Academic Lectures
5/6 TALK | “More Mexican than the Nopal”: From Ottoman Jew to Mexican Diplomat in Vichy France, or the Story of Mauricio Fresco
Thomson 317 on the UW Campus 2023 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Devi Mays will use the life of Mexican Jewish diplomat Mauricio Fresco to explore the multiple tensions undergirding global Sephardic life in the late interwar and World War II eras.
5/14 STROUM LECTURE | Jewish Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Lost Archives, Sacred Wastebins, and Jews of the Medieval Islamic World
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesIn our 2019 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, Dr. Marina Rustow will consider the enduring relevance of ancient Jewish texts in an online era.
5/16 STROUM LECTURE | Jewish Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Manuscripts, the Digital Revolution, and the New Materiality
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesIn our 2019 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, Dr. Marina Rustow will consider the enduring relevance of ancient Jewish texts in an online era.
5/21 COLLOQUIUM | Jewish Memory, History & Thought
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin 2018-2019 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Vincent Calvetti-Wolf, Pablo Jairo Tutillo and Hayim Katsman as they share their research.
5/23 TALK | Visualizing Resistance: From Conflict to Concord in a Synagogue Mosaic
Odegaard Library 220 4060 George Washington Lane NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Ra'anan Boustan interprets an ancient depiction of a Jewish victory over Greek forces, and the clues it offers about Jewish identity during Roman times.
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.