traumatized century and brings to light family figures who threaten to drift into obscurity. Maybe Esther is a poignant\, haunting investigation of the effects of history on one family as well as a deeply affecting exploration of memory. \nThis talk is hosted by the departments of Germanics and Slavic Languages & Literatures. It is co-sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, the Simpson Center‘s Translation Studies Hub and the Transcultural Approaches to Europe Colloquium Series\, and the Goethe Pop Up Seattle. \nFree and open to UW students\, faculty\, staff\, and the larger public. \nRSVP: https://bit.ly/PetrowskajaUWEvent URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/petrowskaja-a-family-story-2019/ LOCATION:Communications 120\, UW Campus\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/petrowskaja.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190326T203500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190326T223000 DTSTAMP:20260421T055019 CREATED:20190308T210841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T232246Z UID:31622-1553632500-1553639400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival | The Tobacconist DESCRIPTION:Bruno Ganz as Sigmund Freud \n**The Stroum Center has a limited number of complimentary tickets available. If you are interested\, please contact jewishst@uw.edu. Include your contact information and the number of tickets you’d like. \nJoin the Seattle Jewish Film Festival for the 2018 film “The Tobacconist\,” directed by Nikolaus Leytner. \nFranz\, a 17-year-old boy from rural Austria\, comes to Vienna to apprentice in a smoke shop. Although tyranny under the Nazi occupation and hatred towards Jews has worsened oppression and conditions\, the tobacco store remains a small sanctuary for newspaper- and cigarette-seekers. He gradually befriends Sigmund Freud\, the renowned psychoanalyst and a regular customer. When the shop’s politically outspoken owner is taken away by the Nazis\, Franz and Freud stand at the crossroads of survival. \nBased on Austrian writer Robert Seethaler′s novel of the same name\, “The Tobacconist\,” is a tender and gripping coming-of-age story under tragic circumstances through the Freudian lens of dreams\, libido\, and death that transform a boy to a man. Actor Bruno Ganz (“Wings of Desire”) plays Freud. \nBuy tickets and learn more on the Seattle Jewish Film Festival website. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-the-tobacconist/ LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109\, United States CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Tobacconist.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR