Arts & Culture
Pre-Lecture Discussion of Gary Shteyngart’s “Little Failure”
Stroum Jewish Community Center 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island, WA, United StatesDiscuss author and 2018 Stroum Lecturer Gary Shteyngart's memoir "Little Failure" with UW Professor Sasha Senderovich.
STUDENT EVENT: Discuss Gary Shteyngart’s “Little Failure”
RSVP for locationSTUDENTS! Join UW Professor Sasha Senderovich for dinner and a discussion of 2018 Stroum Lecturer Gary Shteyngart's memoir "Little Failure."
Failure is an Option: Immigration, Memory, and the Russian Jewish Experience with Gary Shteyngart
Kane Hall 120 4069 Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, USThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2018 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series with Gary Shteyngart. A decade and a half ago, with
I Alone Can Fix It: Tales from the New Dystopia with Gary Shteyngart
Kane Hall 120 4069 Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, USThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2018 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series with Gary Shteyngart. A decade and a half ago, with
SIFF Film: The Oslo Diaries
An in-depth documentary the Israelis and Palestinians who met in Norway—secretly and against the law—to try to bring an end to one of the most intractable conflicts of our time.
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)” Book Launch
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesProfessor Naomi Sokoloff will discuss her new collection of essays on Hebrew in America and around the world, co-edited with Professor Nancy Berg.
Ladino Day 2018: Jewish Folktales of the Mediterranean
Kane Hall 130 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesLadino Day 2018 will showcase Paris-based author François Azar's collections of Ladino folktales, which bring Sephardic traditions to new generations.
STUDENT/FACULTY EVENT: Writing Displacement: A Seminar on Memoir with Author Ayelet Tsabari
RSVP for venueWriter Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her new memoir, "The Art of Leaving," and the process of writing and publishing literary nonfiction.
“The Art of Leaving” with Author Ayelet Tsabari: Language, Longing, and Belonging
Ethnic Cultural Theater 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WAWriter Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her new memoir of immigration to and from Israel, "The Art of Leaving," with Professor Sasha Senderovich.
3/13 CONCERT | Singing the Sephardic Diaspora: Mediterranean Elements in Judeo-Spanish Choral Arrangements
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, USLadino songs reflect a wealth of musical influences, from Turkish scales to Balkan rhythms. In this lecture-recital, recent Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) graduate Sarah Riskind will discuss Mediterranean features of Sephardic music and how they can be highlighted in arrangements for chorus.
Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight | Children of the Inquisition
AMC Pacific Place 600 Pine Street, Seattle, WA, United StatesDirector Joseph Lovett's new documentary tells the stories of people with Spanish and Portuguese heritage who discover their ancestors were Jewish.
Seattle Jewish Film Festival | The Tobacconist
SIFF Cinema Uptown 511 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA, United StatesDirector Nikolaus Leytner's 2018 film portrays the connection between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and a young man in Nazi-occupied Austria.
Katja Petrowskaja: A Family Story Between Memory and Forgetting
Communications 120 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe writer Katja Petrowskaja will speak about family history and memory in conversation with Sasha Senderovich.
Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight | The Final Hour
WA, United StatesA new documentary follows a young Sephardic woman who has just come to the realization that her ancestral language, Ladino, is on the verge of extinction.
11/18 DISCUSSION | “Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making”
A conversation between Naomi Sokoloff and Nancy Berg, co-editors of the new collection "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making," and many of the contributors.