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SUMMARY:10/6 TALK | The History of Jewish Difference and Anti-Judaism as Ideology
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/lectureseries#october6
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20190408T215853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190711T025259Z
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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:20260511T094048
CREATED:20190405T181448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190711T025246Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20190228T205510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200116T222841Z
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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:20260511T094048
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20190321T044610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190711T025236Z
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SUMMARY:5/6 TALK | "More Mexican than the Nopal": From Ottoman Jew to Mexican Diplomat in Vichy France\, or the Story of Mauricio Fresco
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Devi Mays will use the life of Mauricio Fresco — an Ottoman Jew and Mexican diplomat — as a foil for exploring the multiple tensions\, at times coexisting and at times conflicting\, that undergirded global Sephardic life in the tempestuous years of the late interwar and World War II eras. Mays’ research draws the narrative of transnational Sephardic networks into a period in which they began to break down just as they were most crucial. \nWhile in many ways an exceptional character\, Fresco nonetheless embedded himself within\, contributed to\, and drew on Sephardi ties within and without Mexico. Simultaneously\, he rocketed to prominence as a Mexican diplomat\, traveling the world and bearing written witness to some of the era’s greatest calamities — the Japanese invasion and occupation of Manchuria\, the Nazi occupation of Paris and its subsequent liberation\, and Spanish Civil War refugees languishing in French concentration camps. \nAbout the speaker\nDevi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Jewish History from Indiana University and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is currently revising a book manuscript tentatively entitled “Forging Ties\, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora.” \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Sephardic Studies Program at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, the Middle East Center and Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; the Department of History\, and the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Fund at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (NELC).
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/devi-mays-mauricio-fresco-ottoman-jewish-diplomat/
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:20190417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20190329T031948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190422T221534Z
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SUMMARY:4/17 COLLOQUIUM | International Politics\, History\, and Jews
DESCRIPTION:Join 2018-2019 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Berkay Gülen and Kerice Doten-Snitker as they share their fellowship research. \nA light lunch will be served. Please RSVP at the bottom of the page if you plan to attend. \nBerkay Gülen\, Robinovitch Family Fellow\n“Discussing Turkey-Israel Relations in Israel: Common Themes\, Different Perspectives” \nBerkay Gülen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She received her MSc degrees in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University\, Turkey\, and in International Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of London. Berkay’s academic interests led her to conduct research at the Moshe Dayan Center of Tel Aviv University in 2013 and the Institute of National Security Studies in Tel Aviv in 2018. Her doctoral research is on foreign policy decision-making and Turkey-Israel relations after 1991. \nFaculty respondent: Liora Halperin\, Benaroya Chair in Israel Studies\, Jackson School of International Studies \nRead about Gülen’s research on Israeli/Turkish foreign policy: \n\n“Why doesn’t Israel have a minister of foreign affairs?” (2019)\n“Interviewing foreign policy makers during a crisis” (2019)\n\nKerice Doten-Snitker\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Fellow\n“Jewish Expulsions in the Medieval Holy Roman Empire” \nKerice is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Washington. She double-majored in Sociocultural Studies and International Relations at Bethel University (Minnesota) before completing an MA in Sociology at the University of Washington. Her scholarly interests include processes of inclusion and exclusion in society. Her current work examines the roles of political institutions\, economics\, and religion in the exclusion of Jews in medieval times\, focusing on the Rhineland (western Germany). In Fall 2017 she was a visiting student at the Arye Maimon Institute for Jewish History at Universität Trier in Trier\, Germany\, funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). In addition\, she works at the University’s Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equity\, which focuses on increasing equity — and the participation of systematically excluded students and professionals — in the fields of science\, technology\, engineering and math. \nFaculty respondent: Annegret Oehme\, Assistant Professor of Germanics \nRead about Doten-Snitker’s research on anti-Semitism in medieval Europe: \n\n“How anti-Semitism was used to gain political power in medieval Germany” (2019)
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/graduate-fellow-research-colloquium-history-politics-jews/
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:20190313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20190128T060852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T044628Z
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SUMMARY:3/13 CONCERT | Singing the Sephardic Diaspora: Mediterranean Elements in Judeo-Spanish Choral Arrangements
DESCRIPTION:**Note: The location of this event has changed. It will take place in Kane Hall\, room 220.\nLadino songs reflect a wealth of musical influences\, from Turkish scales to Balkan rhythms. In this lecture-recital\, recent Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) graduate Sarah Riskind will discuss Mediterranean features of Sephardic music and how these elements can be highlighted in arrangements for chorus. The Seattle Jewish Chorale (directed by Jacob Finkle) will perform a selection of classic Judeo-Spanish songs\, including “Par’o Era Estrellero\,” “Durme\, Durme\,” and “Cuando el Rey Nimrod.” \nPlease RSVP for this event at the bottom of the page. \nGet ready with Dr. Riskind’s brief explainer: What makes music sound Jewish (2018) \nDid you miss the event? Check out the UW Daily’s writeup\, which includes a number of audio excerpts. \nAbout the speaker\nSarah Riskind is a choral conductor\, composer\, vocalist\, and music educator based in Seattle. She recently received her DMA in choral conducting from the University of Washington\, completing a dissertation entitled “Informed and Informative: New Choral Arrangements of Sephardic Music\,” and she is the Music Director at Magnolia United Church of Christ. With previous degrees from Williams College and the University of Wisconsin at Madison\, she has directed ensembles at the University of Washington\, the University of Wisconsin at Madison\, Williams College\, the German International School of Boston\, and the First Parish Church of Berlin\, MA; she has also assistant-conducted the Renaissance choir Convivium Musicum and the Boston Children’s Chorus. Her compositions have been performed by the Seattle Jewish Chorale\, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble\, Triad: Boston’s Choral Collective\, the Bennington Children’s Chorus\, and other college\, community\, synagogue\, and church choirs across the country. Dr. Riskind enjoys folk and classical improvisation on violin\, which led her to pursue doctoral research on choral improvisation in addition to Renaissance and Sephardic music. Riskind participated in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship program during the 2017-18 academic year.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/singing-the-sephardic-diaspora-mediterranean-elements-in-judeo-spanish-choral-arrangements/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T193000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20190128T053124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190308T183036Z
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SUMMARY:3/4 TALK | New Language\, New Story: How Translation Changed the Bible for Sephardic Jews Across History
DESCRIPTION:The Torah\, as Heinrich Heine is said to have written\, is the portable homeland of the Jews. As Jews move from place to place\, the land that is the setting for the Bible (or “Tanakh\,” in Hebrew) is the one place that does not change. In their diaspora\, Jewish communities learn new languages with each move\, and use these languages to reinterpret the stories of the Bible anew. \nIn this talk\, Dr. David Wacks of the University of Oregon will discuss the history of how new translations affected Sephardic Jews’ understanding of the Bible and biblical stories\, from medieval Arabic translations to later translations into Ladino and Judeo-Spanish.  \nWacks will explore how generations of Sepharadim (Jews in the Mediterranean) used translations\, commentaries and legends from their own time periods to reinterpret the Bible in new ways for the world in which they lived\, and offer insights into how translation might influence our own understandings of important texts. \nGet ready with a related essay by David Wacks: “Rabbis\, a Spanish Biblical History\, and the Roots of Vernacular Fiction.” \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies. \nAbout the speaker\nDavid Wacks is Head of the Department of Romance Languages and Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. He earned his PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley in 2003. In 2006 he was Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.  \nWacks is author of “Framing Iberia: Frametales and Maqamat in Medieval Spain\,” (Brill\, 2007)\, winner of the 2009 La corónica award\, and “Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production before and after 1492″ (Indiana University Press\, 2015)\, winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture\, and co-editor\, with Michelle Hamilton\, of “The Study of al-Andalus: The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe” (ILEX Foundation\, 2018). His most recent monograph\, “Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World\,” is forthcoming in 2019 from University of Toronto Press.\nHe blogs on his current research at https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/new-language-new-story-how-translation-changed-the-bible-for-sephardic-jews-across-history/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20190123T035130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T215210Z
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SUMMARY:Can Patients Refuse Lifesaving Treatment? A Comparative Review of Secular\, Jewish & Israeli Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Scenarios where patients refuse lifesaving care raise difficult ethical and legal questions. Physicians are faced with the decision of whether to forgo beneficial therapy\, or alternatively force treatment on an unwilling patient. In these undesirable situations\, the ethical principle of respecting the patient’s autonomy is in direct conflict with the ethical principle of beneficence. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz will examine whether it is morally and legally permissible for healthcare professionals to treat patients without consent in order to save their lives. To answer this question\, Khazzam-Horovitz will review two different approaches: secular ones as well as Jewish-rabbinic discourses. She will also discuss the Israeli legal system’s attempt to find a compromise that incorporates both the secular and the Jewish perspectives. \nAbout the speaker\n \nDr. Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz is a lecturer of bioethics and Modern Hebrew at Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School ofInternational Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Washington School of Law. She was a member of the Human Subjects Division committee (IRB) at University of Washington. Previously\, she was an Israeli attorney specializing in insurance litigation.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/khazzam-horovitz-can-patients-refuse-lifesaving-treatment/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20180922T010225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201203T142049Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: How Frontier Jews Made American Judaism
DESCRIPTION:**The University of Washington Seattle campus has suspended operations Tuesday\, due to continued snow accumulation. We are therefore unable to host this event. Keep an eye on our e-journal for articles on this topic. \nThe first mass migration in American Jewish history took place in the nineteenth century\, during the era of westward expansion and “manifest destiny.” \nShari Rabin\,  author of the new book “Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century” (NYU Press) and assistant professor of Jewish studies at the College of Charleston\, will discuss how far-flung Jewish migrants in this era shaped the religious idioms\, institutions\, and ideologies of American Judaism\, paving the way for the unique realities of American Jewish life today. \nGet ready: \n\nPodcast interview with Shari Rabin on “Jews on the Frontier” by Jewish History Matters\n\nAbout the speaker\nShari Rabin received a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale University in 2015 and is currently assistant professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. A historian of American religions and modern Judaism\, she is the author of “Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America” (New York University Press\, 2017)\, which won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies and was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. \nRegister for the event
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/frontier-jews-american-judaism-shari-rabin/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
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:20190205T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20181218T194117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T024915Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Dancing with the Angel of Death: Demonic Femininity in the Ancient Synagogue
DESCRIPTION:“Lady Lilth” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti\, 1873. \n**The University of Washington Seattle campus has suspended operations Tuesday\, due to continued icy conditions around the region. We are therefore unable to host “Dancing with the Angel of Death” with Laura Lieber. Keep an eye on our e-journal for articles on this topic. \nWhat makes a woman powerful… and dangerous? Can what makes her “good” also be a potential “evil”? \nIn this talk\, Laura Lieber (Duke University) will consider a striking presentation of demonic femininity in the early synagogue era (ca. 6th century CE)\, centering around a dramatic poem depicting a nefarious woman accused of adultery (a “Sotah“) and the magic ritual for determining her guilt or innocence (Numbers 5:12-31). \nHow does this synagogue performance expand on traditions as preserved in rabbinic sources\, and resonate with magical texts and traditions of the time? How does the portrayal of the accused woman relate to universal human fears\, and the recurring fear around women’s power to arouse male desire in particular? \nRead the poems Dr. Lieber will be discussing here. \nAbout the speaker\nLaura S. Lieber is Professor of Religious Studies and Classics at Duke University\, where she directs the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Late Ancient Studies. \n  \n  \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.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/laura-leiber-demonic-femininity-ancient-synagogue/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
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:20190128T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20180922T003559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T215200Z
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SUMMARY:Jews and Human Rights: Forgotten Past\, Uncertain Future
DESCRIPTION:The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of both the state of Israel and the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both remain tied together in the ongoing debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict\, global anti-Semitism\, and American foreign policy. Yet the surprising connections between Zionism and the origins of international human rights are completely unknown today. \nDrawing on his recent book\, “Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century\,” Professor James Loeffler will explain how and why Jews helped to build the modern human rights movement\, and what this recovered history reveals about the future of both Jewish politics and international law. \nAbout the speaker\nJames Loeffler is Professor of History and the inaugural holder of the Berkowitz Endowed Chair in Jewish History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of “Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (2018) and “The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire” (2010)\, and co-editor of “The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in Historical Perspective” (2019). Professor Loeffler’s writing has also appeared in the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, Slate\, Mosaic\, Tablet\, and Haaretz.\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/human-rights-jewish-activism-james-loeffler/
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:20190115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190115T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20180922T000256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190123T034950Z
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SUMMARY:Zionism and Emotion: Love\, Fear\, and Guilt
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Derek Penslar of Harvard University will consider Zionism\, and by extension all forms of modern nationalism\, as expressions of emotion. Like emotions\, nationalisms vary\, and Zionism has\, in different times and places\, conformed to erotic\, spiritual\, parental\, and companionate forms of human feeling and attachment. \nThe talk will span the history of the Zionist project\, demonstrating the positive effects of emotions as a source of strength and sacrifice\, but also showing how and when nationalistic emotions have catalyzed the hatred of others. \nThe talk draws on Penslar’s research for his current book project\,”Zionism: An Emotional State” (for Rutgers University Press’ “Keywords in Jewish Studies” series). \n  \nThis event is cosponsored by the Middle East Center and Department of History. \nAbout the Speaker\nDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History at Harvard University. His work encompasses the history of the Jews in modern West and Central Europe\, North America\, and Palestine/Israel. He is particularly interested in the relationship between modern Israel and diaspora Jewish societies\, global nationalist movements\, European colonialism\, and post-colonial states. \nPenslar has taught at Indiana University\, Bloomington\, the University of Toronto\, and Oxford University\, where he served as the inaugural Stanley Lewis Professor of Modern Israel Studies from 2012 until 2016. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and President of the American Academy for Jewish Research. \nPenslar has authored or edited ten books\, including “Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe” (2001)\, “Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective” (2006)\, “The Origins of the State of Israel: A Documentary History” (2011)\, “Jews and the Military: A History” (2013) and “Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader” (forthcoming in Yale University Press’ “Jewish Lives” series). \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/zionism-and-emotion-love-fear-and-guilt/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T193000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20180706T201133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181222T000909Z
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SUMMARY:Water and the Environment in the Middle East: Israel's Sustainability Challenges in the Desalination Era
DESCRIPTION:Alon Tal of Tel Aviv University will give the 2018 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies on the topic of Israel’s new dependence on desalination\, assessing the sustainability of desalination as a source of usable water and the lessons that Israel’s experience can offer an increasingly water-scarce world. \nAlso with Alon Tal on Tuesday\, 11/27 (11am\, Thomson 317): Towards a Sustainable Population Policy in Israel: Axioms for a Crowded Planet \nAbout the Speaker\nAlon Tal is the chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. In 1990\, he founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense\, Israel’s leading green advocacy organization\, as well as the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. Between 2010 and 2013 he served as chair of Israel’s Green Party. Israel’s Ministry of Environment gave him a lifetime achievement award at age 48. Presently Tal is co-chair of Tzafuf\, the Israel Forum for Population\, Environment and Society\, as well as co-chair of This is My Earth. In 2005\, Tal was the winner of the Bronfman prize\, a humanitarian award for young leaders. He has held faculty positions at Ben Gurion\, Harvard\, Stanford\, Michigan State\, Science Po and Otago Universities. Tal has over 100 publication and has written or edited ten books. He plays fiddle and mandolin for the Arava Riders\, one of Israel’s veteran bluegrass bands. \nRegister for the Event\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is cosponsored by the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. \nVegetarian reception to follow.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/alon-tal-israel-benaroya-lecture/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T122000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20180918T235833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181222T000908Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a Sustainable Population Policy in Israel: New Axioms for a Crowded Planet
DESCRIPTION:Alon Tal of Tel Aviv University will discuss challenges around population growth in Israel\, a country that is on track to become denser than Japan in a few decades. How can policymakers and planners encourage sustainable growth — and a high quality of life in crowded spaces — through policies and other interventions? The lessons Tal shares will be increasingly important for growing cities in the United States and elsewhere. \nRSVP below\, and get ready with Alon Tal’s recent article: “Life in Israel Has Become Very\, Very Crowded” \nAbout the Speaker\nAlon Tal is the chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. In 1990\, he founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense\, Israel’s leading green advocacy organization\, as well as the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. Between 2010 and 2013 he served as chair of Israel’s Green Party. At age 48\, Israel’s Ministry of Environment presented him with a life achievement award. Presently Tal is co-chair of Tzafuf\, the Israel Forum for Population\, Environment and Society\, as well as co-chair of This is My Earth. In 2005\, Tal was the winner of the Bronfman prize\, a humanitarian award for young leaders. He has held faculty positions at Ben Gurion\, Harvard\, Stanford\, Michigan State\, Sciences Po\, and Otago Universities. He has over 100 publication and has written or edited ten books. Alon plays fiddle and mandolin for the Arava Riders\, one of Israel’s veteran bluegrass bands. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/alon-tal-israel-sustainable-population-policy-in-israel-axioms-crowded-planet/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181116T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181118T153000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20181113T193045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181113T193045Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Spinoza on Freedom and the Highest Good
DESCRIPTION:Professor Michael Rosenthal has organized a workshop\, “Spinoza on Freedom and the Highest Good: Workshop on Ethics\, Part V\,” which will take place from Friday\, November 16 to Sunday\, November 18th. \nSeven scholars will discuss issues raised by Spinoza’s treatise “Ethics\, Part V\,” including concepts of freedom\, reason and the role of imagination in seeking the highest good. View the three-day workshop’s full schedule at the Department of Philosophy website. \nThe workshop is supported by the Saari Endowment\, the Department of Philosophy\, and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/workshop-spinoza-on-freedom-and-the-highest-good/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20180919T004645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181222T000904Z
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SUMMARY:"Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual" Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Bessner\, assistant professor of international studies\, will discuss his new book\, “Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual\,” his biography of Hans Speier\, a defense analyst who worked for the RAND Corporation think tank in the 1950s and 1960s. \nBessner’s book shows how the Weimar Republic’s collapse and the rise of Nazism informed Hans Speier’s work as an American policymaker and institution builder\, delving into Speier’s intellectual development and illuminating the ideological origins of the expert-centered approach to foreign policymaking\, revealing the European roots of Cold War liberalism. \n“Democracy in Exile” places Speier at the center of the influential and fascinating transatlantic network of policymakers\, many of them German émigrés\, who struggled with the tension between elite expertise and democratic politics. Bessner depicts the critical role Speier played in the shift in American intellectual history in which hundreds of social scientists left their universities and contributed to the creation of an expert-based approach to U.S. foreign relations\, in the process establishing close connections between governmental and nongovernmental organizations. As Bessner writes: to understand the rise of the defense intellectual\, we must understand Hans Speier. \nListen to Cornell University Press’ interview with Daniel Bessner on the book. \n“Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual” is available now from Cornell University Press. \nThis event will include a vegetarian catered reception. \nAbout the Speaker\nDaniel Bessner is the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He works on intellectual and cultural history\, U.S. foreign relations\, the history of democratic thought\, and the history of the social sciences. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/daniel-bessner-hans-speier-defense-intellectual-book-launch/
LOCATION:HUB 334\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
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:20181107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20181101T231749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181107T165940Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Panel: Responding to Pittsburgh
DESCRIPTION:Image from the Los Angeles Times. \nJoin University of Washington faculty to discuss and reflect on the Pittsburgh tragedy from a variety of scholarly perspectives. Participants include scholars of Jewish history\, Nazi Germany\, and immigrant and minority experiences in the United States. \nThe event will be video-recorded and will be available to view soon. \nFaculty panelists\nNoam Pianko\, Director\, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies (moderator)\nKathie Friedman\, Jackson School faculty\nSusan A. Glenn\, History faculty\nLaurie Marhoefer\, History faculty\nDevin Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\nSasha Senderovich\, Jackson School and Slavic Languages and Literatures faculty \nThis event is cosponsored with the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of History.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/responding-to-pittsburgh/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
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:20181029T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T094048
CREATED:20180919T001957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T205947Z
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SUMMARY:"What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)" Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Professor Naomi Sokoloff will discuss her new book “What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)\,” co-edited with Professor Nancy Berg of Washington University\, St. Louis. \nThe volume collects ten essays on the past\, present\, and future of the Hebrew language from contributors to the Stroum Center’s 2016 Hebrew and the Humanities Symposium\, which invited Hebrew experts from around the world to share their thoughts on the language. (Read some of their short essays about Hebrew.) \n“What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)” is available from the University of Washington Press. Read a review from Moment Magazine and a writeup by the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. \nA catered vegetarian reception will follow the talk. \nAbout the Speaker\nProfessor Naomi Sokoloff teaches Hebrew and modern Jewish literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and The Department of Comparative Literature\, Cinema and Media at UW. Her research interests cover a range of modern Jewish writing\, with special focus on the representation of childhood in narrative\, on Holocaust studies\, and on feminist criticism. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization and The Middle East Center. \nRegister for the Event
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/naomi-sokoloff-what-we-talk-about-hebrew-book-launch/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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