Academic Lectures
Katja Petrowskaja: A Family Story Between Memory and Forgetting
Communications 120 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe writer Katja Petrowskaja will speak about family history and memory in conversation with Sasha Senderovich.
10/29 TALK | No Pasarán!: Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesAmelia Glaser of University of California San Diego will speak about how the Spanish Civil War (1936-1938) united the anti-fascist left around the world.
11/19 TALK | American Jews and Israel in the Trump Era: Polarization and Protest
Kane Hall 110 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesProfessor Dov Waxman will give the 2019 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies on the topic of American Jewish support for Israel in the context of the Donald Trump presidency
AUDIO | From Humanitarian Relief to Holocaust Rescue: The Story of Tracy Strong, Jr.
Kane Hall 110 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Christopher Browning tells the story of a relief worker from Seattle who established a safe house for refugees in 1940s Vichy France.
POSTPONED | Hans Calmeyer and Holocaust Rescue in the Netherlands
Thomson Hall 101 2023 King Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Laureen Nussbaum (Portland State) discusses the history of Holocaust rescue in the Netherlands, based both on her research and her childhood relationship with Anne Frank and the Frank family.
VIDEO | Sasha Senderovich — Against Nostalgia: The Old Country in the Jewish American Imagination
WADr. Sasha Senderovich reads and offers thoughts on the dark poetry of modernist Yiddish poet Moyshe Leyb Halpern.
VIDEO | Chagall, Modigliani, & Jewish Painters from the Russian “Pale of Settlement”
Galya Diment explains how modernist painters Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani related to Jewishness in their lives and art, looking at their time in Paris in the early twentieth century.
VIDEO | Richard Block —The 2015 Hungarian Drama “Son of Saul” and a New Chapter in Films About the Holocaust
Dr. Richard Block discusses the 2015 Hungarian film "The Son of Saul" and how it marks a shift in films about the Holocaust.
VIDEO | The History of a Page: Reflecting on the Talmud as a Physical Book (and What I’ve Learned Since My Stroum Lecture 23 Years Ago)
David Stern (Harvard University) explains how the Talmud evolved over the ages in this update to his 1997 Stroum Lecture in Jewish Studies.
Insights from a Half-Century of Ladino Studies: David M. Bunis in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
International Ladino expert Dr. David Bunis discusses his personal connection with the Ladino language, the history of Ladino studies, and the future of the field with Dr. Devin Naar, chair of the UW Sephardic Studies Program.
10/6 TALK | The History of Jewish Difference and Anti-Judaism as Ideology
Zoom 0Mika Ahuvia will discuss the history of anti-Judaism as an ideology in the introduction to this ten-lecture series.
10/13 KEYNOTE | The Difficulty of Confronting the Holocaust — Mass Murder in Jedwabne, Poland
Zoom 0Jan Gross lectures on the difficulty of confronting the Holocaust with a focus on the case of Jedwabne murder in Poland in this entry in a ten-lecture series.
10/20 TALK | Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Lines of Solidarity
Zoom 0Nicolaas P. Barr will discuss antisemitism and racism and the lines of solidarity that arise between them.
10/25 CONFERENCE | Jewish Romance in the Middle Ages: Literature, Piety, and Cultural Translation
This conference brings together scholars working on medieval Jewish literature from varied perspectives to enable a cross-disciplinary, trans-institutional, and international dialogue that will highlight understudied voices in medieval literature.
10/27 TALK | Ideologies of Racial Superiority and Purity: Why Did Germany and Japan Engage in Such Extreme Mass Murder During World War II?
Zoom 0Daniel Chirot will lecture on the ideologies of racial purity and superiority in Japan and Germany in World War II.