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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T190000
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SUMMARY:Stroum Lecture Night 2: Jewish Emancipation and the Radical Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about Spinoza\, and read writing by Jonathan Israel and other Spinoza scholars\, at the 2017 Spinoza & Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference website.\n \nThe 2017 Stroum Lectures will feature Prof. Jonathan Israel of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The second night’s lecture\, on May 23\, 2017\, will explore “Eighteenth-Century Jewish Emancipation: a Consequence of the Radical Enlightenment?” \nJonathan Israel’s recent work focuses on the impact of radical thought (especially Spinoza\, Bayle\, Diderot\, and the eighteenth-century French materialists) on the Enlightenment and on the emergence of modern ideas of democracy\, equality\, toleration\, freedom of the press\, and individual freedom. His books include European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism\, 1550–1750 (1985); The Dutch Republic: Its Rise\, Greatness\, and Fall\, 1477–1806 (1995); Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity\, 1650–1750 (2001); Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy\, Modernity\, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752 (2006); and A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (2009). \nProf. Israel received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1972. Prior to the IAS\, he taught at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne\, the University of Hull\, and University College London. He has been awarded numerous prizes\, including the PROSE Award 2015; City of Amsterdam\, Frans Banninck Cocq Medal 2012; London Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts\, Manufactures and Commerce\, Benjamin Franklin Medal 2010; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize in History 2008; Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion 2004; American Historical Association\, Leo Gershoy Award 2001; Wolfson Literary Award for History 1986. He is a member of the British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nJewish Emancipation and the Radical Enlightenment\nThe process of Jewish emancipation in Europe proved to be long\, hard\, and bitter. Most people\, most churchmen\, and most governments\, as well as most academics in Europe did not accept that Jews had rights equal to those of other citizens until well into the second half of the nineteenth century. How then did Jewish emancipation come about? What were the forces that dismantled the near-universal prevalence of restrictions that controlled where Jews could live\, excluded them from occupations\, limited their property rights\, kept them out of the universities and excluded them from holding public office? \nThis lecture will explore how the Jewish emancipation is inseparable from the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century revolutionary tendency\, especially the subversive call for “universal and equal rights” that first arose in the 1770s and 1780s. The intellectual forces that rallied behind the call for Jewish emancipation were the same as those fighting for “universal and equal rights” in Europe generally– the Radical Enlightenment.  \nBecause of this\, modern Jewish history is fundamentally embedded in a style of political and religious thinking that was anti-monarchical\, anti-aristocratic and anti-ecclesiastical\, one that began in Holland with the group around Baurch Spinoza in the seventeenth century. This Radical Enlightenment included a long list of subversive thinkers and revolutionaries from a variety of backgrounds\, including a remarkable batch of Jewish revolutionaries before Marx: Moses Mendelssohn\, the “gentle revolutionary\,” Zalkind Hourwitz\, Hartog de Hartog Lemon\, Ludwig Börne\, Heinrich Heine\, Moses Hess. Even young Marx himself can be seen as part of this tradition–until he turned away from democracy and equal rights\, rejected Spinoza\, and finally became a “Marxist.” \n\nThis year’s Stroum Lectures will take place in conjunction with the international conference on “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy\,” taking place at the UW on May 21-22\, 2017. Learn more about the conference\, which has been organized by Prof. Michael Rosenthal\, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies and professor in the Department of Philosophy. \n  \n \nPowered by Eventbrite\n\n\nRelated Events:\n\nStroum Lecture Night 1\, May 21\, 2017: “In What Sense was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?” featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference\, May 21-22\, 2017: Hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\n\nRelated Links:\n\nStroum Lecture Digital Archive – watch lectures from previous years by scholars such as Ruth Behar\, Jonathan Sarna\, and Yael Zerubavel\nStroum Lectures at the University of Washington Press – browse titles that emerged from previous years’ Stroum Lectures\, including Yosef Haim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory and Ilana Pardes’ Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israel Culture.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lecture-jonathan-israel-night-2/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T173000
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SUMMARY:Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Spinoza by Studio Odilo Girod. \nThis international conference aims to explore the myriad ways in which Spinoza contributed to the development of modern Jewish philosophy. Although Spinoza was banned from the Jewish community in 1656 due to his “abominable heresies\,” posterity has come to see his work differently. For some he is the central figure of the radical Enlightenment and the secular world. For others he is the first modern Jew\, the harbinger of reforms that make Judaism possible in the modern world. Is Spinoza antithetical to the basic tenets of Judaism\, or is his work essential to the articulation of a modern Jewish identity? The sessions will explore Spinoza’s philosophy and its impact on the philosophical\, historical\, and literary understanding of the modern world. \nConfirmed speakers include:\nLeora Batnitzky (Princeton University) ● Julie E. Cooper (Tel Aviv University) ● Paul Franks (Yale University) ● Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto) ● Michah Gottlieb (New York University) ● Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Studies\, Princeton University) ● Julie R. Klein (Villanova University) ● Tracie Matysik (University of Texas) ● Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) ● Michael Morgan (University of Indiana & University of Toronto) ● Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin) ● Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew University) ● Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington) ● Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) ● Abraham Socher (Oberlin College) \nThe conference schedule\, along with information about speakers and panels\, are online now on the conference webpage. Conference sessions (excluding meals) are free and open to the public; please register in advance. You may reserve a seat at either day session\, and attend any or all panels on that day. \nThe UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to host “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy” in conjunction with the 2017 Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel. Prof. Israel will be speaking on May 21st and 23rd\, 7:00 pm in Kane Hall. Click here for more information and registration for the Stroum Lectures. \nWe thank the following units for their support of this event: the Department of Philosophy\, the Department of Germanics\, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. \nRelated Events:\n\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 1 – May 21\, 2017\nSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/spinoza-modern-jewish-philosophy/
LOCATION:HUB 334\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T203000
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SUMMARY:Stroum Lecture Night 1: In What Sense was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about Spinoza\, and read writing by Jonathan Israel and other Spinoza scholars\, at the 2017 Spinoza & Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference website.\n \nThe 2017 Stroum Lectures will feature Prof. Jonathan Israel of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. \nJonathan Israel’s recent work focuses on the impact of radical thought (especially Spinoza\, Bayle\, Diderot\, and the eighteenth-century French materialists) on the Enlightenment and on the emergence of modern ideas of democracy\, equality\, toleration\, freedom of the press\, and individual freedom. His books include European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism\, 1550–1750 (1985); The Dutch Republic: Its Rise\, Greatness\, and Fall\, 1477–1806 (1995); Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity\, 1650–1750 (2001); Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy\, Modernity\, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752 (2006); and A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (2009). \nProf. Israel received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1972. Prior to the IAS\, he taught at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne\, the University of Hull\, and University College London. He has been awarded numerous prizes\, including the PROSE Award 2015; City of Amsterdam\, Frans Banninck Cocq Medal 2012; London Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts\, Manufactures and Commerce\, Benjamin Franklin Medal 2010; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize in History 2008; Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion 2004; American Historical Association\, Leo Gershoy Award 2001; Wolfson Literary Award for History 1986. He is a member of the British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nIn What Sense was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?\nIn the centuries since his expulsion from the synagogue in 1656\, Spinoza has been a notorious figure within the Jewish world\, and in the wider Western world as a whole. Spinoza is seen as the very embodiment of irreligion\, of the rejection of religious authority\, and of skepticism about the Hebrew Bible as divine revelation. As several key passages of his writings make clear\, however\, his principal aim was not to spread irreligious attitudes\, but rather to promote “freedom” and to fight political tyranny\, especially tyranny in the form of great monarchical empires\, like those of Philip II of Spain and Louis XIV of France\, which operated in close alliance with religious authority. \nSpinoza was a revolutionary in his attempt to undermine political tyranny in alliance with institutionalized religion and philosophy in alliance with theology\, and in his efforts to move the intellectually aware toward the view that the democratic republic guaranteeing individual freedom is the best\, safest and freest form of government. In this respect\, Spinoza can be described as the greatest Jewish “revolutionary” before Karl Marx. \n\nFollowing Prof. Israel’s first Stroum Lecture\, the Stroum Center will host a kosher reception in the Walker Ames Room of Kane Hall. \nThis year’s Stroum Lectures will take place in conjunction with the international conference on “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy\,” taking place at the UW on May 21-22\, 2017. Learn more about the conference\, which has been organized by Prof. Michael Rosenthal\, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies and professor in the Department of Philosophy. \n  \n \nPowered by Eventbrite\n\n\nRelated Events:\n\nStroum Lecture Night 2\, May 23\, 2017: “Eighteenth-Century Jewish Emancipation: a Consequence of the Radical Enlightenment?” featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference\, May 21-22\, 2017: Hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\n\nRelated Links:\n\nStroum Lecture Digital Archive – watch lectures from previous years by scholars such as Ruth Behar\, Jonathan Sarna\, and Yael Zerubavel\nStroum Lectures at the University of Washington Press – browse titles that emerged from previous years’ Stroum Lectures\, including Yosef Haim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory and Ilana Pardes’ Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israel Culture.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lecture-jonathan-israel-night-1/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T171500
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SUMMARY:Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 1
DESCRIPTION:This international conference aims to explore the myriad ways in which Spinoza contributed to the development of modern Jewish philosophy. Although Spinoza was banned from the Jewish community in 1656 due to his “abominable heresies\,” posterity has come to see his work differently. For some he is the central figure of the radical Enlightenment and the secular world. For others he is the first modern Jew\, the harbinger of reforms that make Judaism possible in the modern world. Is Spinoza antithetical to the basic tenets of Judaism\, or is his work essential to the articulation of a modern Jewish identity? The sessions will explore Spinoza’s philosophy and its impact on the philosophical\, historical\, and literary understanding of the modern world. \nConfirmed speakers include: \nLeora Batnitzky (Princeton University) ● Julie E. Cooper (Tel Aviv University) ● Paul Franks (Yale University) ● Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto) ● Michah Gottlieb (New York University) ● Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Studies\, Princeton University) ● Julie R. Klein (Villanova University) ● Tracie Matysik (University of Texas) ● Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) ● Michael Morgan (University of Indiana & University of Toronto) ● Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin) ● Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew University) ● Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington) ● Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) ● Abraham Socher (Oberlin College) \nThe conference schedule\, along with information about speakers and panels\, are online now on the conference webpage. Conference sessions (excluding meals) are free and open to the public; please register in advance. You may reserve a seat at both day sessions\, and attend any or all panels on that day. \nThe UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to host “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy” in conjunction with the 2017 Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel. Prof. Israel will be speaking on May 21st and 23rd\, 7:00 pm in Kane Hall. Click here for more information and registration. \nWe thank the following units for their support of this event: the Department of Philosophy\, the Department of Germanics\, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. \nRelated Events:\n\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 2 – May 22\, 2017\nSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel\n\n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/spinoza-modern-jewish-philosophy/
LOCATION:Hillel UW\, 4745 17th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Life in Conflict Zones
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. \n“Non-Muslim Military Service and Minority Experience in the Late Ottoman Empire”\nOzgur Ozkan – 2016-17 I. Mervin & Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\nOzgur Ozkan is a PhD candidate in the Jackson’s School 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 is planning to study Sephardic Jewish heritage in the Northern Aegean and Southern Marmara\, especially in Canakkale and its vicinity. He is particularly interested in Sephardic Jewish participation in the Ottoman Gallipoli Front in the First World War and the immigration patterns of Sephardic Jews of this region. \n“Effects of Violence on Civilian Support for Militancy”\nEmily Gade – 2016-17 Samuel & Althea Stroum Fellow\nEmily Gade is a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on civilians in conflict zones\, political violence and nonviolent resistance\, and she is especially interested in the role of ZAKA recovery workers in Israel. Before coming to Seattle\, she worked as a contract research and writer\, most recently completing research for the LSE Center for the Study of Global Governance on peace agreements. Emily also enjoys athletic endeavors\, having competed at the 2012 Olympic Trials (rowing) in the lightweight double sculls and placed second in that same event at the 2013 US National Team Trials. \nProfessor Noam Pianko will serve as moderator and respondent for these presentations. \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/life-in-conflict-zones/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T134500
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn with Dr. Federica Francesconi
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center is proud to host Dr. Francesconi’s lunchtime talk\, “The Italian Jewish Household in the Early Modern Mediterranean\,” with a response from Dr. Rena Lauer. Complimentary falafel lunch to be provided. Please RSVP to ensure enough food. \n \nFederica Francesconi (PhD\, University of Haifa) is Assistant Professor of History and the Howard Berger-Ray Neilsen Chair in Judaic Studies at The College of Idaho. Her research and publications address the social\, religious\, and cultural aspects of the early modern history of Jews in Italy\, focusing on the multifaceted politics and dynamics of ghetto life. She has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania\, the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and the University of Oxford. She has just completed a monograph\, Invisible Enlighteners: Modenese Jewry from the Renaissance to Emancipation. Her new book project is tentatively entitled “Cosmopolitan Intimacy: Jewish Spaces as Crossroads for Multi-Religious Communities in Early Modern Italy.” \n  \nRespondent Rena Lauer (PhD\, Harvard) studies minority life on the borders of medieval Christendom and cross-cultural contacts in the late medieval Mediterranean. Her current book project is a social history of the Jews of Venetian Crete in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries\, particularly through the lens of intra-Jewish litigation in the Venetian secular courtroom. \n  \nThis seminar is made possible thanks to the American Academy of Jewish Research. \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/feasting-faculty-federica-francesconi/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn with Prof. Jeffrey Herf
DESCRIPTION:Undeclared Wars with Israel:  East Germany and the West German Far Left\, 1967-1989  examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations – ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel’s Arab armed adversaries – from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. The book is about ideas and politics as well as details of arms deliveries and military training. \nVegetarian lunch provided. \n  \nProf. Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland\, College Park. \n  \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jeffrey-herf/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20161024T215547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T212128Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Refugees and Minorities in Israel
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. Everyone who RSVPs will receive an advance copy of the research papers to be discussed. \nOded Oron \nOded Oron – 2016-17 Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Fellow. His research project is “Migrants’ Mobilization for Rights and Recognition in Israel and the United States” \nOded Oron was born and raised in Tel Aviv\, and his research focuses on the political mobilization of labor migrants and undocumented workers in Israel and the USA. Oded already holds degrees in Political Science and Communications as well as in Politics and Government. Prior to his enrollment in the Jackson School’s International Studies doctoral program\, Oded worked in the Israeli media and government communications\, and also worked for Hillel at UCLA. This is his second year in the Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship. \nEsra Bakkalbasioglu – 2016-17 Robert and Pamela Center Fellow. Her research project is “Non-Jewish Citizens of the Jewish State: Bedouin Citizens’ Perception of the State in Israel.” \nEsra Bakkalbasioglu is a PhD candidate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She received her MA and BA degrees in Political Sciences and International Relations from Bogazici University\, Turkey. She is writing her dissertation on the politics of infrastructure in the peripheral regions of Turkey and Israel. This is Esra’s second year in the Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship. Check out Esra’s new blog post\, Questions of Denial. \nThis research seminar will be facilitated by Prof. Kathie Friedman of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. \nSave the date for the final seminar in the series:\nLife in Conflict Zones\, Thursday\, May 11th\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, featuring Ozgur Ozkan (JSIS-International Studies) and Emily Gade (Political Science)
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/refugees-minorities-in-israel/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20161031T222608Z
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SUMMARY:Medicine & Medical Ethics After the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:In this public lecture\, Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld of the Baylor College of Medicine will speak on how medicine and medical ethics were challenged and affected by the Holocaust.\nGerman physicians embraced eugenics\, a worldwide movement in the first three decades of the twentieth century\, transformed the Hippocratic Oath from a doctor-patient relationship into a StateVolkskörper relationship\, and developed a politicized philosophy of medicine called “Applied Biology.” Hitler refashioned these ideas into public health policies such as involuntary sterilization\, the Nuremberg Laws\, and involuntary euthanasia.\nThe United States was the world leader in eugenics\, providing moral\, legal\, and philanthropic support to the Third Reich. After the end of World War II and the Nuremberg Medical Trial\, the United States dismissed the behavior of German medical professionals as an irrelevant aberration\, developed comforting but false myths about medicine and the Holocaust\, and failed to examine her own eugenic past and its implication for contemporary medicine.\nThis lecture will review this history and challenge medical professionals and healthcare policy makers to personally confront the bioethics of the Holocaust and apply that knowledge to contemporary medicine.\nDr. Sheldon Rubenfeld is the editor of Medicine After the Holocaust: From the Master Race to the Human Genome and Beyond (Palgrave\, 2010). Dr. Rubenfeld is Clinical Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine\, Clinical Professor of Nursing at the University of Texas School of Nursing in Houston\, and a Fellow in the American College of Endocrinology. He has taught courses on medical ethics and the Holocaust at the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston\, and publishes and lectures throughout the world on both subjects. Dr. Rubenfeld is the founding chairman of the Center for Medicine After the Holocaust. Among other activities\, the Center hosts a biennial trip to European medical sites relevant to the Holocaust\, and is preparing a documentary about medicine and the Holocaust. In April of 2015 Dr. Rubenfeld convened the First International Scholars Workshop on Medicine After the Holocaust to promote medicine and the Holocaust as an academic discipline in medical centers throughout the world.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/medicine-medical-ethics-holocaust/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161208T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20161024T215012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T185903Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Spinoza\, Borges\, and Literary Imagination
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. Everyone who RSVPs will receive an advance copy of the research paper to be discussed. \nFirst Presentation: Zachary Tavlin\, “Polishing Crystals in the Twilight: Spinoza\, Borges\, and the Literary Imagination”\nOn Thursday\, December 8th at 12:00 pm\, Zachary Tavlin\, a PhD candidate in the Department of English\, will present “Polishing Crystals in the Twilight: Spinoza\, Borges\, and the Literary Imagination.” Zachary Tavlin is the 2017-17 Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar at the Stroum Center. He is a PhD candidate in the UW Department of English. He received his BA in Philosophy from The George Washington University in 2011\, and his MA in Philosophy from Louisiana State University in 2013. He is currently writing a dissertation on nineteenth-century American literature\, the visual arts\, and embodied phenomenology. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics including psychoanalysis\, Victorian materialisms\, eco-criticism\, poetics\, philosophy and American literature\, and film theory. \nCheck out Zachary Tavlin’s new blog post\, Is It Time to Reconsider Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s Jews? \nProf. Michael Rosenthal\, this year’s Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair\, will serve as the respondent to Zachary’s paper. Prof. Rosenthal is faculty for the UW Department of Philosophy. He teaches and publishes in the areas of early modern philosophy\, ethics\, political philosophy\, and Jewish philosophy. Prof. Rosenthal’s current research focuses on the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza\, and he is currently finishing a book on Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise. \nCheck out Prof. Rosenthal’s blog post\, Was Spinoza a Heretic or a Theologian? \nSave the dates for the Winter Quarter and Spring Quarter Graduate Fellow presentations:\nThursday\, March 9th\, 12:00-1:30 pm: Oded Oron (JSIS-International Studies) and Esra Bakkalbasioglu (JSIS-Near and Middle Eastern Studies) will speak on Refugees and Minorities in Israel \nThursday\, May 11th\, 12:00-1:30 pm: Ozgur Ozkan (JSIS-International Studies) and Emily Gade (Political Science) will speak on Life in Conflict Zones \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/spinoza-borges-literary-imagination/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 317\, Thomson Hall 317\, Seattle
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20160728T223206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170724T210800Z
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SUMMARY:"Oriental Neighbors" Discussion with Prof. Moshe Naor
DESCRIPTION:Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine \nFocusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine\, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews\, and discusses their unique role as political\, social\, and cultural mediators between Jews and Arabs. Integrating Mandatory Palestine and its inhabitants into the contemporary Semitic-Levantine surroundings\, Oriental Neighbors illuminates broad areas of cooperation and coexistence\, which coincided with conflict and friction\, between Oriental and Sephardi Jews and their Arab neighbors. The book brings the Oriental Jewish community to the fore\, examines its role in the Zionist nation-building process\, and studies its diverse and complex links with the Arab community in Palestine. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization\, UW Middle East Center*\, and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \nKosher lunch will be provided. Note that registration is required to attend this event. \n  \n*The Middle East Center’s sponsorship of this of this event does not imply that the Center endorses the content of the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/moshe-naor/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20160728T220958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160926T232149Z
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SUMMARY:Tomasz Łysak: Classic Documentary Films About Auschwitz-Birkenau
DESCRIPTION:After WWII there was a significant shift in the visual principles of rendering the operations of Auschwitz-Birkenau\, its history\, and its moral significance. Soviet and Polish filmmakers established the cinematographic conventions of Holocaust documentaries\, which contributed to the conceptualization of concentration camps and industrial genocide as modernist events. The films in question span the period between the liberation of Auschwitz and the 1960s\, and include liberation footage recorded by the Red Army and the Polish Film Chronicle\, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (1955)\, Andrzej Brzozowski’s Archeology (1967)\, and Tadeusz Jaworski’s I was a Kapo (1963). This selection sheds light on the aesthetic choices of film genres like newsreel\, post-traumatic film\, scientific film\, and first person testimony.\n \nJoin former Polish Fulbright Scholar Tomasz Łysak as he discusses his new book Od kroniki do filmu posttraumatycznego – filmy dokumentalne o Zagładzie. The book explores a comparative perspective on Holocaust cinema\, placing Polish productions in the context of the larger international phenomenon of this genre.\n \nThis event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.\n \nOrganized by UW Polish Studies\, co-sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.\n \n \nAbout the Speaker:\nTomasz Łysak\, University of Warsaw\, received his PhD in Philosophy from the Polish Academy of Sciences. His work focuses on representations of the Holocaust in relation to trauma studies and psychoanalysis. He has held fellowships at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, the University of Edinburgh\, and the University of Chicago.\n \n  \nAbout the Book:\nDocumentary materials shot during the war by Nazi cameramen came to define the audiovisual memory of Polish Jews in the ghettoes and Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation footage became a powerful symbol of the Holocaust. Polish documentary filmmakers had relied on these materials in order to present various aspects of the genocide\, Nazi atrocities\, and the fate of Jews under the occupation. Subsequently\, quoting of archival footage lost its appeal and other modes of documentary film-making prevail: cinematic memory work (in response to Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog)\, audiovisual testimony\, documentaries of return etc. The book traces these developments and adopts a comparative perspective showing Polish productions in the context of a larger international phenomenon of Holocaust cinema. The argument combines insights from psychoanalytical trauma theory\, generic criticism\, memory studies\, and political aesthetics.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/tomasz-lysak/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20160725T225847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T183827Z
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SUMMARY:Jewish Salonica Book Launch with Prof. Devin Naar
DESCRIPTION:Note: This event is sold out and no more tickets are available. A waitlist will be available at the event on a first-come\, first-served basis. Thank you for your understanding.\nA video of Prof. Naar’s lecture will be available by the end of Autumn Quarter. He will also be among the featured speakers at International Ladino Day on Nov. 30th. More info and registration are available here.\n  \nThe city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. In this lecture\, Prof. Naar will explore the fate of Salonica’s Jews and offer behind-the-scenes insight into how he uncovered the previously lost sources necessary to tell the story. Join the Stroum Center and the Sephardic Studies Program for this exciting book launch event. \nLight kosher reception to follow lecture. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Washington’s Department of History\, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, and the Center for West European Studies. \nDevin Naar at Ladino Day 2015 \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. \nParking & Transportation to the UW Tower\nThe W-46 parking garage is attached to the UW Tower via a skybridge located on the 3rd floor of the garage. Vehicles may enter on 12th Ave NE and NE 43rd Street. The garage and skybridge entrance normally close at 6pm\, but the Stroum Center has arranged to hire a guard for the entrance so that our guests may enter until 7:30pm. This should give everyone plenty of time to park and get to the book launch.\nVisitors should be sure to park only in numbered spaces and use machines on the 1st or 3rd floor to prepay. The cost is $3 per hour.\nFor more information including details on ADA accessibility and public transit\, see the UW Tower’s “Getting Here” page: https://www.washington.edu/facilities/uwtower/getting-here. \n[separator top=”10″ style=”none”] \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Links for Further Exploration[/title] \n\nLearn more about Prof. Naar’s book Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\nExplore the UW Sephardic Studies program\nVisit the Sephardic Studies Collection at the UW Libraries Digital Collections
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/naar-book-launch/
LOCATION:UW Tower Auditorium\, 4333 Brooklyn Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20160908T203645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T203728Z
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SUMMARY:Immigration\, Religion & Human Rights Panel
DESCRIPTION:Should our country discriminate among potential immigrants on the basis of religion? Our policy has been not to do so. But there have been recent calls by prominent politicians to change that practice. Our panelists will discuss this and related questions from philosophical\, sociological\, and historical perspectives. \nModerator:\nMichael Rosenthal\, Professor of Philosophy and Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies\, UW Seattle \nParticipants:\nMichael Blake\, Professor of Philosophy\, Public Policy\, and Governance\, Department of Philosophy and Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance\, UW Seattle \nSarah Eltantawi\, Assistant Professor of Comparative Religion and Islamic Studies\, Evergreen State College \nKathie Friedman\, Associate Professor\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, UW Seattle \nThomas Schmidt\, Professor of Philosophy of Religion\, Department of Catholic Theology\, Goethe University\, Frankfurt\, Germany \nThis panel is part of a conference\, “Immigration\, Toleration\, and Human Rights\,” which will take place on October 27-28th. Please see the Simpson Center website for more details: https://simpsoncenter.org/projects/immigration-toleration-and-human-rights. \nSponsors: The conference and related events are co-sponsored by the UW Tri-Campus Research Cluster on Human Interactions and Normative Innovation (HI-NORM)\, the Global Innovation Fund of the UW Office of Global Affairs\, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities\, the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW-Tacoma\, the Department of Philosophy\, the Program on Values in Society\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, the Friends of Philosophy\, the UW Center for Human Rights\, the MERCUR Research Project: Ethics of Immigration at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen\, and the Cluster of Excellence: The Formation of Normative Orders at the Goethe University\, Frankfurt\, Germany.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/immigration-religion-human-rights/
LOCATION:HUB 332\, Husky Union Building\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20160926T233359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160927T002801Z
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SUMMARY:The Holocaust in the Soviet Union
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Daniel Newman will discuss the experiences of Holocaust victims in the Soviet Union as well as the divisiveness of the memory of the Holocaust in the postwar USSR. Additionally\, he will address the political factors affecting the remembrance of the Holocaust and argue that it is essential to study this horrific tragedy both in the context of Holocaust history and also in the context of politics and conflict in the former USSR. Remembrance of the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust proved to be a contentious issue throughout the Soviet period and regrettably remains so today\, with certain political considerations and even possibly anti-Semitic agendas relegating the story of the Jews during the Holocaust to a historical byline at best that is completely absent from the historical record at worst. \nThis event is free and open to the public. No RSVP is necessary. \n \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Daniel Newman is the Program Manager of the Initiative for the Study of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union at the the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. He holds a PhD in modern European history from the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA).\n \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/holocaust-in-the-soviet-union/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160929T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160929T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20160801T183504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T161200Z
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SUMMARY:Drawing on the Past: Biblical Women in History\, Memory\, and Ritual Life
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Women of the Book art exhibition at the Stroum Jewish Community Center\, Professor Mika Ahuvia will give a lecture about the women of the Bible and their impact on Jewish life. \nTo register for this event\, please fill out this online form for the Stroum Jewish Community Center. To learn more about the lecture or the Women of the Book art exhibit\, visit the Stroum Jewish Community Center Women of the Book webpage or contact the Stroum Jewish Community Center staff. \n  \nProf. Mika Ahuvia is Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor\, Jackson School of International Studies. She researches the formative history of Jewish and Christian communities in the ancient Mediterranean world. Specializing in Late Antique Jewish history\, she works with Rabbinic sources\, liturgical poetry\, magical texts\, early mystical literature\, and archaeological evidence. Her dissertation was on angels in Jewish texts from the fourth to eighth century CE. \n  \n\n \n[separator top=”10″ style=”none”] \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Links for Further Exploration[/title] \n\nRegister for the lecture\nWomen of the Book Project\nLearn more about the Founder of Women of th Book\, Shoshana Gugenheim\nStroum Jewish Community Center
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/biblical-women/
LOCATION:Stroum Jewish Community Center\, 3801 East Mercer Way\, Mercer Island\, WA\, 98040\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160524T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160524T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20160120T220049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T181934Z
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SUMMARY:Stroum Lecture Night 2: Ilan Stavans on "Dying in Hebrew"
DESCRIPTION:Hebrew is lashon ha’kodesh and lashon b’nei adam\, a divine language\, the way for man to communicate with G-d\, and\, as such\, an eternal language defying the passing of time; and a human language\, earthly\, clumsy\, vulgar\, imperfect\, and prone to decay. These opposing sides make Hebrew unique\, that is\, the Jewish language par excellence and the route through which Jews negotiate the passage from life to death.\nAn essayist\, cultural critic\, and translator\, Professor Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College-Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. A native of Mexico\, he received his Doctorate in Latin American Literature from Columbia University.\nProf. Stavans’ books include The Hispanic Condition (1995)\, On Borrowed Words (2001)\, Spanglish (2003)\, Love and Language (2007)\, and Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years (2010). His book Resurrecting Hebrew\, published in Schocken’s Jewish Encounters series in 2008\, is a personal memoir alongside a history of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the remarkable revival of Hebrew in the early 20th century. Recently\, Stavans translated Pablo Neruda’s All the Odes (Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux\, 2013)\, and authored Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots (Rutgers\, 2012)\, the graphic novel El Iluminado (Basic\, 2012\, with Steve Sheinkin)\, and the children’s book Golemito (New South).\nClick here to find out out Stroum Lectures Night 1–Dr. Dara Horn on “Living in Hebrew.”\nLearn more about events at the Hebrew and the Humanities Symposium on the Symposium webpage.\nLinks for Further Exploration\n\nHebrew and the Humanities: Present Tense Symposium\nIlan Stavans’ webpage with media links\nThe Beauty of the Hebrew Language – video interview with Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz\, 2014\nStroum Lectures Archive
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lecture-ilan-stavans/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160524T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160524T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20151025T183531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160622T172102Z
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SUMMARY:Hebrew and the Humanities Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Visit the “Hebrew and the Humanities: Present Tense” homepage for the full symposium schedule\, speaker bios\, blog posts\, and more.\n \nYou can reserve your free ticket here for an audience seat at the full day of symposium sessions; please note that conference meals will not be provided to symposium audience members. \nThe Stroum Center thanks the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and Dr. Elie Levy for generous grants supporting this event. We also thank the following cosponsors for their support: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at UW and the Department of Comparative Literature\, Cinema & Media at UW. \n \n[separator top=”20″ style=”none”] \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Links for Further Exploration[/title] \n\nView the official “Hebrew and the Humanities: Present Tense” homepage.\nRegister for Stroum Lecture Night 1 (Dara Horn) and Stroum Lecture Night 2 (Ilan Stavans).\nVisit Modern Hebrew at UW for information about UW coursework and travel abroad opportunities to explore Hebrew and Israeli culture.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/hebrew-and-the-humanities-symposium/
LOCATION:Petersen Room\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T111609
CREATED:20160120T220332Z
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SUMMARY:Stroum Lecture Night 1: Dara Horn on "Living in Hebrew"
DESCRIPTION:Dara Horn\, a scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literatures\, is the author of several well-received novels. Photo credit: MichaelPriest \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Living in Hebrew[/title] \nThe American Jewish community is always worried about authenticity\, and much of this anxiety comes from the lack of a Jewish language. But an American Jewish language does exist\, even if beneath the surface. In this talk\, novelist and literary scholar Dara Horn explores the role Hebrew can play in a living contemporary American Jewish culture\, as she has experienced it as a reader and as an American writer. \nDr. Dara Horn received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University\, focusing on Hebrew and Yiddish. She held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard and has lectured at over two hundred universities and cultural institutions throughout North America\, Israel\, and Australia. \nChosen by Granta magazine as one of the best young novelists in America\, Dara Horn has won several literary prizes\, including the National Jewish Book Award (for In the Image in 2003 and The World to Come in 2006) and New York Times Editors’ Choice (for The World to Come and All Other Nights). Her most recent novel\, A Guide for the Perplexed\, was published by W.W. Norton in September 2013\, and was selected as one of Booklist‘s Best Books of 2013 and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Horn is also the author of a best-selling non-fiction Amazon Kindle Single\, “The Rescuer\,” which follows the peculiar life and legacy of an American Oskar Schindler named Varian Fry. \nThis talk is free and open to the public. A kosher reception will follow in the Walker Ames Room. \nClick here to find out about Stroum Lectures Night 2–Prof. Ilan Stavans on “Dying in Hebrew.”\nLearn more about events at the Hebrew and the Humanities Symposium on the Symposium webpage.\n[separator top=”10″ style=”none”] \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Links for Further Exploration[/title] \n\nHebrew and the Humanities: Present Tense Symposium\nDara Horn’s website\nDara Horn’s ELI Talk: “The Eicha Problem: What Jews Really Believe about Anti-Semitism” (2013)\nStroum Lectures Archive
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lecture-dara-horn/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:Islam\, Indonesia\, Israel: Indonesian Perceptions of the Middle East and Middle Eastern Perceptions of Indonesia
DESCRIPTION:The Southeast Asia Center\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies invite you to a dialogue between Professors Muhamad Ali and Giora Eliraz about Indonesian perceptions of the Middle East and Middle Eastern perceptions of Indonesia. Southeast Asia Center Director Laurie J. Sears will moderate.\n\nLight dinner reception begins at 5:30pm. Main event begins at 6:30pm.\n  \n\nMuhamad Ali is an Indonesian scholar of Islam. He is currently an associate professor of Islamic Studies in the Religious Studies Department and is a faculty member of the Southeast Asia: Text\, Ritual\, and Performance Program at the University of California\, Riverside. Dr. Ali has published books\, essays\, and chapters on topics related to Islam\, including violence and peace\, gender\, interfaith dialog and global education\, Indonesian Muslims’ perceptions of Judaism and Jews\, Indonesian Islamic liberal movements\, and a modern history of Southeast Asia. His recent book is Islam and Colonialism: Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya (Edinburgh University Press\, 2015). His two earlier books\, Multicultural-Pluralist Theology (2003) and Bridging Islam and the West: An Indonesian View (2009)\, were published in Indonesia. His current projects are concerning religious freedom and pluralism in modern Indonesia; Indonesian Islam; and the expressions of adab in Indonesia and Malaysia. \n \n  \n  \nDr. Giora Eliraz is a Research Associate at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of two publications about Islam in Indonesia: Islam in Indonesia: Modernism\, Radicalism and the Middle East Dimension and Islam and Polity in Indonesia: An Intriguing Case Study. Dr. Eliraz holds several other research positions\, including as Affiliated Fellow at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden\, a Member of a research group at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University\, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya\, and as a Visiting Writer at the Forum for Regional Thought. In 2002\, Dr. Eliraz ended about 30 years of service in the IDF and in the Office of the Prime Minister. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by Southeast Asia Center\, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, and Jackson School of International Studies
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/islam-indonesia-israel/
LOCATION:UW Club – Yukon Pacific Room\, 4020 E Stevens Way\, Seattle\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160413T203000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Daniel Newman\, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum--CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:EVENT UPDATE – Dr. Newman has had to cancel his visit to Seattle. The Ellison Center is working on rescheduling this lecture for another time.  \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]An Overview of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union[/title] \nThis talk discusses the experiences of Holocaust victims who lived inside the borders of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the German invasion on June 22\, 1941\, through the Red Army’s victory\, and to the divisiveness over the post-war memory of the events of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union. The scope of this subject is expansive in terms of the physical territory covered\, the destruction of human life wrought by a variety of perpetrators\, and the political factors affecting the remembrance of the Holocaust. Though exact figures will likely never be determined\, leading historians currently believe that between 1.5 and close to 3 million Soviet Jews lost their lives during the occupation. Regrettably\, the memory of their destruction has proven a contentious issue throughout the Soviet period and to the present day\, with various political considerations and (some would argue) anti-Semitic agendas relegating the story of the Jews during the Holocaust as a byline at best\, and completely absent from the historical record at worst. Today’s talk will provide an overview of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and explain why it is so important that we understand and continue to study this horrific tragedy both in the context of Holocaust history and in assessing the state of international politics and conflict in the contemporary space of the former Soviet Union. \nFor more information about this event\, please check out the Ellison Center for Russian\, East European and Central Asian Studies. \n  \nDaniel Newman is the Program Manager of the Initiative for the Study of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union at the Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He holds a PhD in modern European history from the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA)\, where he completed a dissertation entitled “Criminal Strategies and Institutional Concerns in the Soviet Legal System: An Analysis of Criminal Appeals in Moscow Province\, 1921-1928.” His research interests include Russian and Soviet history\, comparative legal history\, and the history of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. He has presented his work at international scholarly conferences hosted by the Department of State\, the Kennan Institute\, the Higher School of Economics in Moscow\, the German Historical Institute\, and the Franco-Russian Center for Research in Human and Social Sciences. His most recent work was published in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. He has received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and a Hans Rogger Fellowship in Russian history\, has translated children’s stories from Russian to English for publication\, and has taught at Loyola Marymount University.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/holocaust-soviet-union/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ellison Center for Russian%2C East European and Central Asian Studies":MAILTO:reecas@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160411T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160411T110000
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SUMMARY:Jewish Refugees and Their Lives in Shanghai
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Xu will speak about the arrival of Jewish refugees from Central Europe during the Holocaust to Shanghai\, their lives during War time in Shanghai and what caused them to leave when the war ended. \nRegistration for this event is available through the Confucius Institute. \nThis event is offered as part of the The Jewish Refugees in Shanghai Exhibition (1933-1941)\, which brings together for the first time photos\, personal stories\, and artifacts from Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum. The exhibition will run at Hillel at UW from April 6 through April 30\, 2016. It is free and open to the public Monday to Friday\, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. \n  \nXU XIN is a professor at Nanjing University and China’s leading Judaic scholar\, as well as the founder and director of the Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies at Nanjing University\, China. Prof. Xu is the President of the China Judaic Studies Association\, Vice President of the China Mid-East Studies Association\, and Editor-in-Chief and a major contributor of the Chinese edition Encyclopedia Judaica (Shanghai: The Shanghai People’s Publishing House\, 1993). \n  \nProf. Xu is the first Chinese scholar who introduced Modern Hebrew literature to Chinese readers and has introduced over 50 Israeli poets and writers to Chinese public readers. He was a guest speaker at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1988 and at Tel Aviv University (1993 and 1998). In 1995\, he served as a Fellow at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion. In 1996 and 1998\, he served as a visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies of Harvard University. \n  \nProf. Xu has given over 600 public lectures in the world since 1995 and his activities have been widely reported by newspapers such as Chicago Tribune\, Jerusalem Post\, New York Times\, Harvard University Gazette\, The Jerusalem Report\, The Jewish Week\, Forward and etc. \n  \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Links for Further Exploration[/title] \n\nProfile of Prof. Xu from Tablet Magazine
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jewish-refugees-lives-shanghai/
LOCATION:Hillel UW\, 4745 17th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T203000
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SUMMARY:JewDUB Talks Premiere!
DESCRIPTION:One room. Four talks. Endless possibilities. \nExperience Jewish Studies in a dynamic new format: short talks offering quick windows onto fascinating topics. Inspired by the style of TED talks\, these pocket-sized public lectures will open up new avenues of discovery. \nDate: Thursday\, November 8th\, 7:00 pm \nLocation: UW Tower Auditorium \nCost: Free! Reception will follow. \nRSVP / Registration: jewdubtalks.eventbrite.com \nThe first-ever JewDUB Talks will feature four of our terrific faculty members. Here’s who is on tap: \n\nProf. Devin Naar – “In Search of Uncle Salomon”\nProf. Sarah Stroup – “The Myth of Tradition”\nProf. Shalom Sabar – “Where do our rituals come from?”\nProf. Barbara Henry – “So why Yiddish?”\n\nCome out on November 8th and hear what everyone’s talking about. \nJewDUB Talks is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Special Initiatives Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. \nFor continuing coverage of the Stroum Jewish Studies Program’s public programming\, check out JewDub.org!
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jewdubtalks/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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