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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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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T173000
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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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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T122000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T100409
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T140000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T140000
DTSTAMP:20260422T100409
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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:20260422T100409
CREATED:20180122T033633Z
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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:20260422T100409
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:20260422T100409
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T100409
CREATED:20170705T234817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T205856Z
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SUMMARY:Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies for the inaugural Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture. \nAward-winning essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman will trace the footsteps of the three very different architects who helped to shape modern Jerusalem. \nAbout this talk\nThe celebrated Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn was a refugee from Hitler’s Germany\, a man of fiercely held views about both politics and aesthetics\, and the creator of several singular Jerusalem buildings. The “most private of public servants\,” Austen St. Barbe Harrison\, British Mandatory Palestine’s chief government architect from 1922-1937\, arrived in the city steeped in the traditions of Byzantine and Islamic building\, and left behind a number of remarkable structures. And the mysterious Greek-Arab architect Spyro Houris\, once a fixture on the local scene\, has been utterly forgotten\, though his grand\, Armenian-tile-clad buildings still stand\, a ghostly testimony to the cultural fluidity that has historically characterized Jerusalem at its best. \nBased on her critically acclaimed new book\, Till We Have Built Jerusalem\, Hoffman’s talk uncovers layers of one great city’s buried history as it asks what it means to be foreign and to belong. \nBio\nEssayist and biographer Adina Hoffman writes often of the Middle East\, approaching it from unusual angles and shedding light on overlooked dimensions of the place\, its people\, and their cultures. She is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood\, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century\, and\, with Peter Cole\, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza\, which won the American Library Association’s prize for the best Jewish book of 2011. The Los Angeles Times called her most recent book\, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City\, “brave and often beautiful\,” and Haaretz described it as “a passionate\, lyrical defense of a Jerusalem that could still be.” Her essays and criticism have appeared the Nation\, the Washington Post\, the TLS\, the Boston Globe\, and on the World Service of the BBC.  A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and one of the inaugural winners of the Windham-Campbell Literary Prizes\, she divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven. \n\nThis lecture is generously supported by the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Fund for Excellence in Israel Studies. \nThe Jackson School and Stroum Center would like to thank the cosponsors of this event:\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\, Cinema & Media\nMiddle East Center – Jackson School of International Studies
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/israel_studies_adina_hoffman/
LOCATION:Kane Hall — Walker-Ames Room and 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, 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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