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SUMMARY:5/23 EVENT| An Evening with Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh
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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
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SUMMARY:5/20 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In the Shadow of the Holocaust
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:5/6 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In the Midst of Pogrom Violence
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220423T140000
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SUMMARY:COSPONSORED EVENT | De Inga y Mandinga: A Diaspora Tale from Latin America
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URL:https://earlymusicseattle.org/events/de-inga-y-mandinga/#new_tab
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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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/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T100000
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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/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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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/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210318T160000
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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
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SUMMARY:3/7-10 COSPONSORED FILM | "From Cairo to the Cloud": SJFF Sephardic/Mizrahi Spotlight
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LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T170000
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20201113T192810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201113T192810Z
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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
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200619T190000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20190830T171545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190830T190551Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190326T203500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190326T223000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20190308T210841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T232246Z
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190324T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190324T153000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20190308T204749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190318T223140Z
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SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight | Children of the Inquisition
DESCRIPTION:Carlos DeMedeiros\, one of the subjects featured in “Children of the Inquisition” \nJoin the Seattle Jewish Film Festival for this year’s Sephardic Spotlight film\, the 2018 documentary “Children of Inquisition\,” directed by Joseph Lovett. \nImagine discovering a hidden past that shakes your worldview and sense of self. For New York Times journalist Doreen Carvajal\, learning of her family’s Jewish roots in Spain challenged her Catholic identity and led her on a journey of historical and self-discovery. \nThis documentary follows Carvajal and other descendants of Spanish and Portuguese families and “conversos” (the Spanish term for Jews converted to Roman Catholicism) as they uncover their complicated and nuanced roots. \n“Children of the Inquisition” uses a familiar travelogue style to trot around the globe and delve into the global mass conversion resulting from the Spanish Inquisition. Original manuscripts dating as far back as the 14th century and oral traditions secretly passed down through the generations unearth hidden histories of the Jews of Spain and Portugal. \nThe film features University of Washington historian Devin Naar and members of Seattle’s Sephardic Congregation Ezra Bessaroth. \nBuy tickets and learn more on the Seattle Jewish Film Festival website. \nFollowed by an echar lashon (coffee klatch) with coffee\, tea\, biscochos\, and our special guests.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-children-inquisition-documentary/
LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine Street\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20190128T060852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T044628Z
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SUMMARY:3/13 CONCERT | Singing the Sephardic Diaspora: Mediterranean Elements in Judeo-Spanish Choral Arrangements
DESCRIPTION:**Note: The location of this event has changed. It will take place in Kane Hall\, room 220.\nLadino 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 these elements can be highlighted in arrangements for chorus. The Seattle Jewish Chorale (directed by Jacob Finkle) will perform a selection of classic Judeo-Spanish songs\, including “Par’o Era Estrellero\,” “Durme\, Durme\,” and “Cuando el Rey Nimrod.” \nPlease RSVP for this event at the bottom of the page. \nGet ready with Dr. Riskind’s brief explainer: What makes music sound Jewish (2018) \nDid you miss the event? Check out the UW Daily’s writeup\, which includes a number of audio excerpts. \nAbout the speaker\nSarah Riskind is a choral conductor\, composer\, vocalist\, and music educator based in Seattle. She recently received her DMA in choral conducting from the University of Washington\, completing a dissertation entitled “Informed and Informative: New Choral Arrangements of Sephardic Music\,” and she is the Music Director at Magnolia United Church of Christ. With previous degrees from Williams College and the University of Wisconsin at Madison\, she has directed ensembles at the University of Washington\, the University of Wisconsin at Madison\, Williams College\, the German International School of Boston\, and the First Parish Church of Berlin\, MA; she has also assistant-conducted the Renaissance choir Convivium Musicum and the Boston Children’s Chorus. Her compositions have been performed by the Seattle Jewish Chorale\, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble\, Triad: Boston’s Choral Collective\, the Bennington Children’s Chorus\, and other college\, community\, synagogue\, and church choirs across the country. Dr. Riskind enjoys folk and classical improvisation on violin\, which led her to pursue doctoral research on choral improvisation in addition to Renaissance and Sephardic music. Riskind participated in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship program during the 2017-18 academic year.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/singing-the-sephardic-diaspora-mediterranean-elements-in-judeo-spanish-choral-arrangements/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T190000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180820T033104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190308T183036Z
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SUMMARY:"The Art of Leaving" with Author Ayelet Tsabari: Language\, Longing\, and Belonging
DESCRIPTION:Author Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her new memoir\, “The Art of Leaving\,” with Professor Sasha Senderovich (Slavic & Jewish Studies) in this evening of conversation and selected readings from the book. \n“The Art of Leaving” traces Tsabari’s journey from her childhood home on the outskirts of Tel Aviv to Vancouver and Toronto — and from her native Hebrew to her adopted English — alongside the story of her grandparents’ migration from Yemen to the land of Israel in the 1930s. \nAn astute observer of lives of Mizrahi Jews (Jews of Arab lands) in Israel and beyond in her award-winning short story collection “The Best Place on Earth” (2016)\, in “The Art of Leaving” Tsabari delivers a powerful coming-of-age story that reflects on identity and belonging and explores themes of family and home — both inherited and chosen. \nPlease RSVP for this event at the bottom of the page. \nAbout the Author\nAyelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. Her first book\, “The Best Place on Earth\,” won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and was longlisted to the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. \n“The Best Place on Earth” was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection and a Kirkus Review best book of 2016\, and has been published internationally. Excerpts from her memoir\, “The Art of Leaving\,” have won a National Magazine Award\, a Western Magazine Award\, and The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler award. In 2014\, Tsabari was awarded a Chalmers Arts Fellowship. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA Program at Guelph and teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto. \nAbout “The Art of Leaving” & “The Best Place on Earth”\nAuthor Ayelet Tsabari begins her new memoir\, “The Art of Leaving” (2019)\, with the story of her father’s promise on her tenth birthday to publish her childhood writings as her first book. A lawyer who had published one poem as a young man and who spent a lifetime assiduously writing verse and prose on sheets of paper kept in his bedside drawer\, he bequeathed to his daughter an insatiable desire for wordsmithing and storytelling. Tsabari’s father fell ill within days of making this promise and died shortly thereafter. It would take Ayelet Tsabari another two and a half decades to see her first book published—not in her home country of Israel or in her native Hebrew\, but in Canada\, her adopted homeland\, and in English\, her adopted tongue. \nIn that first book\, “The Best Place on Earth” (2013)\, Tsabari made her debut as an intricate teller of stories about a kind of protagonist she did not see in the Israeli literature she avidly read during her childhood: Mizrahi Jews. Jews who trace their families’ lineage to North Africa and the Middle East— Tsabari’s family had come from Yemen — had been largely invisible in the Ashkenazi-centric literary culture of Israel. Mizrahi voices had also been absent in English-language Jewish literatures in Canada and the United States. Tsabari’s first book — a collection of astutely observed stories about women\, lovers\, children\, soldiers\, poets — had opened up this theretofore underexamined experience; it won the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in 2015. \nIn “The Art of Leaving\,” which will be published a week before her visit to Seattle\, Tsabari weaves together stories of her own migration from the outskirts of Tel Aviv to Vancouver and Toronto\, by way of much global peregrination\, with the stories of her grandparents’ travel\, on foot\, to the Land of Israel through the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. In essays on heartbreak and loss of beloved people and native language\, drug-fueled wanderlust and the discovery of dark family secrets\, betrayal and abandonment\, motherhood\, and the ever-unquenched thirst for writing\, Tsabari explores how the past haunts and shapes the stories that define us and that we tell ourselves. \nAyelet Tsabari’s visit\, scheduled for February 28 – March 1\, 2019\, is sponsored by the Israel Studies Program at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and is co-sponsored by the Sephardic Studies Program\, the Canadian Studies Center\, and the Middle East Center\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; and the Departments of English; Comparative Literature\, Cinema & Media; Near Eastern Languages & Civilization; and Gender\, Women & Sexuality Studies; as well as the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ayelet-tsabari-art-of-leaving/
LOCATION:Ethnic Cultural Theater\, 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20190201T192005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190226T000519Z
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SUMMARY:STUDENT/FACULTY EVENT: Writing Displacement: A Seminar on Memoir with Author Ayelet Tsabari
DESCRIPTION:At this lunchtime seminar for UW graduate students\, faculty\, and advanced undergraduates\, the writer Ayelet Tsabari will speak about her new memoir\, “The Art of Leaving\,” and lead a discussion of a short excerpt from the book that will be made available to the participants ahead of time. Tsabari will also discuss the process of writing and publishing a memoir. \n“The Art of Leaving” traces Tsabari’s journey from her childhood home on the outskirts of Tel Aviv to Vancouver and Toronto — and from her native Hebrew to her adopted English — alongside the story of her grandparents’ migration from Yemen to the land of Israel in the 1930s. An astute observer of lives of Mizrahi Jews (Jews of Arab lands) in Israel and beyond in her award-winning short story collection “The Best Place on Earth” (2016)\, in “The Art of Leaving” Tsabari delivers a powerful coming-of-age story that reflects on identity and belonging and explores themes of family and home — both inherited and chosen. \nPlease RSVP to jewishst@uw.edu by February 27 for location and a PDF copy of the reading; a vegetarian lunch will be provided. \nAre you an undergraduate student? Ayelet Tsabari will discuss the book and her writing process with undergrads over coffee on Friday\, March 1\, from 10:00am – 11:30am. Learn more and RSVP for this undergrad discussion group here. \nThis event is organized by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. Ayelet Tsabari’s visit to UW is further supported by the Israel Studies Program\, the Sephardic Studies and Canadian Studies Programs\, the Middle East Center\, the departments of English; Comparative Literature\, Cinema & Media; Near Eastern Languages & Civilization; and Gender\, Women & Sexuality Studies. \nAbout the speaker\nAyelet Tsabari lives and teaches Creative Writing in Toronto and was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. Her first book\, “The Best Place on Earth\,” won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and was longlisted to the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Learn more on her website. \nTo request disability accommodation\, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice)\, 206-543-6452 (TTY)\, 206-685-7264 (fax)\, or dso@uw.edu. The University of Washington makes every effort to honor disability accommodation requests. Requests can be responded to most effectively if received as far in advance of the event as possible\, preferably at least 10 days.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/writing-a-memoir-of-displacement-tsabari/
LOCATION:RSVP for venue
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies,Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180827T231636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T224328Z
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SUMMARY:Ladino Day 2018: Jewish Folktales of the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:Illustration by Aude Samama (2014) \n \nLadino Day 2018 will showcase a creative initiative to bring Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) traditions to future generations. \nParis-based author François Azar will discuss his two new collections of Sephardic folktales\, “The Jewish Parrot” and “Bewitched by Solika” — written in both Ladino and English — and the significance of storytelling and art in Sephardic culture. Through live performance\, members of Seattle’s “Ladineros” Ladino-speaking group will help to bring several of these classic tales to life. \n* Watch the full video of Ladino Day 2018 now * \nAbout Judeo-Spanish Tales\nIllustration by Petros Bouloubasis (2016) \nJudeo-Spanish tales transmit the wisdom and humor of Sephardic Jews\, Jews who originated in the Iberian peninsula (present-day Spain) and who settled all around the Mediterranean\, particularly in the Balkans\, Turkey and northern Morocco. Sephardic Jews adapted their neighbors’ tales and legends to their own culture\, while also crafting original stories set in their new environments. \nTales were transmitted orally within families\, providing entertainment\, relief from everyday worries\, and a way to laugh off human weaknesses. Through these tales\, essential elements of Jewish and universal life are transmitted in a lively\, imaginative way. The tales collected in “The Jewish Parrot” and “Bewitched by Solika” are presented in both English and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)\, a language based in old Castilian that has been enriched by borrowed elements of Turkish\, Greek\, Hebrew\, Arabic\, Italian\, Portuguese and French. \nAbout the Speaker\nFrançois Azar is the vice president of the Judeo-Spanish society Aki Estamos – Les Amis de la Lettre Sépharade and the founder of Lior Press in Paris\, France. \nRead a profile of François Azar\, and learn more about his Ladino publishing initiative and his connection to Ladino folktales: \nFrançois Azar brings folktales and the French Sephardic revival to Seattle Ladino Day — by Hannah Pressman\nRegister for the Event\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible through the generosity of the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies\, and is cosponsored by Congregation Sephardic Bikur Holim\, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, Seattle Sephardic Network\, the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese Studies\, French and Italian Studies\, and Linguistics; and the Turkish & Ottoman Studies Program in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sephardic-folktales-francois-azar-ladino-day-2018/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 130\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180919T001957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T205947Z
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SUMMARY:"What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)" Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Professor Naomi Sokoloff will discuss her new book “What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)\,” co-edited with Professor Nancy Berg of Washington University\, St. Louis. \nThe volume collects ten essays on the past\, present\, and future of the Hebrew language from contributors to the Stroum Center’s 2016 Hebrew and the Humanities Symposium\, which invited Hebrew experts from around the world to share their thoughts on the language. (Read some of their short essays about Hebrew.) \n“What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)” is available from the University of Washington Press. Read a review from Moment Magazine and a writeup by the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. \nA catered vegetarian reception will follow the talk. \nAbout the Speaker\nProfessor Naomi Sokoloff teaches Hebrew and modern Jewish literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and The Department of Comparative Literature\, Cinema and Media at UW. Her research interests cover a range of modern Jewish writing\, with special focus on the representation of childhood in narrative\, on Holocaust studies\, and on feminist criticism. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization and The Middle East Center. \nRegister for the Event
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/naomi-sokoloff-what-we-talk-about-hebrew-book-launch/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180527T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180527T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180512T233545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180512T233545Z
UID:28966-1527436800-1527444000@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:SIFF Film: The Oslo Diaries
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URL:https://www.siff.net/festival/the-oslo-diaries#new_tab
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20171122T192340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T214048Z
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SUMMARY:I Alone Can Fix It: Tales from the New Dystopia with Gary Shteyngart
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2018 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series with Gary Shteyngart. \n \nA decade and a half ago\, with the publication of his 2002 novel The Russian Debutante’s Handbook\, the writer Gary Shteyngart launched a new wave of literary production by Jewish writers who immigrated to North America from the Soviet Union at a young age\, and who took up the pen in English\, their adopted tongue. By now\, works by award-winning and bestselling writers Anya Ulinich\, David Bezmozgis\, Boris Fishman\, Lara Vapnyar\, Irina Reyn\, Nadia Kalman\, Sana Krasikov\, and others easily fill an impressive—and growing—bookshelf. Coinciding with the flourishing of English-language literature by authors of diverse national\, ethnic\, and cultural backgrounds such as Jhumpa Lahiri\, Junot Díaz\, and Chang-rae Lee\, this cohort of writers placed the experience of Russian Jewish immigrants on the map of contemporary American fiction. \nShteyngart followed his debut with two more satirical novels. Absurdistan (2006) was a whimsical yet darkly comic take on both Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy and George W. Bush’s America. Super Sad True Love Story (2010) presented a dystopian vision of America’s decline that was filled with prophesies on issues ranging from surveillance technology to economic disparity that have gradually—and stunningly—been coming true in the years since. Vastly different in their breadth and set in a range of real and imagined locations the world over\, Shteyngart’s first three novels explored different versions of a series of nebbishes who\, in parodic ways\, resembled the author himself. \nWith the publication of his memoir Little Failure in 2014\, Shteyngart appears to have closed a chapter of his career that built rich fictional worlds on his satirized autobiography. Little Failure—a humorous\, touching\, and deeply honest exploration of his family’s and his own history delved deeply into the 20th century experience of Jews in the Soviet Union and during immigration that sat at the core of Shteyngart’s earlier fiction. In his anticipated new novel\, Lake Success\, to be published in autumn of 2018\, Shteyngart is poised to pivot in a new direction and to train his perceptive gaze on unfolding American realities. Set during a time that Shteyngart’s narrator defines as “the first summer of Trump\,” the novel launches its American Jewish protagonist—a hedge fund broker of dubious accomplishments and a failed father and husband—on a life-changing trip across the United States aboard a Greyhound bus. Semi-cognizant of other literary protagonists who had previously undertaken similar journeys of self-discovery and failed\, and not entirely unaware that such pursuits of lost time tend to yield disappointing results\, Shteyngart’s new hero offers profound observations of a native country he hadn’t known before\, its fabric of fragile human relationships rapidly and starkly fraying all around him. \nThe 2018 Stroum Lectures with Gary Shteyngart will offer an opportunity to look back on the first fifteen years of the writer’s career and to look ahead to his future literary pursuits. In a series of conversations with Sasha Senderovich\, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies at UW\, and readings\, Gary Shteyngart will explore the questions of the role of humor and comedy in today’s world\, immigration and the Jewish experience\, prescient issues in Russian-American political and cultural relations\, and the satirist’s role in authoritarian societies. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Please register for the May 9 lecture at the bottom of this page\, and for the May 7 lecture on its event page. \nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies are an annual series of talks given by luminaries in the field of Jewish Studies\, hosted by Stroum Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For more than thirty years\, through the generosity of Samuel and Althea Stroum\, Jewish Studies has been able to bolster public scholarship around Judaism. View highlights from the past thirty years below\, or scroll further to learn more about the history of the lectures and view the full archive.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/our-events/2018-stroum-lectures-gary-shteyngart/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 120\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180507T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180326T172702Z
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SUMMARY:Failure is an Option: Immigration\, Memory\, and the Russian Jewish Experience with Gary Shteyngart
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2018 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series with Gary Shteyngart. \n \nA decade and a half ago\, with the publication of his 2002 novel The Russian Debutante’s Handbook\, the writer Gary Shteyngart launched a new wave of literary production by Jewish writers who immigrated to North America from the Soviet Union at a young age\, and who took up the pen in English\, their adopted tongue. By now\, works by award-winning and bestselling writers Anya Ulinich\, David Bezmozgis\, Boris Fishman\, Lara Vapnyar\, Irina Reyn\, Nadia Kalman\, Sana Krasikov\, and others easily fill an impressive—and growing—bookshelf. Coinciding with the flourishing of English-language literature by authors of diverse national\, ethnic\, and cultural backgrounds such as Jhumpa Lahiri\, Junot Díaz\, and Chang-rae Lee\, this cohort of writers placed the experience of Russian Jewish immigrants on the map of contemporary American fiction. \nShteyngart followed his debut with two more satirical novels. Absurdistan (2006) was a whimsical yet darkly comic take on both Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy and George W. Bush’s America. Super Sad True Love Story (2010) presented a dystopian vision of America’s decline that was filled with prophesies on issues ranging from surveillance technology to economic disparity that have gradually—and stunningly—been coming true in the years since. Vastly different in their breadth and set in a range of real and imagined locations the world over\, Shteyngart’s first three novels explored different versions of a series of nebbishes who\, in parodic ways\, resembled the author himself. \nWith the publication of his memoir Little Failure in 2014\, Shteyngart appears to have closed a chapter of his career that built rich fictional worlds on his satirized autobiography. Little Failure—a humorous\, touching\, and deeply honest exploration of his family’s and his own history delved deeply into the 20th century experience of Jews in the Soviet Union and during immigration that sat at the core of Shteyngart’s earlier fiction. In his anticipated new novel\, Lake Success\, to be published in autumn of 2018\, Shteyngart is poised to pivot in a new direction and to train his perceptive gaze on unfolding American realities. Set during a time that Shteyngart’s narrator defines as “the first summer of Trump\,” the novel launches its American Jewish protagonist—a hedge fund broker of dubious accomplishments and a failed father and husband—on a life-changing trip across the United States aboard a Greyhound bus. Semi-cognizant of other literary protagonists who had previously undertaken similar journeys of self-discovery and failed\, and not entirely unaware that such pursuits of lost time tend to yield disappointing results\, Shteyngart’s new hero offers profound observations of a native country he hadn’t known before\, its fabric of fragile human relationships rapidly and starkly fraying all around him. \nThe 2018 Stroum Lectures with Gary Shteyngart will offer an opportunity to look back on the first fifteen years of the writer’s career and to look ahead to his future literary pursuits. In a series of conversations with Sasha Senderovich\, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies at UW\, and readings\, Gary Shteyngart will explore the questions of the role of humor and comedy in today’s world\, immigration and the Jewish experience\, prescient issues in Russian-American political and cultural relations\, and the satirist’s role in authoritarian societies. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Please register for the May 7 lecture at the bottom of this page\, and for the May 9 lecture on its event page. \nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies are an annual series of talks given by luminaries in the field of Jewish Studies\, hosted by Stroum Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For more than thirty years\, through the generosity of Samuel and Althea Stroum\, Jewish Studies has been able to bolster public scholarship around Judaism. View highlights from the past thirty years below\, or scroll further to learn more about the history of the lectures and view the full archive. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/our-events/2018-stroum-lectures-gary-shteyngart/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 120\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180305T053303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180326T012936Z
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: Discuss Gary Shteyngart's "Little Failure"
DESCRIPTION:In advance of the 2018 Stroum Lectures with the bestselling author and satirist Gary Shteyngart\, read excerpts from Shetyngart’s memoir Little Failure and engage in a discussion over dinner with Prof. Sasha Senderovich. \nLittle Failure is a humorous\, touching\, and deeply honest exploration of Shteyngart’s history – and his family’s – that delves deeply into the 20th century experience of Jews in the Soviet Union and follows them as immigrants to the United States.\n \nRSVP below for location; dinner provided. Copies of Little Failure available.\n \nRegister for the May 7 & 9 2018 Stroum Lectures here.\n  \nGet ready for the conversation\nCheck out Jewish in Seattle ‘s related coverage:  \n\nQ&A with Gary Shteyngart (in drawings)\n“Immigrant Literature Should Make You a Little Uncomfortable” by Sasha Senderovich\n\n \nGary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and immigrated to the United States seven years later. He is the author of three bestselling novels: The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002)\, Absurdistan (2006)\, and Super Sad True Love Story (2010). His newest novel\, Lake Success\, will be published in 2018.\n \nSasha Senderovich is an Assistant Professor of Slavic and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle. He teaches courses in Jewish literature and culture as well as Russian literature and film.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-event-discuss-gary-shteyngarts-little-failure/
LOCATION:RSVP for location
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Student
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180429T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180429T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180304T055326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180421T020503Z
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SUMMARY:Pre-Lecture Discussion of Gary Shteyngart's "Little Failure"
DESCRIPTION:In advance of the 2018 Stroum Lectures with the bestselling author and satirist Gary Shteyngart\, read excerpts from Shteyngart’s memoir\, Little Failure\, and engage in a discussion facilitated by Prof. Sasha Senderovich at the Stroum Jewish Community Center. \nLittle Failure is a humorous\, touching\, and deeply honest exploration of Shteyngart’s history – and his family’s – that delves deeply into the 20th century experience of Jews in the Soviet Union and follows them as immigrants to the United States. \nRSVP below for the selection from Little Failure; PDF versions are available. Check the registration confirmation to download the PDF of the reading. \nGet ready for the conversation\nCheck out Jewish in Seattle ‘s related coverage: \n\nQ&A with Gary Shteyngart (in drawings)\n“Immigrant Literature Should Make You a Little Uncomfortable” by Sasha Senderovich\n\nRegister for the May 7 & 9 Stroum Lectures here.\nGary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and immigrated to the United States seven years later. He is the author of three bestselling novels: The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002)\, Absurdistan (2006)\, and Super Sad True Love Story (2010). His newest novel\, Lake Success\, will be published in 2018.\nSasha Senderovich is an Assistant Professor of Slavic and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle. He teaches courses in Jewish literature and culture as well as Russian literature and film.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/pre-lecture-book-discussion-prof-sasha-senderovich/
LOCATION:Stroum Jewish Community Center\, 3801 East Mercer Way\, Mercer Island\, WA\, 98040\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180313T185000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180304T045510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180305T060524Z
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SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival: Praise the Lard
DESCRIPTION:About the Film\nThe untold story of the pork industry in Israel\, an industry that has raised ethnic tensions and heated struggles over the country’s short history. \nSitting firmly between Israel’s essential identity issues and the fundamental right to freedom of choice\, this taboo in Jewish tradition has become one of the secular state’s most prominent symbols. \nDirector Chen Shelach traces pig farming back to the Zionist movement’s attempt to create a “new Jew” in the land of Israel\, not beholden to old traditions\, and explores this new identity’s struggle to survive in the face of fierce resistance from religious and observant Jews. PRAISE THE LARD presents a sharply fascinating\, little-discussed take on the outsized role one farm animal has historically played in the Holy Land. \nThe film will include an introduction by Stroum Center Professor Sasha Senderovich. \nLearn more about the film\, and purchase tickets\, on the Seattle Jewish Film Festival website.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-praise-lard/
LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180311T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180311T150000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180304T043954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180305T060413Z
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SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival: "Trezoros" Sephardic Spotlight
DESCRIPTION:About the Film\nA coastal city renowned for its idyllic beauty\, Kastoria was once home to a harmonious and vibrant population of Jews and Christians. \nIlluminating the moving\, individual stories of the Greek Sephardic families forced from their homes when Nazis took control of the town\, this carefully crafted documentary serves as a tribute and reminder of the many displaced communities forced out and afflicted by Nazi occupation. \nUsing never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with survivors scattered across the diaspora\, TREZOROS stitches together a compelling and affecting portrait of a unique and dynamic Jewish community. \nThe film will be followed by a discussion with Professor Devin Naar of the Stroum Center’s Sephardic Studies Program\, director Lawrence Russo\, and Larry Confino; then by a post-film Sephardic coffee klatsch (echar lashon) with coffee/tea and biscochos. Included in ticket price. \nLearn more about the film\, and purchase tickets\, at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival website.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-trezoros-sephardic-spotlight/
LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine Street\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180109T211246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180222T194538Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Sephardic Culture: Music\, Language & Literature from Spain to Seattle
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Molly FitzMorris\, Vivian Mills and Sarah Riskind as they share their research on the topics of Ladino language\, Sephardic music\, and the early-modern literature of Spain. \nProfessor Devin Naar of the Stroum Center’s Sephardic Studies Program will offer commentary on the Fellows’ work as the faculty respondent for this panel. \nA light lunch will be served; please RSVP below to be included in the lunch order.\n \nMolly FitzMorris\, Isaac Alhadeff Sephardic Studies Fellow\nPaper title: “The search for the shinedji: Using Ladinokomunita as a corpus to study Modern Ladino morphology” \nMolly is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics.  She has a BA in Latin American Studies from New York University\, and an MA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Washington.  Her research focuses on the documentation of Ladino in Seattle\, and her two current projects explore the dialects of Ladino spoken in Seattle and the use of a common Turkish suffix in Ladino.  Molly helped organize the first three International Ladino Day celebrations in Seattle\, and is an occasional student at the weekly Ladineros classes.\n \n \nVivian Mills\, Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar\nPaper title: “Shem Tov of Carrión: Jewish Poetry and Moneylending in Fourteenth Century Castile” \nVivian is a second-year PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington. She was born in Ecuador and moved to the United States with her family at the age of sixteen. She received a BA in Business Economics and an MA in Spanish from the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on identity and the building of textual authority in the literary works of Jewish\, Converso and Morisco writers of late medieval and early-modern Iberia. Her latest research focuses on the works of Shem Tov of Carrion\, a medieval poet and rabbi. When not reading poetry\, you can find Vivian at work in her garden or spending time with her family.\n \n \nSarah Riskind\, Robinovitch Family Fellow\nPaper title: “Sephardic Music Reimagined: Modern Arrangements for Choir” \nSarah is a doctoral student in choral conducting in the UW School of Music. Originally from Boston\, MA\, she holds degrees from Williams College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to conducting\, singing\, and teaching\, she has composed choral and instrumental works that have been performed in Massachusetts\, Vermont\, New Hampshire\, Wisconsin\, and Washington\, many of which use Jewish liturgical texts in Hebrew and English. She is currently pursuing research on choral arrangements of Sephardic Jewish music.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sephardic-culture-music-language-literature-spain-seattle/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Graduate Fellows,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T072005
CREATED:20180108T184718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T185331Z
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SUMMARY:Salud y Shalom: Jews in the Spanish Civil War
DESCRIPTION:American Jewish volunteer George Watt marches with his unit in Spain \nEighty years ago\, nearly 3\,000 Americans embarked for Europe to join the democratically elected Spanish Republic in its effort to repel a military coup led by Francisco Franco. Nearly one-third of the American volunteers were Jews. \nIn the early ’90s\, Professor Joe Butwin interviewed dozens of these Jewish veterans of the Spanish Civil War\, collecting their stories and inviting them to reflect on the connection between their Judaism and their decision to serve. \nNow\, in collaboration with the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, Professor Butwin has curated a new digital exhibit presenting the recollections of five of these volunteer service members – three soldiers and two nurses – who discuss their motivations\, their experiences during the war\, and their connections to Judaism\, past and present. \nFrom the “Salud y Shalom” homepage \nThis multimedia project brings together veterans’ voices\, via original audio recordings of the interviews\, and contemporary photographs and artifacts\, creating a vivid portrait of a radically different period in the American Jewish past. \nIn this event\, Professor Butwin will talk about the origins of the project\, the war volunteers he spoke with in the 1990s\, and the process he went through in translating his materials into an accessible online format. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nNote: We are expecting full capacity for this event. While we cannot guarantee space to guests who did not RSVP\, there will be a first come\, first served waitlist. We hope to be able to accommodate everyone who is interested in the program. \nExplore “Salud y Shalom: American Jews in the Spanish Civil War\, 1936-1939”: \n \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talk-salud-y-shalom-jews-spanish-civil-war/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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