Arts & Culture
“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.
1/27 TALK | A Land of Milk and Honey: Biblical Narratives in Modern Israel
RSVP for Zoom linkRuth Tsoffar (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) will give an online talk exploring the sublime space of milk and honey in the Bible and the way it has been mythologized in Israeli discourse
2/11 TALK | Outside of the Frame: Enslaved Persons in New Testament Ethics
RSVP for Zoom linkBernadette Brooten (Brandeis University) will give a virtual talk on the ways early Christian authors sought theologically to form gender and other relationships.
VIDEO | Writing Trauma, from the Holocaust to the Pandemic: Poetry from Immigrant Jewish Writers from the Former Soviet Union
RSVP for Zoom linkJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan discuss their poetry with faculty member Sasha Senderovich.
10/25 EVENT | “The Hangman”: On Adolf Eichmann’s Executioner — Screening & Conversation with Director Netalie Braun
Following a screening, director Netalie Braun will discuss the story of Shalom Nagav, the Yemenite Jew who executed Adolf Eichmann and has ruminated on this experience ever since. In conversation with Smadar Ben-Natan and Liora Halperin.