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SUMMARY:1/14 TALK | The Converso's Return: Dalia Kandiyoti in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
DESCRIPTION:Dalia Kandiyoti (College of Staten Island\, City University of New York) will discuss her new book “The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture.” \nTo purchase the book at a discount from Stanford University Press\, use code Kandiyoti20. \nPlease note your time zone if you are tuning in outside of Seattle:\nThis event will begin at 5 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. EST  \nRegister Now\n  \nAbout the talk \nIn the fifteenth century\, thousands of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula (today’s Spain and Portugal) were forced to convert to Catholicism under threat of death and became known as conversos (literally meaning “the converted”). Five centuries later\, their descendants have been uncovering their long-hidden Jewish roots; as these stories come to light\, they have taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts\, familial whispers and secrets\, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed dead and buried. “The Converso’s Return” explores the cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest in converso and crypto-Jewish history\, ancestry\, and identity\, and asks what this fascination with lost-and-found heritage can tell us about how we relate to and make use of the past. \nAbout the speakers \nDalia Kandiyoti is Professor of English at the College of Staten Island\, City University of New York. She is the author of “The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture” (Stanford\, 2020). Her first book\, published by University Press of New England\, is called “Migrant Sites: America\, Place\, and Diaspora Literatures.” She has also published articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes on Sephardi and Latinx writing and co-edited a special journal issue entitled “Jewish-Muslim Crossings in the Americas.” Her current work includes an oral history project and an edited volume about Sephardi Jews and the citizenship laws in Spain and Portugal\, both in collaboration with Rina Benmayor. This work has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \n  \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. \nPresented in partnership with the departments of English\, History\, Latin American & Caribbean Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, and Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, Jewish Currents Magazine\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/the-conversos-return-dalia-kandiyoti-in-conversation-with-devin-e-naar/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T130000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
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SUMMARY:1/12 COSPONSORED TALK | The Power of Personal Stories: UW Students Grapple with Stories of Survival and Loss
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URL:https://holocaustcenterseattle.org/programs-events/virtual-lunch-and-learn-series#new_tab
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201208T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200904T172420Z
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SUMMARY:12/8 TALK | Holocaust Lecture Series Concluding Roundtable
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#december8
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T113000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
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SUMMARY:12/6 | Ladino Day 2020 — Revolutionizing Ladino: From the Printing Press to the Smartphone
DESCRIPTION:The 8th annual Ladino Day at the University of Washington will explore the intersection of Ladino and technology over the last century\, and how revolutions in print and on the web have impacted the language over time. \nWe’ll begin with a multimedia talk by Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies\, on the history of the Ladino press in the Ottoman Empire and the United States. Naar will then host virtual conversations with Rachel Amado Bortnick\, founder of Ladinokomunita\, and Carlos Yebra López\, Ph.D.\, creator of the Ladino module on uTalk\, a language learning app. \nThe program will include a demo of uTalk Ladino led by Yebra López. Throughout the virtual event\, audience members can submit questions to be answered by all speakers during a Q&A session at the end of the program. \nPlease note your time zone if you are tuning in outside of Seattle:\nLadino Day will begin at 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST / 8 p.m. Israel \nRegister Now\nAbout the speakers\nRachel Amado Bortnick was born and raised in Izmir\, Turkey\, and came to the United States in 1958 on a scholarship to Lindenwood College (now University) in St. Charles\, Missouri\, from which she earned a B.A. in Chemistry. She and American-born architect Bernard Bortnick went back to Izmir to get married and subsequently lived in Holland\, in Israel\, and several cities in the United States before settling in Dallas\, Texas in 1988. Rachel is now retired after teaching ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for 35 years. Rachel has always been active in the preservation and promotion of Judeo-Spanish language and culture. In the San Francisco Bay area she founded and led the Ladino-speaking club Los Amigos Sefaradis\, and was featured in the documentary film\, “Trees Cry for Rain: a Sephardic Journey.” In 1999 she founded Ladinokomunita\, the Ladino correspondence group on the Internet\, which now has nearly 1\,500 members worldwide. \n  \nCarlos Yebra López is a Lecturer in Spanish at New York University\, and a Research Assistant in Judeo-Spanish at the University of Birmingham\, UK. Since 2017\, he is the CEO of Ladino 21\, a community-based company devoted to the online documentation\, preservation and promotion of Ladino in the 21st century. In 2019 he helped create\, launch and promote the first-ever Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) course on any online language-learning platform through a partnership with the uTalk app. This course allows people across the globe to learn Ladino from over 150 different languages. \n  \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Dr. Naar received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. \nSupported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies. \nCosponsored by the departments of Linguistics and Spanish & Portuguese Studies\, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, and the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200904T171723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T233814Z
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SUMMARY:12/1 TALK | Genocide in Myanmar: The Case Before the International Court of Justice
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#december1
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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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:20201124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201124T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200904T170458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T233849Z
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SUMMARY:11/24 TALK | In the Bloodlands: History and Memory of the Holocaust in the U.S.S.R.
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#november24
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T171500
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200828T171923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T232955Z
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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:20201118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T170000
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CREATED:20201113T192810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201113T192810Z
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SUMMARY:11/18 DISCUSSION | "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making"
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URL:https://happenings.wustl.edu/event/book_launch_-_since_1948_israeli_literature_in_the_making#.X67dQNt7mXp#new_tab
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200904T165723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T233923Z
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SUMMARY:11/17 TALK | From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz and Beyond: Is the Holocaust a “European” Event?
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#november17
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200904T165342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T234020Z
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SUMMARY:11/10 TALK | “A Reply to Screamers”: How Americans Responded to the Holocaust
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#november10
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201103T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200904T164728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T234051Z
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SUMMARY:11/3 TALK | Jewish Dogs and the Nazi Beast: Animal Studies and Holocaust Literature
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#november3
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200904T164329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T234120Z
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SUMMARY:10/27 TALK | Ideologies of Racial Superiority and Purity: Why Did Germany and Japan Engage in Such Extreme Mass Murder During World War II?
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#october27
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T110000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20201019T204227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T174938Z
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SUMMARY:10/25 CONFERENCE | Jewish Romance in the Middle Ages: Literature\, Piety\, and Cultural Translation
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URL:https://ism.yale.edu/events/conferences/jewish-romance-middle-ages-literature-piety-and-cultural-translation/schedule
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200904T163720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T234152Z
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SUMMARY:10/20 TALK | Racism\, Anti-Semitism\, and the Lines of Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#october20
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201013T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200904T163001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T184240Z
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SUMMARY:10/13 KEYNOTE | The Difficulty of Confronting the Holocaust — Mass Murder in Jedwabne\, Poland
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#october13
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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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:20201006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201006T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200902T234959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T234244Z
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SUMMARY:10/6 TALK | The History of Jewish Difference and Anti-Judaism as Ideology
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#october6
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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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:20200809T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200809T110000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200722T230100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200806T182608Z
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SUMMARY:Insights from a Half-Century of Ladino Studies: David M. Bunis in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online conversation between Professor David Bunis\, internationally renowned expert on the Ladino language and chair of Ladino Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and chair of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington. \nAbout this event\nAs a world-renowned authority on Ladino (also known as Judezmo) at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, Professor David Bunis has dedicated his career to documenting and analyzing Ladino\, and inspiring generations of students to take an interest in this endangered Sephardic language. \nWhat led Professor Bunis\, originally from New York City and interested in Yiddish\, to delve into the realm of Ladino? What people\, places\, and experiences most shaped his scholarly trajectory? What major insights has Professor Bunis gleaned along the way? And what does the future hold for Ladino? \nRegister for this event\n*NOTE: This event is an online webinar. Please register below to receive a link to attend. The link will be e-mailed to you several days in advance of the event\, and again several hours before the event begins.* \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\nDavid Bunis is the chair of Ladino Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was a visiting professor at the University of Washington in 2013-2014. He is the world’s leading authority in the field of Ladino linguistics and one of most notable instructors of the language in the world. Professor Bunis received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Columbia University and has published extensively on Ladino\, including in the fields of sociocultural linguistics\, language and politics\, and translation studies\, including the translations of important Ladino texts from the 16th to 20th centuries. He has also authored a highly regarded Ladino language textbook and is an expert in soletreo\, the traditional Sephardic Hebrew cursive script.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/insights-from-ladino-studies-david-bunis-devin-naar/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
CREATED:20200422T195235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210601T181203Z
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SUMMARY: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)
DESCRIPTION:Dr. David Stern of Harvard University will discuss what he’s learned about the Talmud — a carefully curated collection of thousands of years’ worth of rabbinic commentaries on Jewish law and the Jewish Bible — and its shifting form over time\, based on research related to his recently published book\, “The Jewish Bible: A Material History\,” part of the University of Washington Press’s Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies series. \nThis talk is available online:\n \nA page from the Talmud\, with commentary and notes surrounding central text. Example from YUTorah Online\, a project of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. \nAbout the talk\nThe layout of the Talmudic page\, with its text in the center surrounded by a sea of commentaries\, is the iconic page format of the Jewish book. Where does this page layout come from\, and what is its history? What impact has it had on the reception of the Talmud\, and the way the Talmud has been studied over the centuries? \nIn this special online presentation\, Stern will reflect on what he’s learned about the Talmud and its physical form in the years since his original Stroum Lecture in Jewish Studies in 1997 — and will discuss how the physicality and formatting of books can profoundly impact the way we read and interpret them. \nAbout the speaker\nDavid Stern is the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has been the recipient of many fellowships and awards\, including a junior fellowship in Harvard’s Society of Fellows and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute. \nThe main topic of Stern’s scholarship is the nature of Jewish literary creativity within its larger historical and cultural contexts\, and he has written articles\, essays\, and books on virtually every period of Jewish literary history from the early post-Biblical to the contemporary. \nHis work has primarily focused on two areas. The first of these is classical rabbinic and medieval Hebrew literature\, with a special interest in biblical interpretation (Rabbinic midrash in particular) and its intersection with contemporary literary theory. The second field is the history of the Jewish book as a material object\, and specifically the histories of the four classics works of Jewish literary and religious tradition: the Hebrew Bible\, the Babylonian Talmud\, the prayerbook\, and the Passover Haggadah.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/david-stern-history-talmud-as-physical-book/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200603T160000
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SUMMARY:VIDEO | Richard Block —The 2015 Hungarian Drama "Son of Saul" and a New Chapter in Films About the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Richard Block\, professor of Germanics at the University of Washington\, for a 20-minute “quick talk” on how the 2015 Hungarian historical drama “Son of Saul” represents a turning point in how the Holocaust is portrayed in film.\n \nThe talk is available online: \n\nAbout the talk\nThis talk explores how László Nemes’s 2015 film “Son of Saul” responds to the challenges put forth some two decades earlier by Claude Lanzmann’s groundbreaking 1985 documentary\, “Shoah.”  Specifically\, Block will discuss how “Son of Saul” defies Lanzmann’s dismissal of any attempt to represent the Shoah\, and offers instead “a biographical fable.” \nLearn more\n\nRichard Block will offer a fall 2020 course on portrayals of the Holocaust in film: JEW ST 175\, Popular Film and the Holocaust. Bookmark the course on MyPlan.\n\nAbout the speaker\nRichard Block is professor of Germanics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in German literature and critical theory from Northwestern\, and has published several books\, including “Echoes of a Queer Messianic: From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain” (2018) and “The Spell of Italy: Vacation\, Magic and the Attraction of Goethe” (2006). \nHe frequently teaches courses on Jewish-German relations and the Holocaust\, and emphasizes placing philosophical\, literary and cultural texts (including films) in dialogue with each other in his work with students.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/richard-block-son-of-saul-holocaust-films/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T163000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
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SUMMARY:VIDEO | Chagall\, Modigliani\, & Jewish Painters from the Russian "Pale of Settlement"
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Galya Diment\, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington\, for a 20-minute “quick talk” on how early 20th-century painters Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani related to Jewishness in their lives and art — and how their work contrasts with that of other Jewish painters from the Russian “Pale of Settlement.”\n \nThis talk is available online:\n \nAbout this talk\nThe Russian “Pale of Settlement” was the region of western Imperial Russia in which Jews were allowed to settle permanently. Many gifted painters emerged from this area in the early twentieth century\, though few were as famous as Marc Chagall (1887-1985)\, a modernist painter famous for portraying biblical scenes and themes in his art. \nIn the talk\, Galya Diment will discuss Marc Chagall’s career alongside that of his contemporary\, Amedeo Modigliani. Then she will offer an overview of other Jewish painters in the “Pale of Settlement” region\, previewing her fall 2020 course\, RUSS 426\, Painters from the Russian Pale of Jewish Settlement. \nLearn more\n\nRead Galya Diment’s new article on Chagall and Modigliani in Paris: “Judaism vs. Cubism in Paris” (Tablet\, 2020).\nGalya Diment will offer a course in early twentieth-century Jewish painters in fall 2020: RUSS 426\, Russian Art and Architecture — Painters from the Russian Pale of Jewish Settlement\, looking at the work of Marc Chagall\, El Lissitzky\, Leon Bakst\, and others\, and the history and debates around their work. Bookmark the course on MyPlan.\n\nAbout the speaker\nGalya Diment is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and has authored and edited six books\, including “Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel” (2013)\, and “A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky” (2013). \nHer essay about her grandfather\, who was a rabbi near Vitebsk in present-day Belarus\, was featured in a Vitebsk publication “Mishpoka” in 2013. Her articles have also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, New York Magazine\, and London Magazine. She is currently working on a book about Jewish painters from Vitebsk at the turn of the twentieth century\, titled “Vitebsk and Beyond: Yehuda Pen\, Marc Chagall\, and Leon Gaspard.”
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/galya-diment-chagall-modigliani-russian-jewish-painters/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200601T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200601T163000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
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SUMMARY:VIDEO | Sasha Senderovich — Against Nostalgia: The Old Country in the Jewish American Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Sasha Senderovich\, assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington\, for a 20-minute “quick talk” on immigrants’ perspectives towards “the old country” as seen in American Jewish literature\, centering around a poem by the Yiddish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (1886-1932). \nThis talk is available online:\n \nAbout the talk\nThe vast majority of Jews who arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century were Yiddish-speaking Jews from the Russian Empire. Their progeny — Ashkenazi Jews who\, by the turn of the 21st century\, have been Americans for three or four generations — derive the understanding of their collective history\, in part\, from the popular representations of the “old country\,” disseminated through such mass culture productions as the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” \nBut the story — and history — is more complicated. In this talk we will look at the famous\, caustic poem “Zlochov\, My Home\,” written by the modernist Yiddish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern\, who immigrated to New York City in 1908. The discussion will focus on the poet’s imperative to think beyond and even against nostalgia for the “old country” as he tries to make sense of his new world. \nThis talk will offer a preview of the fall course Jewish American Literature and Culture\, and will be followed by a Q&A session with questions submitted via http://www.slido.com and moderated by a staff member. Please RSVP below for more details. \nGet ready\n\nRead the poem “Zlochov\, My Home\,” in English translation (or Yiddish)\nLearn more about Sasha Senderovich’s fall 2020 course\, JEW ST 357\, Jewish American Literature and Culture. This course considers ways in which American Jews assimilate and resist assimilation\, while Jewish writers\, filmmakers\, comedians\, and graphic novelists imitate and transform American life and literature — with particular emphasis on questions of immigration\, identity\, gender\, sexuality\, race\, inter-generational trauma\, and cultural memory. Bookmark the course on MyPlan.\n\nAbout the speaker\nSasha Senderovich holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University (2010). His published work includes articles on Russian Jewish writers David Bergelson and Isaac Babel\, as well as on contemporary English-language fiction by Russian Jewish émigré authors\, including Gary Shteynart and Anya Ulinich. His and Harriet Murav’s critical translation\, from the Yiddish\, of David Bergelson’s “Judgment: A Novel” was published in 2017. He is currently at work on his first book manuscript\, “How the Soviet Jew Was Made: Culture and Mobility after the Revolution.” \nIn addition to his academic work\, Sasha has published journalism and public scholarship in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Tablet\, Lilith\, The Forward\, The New York Times\, The New Republic\, and The New Yorker’s Page-turner blog (these articles can be found here). One of his additional regular activities involves summertime teaching as a faculty member of the Great Jewish Books program for high school students\, in Amherst\, Massachusetts. \nOur pdf to word converter service is totally free and it makes handling PDF documents painless. Try it and you will see your DOC ready in seconds.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sasha-senderovich-against-nostalgia-old-country-zlochov-halpern/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200410T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED | Hans Calmeyer and Holocaust Rescue in the Netherlands
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URL:https://germanics.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D143446574
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Germanics":MAILTO:uwgerman@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T203000
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SUMMARY:AUDIO | From Humanitarian Relief to Holocaust Rescue: The Story of Tracy Strong\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:An audio recording of this lecture is available:\n \n\n \nBorn in Seattle in 1915\, Tracy Strong\, Jr. served as a humanitarian relief worker in the Vichy internment camps for “undocumented” refugees\, primarily Jews from central Europe\, in southern France from 1941-42. Convinced that the most important goal should be to get people out of the camps\, not improve life in the camps\, Strong set up one of the first “safe houses” for refugees in the French rescue village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. \nHis story illustrates how individuals\, working together with community and organizational networks\, were able to oppose Nazi policies and save lives in World War II\, and offers insights into how concerned citizens can organize to resist inhumane policies today. \nAbout the speaker\nChristopher R. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was formerly on the faculty at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma\, WA. He has published nine books on the Holocaust\, including “Ordinary Men\,” “Origins of the Final Solution\,” and “Remembering Survival\,” all of which won the National Jewish Book Award. He is currently a visiting instructor for the University of Washington’s Department of History. \n  \nThis event is generously supported by Deborah and Doug Rosen.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/christopher-browning-humanitarian-relief-holocaust-rescue-tracy-strong-jr/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
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SUMMARY:11/19 TALK | American Jews and Israel in the Trump Era: Polarization and Protest
DESCRIPTION:Dov Waxman (UCLA) will give the 2019 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies\, on the topic of how American Jewish support for Israel is shifting in the context of the Donald Trump presidency. \nNote: Seating for this lecture is first come\, first served. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. We cannot guarantee late seating. \nAbout the talk\nIn his 2016 book Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel (Princeton University Press)\, Dov Waxman argued that the age of uncritical and unconditional American Jewish support for Israel is over\, and that Israel is now becoming a source of division in the American Jewish community. \nIn this talk\, he will discuss how the Presidency of Donald Trump has deepened American Jewish divisions over Israel\, heightened communal concerns about anti-Semitism\, and mobilized a new generation of Jewish activists. As a result\, American Jewry’s relationship with Israel\, and American Jewish politics\, is being reshaped. \nAbout the speaker\nDov Waxman is the incoming Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies and director of the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He is currently the director of Northeastern University’s Middle East Studies program and the co-director of its Middle East Center. \n \nAn award-winning professor\, he previously taught at the City University of New York\, Bowdoin College\, and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara\, Turkey. He has also been a visiting fellow at Tel Aviv University\, Bar-Ilan University\, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, and Oxford University. He has a BA in Politics\, Philosophy\, and Economics from Oxford University\, and an MA and PhD in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Waxman’s research focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict\, Israeli foreign policy\, U.S.-Israel relations\, and American Jewry’s relationship with Israel. \nHe is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (Palgrave\, 2006)\, Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (with Ilan Peleg\, Cambridge University Press\, 2011)\, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (Princeton University Press\, 2016)\, and most recently\, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs To Know (Oxford University Press\, 2019). He has also been published in The Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Salon\, Foreign Policy\, The Forward\, and Haaretz. \nLight vegetarian reception to follow.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/dov-waxman-benaroya-lecture/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T185000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
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SUMMARY:10/29 TALK | No Pasarán!: Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Amelia Glaser of the University of California\, San Diego\, will speak about how three Jewish poets who wrote in Yiddish\, Soviet Peretz Markish\, American Aaron Kurtz\, and Mexican poet Jacobo Glantz\, addressed the fight against fascism in 1930s Spain\, the massive participation by international volunteer soldiers\, including many Jews\, and the long\, troubled history of Jews in Spain. \nAbout this talk\n“I am yet again your guest!\,” wrote the Soviet Yiddish poet Peretz Markish in his 1936 poem\, Spain\, “The honor makes me sad!” The Spanish Civil War (1936-1938) united the anti-fascist left around the world. Jewish leftists\, in particular\, took the rallying cry of “No Pasarán” (“They must not pass”) to signify not only the necessity of the Spanish struggle against the monarchists\, but a united struggle against Hitler\, Franco\, and Mussolini. \nWilliam Gropper\, illustration in Jacobo Glantz\, Fonen in blut [Bloodied Flags] (Mexico City: Gezbir\, 1936) The Soviet journalist Melech Epstein went so far as to declare that “No ethnic group in Europe or the United States was so deeply touched by the Spanish civil war as was the Jewish …”Although many antifascists across ethnic groups traveled to Spain to join the war effort\, others fought on a literary front. This lecture will present and analyze three book-length poetic cycles about Spain in Yiddish\, by the Soviet poet Peretz Markish\, the American poet Aaron Kurtz\, and the Mexican poet Jacobo Glantz. Markish\, Kurtz\, and Glantz merge collective Jewish memory of the Spanish Inquisition with descriptions of the Spanish Civil War to yield visions of a collective future for Spain that Jews were participating in creating. As these works help to demonstrate\, the Spanish Civil War can be considered the beginning of a decade-long international struggle against the rising threat of fascism. \nAbout the speaker\nAmelia Glaser is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at UC San Diego\, where she also directs both the Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies Program and the Jewish Studies Program. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (Northwestern U.P.\, 2012)\, the translator of Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (U Wisconsin Press\, 2005)\, and the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford U.P.\, 2015). Her co-edited anthology\, with Steven Lee\, Comintern Aesthetics\, is forthcoming next year with U. Toronto Press. She is currently completing her second monograph\, provisionally titled Passwords: Yiddish Poetry in the Age of Internationalism. \nGlaser will also give a lunchtime talk on translation studies in the Simpson Center on October 29. For more information on that event\, visit the Simpson Center’s calendar here.  \nThis event is cosponsored by the departments of Spanish and Portuguese\, Slavic Languages and Literatures\, & the Translation Studies Hub initiative at the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/10-29-talk-no-pasaran-glaser/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T193000
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SUMMARY:Katja Petrowskaja: A Family Story Between Memory and Forgetting
DESCRIPTION:The writer Katja Petrowskaja will discuss family history and memory with Sasha Senderovich. \nAbout the speaker\nKatja Petrowskaja was born in 1970 in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, studied literature at the University of Tartu in Estonia\, and was awarded fellowships to study at Columbia University and Stanford University. She received her doctorate in Moscow. Since 1999\, she has lived and worked as a journalist in Berlin. Maybe Esther (English translation in 2018 by Shelley Frisch) is her first book\,  was awarded the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2013 in Germany\, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Pushkin House Prize in the U.K. \nAbout this talk\nHow do you talk about what you can’t know\, and how do you bring the past to life? \nThe writer Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree\, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents\, some of whom lived through and others died in the 20th century’s many calamities\, including Stalinism and the Holocaust.In the stories of her travels to Russia\, Ukraine\, Germany\, Poland\, and the United States\, Petrowskaja reflects on a fragmented and traumatized century and brings to light family figures who threaten to drift into obscurity. Maybe Esther is a poignant\, haunting investigation of the effects of history on one family as well as a deeply affecting exploration of memory. \nThis talk is hosted by the departments of Germanics and Slavic Languages & Literatures. It is co-sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, the Simpson Center‘s Translation Studies Hub and the Transcultural Approaches to Europe Colloquium Series\, and the Goethe Pop Up Seattle. \nFree and open to UW students\, faculty\, staff\, and the larger public. \nRSVP: https://bit.ly/PetrowskajaUWEvent
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/petrowskaja-a-family-story-2019/
LOCATION:Communications 120\, UW Campus\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T150000
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SUMMARY:5/23 TALK | Visualizing Resistance: From Conflict to Concord in a Synagogue Mosaic
DESCRIPTION:“The elephant panel” from the Huqoq synagogue mosaic. Via the Journal of Roman Archeology’s blog. \nSince 2011\, the Huqoq Excavation Project has been excavating a late Roman (fifth century) synagogue in lower Galilee paved with stunning floor mosaics. \nOne mosaic in particular\, dubbed the “elephant panel\,” departs in significant ways from other ancient synagogue mosaics. Rather than depicting a narrative scene from the Hebrew Bible\, the panel depicts a striking scene from the Hellenistic period: the bloody defeat of a Greek army by a Judaean force and the subsequent peace treaty between the two sides. \nIn this talk\, Huqoq site historian Dr. Ra’anan Boustan will consider what this visual narrative — which juxtaposes conflict with mutual recognition — would have meant to a Jewish community living in the rapidly Christianizing Galilee of late antiquity. \nLearn more about the Huqoq synagogue mosaics: \n\nMan-eating fish\, Tower of Babel revealed on ancient mosaic (2018)\nMind-blowing 1\,600-year-old biblical mosaics paint new picture of Galilean life (2018)\n\nThis talk is supported by a Royalty Research Fund grant given to Stroum Center faculty member Mika Ahuvia for the 2018-19 academic year. \nAbout the speaker\nRa‘anan Boustan is a research scholar in the program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University specializing in the study of ancient Judaism. Boustan completed his B.A. in classics at Brown University in 1994 and received a graduate degree in classics and religious studies (Vrij doctoraal letteren) from the University of Amsterdam. In 2004\, he completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. \nBoustan is the author of “From Martyr to Mystic: Rabbinic Martyrology and the Making of Merkavah Mysticism” (2005) and co-author of “The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq: Official Publication and Initial Interpretations” (2017). He has co-edited eight books or special issues of journals and has published his work in leading journals such as Harvard Theological Review\, The Jewish Quarterly Review\, and Medieval Encounters. He co-edits the journal Jewish Studies Quarterly and is currently the site historian for the Huqoq Excavation Project in Lower Galilee\, working with Karen Britt on the mosaics in the Huqoq synagogue.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ra-anan-boustan-visualizing-resistance-huqoq-synagogue-mosaic/
LOCATION:Odegaard Library 220\, 4060 George Washington Lane NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190521T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190521T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
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SUMMARY:5/21 COLLOQUIUM | Jewish Memory\, History & Thought
DESCRIPTION:Join 2018-2019 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Vincent Calvetti-Wolf\, Pablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado and Hayim Katsman as they share their research. \nA light lunch will be served. Please RSVP at the bottom of the page if you plan to attend. \nVincent Calvetti-Wolf\, Mickey Sreebny Memorial Scholar\n“Protocols and Protest: The Yemenite Babies Affair\, the Mizrahi Struggle\, and Struggles of Interpretation” \nVincent is a first-year student in the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Program. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College and obtained a Master of Arts in International Studies\, with a focus in Comparative Religion\, from the University of Washington in 2017. His research explores the histories and politics of social movements led by Mizrahi Jews in Israel. His current project focuses on the strategies used by grassroots movements in Israel to raise awareness about the Yemenite\, Mizrahi and Balkan Children Affair that took place in the early 1950s. Vincent is graduate student co-coordinator of the Israel/Palestine Research Colloquium. \nRead about Vincent’s research on the Yemenite Babies Affair and Mizrahi history: \n\n“Remembering the thousands of children who disappeared in the “Yemenite Babies Affair”” (2019)\n\nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar\n“Politics and Society: The Role of Memory in the Moroccan Jewish Museum in Casablanca” \nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, who hails from Connecticut\, is a second-year MA student in Middle East Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. 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 the University of Washington\, Pablo has been researching the intersection of history and politics in countries in the Middle East\, particularly the political and historical narratives of Jewish refugees\, Syrian refugees and other forced migrants from the Arab world. He speaks conversational Arabic\, Hebrew and Turkish. \nFaculty respondent: Noam Pianko\, Professor\, Jackson School of International Studies \nRead about Pablo’s research on Mizrahi identity and history: \n\n“How should we remember the forced migration of Jews from Egypt?” (2019)\n“How Iraqi Jews are reclaiming their cultural legacy in Israel” (2018)\n\nHayim Katsman\, I. Mervin & Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\n“Contemporary trends in religious-Zionist thought and practice” \nAs a PhD student in International Studies\, Hayim researches the interrelations between religion and politics in Israel/Palestine. Focusing on the religious-Zionist movement and the settlement enterprise in the West Bank and Gaza\, Hayim’s research shows how developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have affected religious Zionists’ theological interpretations of the Israeli state. Before coming to the University of Washington\, Hayim lived in a Kibbutz on the Israel/Gaza/Egypt border\, where he works/ed as a car mechanic. Hayim received his BA in philosophy from the Open University of Israel and completed his MA thesis on the theology of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University. \nFaculty respondent: Noam Pianko\, Professor\, Jackson School of International Studies \nRead about Hayim’s research on life in modern Israel: \n\n“Protecting academic freedom in Israeli higher education” (2019)
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-21-colloquium-jewish-memory-history-thought/
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:20190516T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T203000
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SUMMARY:5/16 STROUM LECTURE | Jewish Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Manuscripts\, the Digital Revolution\, and the New Materiality
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Marina Rustow of Princeton University will deliver the 2019 Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies\, considering the place of ancient manuscripts in our digital age. Focusing on documents from the Cairo Geniza\, a cache of more than 300\,000 pages preserved in an Egyptian synagogue that came to light in the late 19th century\, Rustow will discuss the strange position these documents inhabit in an online era. \nAbout the speaker\n \nMarina Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History at Princeton University. Her first book\, “Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate\,” was published in 2008\, and she is currently working on another volume looking at state documents found within the Cairo Geniza. She runs the Princeton Geniza Lab. In 2002\, Rustow was the Hazel D. Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\, and in 2015\, she received a MacArthur Fellowship supporting her work. She is the co-editor of “Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority\, Diaspora\, Tradition” (2011) and has published scholarly articles in such journals as “Past & Present\, Jewish History\, al-Qantara\, Mamlūk Studies Review\, and Ginzei Qedem: Geniza Research Annual.” \nPhoto via the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/our-events/stroum-lectures-2019-marina-rustow-jewish-manuscripts-digital-age-cairo-geniza/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T090805
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SUMMARY:5/14 STROUM LECTURE | Jewish Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Lost Archives\, Sacred Wastebins\, and Jews of the Medieval Islamic World
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Marina Rustow of Princeton University will deliver the 2019 Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies\, considering the place of ancient manuscripts in our digital age. Focusing on documents from the Cairo Geniza\, a cache of more than 300\,000 pages preserved in an Egyptian synagogue that came to light in the late 19th century\, Rustow will discuss the strange position these documents inhabit in an online era. \nAbout the speaker\n \nMarina Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History at Princeton University. Her first book\, “Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate\,” was published in 2008\, and she is currently working on another volume looking at state documents found within the Cairo Geniza. She runs the Princeton Geniza Lab.  \nIn 2002\, Rustow was the Hazel D. Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\, and in 2015\, she received a MacArthur Fellowship supporting her work. She is the co-editor of “Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority\, Diaspora\, Tradition” (2011) and has published scholarly articles in such journals as “Past & Present\, Jewish History\, al-Qantara\, Mamlūk Studies Review\, and Ginzei Qedem: Geniza Research Annual.” \nPhoto via the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/our-events/stroum-lectures-2019-marina-rustow-jewish-manuscripts-digital-age-cairo-geniza/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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