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SUMMARY:6/25 LECTURE | Not a Good Time for Hebrew? Novelist Maya Arad & "The Hebrew Teacher"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lively discussion with best-selling Hebrew-language author and Stanford University faculty member Maya Arad. \nOften called the “foremost Hebrew writer outside Israel\,” Arad will discuss her latest book\, “The Hebrew Teacher\,” which presents three remarkable novellas focusing on Israeli American life\, with Professor Naomi Sokoloff. \nThis event will be held in person on the UW main campus. Please register for more details: \nRegister Now >\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n \nMaya Arad is the author of eleven books of Hebrew fiction\, as well as studies in literary criticism and linguistics. Born in Israel in 1971\, she received a Ph.D. in linguistics from University College London and for the past twenty years has lived in California\, where she is currently writer in residence at Stanford University’s Taube Center for Jewish Studies.\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/novelist-maya-arad-hebrew-teacher-not-a-good-time-for-hebrew/
LOCATION:RSVP for location
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:1/31 LECTURE | The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Finding a Path Forward - Lecture with Alon Tal
DESCRIPTION:After a century of conflict\, it is often said that in the Middle East the past is the enemy of the future. Nonetheless\, it is unwise to consider alternatives for resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict without understanding the antecedents to the present Gaza War\, the concerns of the sides and the key reasons behind the failed past efforts for reconciliation. \nAlon Tal\, a leading Israeli environmentalist and former member of the Knesset\, Israel’s parliament\, has been working to promote cooperation in sustainability between Israel and its neighbors for almost thirty years. \nThis talk will briefly consider the basic history of the military conflicts in the region\, how the present war in Gaza is changing perceptions\, the shift in the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East\, and the prospects for transforming the present tragedy in order to open a new page in the relations between these historic adversaries. \nRegister to attend the event: \nRegister Now > \nThis event will also have a livestream option. View the livestream on YouTube: \nLivestream: The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Finding a Path Forward \n \nAbout the speaker\nAlon Tal is a visiting professor in sustainability at Stanford University and a professor of public policy at Tel Aviv University. In 2021 and 2022\, he was a member of Israel’s Knesset\, where he chaired the country’s first parliamentary sub-committee on climate change and the environment. \n \nThis lecture is cosponsored by the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Ph.D. Program and by the Middle East Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. \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/alon-tal-israel-palestine-path-forward/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:1/24 WEBINAR | A New Day in Babylon and Jerusalem: Zionism\, Power\, Politics\, and Identity
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, based upon her forthcoming second book project\, historian and author Sara Hirschhorn will consider the modern histories of Zionism and the Left\, the rise of transnational “power” movements\, and the unraveling of American Jewish unanimity around Israel between 1967 and 1975.  The talk will historically inform pressing and politicized questions in the face of resurgent contemporary antisemitism. \nThe event will be held in Zoom webinar format. \nClick the button below to register and receive a link to the event: \nRegister Now > \n \nAbout the speaker\nSara Hirschhorn is currently a visiting professor at the University of Haifa Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Haifa Comper Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism and Racism. She is also a research fellow at the Center for Antisemitism Research at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and a fellow of the Jewish People Policy Institute. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 2012. \nHer research\, teaching\, and public engagement activities are focused on the Israeli settler movement\, the Arab-Israeli conflict\, and Diaspora-Israel relations. These interests culminated in her first book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement (Harvard University Press\, 2017)\, which won the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature Choice Award and was a finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award. \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/sara-hirschhorn-zionism-power-politics-identity/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:3/31 EVENT | A Workshop with Rachel Brown
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is hosting Rachel Brown for a morning workshop\, in which she’ll discuss chapter 1 of her forthcoming paper\, titled “Land\, Reproductive Labor and Accumulation: Situating Migrant Carework in Israel/Palestine”. Jewish Studies grad fellow Jake Beckert will serve as respondent. \n\nRegister Now >\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Rachel Brown‘s research and teaching interests include feminist and queer political theory\, settler colonialism\, Marxist feminism and questions of labor migration\, transnational feminisms\, and the politics of debt. \nShe earned her doctorate from The Graduate Center\, City University of New York in 2017. Her book manuscript\, Unsettled Labors: Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel\, is under contract at Duke University Press. Her work has appeared in Feminist Theory\, Political Theory\, International Feminist Journal of Politics\, Theory & Event\, and Global Networks. Her most recent article is forthcoming in Race & Class. \n\n  \n\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/3-31-event-a-workshop-and-talk-with-rachel-brown/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies,Workshop
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SUMMARY:2/15 TALK | Masua Sagiv on Religious Feminism and Social Change in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nIn this talk\, scholar Masua Sagiv will dive into the past two decades in Israel to focus on how the Jewish religious (orthodox) society is undergoing a philosophical and theological revolution promoting gender equality\, in society and Halacha (religious law) alike. This revolution has a decisive impact on the Jewish religious society\, and in light of the Israeli constitutional arrangements that weave religious norms across the public sphere\, it influences the general Jewish public in Israel as well. The talk will introduce religious halachic feminism in Israel and some of its main struggles (in matters of marriage and divorce\, body and sexuality\, and spiritual leadership)\, focusing on the strategies the activists apply and their impact on Israeli society. \n\n\nRegister Now >\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\nMasua Sagiv is the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley and a Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel\, as a culture\, religion\, nationality\, and as part of Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores the role of law\, state actors and civil society organizations in promoting social change across diverse issues: shared society\, religion and gender\, religion and state\, and Jewish peoplehood. Prior to moving to the Bay Area\, Masua was the Academic Director of the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan University. In addition\, Masua earned her doctorate in law from Tel-Aviv University\, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic of law and social change in the Halachic Feminist struggle in Israel.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/2-15-talk-masua-sagiv-on-religious-feminism-and-social-change-in-israel/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T110000
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SUMMARY:12/1 EVENT | Israeli Elections Panel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n \n\nOn the heels of the fifth Israeli election in four years\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ Israel Studies Program invites you to attend a panel of experts as they debrief the results and talk about what the outcome means—both for the future of Israel\, and the world at large. Zoom webinar format. With  Noam Pianko—the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies—moderating\, the speakers on the panel include: \n\nJoel Migdal— emeritus professor of Jewish Studies\nLiora Halperin— Chair in Israel Studies and professor of Jewish Studies\nAlan Dowty— associate faculty of Jewish Studies\nHayim Katsman— Ph.D. and Jackson School alumni\nAndrea Gevurtz Arai— associate faculty of Jewish Studies\n\nRegister Now >\n \nJoel Migdal is an emeritus faculty member and the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Migdal was formerly associate professor of Government at Harvard University and senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University. His research has been on two tracks–theories of comparative politics\, specifically state-society relations\, and Middle East politics\, with an emphasis on Israel and Palestinians. Joel has published various books and is enjoying his retirement in Eretz Israel.\nLiora Halperin is Chair of the Israel Studies Program and a scholar of Jewish cultural and social history\, with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory\, language ideology and policy\, and Jewish-Arab relations both in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and in the early years after Israeli statehood. Her first book\, “Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine” (Yale University Press\, 2015) was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She has published academic articles in The Journal of Social History\, Jewish Social Studies\, Middle Eastern Studies\, and The Jewish Quarterly Review\, among other venues. She recently published “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” (Stanford University Press\, 2021)\, which tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (mashavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011.\nAlan Dowty is an affiliate faculty member at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, and is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. From 1963-1975\, he was on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, during which time he served as Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and Chair of the Department of International Relations. From 2003-2006\, he was the first holder of the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli Studies at the University of Calgary\, and from 2005-2007 he was President of the Association for Israel Studies. Among his publications are basic texts on Israeli society and politics (“The Jewish State: A Century Later“) and on the Arab-Israel conflict (“Israel/Palestine\,” 4th edition 2017)\, as well as over 130 scholarly and popular articles. In 2017 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Israel Studies by the Israel Institute and the Association for Israel Studies.\nHayim Katsman received his Ph.D. in international studies from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies in 2021. He has researched the Religious-Zionist communities of Israel/Palestine extensively\, and written about current trends in Religious-Zionism and its relationship to radicalism. He received his B.A. in philosophy from the Open University of Israel and completed his M.A. thesis on the theology of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University\, where he also served as deputy chair of the Academic Junior-Staff Union from 2015-2017. Follow him on Twitter or on Facebook.\nAndrea Gevurtz Arai teaches anthropology and society courses in the Jackson School of International Studies\, University of Washington. Arai is currently researching the Israeli social movement “Standing Together” (“Omdim B’yachad”- עומדים ביחד)\, which advocates for equal justice for Jewish and Arab Israelis and for the reallocation of tax dollars from the military to under-funded areas of social welfare\, in particular health care\, education and housing. This research will be included in Arai’s in-process edited volume\, “Spaces of Creative Resistance in East Asia\,” which looks at the local\, cross-regional and international particularities of organizations of creative resistance\, which advocate for social infrastructures\, imagining and creating new forms of social and environmental sustainability.\nAbout the facilitator\n\n\nNoam Pianko is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies\, the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies\, and Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies. Pianko also directs the Samuel and Althea Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and serves as the Herbert and Lucy Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies. Pianko’s research interests include modern Jewish history\, Zionism\, and American Judaism.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/israeli-elections-panel/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:4/12 TALK | The Rise of Modern Vernacular Hebrew: How Language Shapes Identity (and Vice Versa)
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, linguist Ivy Sichel will discuss the rise of modern vernacular Hebrew in the 1950s and related ideas — how using particular language variety can influence its speakers\, and how speakers make the language their own. \nWatch the talk now: \n \nAbout this talk\n\nHow did the modern vernacular variety of Hebrew — the informal\, everyday version of the language — come to eclipse the prestigious prescriptive variety of Hebrew to become the standard? How does value accrue to particular varieties of a language? \nIn this talk\, Ivy Sichel will analyze the social meanings associated with the new native vernacular of Modern Hebrew\, taking a positive stance towards the new native vernacular\, which is constructed via differentiation from its alternatives (formal or text-based Hebrew). \nThe new vernacular is reflexive\, and it speaks for itself with the authority of experience\, as opposed to the traditional authority of the text. A speaker of modern vernacular Hebrew necessarily\, and often unknowingly\, possesses a positive attitude towards it\, and is an active agent in the propagation of a new collective (of speakers) and its values. \nThe talk will explore this type of subjectivity\, and the ways in which speakers participate in the dissemination of a collective set of ideas about the modern vernacular. \nThe talk will also explore the consolidation and dissemination of these values by particular individuals\, with a focus on Ma Nishma\, a weekly column written in Modern Hebrew published in the 1950s. \nEvent image from the “World Dictionary of Hebrew Slang\,” written by Netiva Ben-Yehuda and Dan Ben-Amotz and published in 1982. Via the Jewish Women’s Archive. \nAbout the speaker\n\nIvy Sichel is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on syntactic theory. She is also interested in the sociolinguistics of the revival of Hebrew speech\, and has written about women’s contributions to the revival project at the turn of the 20th century (with Miri Bar-Ziv Levi)\, and about the relationship between the revival and the establishment of the State of Israel (with Uri Mor).
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/modern-vernacular-hebrew-language-identity/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220120T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220120T104500
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SUMMARY:1/20 PANEL| Scholarly Perspectives — "The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past"
DESCRIPTION:In a panel conversation\, three scholars will offer responses to and commentary around faculty member Liora R. Halperin’s new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” and how the history of early Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine has been folded into the story of the State of Israel. \nAbout this talk\n\nIn her new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” Liora R. Halperin looks at the history of moshavot\, Jewish agricultural settlements in Ottoman Palestine\, and the ways in which the history of these settlements has been folded into the story of the State of Israel in the early 20th century. \nIn this panel conversation\, scholars Alon Confino (University of Massachussetts Amherst)\, Nahum Karlinsky (Ben-Gurion University)\, and Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara) will offer their responses to the book\, connecting it to broader understandings around the processes of creating history and historical narratives\, in particular as these relate to the State of Israel. \nAbout the speakers\n\nAlon Confino is Director of the Institute for Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Memory Studies\, and Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His recent books include “Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust As Historical Understanding” (Cambridge University Press\, New York\, 2012) and “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” (Yale University Press\, 2014). He studied at the University of Tel Aviv and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nNahum Karlinsky is a Senior Lecturer at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism\, where he has taught numerous courses on Israeli identity\, the social\, cultural and urban history of Israel/Palestine\, and post-Zionism\, neo-Zionism and Jewish fundamentalism. In 2006-2007\, he was chair of the Israel Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University. In 2008-2009\, he was a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2008\, he has been affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MISTI-Israel as a visiting associate professor at MIT’s Political Science Department. He is currenly a visiting professor at Boston University. \nSherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. In her forthcoming book\, titled “From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine\,” she will follow the trajectory of her great grandfather. Traveling with her ancestor from his nineteenth century mobility across Baltimore and Sudan to twentieth century immobility in Lebanon\, Seikaly places the question of Palestine in the context of a global history of race\, capital\, slavery\, and dispossession. She is co-editor of Journal of Palestine Studies and co-editor of Jadaliyya. \nLiora R. Halperin is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington\, and has scholarly interests in nationalism and collective memory\, language ideology and policy\, and Jewish-Arab relations both in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and in the early years after Israeli statehood. Her first book\, “Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine” (Yale University Press\, 2015)\, was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She has published academic articles in The Journal of Social History\, Jewish Social Studies\, Middle Eastern Studies\, and The Jewish Quarterly Review\, among other venues. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011\, and is the Benaroya Chair of the UW Israel Studies Program. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Middle East Center and the Department of History at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/oldest-guard-zionist-past-liora-halperin-panel/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T171500
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SUMMARY:1/19 EVENT| Book Talk & Discussion: “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” - Liora R. Halperin
DESCRIPTION:In this event\, faculty member Liora R. Halperin will discuss her new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” and the creation of historical narratives around Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine\, with Stroum Center Director and fellow faculty member Noam Pianko. \nAbout this talk\n\nIn her new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” Liora R. Halperin looks at the history of moshavot\, Jewish agricultural settlements in Ottoman Palestine\, and the ways in which the history of these settlements has been folded into the story of the State of Israel in the early 20th century. \nBeginning in the late 1870s\, Jews from the religious communities of urban Palestine\, joined in the 1880s by migrants from the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire and other parts eastern Europe\, began to purchase land and establish private agricultural colonies in Ottoman Palestine\, with the goal of creating productive\, self-sufficient Jewish communities. Though these agricultural colonies predated the Zionist movement of the late 1890s\, they served as hubs for subsequent Jewish migrants and later came to be seen as the first Zionist wave of Settlement\, or “First Aliyah.” Yet\, because of their more religious or socially traditional ethos and use of Arab workers\, the stories and ideas surrounding these private settlements were often at odds with later Zionist movements\, especially Labor Zionism and the call for “Hebrew Labor.” \nIn a conversation with Noam Pianko\, Professor of Jewish Studies\, Halperin will discuss the stories around these Jewish settlements\, how they fit into the broader story of Zionism\, and how she reconstructed this history via a wide range of sources. \nAbout the speakers\n\nLiora R. Halperin is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington\, and has scholarly interests in nationalism and collective memory\, language ideology and policy\, and Jewish-Arab relations both in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and in the early years after Israeli statehood. Her first book\, “Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine” (Yale University Press\, 2015)\, was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She has published academic articles in The Journal of Social History\, Jewish Social Studies\, Middle Eastern Studies\, and The Jewish Quarterly Review\, among other venues. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011\, and is the Benaroya Chair of the UW Israel Studies Program. \nNoam Pianko is the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Pianko also directs the Samuel and Althea Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and serves as the Herbert and Lucy Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies & Judaic Studies from Yale University in 2004. His most recent book\, “Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation” (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press\, 2015)\, won the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book prize\, and traces how the concept of “peoplehood” emerged at the beginning of the last century as an American-Jewish innovation calibrated to shape discussions of nationalism\, Zionism\, and American Jewish identity. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Department of History at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/book-launch-oldest-guard-zionist-past-liora-halperin/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T210000
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SUMMARY:11/18 BENAROYA LECTURE | Analyzing the Israeli COVID-19 Response in Context: Social\, Historical and Ethical Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Image: Wheel of public health interventions\, developed by the Minnesota Department of Health (2019). \nNadav Davidovitch\, Professor of Health Systems Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, gave the 2021 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies\, discussing Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in conversation with Abraham Flaxman\, Associate Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington. \nWatch the presentations now:\n \nAbout this talk\n\nNadav Davidovitch\, a public health professor and epidemiologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, will explore the different meanings of public health from historical\, sociological\, political and health policy perspectives\, focusing on several case studies from the Israeli perspective\, from the 1950s absorption of mass immigration and related vaccination and public health efforts to the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the present day. \nIn conversation with Abraham Flaxman\, UW professor of global health\, Davidovitch will discuss the interaction between scientific advisory committees and policy makers\, and pressing issues including health inequities\, the influence of politics\, and the role of trust and solidarity in public health practices and policy-making. \nAbout the speakers\n\nNadav Davidovitch\, M.D.\, MPH\, Ph.D.\, is an epidemiologist and public health physician. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Systems Management in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Guilford-Glaser Faculty of Business and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He teaches on health policy\, public health\, health promotion\, the Israeli healthcare system\, public health ethics\, and global health. He is also affiliated with the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the School of Public Health\, Columbia University\, NY\, and with the School of Public Health\, University of Illinois – Chicago. \nAbraham Flaxman is Associate Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington\, where he is currently leading the development of new methods for cost effective analysis through microsimulation. Prior to becoming an associate professor\, Dr. Flaxman was a post-graduate fellow at IHME\, and before that he was a post-doctoral fellow at Microsoft Research. Originally from Evanston\, IL\, Dr. Flaxman earned his B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in algorithms\, combinatorics\, and optimization from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. Dr. Flaxman has written his popular blog\, Healthy Algorithms\, since 2008. His posts cover mathematics\, computer science\, and his research at IHME. \nThis event made possible through the generosity of the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Fund for Excellence in Israel Studies\, and is cosponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and the Population Health Initiative at the University of Washington\, and by Americans for Ben-Gurion University.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/public-health-covid-19-israel-historical-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T210000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T171500
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SUMMARY:VIDEO | American Christians and the Holy Land: Before\, During and After Contemporary Pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Anthropologist Hillary Kaell discusses American Christian trips to the Holy Land — the history\, meaning\, and importance of modern pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine. \nWatch the talk now:\n \n \nAbout the event\n\nSince the 1950s\, millions of U.S. Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit the places where Jesus lived and died. Why do these pilgrims choose to journey halfway around the world? How do they react to what they encounter\, and how do they understand the trip upon return? \nDrawing on five years of ethnographic research with groups of pilgrims before\, during\, and after their trips\, Dr. Hillary Kaell (McGill University) frames the experience as both ordinary — tied to participants’ everyday role as “ritual specialists\,” or religious practitioners — and extraordinary\, since they travel far away from home\, often for the first time. \nThis talk will examine the kind of Christian education and personal experiences that compel individuals to take the trip\, and cover a few key examples of what they find once they arrive. Taking the rare step of following pilgrims after they return home\, the talk will also examine whether the trip makes an impact in Christians’ lives over a longer term. \nThroughout\, the rising popularity of Holy Land pilgrimage is contextualized within changes to U.S. Christian theology and culture over the last sixty years\, including shifts in Jewish-Christian relations and the development of a Christian leisure industry. Through explanations of research and context\, Dr. Kaell will shed light on how individual Christians make sense of their experiences in Israel-Palestine\, offering an important complement to top-down approaches in studies of Christian Zionism and foreign policy. \nAbout the speaker\nHillary Kaell is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religion at McGill University\, where she holds a William Dawson Research Chair. She writes about North American Christianity\, often focusing on how Christians make and imagine global connections. She is author of “Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage” (New York University Press\, 2014) and\, most recently\, “Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States” (Princeton University Press\, 2020). She has also collaborated on public education tools including the PBS television series\, God in America. More at www.hillarykaell.com and @hillarykaell \nThis event is made possible through the generosity of the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Fund for Excellence in Israel Studies\, and is cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Global Christianity Initiative at the Comparative Religion Program in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/hillary-kaell-christians-and-holy-land-israel-palestine-before-during-after-pilgrimage/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T103000
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SUMMARY:COSPONSORED TALK | Ethnic Identity & Ethnic Organizing: Darfurian Asylum Seekers in Israel
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CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T160000
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SUMMARY:Protests\, Corruption\, and Civil Rights During COVID — Israel
DESCRIPTION:During the Covid-19 pandemic\, Israel experienced two years of intense\, multi-generational and cross-sector weekly demonstrations against corruption in the Netanyahu government. \nHow did a public health emergency that threatens everyone’s health figure into protests against government corruption and other political and social justice issues? How did people and social movements tackle the wide range of issues that have come up during the pandemic? And what are possible effects of the current moment? \nThis talk uses various visual materials and takes the perspective of the sociology of social movements – how do social movements form\, act\, and mobilize people – in order to discuss these questions. \nWatch this talk now: \n\nAbout the speaker\nSmadar Ben-Natan is a longtime Israeli human rights lawyer who completed her Ph.D. in the Buchmann Faculty of Law\, 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 in International Human Rights Law\, with distinction\, from the University of Oxford (2011)\, and an LLB from Tel-Aviv University (1995). She is the 2020-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow in Israel Studies at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/israel-protest-corruption-civil-rights-covid/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T171500
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SUMMARY:11/19 BENAROYA LECTURE | Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Willen of the University of Connecticut will give the 2020 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies on the topic of global migration to Israel and the Middle East. \nThis event will take place virtually on Zoom. \nRegister Now\nAbout the talk\nIn this talk\, sociocultural anthropologist Sarah Willen will reflect on nearly two decades of ethnographic engagement with global migrants who arrived in Israel from countries as varied as Ghana and the Philippines\, Nigeria\, Colombia\, and Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork in homes and in churches\, medical offices\, advocacy organizations\, and public spaces\, Willen’s talk will explore how global migrants in Tel Aviv struggle to craft meaningful\, flourishing lives despite the exclusions and vulnerabilities they endure. Her work will challenge us to reconsider our understandings of global migration\, human rights\, Israel and the Middle East— and even dignity itself.\nRSVP for this virtual talk > \nAbout the speaker\nSarah S. Willen\, Ph.D.\, M.P.H. is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut and Director of the Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights at the university’s Human Rights Institute. A former NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School\, she holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and an M.P.H. in Global Health\, both from Emory University. \nHer first book\, “Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel Margins” (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2019)\, was awarded both the 2019 Shapiro Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies from the Association for Israel Studies and the 2020 Edie Turner First-Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. \nWillen has edited or co-edited three books and five special journal collections and authored over 35 articles and book chapters on issues of migration and health\, health and human rights\, social justice mobilization\, medical education\, and other topics. \nWillen is co-founder of the Pandemic Journaling Project\, a combined journaling platform and research study about the lived impact of COVID-19\, and Principal Investigator of ARCHES | the AmeRicans’ Conceptions of Health Equity Study\, an interdisciplinary\, mixed-methods study of how people in the United States think about health\, fairness\, and social interconnectedness (“health-related deservingness”)\, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. \nThis event is made possible through the generosity of the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Fund for Excellence in Israel Studies\, and is cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology\, the Department of Law\, Societies\, & Justice\, and the Middle East Center and African Studies Program at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/benaroya-sarah-willen-migrant-lives-israels-margins/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
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SUMMARY:1/28 TALK | Behind the Scenes with NPR's Correspondent in Jerusalem
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URL:https://jsis.washington.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D141097622#new_tab
LOCATION:Kane Hall 130\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies":MAILTO:jsis@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T140000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
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SUMMARY:4/3 PANEL | Perspectives on the 2019 Israeli Parliamentary Elections
DESCRIPTION:Image by Yonatan Popper\, for the Israeli magazine The Liberal. \nThe upcoming elections in Israel are drawing worldwide attention. The indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shaken up the political arena and led to surprising coalitions and the formation of new parties. \nWhat are the stakes of these elections for Israel’s various populations and political constituencies? What effect might they have on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? What role will Trump’s “deal of the century” play in these elections? Join faculty and graduate students from the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies for a pre-election discussion of these issues and more. \nPanelists\nDr. Noam Pianko\, director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\nMarwa Maziad\, journalist and Ph.D. candidate at the Near and Middle East interdisciplinary program\nHayim Katsman\, Ph.D. student at the Jackson School of International Studies\nModerator: \nDr. Liora Halperin\, Associate Professor of International Studies and History; Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair of Israel Studies
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/2019-israeli-parliamentary-elections-panel/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES: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:20190228T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
CREATED:20180820T033104Z
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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:20260422T084433
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:20190220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
CREATED:20190123T035130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T215210Z
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SUMMARY:Can Patients Refuse Lifesaving Treatment? A Comparative Review of Secular\, Jewish & Israeli Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Scenarios where patients refuse lifesaving care raise difficult ethical and legal questions. Physicians are faced with the decision of whether to forgo beneficial therapy\, or alternatively force treatment on an unwilling patient. In these undesirable situations\, the ethical principle of respecting the patient’s autonomy is in direct conflict with the ethical principle of beneficence. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz will examine whether it is morally and legally permissible for healthcare professionals to treat patients without consent in order to save their lives. To answer this question\, Khazzam-Horovitz will review two different approaches: secular ones as well as Jewish-rabbinic discourses. She will also discuss the Israeli legal system’s attempt to find a compromise that incorporates both the secular and the Jewish perspectives. \nAbout the speaker\n \nDr. Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz is a lecturer of bioethics and Modern Hebrew at Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School ofInternational Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Washington School of Law. She was a member of the Human Subjects Division committee (IRB) at University of Washington. Previously\, she was an Israeli attorney specializing in insurance litigation.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/khazzam-horovitz-can-patients-refuse-lifesaving-treatment/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T193000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
CREATED:20180706T201133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181222T000909Z
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SUMMARY:Water and the Environment in the Middle East: Israel's Sustainability Challenges in the Desalination Era
DESCRIPTION:Alon Tal of Tel Aviv University will give the 2018 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies on the topic of Israel’s new dependence on desalination\, assessing the sustainability of desalination as a source of usable water and the lessons that Israel’s experience can offer an increasingly water-scarce world. \nAlso with Alon Tal on Tuesday\, 11/27 (11am\, Thomson 317): Towards a Sustainable Population Policy in Israel: Axioms for a Crowded Planet \nAbout the Speaker\nAlon Tal is the chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. In 1990\, he founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense\, Israel’s leading green advocacy organization\, as well as the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. Between 2010 and 2013 he served as chair of Israel’s Green Party. Israel’s Ministry of Environment gave him a lifetime achievement award at age 48. Presently Tal is co-chair of Tzafuf\, the Israel Forum for Population\, Environment and Society\, as well as co-chair of This is My Earth. In 2005\, Tal was the winner of the Bronfman prize\, a humanitarian award for young leaders. He has held faculty positions at Ben Gurion\, Harvard\, Stanford\, Michigan State\, Science Po and Otago Universities. Tal has over 100 publication and has written or edited ten books. He plays fiddle and mandolin for the Arava Riders\, one of Israel’s veteran bluegrass bands. \nRegister for the Event\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is cosponsored by the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. \nVegetarian reception to follow.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/alon-tal-israel-benaroya-lecture/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,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:20181127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T122000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
CREATED:20180918T235833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181222T000908Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a Sustainable Population Policy in Israel: New Axioms for a Crowded Planet
DESCRIPTION:Alon Tal of Tel Aviv University will discuss challenges around population growth in Israel\, a country that is on track to become denser than Japan in a few decades. How can policymakers and planners encourage sustainable growth — and a high quality of life in crowded spaces — through policies and other interventions? The lessons Tal shares will be increasingly important for growing cities in the United States and elsewhere. \nRSVP below\, and get ready with Alon Tal’s recent article: “Life in Israel Has Become Very\, Very Crowded” \nAbout the Speaker\nAlon Tal is the chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. In 1990\, he founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense\, Israel’s leading green advocacy organization\, as well as the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. Between 2010 and 2013 he served as chair of Israel’s Green Party. At age 48\, Israel’s Ministry of Environment presented him with a life achievement award. Presently Tal is co-chair of Tzafuf\, the Israel Forum for Population\, Environment and Society\, as well as co-chair of This is My Earth. In 2005\, Tal was the winner of the Bronfman prize\, a humanitarian award for young leaders. He has held faculty positions at Ben Gurion\, Harvard\, Stanford\, Michigan State\, Sciences Po\, and Otago Universities. He has over 100 publication and has written or edited ten books. Alon plays fiddle and mandolin for the Arava Riders\, one of Israel’s veteran bluegrass bands. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/alon-tal-israel-sustainable-population-policy-in-israel-axioms-crowded-planet/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,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:20181029T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
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:20180514T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T140000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
CREATED:20180122T051450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180508T165747Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Reviving Languages & Teaching the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Rob Keener and Sara Molaie as they share their research on human rights issues and diplomacy in Israel and other countries in the Middle East. \nA light lunch will be served. \n \nRob Keener\, Israel Studies Program Fellow\n“Constructing a Project-Based Learning Curriculum to Teach the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict” \nRobert Keener was born in Houston\, Texas\, where he attended St. Thomas High School and Texas Tech University. After college\, Robert spent two years working in the oil and gas industry in Houston before academia came calling. He attended Ole Miss in Oxford\, Mississippi\, where he took two courses on the history of the Middle East that sparked an interest in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The multi-sided presentation of the conflict by his mentor\, Dr. Nikolas Trepanier\, was far different than the single-sided polemics that he had previously heard. While at Ole Miss\, Robert focused on studying systems of oppression such as apartheid\, Jim Crow and imperialism. After earning his MA in history\, Robert enrolled in the University of Washington’s Multicultural Education doctoral program\, where his research centers on teaching controversial topics in social studies\, global citizenship education\, and the construction of knowledge. When he is not working as a research assistant at the Center for Multicultural Education or trying to earn his doctorate\, Robert enjoys hiking in the mountains with his wife Emily and their chocolate lab named Rylee.\n  \n \nSara Molaie\, Robert & Pamela Center Fellow\n“Hebrew and Persian Revival Movements in the 19th Century” \nSara Molaie is pursuing her Master’s in Comparative Religion in the Jackson School.  As a member of the minority Baha’i community in Iran where she grew up\, Molaie has had to overcome many challenges. After she immigrated to the United States in 2009\, she focused her post-secondary education on religious studies\, in an effort to contribute to raising awareness of the possibilities for multicultural coexistence. With a focus on Judaism and Islam\, she completed elementary biblical and modern Hebrew and intermediate Arabic in her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Washington. Working on her MA thesis\, which is related to the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language\, she is going to advance her Hebrew in the summer as an FLAS awardee.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/grad-fellows-human-rights-diplomacy-middle-east/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows,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:20180427T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T140000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
CREATED:20180122T045420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180220T175150Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Israeli Diplomacy\, Jewish Refugees and Sephardic Soldiers in the 20th & 21st Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Samuel Gordon\, Pablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, and Ozgur Ozkan as they share their research on migration\, the Israeli state\, and military participation in this academic panel. \nA light lunch will be served.\n  \n \nSam Gordon\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Fellow\nPaper title: “21st Century Israeli Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities in a New Era” \nSam Gordon is currently a first-year master’s student at the Jackson School for International Studies concentrating on the Middle East. He is from Florida and attained a bachelor’s degree in 2014 from Florida State University majoring in History and International Affairs. After graduation\, Sam moved to Jerusalem and worked as a research assistant at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He conducted research on topics including diplomacy and human rights in the Middle East. He also spent nine months living and working in Prague\, where he absorbed a great deal about Jewish communities of Central Europe. For his Graduate Fellowship project\, Sam plans to investigate the role Israel will play in the newly forming international order as well as the challenges and opportunities it faces on a global scale. His research interests include Israeli foreign policy\, geopolitics of the Middle East\, and the intersection between technology and foreign policy.\n  \n \nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, Mickey Sreebny Memorial Scholar\nPaper title: “Neither Zionist\, nor Egyptian: The Forced Migration of the Jews of Egypt in the 1950s” \nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, who hails from Connecticut\, will pursue an MA in Middle East Studies at the Jackson School in the Fall 2017. Pablo obtained his BA in International Relations and a minor in Arabic Studies from Connecticut College. Pablo has studied at Alexandria University in Egypt and at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. At UW\, Pablo is interested in researching the intersection of history and politics of countries in the Middle East\, particularly the political and historical narratives of Jewish refugees from the Arab world. He speaks conversational Arabic\, Hebrew and Turkish.\n  \n \nOzgur Ozkan\, Mervin & Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\nPaper title: “Seattle’s Sephardic Connections to the Northern Aegean: War\, Military Service\, and Migration in the Early Twentieth Century” \nOzgur Ozkan is a PhD candidate in the Jackson School of International Studies’ doctoral program. He holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering and an MA degree in Regional Security Studies from the US Naval Postgraduate School. Ozgur’s research covers nationalism\, ethnic politics\, and civil-military relations in the Middle East. He has been conducting research on non-Muslims’ experiences in the Ottoman Army in the early twentieth century. He is planning to study Sephardic Jewish heritage in the northern Aegean and southern Marmara\, especially in Canakkale and its vicinity\, as well as Jewish participation to the Balkan Wars and the First World War.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/grad-fellows-eastern-mediterranean-world-israeli-diplomacy-jewish-refugees-sephardic-soldiers-20th-21st-centuries/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows,Israel Studies,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:20180409T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180409T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
CREATED:20180122T033633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180403T010709Z
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SUMMARY:Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Cover of “Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel” (Stanford University Press\, 2017) \n*Note that the location of this event has changed since our winter events postcard was mailed. The correct room is HUB 214.* \nBetween 1949 and 1951\, 123\,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all\, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot\, or transit camps. \nRather than returning to a homeland as native sons\, Iraqi Jews were newcomers in a foreign place. Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel\, Professor Orit Bashkin’s new book\, tells the story of these Iraqi Jews’ first decades in Israel. \nFaced with ill treatment and discrimination from state officials\, Iraqi Jews resisted: they joined Israeli political parties\, demonstrated in the streets\, and fought for the education of their children\, leading a civil rights struggle whose legacy continues to influence contemporary debates in Israel. \nOrit Bashkin sheds light on the everyday lives of this population and their determination to thrive in a new country\, uncovering their long\, painful transformation from Iraqis to Israelis. In doing so\, she shares the resilience and humanity of a community whose story has yet to be told. \nAbout the Speaker\nOrit Bashkin is Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Chicago. \nShe is the author of New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford\, 2012) and The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford\, 2008). She currently directs the center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago.\n \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Middle East Center\, part of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/iraqi-jews-israel-resettlement-orit-bashkin/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,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:20180313T185000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
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:20180111T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T084433
CREATED:20171117T202628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T205832Z
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SUMMARY:Enforcing Ethnic Nationalism: Partition and Population Exchange in the Modern Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, pundits and diplomats alike have repeatedly proposed partition – and its twin\, forcible population exchange – as “solutions” to what they depict as inveterate sectarian conflict across the Middle East. In this lecture\, Laura Robson explores the twentieth-century history of such ideas\, suggesting that proposals for partition and population transfer originated not from humanitarian concern for victimized communities but as concrete strategies for political and military intervention in the Middle East. In particular\, she discusses how Zionism and other early twentieth century models of ethno-communal settlement contributed to a new rhetoric and practice of French and British colonial state-building via Assyrian and Armenian refugee resettlement in interwar Syria and Iraq\, resulting in imperially produced geographies of ethnicity that permanently impacted the political landscape of these emerging states. \nSpeaker Bio\nLaura Robson (PhD Yale\, 2009) is an associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Portland State University. Her most recent book\, States of Separation: Transfer\, Partition\, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (University of California\,2017) explores the history of forced migration\, population exchanges\, and refugee resettlement in Iraq\, Syria\, and Palestine during the interwar period. She is also the author of Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine and editor of Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/robson-enforcing-ethnic-nationalism/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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