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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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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T193000
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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T153000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T200000
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T193000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T122000
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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:20260511T101202
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:20260511T101202
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:20260511T101202
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:20260511T101202
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T140000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180512T233139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T233309Z
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SUMMARY:The Ottoman Last Decade: The Perspectives of "The Other Ottomans"
DESCRIPTION:Discover the fate of non-Turkish populations—especially Ladino-speaking Jews—during the final years of the Ottoman Empire in this lecture by Prof. Eyal Ginio. Prof. Ginio will discuss the significance and inclusion of non-Turkish speaking populations in current discussions on the late Ottoman period. No RSVP is required. \nAbout the Speaker\nEyal Ginio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, and is also the Coordinator of the Forum of Turkish Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies. He also serves as the chairman of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East. \nHis research interests include the social and cultural history of the Ottoman State\, marginality and marginal populations in Ottoman society\, Islam in the Balkans\, and secular writing in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) during the late Ottoman period. \nThe event is co-sponsored with the Middle East Center of The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/eyal-ginio-ottoman-last-decade-perspectives-minorities-ottomans/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic 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:20180514T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T140000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180122T051450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180508T165747Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Reviving Languages & Teaching the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Rob Keener and Sara Molaie as they share their research on human rights issues and diplomacy in Israel and other countries in the Middle East. \nA light lunch will be served. \n \nRob Keener\, Israel Studies Program Fellow\n“Constructing a Project-Based Learning Curriculum to Teach the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict” \nRobert Keener was born in Houston\, Texas\, where he attended St. Thomas High School and Texas Tech University. After college\, Robert spent two years working in the oil and gas industry in Houston before academia came calling. He attended Ole Miss in Oxford\, Mississippi\, where he took two courses on the history of the Middle East that sparked an interest in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The multi-sided presentation of the conflict by his mentor\, Dr. Nikolas Trepanier\, was far different than the single-sided polemics that he had previously heard. While at Ole Miss\, Robert focused on studying systems of oppression such as apartheid\, Jim Crow and imperialism. After earning his MA in history\, Robert enrolled in the University of Washington’s Multicultural Education doctoral program\, where his research centers on teaching controversial topics in social studies\, global citizenship education\, and the construction of knowledge. When he is not working as a research assistant at the Center for Multicultural Education or trying to earn his doctorate\, Robert enjoys hiking in the mountains with his wife Emily and their chocolate lab named Rylee.\n  \n \nSara Molaie\, Robert & Pamela Center Fellow\n“Hebrew and Persian Revival Movements in the 19th Century” \nSara Molaie is pursuing her Master’s in Comparative Religion in the Jackson School.  As a member of the minority Baha’i community in Iran where she grew up\, Molaie has had to overcome many challenges. After she immigrated to the United States in 2009\, she focused her post-secondary education on religious studies\, in an effort to contribute to raising awareness of the possibilities for multicultural coexistence. With a focus on Judaism and Islam\, she completed elementary biblical and modern Hebrew and intermediate Arabic in her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Washington. Working on her MA thesis\, which is related to the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language\, she is going to advance her Hebrew in the summer as an FLAS awardee.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/grad-fellows-human-rights-diplomacy-middle-east/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows,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:20180509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20171122T192340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T214048Z
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SUMMARY:I Alone Can Fix It: Tales from the New Dystopia with Gary Shteyngart
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2018 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series with Gary Shteyngart. \n \nA decade and a half ago\, with the publication of his 2002 novel The Russian Debutante’s Handbook\, the writer Gary Shteyngart launched a new wave of literary production by Jewish writers who immigrated to North America from the Soviet Union at a young age\, and who took up the pen in English\, their adopted tongue. By now\, works by award-winning and bestselling writers Anya Ulinich\, David Bezmozgis\, Boris Fishman\, Lara Vapnyar\, Irina Reyn\, Nadia Kalman\, Sana Krasikov\, and others easily fill an impressive—and growing—bookshelf. Coinciding with the flourishing of English-language literature by authors of diverse national\, ethnic\, and cultural backgrounds such as Jhumpa Lahiri\, Junot Díaz\, and Chang-rae Lee\, this cohort of writers placed the experience of Russian Jewish immigrants on the map of contemporary American fiction. \nShteyngart followed his debut with two more satirical novels. Absurdistan (2006) was a whimsical yet darkly comic take on both Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy and George W. Bush’s America. Super Sad True Love Story (2010) presented a dystopian vision of America’s decline that was filled with prophesies on issues ranging from surveillance technology to economic disparity that have gradually—and stunningly—been coming true in the years since. Vastly different in their breadth and set in a range of real and imagined locations the world over\, Shteyngart’s first three novels explored different versions of a series of nebbishes who\, in parodic ways\, resembled the author himself. \nWith the publication of his memoir Little Failure in 2014\, Shteyngart appears to have closed a chapter of his career that built rich fictional worlds on his satirized autobiography. Little Failure—a humorous\, touching\, and deeply honest exploration of his family’s and his own history delved deeply into the 20th century experience of Jews in the Soviet Union and during immigration that sat at the core of Shteyngart’s earlier fiction. In his anticipated new novel\, Lake Success\, to be published in autumn of 2018\, Shteyngart is poised to pivot in a new direction and to train his perceptive gaze on unfolding American realities. Set during a time that Shteyngart’s narrator defines as “the first summer of Trump\,” the novel launches its American Jewish protagonist—a hedge fund broker of dubious accomplishments and a failed father and husband—on a life-changing trip across the United States aboard a Greyhound bus. Semi-cognizant of other literary protagonists who had previously undertaken similar journeys of self-discovery and failed\, and not entirely unaware that such pursuits of lost time tend to yield disappointing results\, Shteyngart’s new hero offers profound observations of a native country he hadn’t known before\, its fabric of fragile human relationships rapidly and starkly fraying all around him. \nThe 2018 Stroum Lectures with Gary Shteyngart will offer an opportunity to look back on the first fifteen years of the writer’s career and to look ahead to his future literary pursuits. In a series of conversations with Sasha Senderovich\, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies at UW\, and readings\, Gary Shteyngart will explore the questions of the role of humor and comedy in today’s world\, immigration and the Jewish experience\, prescient issues in Russian-American political and cultural relations\, and the satirist’s role in authoritarian societies. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Please register for the May 9 lecture at the bottom of this page\, and for the May 7 lecture on its event page. \nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies are an annual series of talks given by luminaries in the field of Jewish Studies\, hosted by Stroum Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For more than thirty years\, through the generosity of Samuel and Althea Stroum\, Jewish Studies has been able to bolster public scholarship around Judaism. View highlights from the past thirty years below\, or scroll further to learn more about the history of the lectures and view the full archive.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/our-events/2018-stroum-lectures-gary-shteyngart/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 120\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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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:20180507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180507T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20171122T192336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180326T172702Z
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SUMMARY:Failure is an Option: Immigration\, Memory\, and the Russian Jewish Experience with Gary Shteyngart
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2018 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series with Gary Shteyngart. \n \nA decade and a half ago\, with the publication of his 2002 novel The Russian Debutante’s Handbook\, the writer Gary Shteyngart launched a new wave of literary production by Jewish writers who immigrated to North America from the Soviet Union at a young age\, and who took up the pen in English\, their adopted tongue. By now\, works by award-winning and bestselling writers Anya Ulinich\, David Bezmozgis\, Boris Fishman\, Lara Vapnyar\, Irina Reyn\, Nadia Kalman\, Sana Krasikov\, and others easily fill an impressive—and growing—bookshelf. Coinciding with the flourishing of English-language literature by authors of diverse national\, ethnic\, and cultural backgrounds such as Jhumpa Lahiri\, Junot Díaz\, and Chang-rae Lee\, this cohort of writers placed the experience of Russian Jewish immigrants on the map of contemporary American fiction. \nShteyngart followed his debut with two more satirical novels. Absurdistan (2006) was a whimsical yet darkly comic take on both Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy and George W. Bush’s America. Super Sad True Love Story (2010) presented a dystopian vision of America’s decline that was filled with prophesies on issues ranging from surveillance technology to economic disparity that have gradually—and stunningly—been coming true in the years since. Vastly different in their breadth and set in a range of real and imagined locations the world over\, Shteyngart’s first three novels explored different versions of a series of nebbishes who\, in parodic ways\, resembled the author himself. \nWith the publication of his memoir Little Failure in 2014\, Shteyngart appears to have closed a chapter of his career that built rich fictional worlds on his satirized autobiography. Little Failure—a humorous\, touching\, and deeply honest exploration of his family’s and his own history delved deeply into the 20th century experience of Jews in the Soviet Union and during immigration that sat at the core of Shteyngart’s earlier fiction. In his anticipated new novel\, Lake Success\, to be published in autumn of 2018\, Shteyngart is poised to pivot in a new direction and to train his perceptive gaze on unfolding American realities. Set during a time that Shteyngart’s narrator defines as “the first summer of Trump\,” the novel launches its American Jewish protagonist—a hedge fund broker of dubious accomplishments and a failed father and husband—on a life-changing trip across the United States aboard a Greyhound bus. Semi-cognizant of other literary protagonists who had previously undertaken similar journeys of self-discovery and failed\, and not entirely unaware that such pursuits of lost time tend to yield disappointing results\, Shteyngart’s new hero offers profound observations of a native country he hadn’t known before\, its fabric of fragile human relationships rapidly and starkly fraying all around him. \nThe 2018 Stroum Lectures with Gary Shteyngart will offer an opportunity to look back on the first fifteen years of the writer’s career and to look ahead to his future literary pursuits. In a series of conversations with Sasha Senderovich\, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies at UW\, and readings\, Gary Shteyngart will explore the questions of the role of humor and comedy in today’s world\, immigration and the Jewish experience\, prescient issues in Russian-American political and cultural relations\, and the satirist’s role in authoritarian societies. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Please register for the May 7 lecture at the bottom of this page\, and for the May 9 lecture on its event page. \nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies are an annual series of talks given by luminaries in the field of Jewish Studies\, hosted by Stroum Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For more than thirty years\, through the generosity of Samuel and Althea Stroum\, Jewish Studies has been able to bolster public scholarship around Judaism. View highlights from the past thirty years below\, or scroll further to learn more about the history of the lectures and view the full archive. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/our-events/2018-stroum-lectures-gary-shteyngart/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 120\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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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:20180427T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T140000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180122T045420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180220T175150Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Israeli Diplomacy\, Jewish Refugees and Sephardic Soldiers in the 20th & 21st Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Samuel Gordon\, Pablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, and Ozgur Ozkan as they share their research on migration\, the Israeli state\, and military participation in this academic panel. \nA light lunch will be served.\n  \n \nSam Gordon\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Fellow\nPaper title: “21st Century Israeli Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities in a New Era” \nSam Gordon is currently a first-year master’s student at the Jackson School for International Studies concentrating on the Middle East. He is from Florida and attained a bachelor’s degree in 2014 from Florida State University majoring in History and International Affairs. After graduation\, Sam moved to Jerusalem and worked as a research assistant at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He conducted research on topics including diplomacy and human rights in the Middle East. He also spent nine months living and working in Prague\, where he absorbed a great deal about Jewish communities of Central Europe. For his Graduate Fellowship project\, Sam plans to investigate the role Israel will play in the newly forming international order as well as the challenges and opportunities it faces on a global scale. His research interests include Israeli foreign policy\, geopolitics of the Middle East\, and the intersection between technology and foreign policy.\n  \n \nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, Mickey Sreebny Memorial Scholar\nPaper title: “Neither Zionist\, nor Egyptian: The Forced Migration of the Jews of Egypt in the 1950s” \nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, who hails from Connecticut\, will pursue an MA in Middle East Studies at the Jackson School in the Fall 2017. 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 UW\, Pablo is interested in researching the intersection of history and politics of countries in the Middle East\, particularly the political and historical narratives of Jewish refugees from the Arab world. He speaks conversational Arabic\, Hebrew and Turkish.\n  \n \nOzgur Ozkan\, Mervin & Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\nPaper title: “Seattle’s Sephardic Connections to the Northern Aegean: War\, Military Service\, and Migration in the Early Twentieth Century” \nOzgur Ozkan is a PhD candidate in the Jackson School of International Studies’ doctoral program. He holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering and an MA degree in Regional Security Studies from the US Naval Postgraduate School. Ozgur’s research covers nationalism\, ethnic politics\, and civil-military relations in the Middle East. He has been conducting research on non-Muslims’ experiences in the Ottoman Army in the early twentieth century. He is planning to study Sephardic Jewish heritage in the northern Aegean and southern Marmara\, especially in Canakkale and its vicinity\, as well as Jewish participation to the Balkan Wars and the First World War.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/grad-fellows-eastern-mediterranean-world-israeli-diplomacy-jewish-refugees-sephardic-soldiers-20th-21st-centuries/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows,Israel Studies,Sephardic 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:20180426T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180324T050748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180426T203023Z
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SUMMARY:On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the talk will take place in Kane 110. The event is also being livestreamed online – anyone can watch it! More information here. \nFrom Timothy Snyder\, one of America’s leading historians and public intellectuals\, comes an essential guide to survival and resistance in our times. \nThrough a series of twenty lessons drawn from the twentieth century\, Snyder will help us to understand the frightening parallels that exist between our current reality and the reality faced by twentieth century Europeans as totalitarian leaders rose to power. Using his knowledge of history\, Snyder shows us how to effectively resist and bring about change in times of political trouble. \nOverflow seating with an on-site livestream will be available in Kane Hall for this sold-out event.  \nAbout the Speaker\nTimothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University\, a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His latest book\, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Tim Duggan Books; February 28\, 2017)\, has resonated with a world-wide audience. On Tyranny has been published in over a dozen countries and is a #1 New York Times Bestseller. \nA frequent guest at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna\, he has spent about ten years in Europe\, and speaks five and reads ten European languages. He is a regular commentator on radio\, TV and in print publications\, and an award-winning author of books such as Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. \nSnyder received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997\, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001\, he held fellowships in Paris\, Vienna\, and Warsaw\, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-20th-century/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies":MAILTO:jsis@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T183000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180330T182137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180422T015655Z
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SUMMARY:Judeo-Spanish (Ladino): Language Endangerment & Revitalization
DESCRIPTION:A 1913 article in the New York Tribune quotes a Sephardic man as saying\, “The language is almost extinct\,” in reference to his mother tongue\, Judeo-Spanish. \nMore than a century later\, however\, the language can still be found in a number of areas across the United States and abroad. What\, then\, is the status of this language? \nIn this presentation\, Prof. Bryan Kirschen (SUNY Binghamton) will consider what it means for a language to be endangered. How do linguists measure the vitality of a language\, and how do these measures apply to varieties of Judeo-Spanish? \nAfter examining the processes of language endangerment\, Prof. Kirschen will review preservation efforts and revitalization practices\, describing the benchmarks of success that Judeo-Spanish and its speakers have achieved\, as well as obstacles they continue to face in the twenty-first century. \nAbout the Speaker\nBryan Kirschen is an assistant professor of Hispanic Linguistics at SUNY-Binghamton. His research focuses on Judeo-Spanish\, which is also the subject of his documentary film\, Saved by Language.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/judeo-spanish-ladino-language-endangerment-revitalization/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic 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:20180417T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180417T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180212T035108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T204946Z
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SUMMARY:Ancient Jewish Magic
DESCRIPTION:Ancient magical artifact (a bowl) depicting demons\, ringed with Aramaic. Found in Iraq. From the University of Pennsylvania Museum *collection. \n*ROOM CHANGE! By popular demand\, we’ve moved this event to a larger space: Room 220 in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library* \nNOTE: If the event sells out\, we still encourage you to come. Seats typically open up\, though we can’t guarantee seating. \nWhat is magic? What is Jewish magic? Who are the witches that the rabbis worry about? \nIn this talk\, Prof. Ahuvia will share evidence from her recent and forthcoming publications about Jewish engagement with magic\, angels\, and demons in the ancient world. She will discuss how practices we might deem “magical” have influenced Jewish rituals\, liturgy\, and beliefs to this day. \nTo whet your appetite: According to scholar B. Barry Levy\, the ancient magical artifact at the right “was prepared to protect Abuna bar Geribta and Ibba bar Zawithai from a series of evil forces. Its writer drew his power from the garment of Hermes and the Creator of heaven and earth. He threatened the destructive forces with the curses of the Leviathan and Sodom and Gemorrah.” \nAbout the Speaker\nMika Ahuvia was born in Kibbutz Beit Hashita in northern Israel. She researches the formative history of Jewish and Christian communities in the ancient Mediterranean world. Specializing in Late Antique Jewish history\, she works with Rabbinic sources\, liturgical poetry\, magical texts\, early mystical literature\, and archaeological evidence. Her dissertation was on angels in Jewish texts from the fourth to eighth century CE. \nAhuvia is fascinated by the daily life of ancient Jews and investigates the different ways they struck a balance between their local religious environment (whether Roman\, Christian\, or Zoroastrian) and biblical\, rabbinic\, and other Jewish traditions. \nShe co-authored an article with John Gager on the portrayal of Mary the mother of Jesus in the Toledot Yeshu\, an early medieval Jewish satire of Jesus’ life as recorded by the gospels. There she paid careful attention to the sympathy shown to Mary in the Jewish sources and how it might reflect broader Jewish interest in the figure of a messianic mother. In another article in a volume on Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity\, Ahuvia analyzed depictions of the abyss in late antique church mosaics in the Transjordan region and the Near Eastern\, Greco-Roman\, as well as Jewish and Christian sources that may have inspired emphasis on this abstract concept. \nProfessor Ahuvia currently holds the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ancient-jewish-magic/
LOCATION:Odegaard Library 220\, 4060 George Washington Lane 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:20180409T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180409T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180122T033633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180403T010709Z
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SUMMARY:Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Cover of “Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel” (Stanford University Press\, 2017) \n*Note that the location of this event has changed since our winter events postcard was mailed. The correct room is HUB 214.* \nBetween 1949 and 1951\, 123\,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all\, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot\, or transit camps. \nRather than returning to a homeland as native sons\, Iraqi Jews were newcomers in a foreign place. Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel\, Professor Orit Bashkin’s new book\, tells the story of these Iraqi Jews’ first decades in Israel. \nFaced with ill treatment and discrimination from state officials\, Iraqi Jews resisted: they joined Israeli political parties\, demonstrated in the streets\, and fought for the education of their children\, leading a civil rights struggle whose legacy continues to influence contemporary debates in Israel. \nOrit Bashkin sheds light on the everyday lives of this population and their determination to thrive in a new country\, uncovering their long\, painful transformation from Iraqis to Israelis. In doing so\, she shares the resilience and humanity of a community whose story has yet to be told. \nAbout the Speaker\nOrit Bashkin is Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Chicago. \nShe is the author of New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford\, 2012) and The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford\, 2008). She currently directs the center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago.\n \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Middle East Center\, part of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/iraqi-jews-israel-resettlement-orit-bashkin/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, 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:20180220T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180112T204416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180208T202600Z
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SUMMARY:Hebrew Traditions in Hellenistic Jewish Sources: Philo of Alexandria & the Epistle to the Galatians
DESCRIPTION:Speculative portrait of Philo of Alexandria by 16th-century artist Andre Thevet. Via Wikimedia Commons. \nProfessors Michal and Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal draw on their expertise in ancient Jewish and Christian texts to show how understanding contemporary Hebrew influences can help us to understand the Epistle to the Galatians. \nPaul’s words in Galatians 4:21–31 evoke the ancient story of Sarah and Hagar and quote the prophetic book of Isaiah\, assuring the Galatians that “we are not the children of the slave woman\, but of the free woman.” \nAssuming a Hebrew-based tradition in Paul’s use of biblical verses – one drawn on by the contemporary writings of Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria – can solve several interpretive problems that past readers of the Galatians passage have pointed out. More importantly\, reading this text with a knowledge of Hebrew traditions emphasizes the importance these traditions held in Paul’s Jewish-Hellenistic world. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nAbout the Speakers\nMichal Bar-Asher Siegal (PhD 2010\, Yale University) is a scholar of rabbinic Judaism. Her work focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian interactions in the ancient world and compares between early Christian and rabbinic sources. Her book\, Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press\, 2013\, winner of the 2014 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award) compared Christian monastic and rabbinic sources. Her upcoming book Jewish – Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretics Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud will focus on heretics’ stories in the Babylonian Talmud. She is an elected member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences and holds the Rosen Family Career Development Chair in Judaic Studies at The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought\, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. \n  \nElitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (PhD 2009\, Harvard University) joined the faculty of the department of Hebrew Language at Hebrew University in 2010\, after being the lecturer in Semitics at Yale University. His areas of research include the history of the Semitic languages (Hebrew\, Aramaic\, and Akkadian)\, historical linguistics\, formal semantics and typology. He also studies the history of linguistics using methodologies from the philosophy of sciences. In recent years\, he has mostly worked in linguistics on reciprocal constructions\, causative constructions and constructions with non-argument datives\, both from the semantic and the historical point of views. He also publishes in fields related to rabbinic literature and Jewish Studies more broadly. Elitzur was a visiting professor at Harvard University and Yale University. \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of British Columbia’s Department of Classical\, Near Eastern\, and Religious Studies and Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics\, as well as by the University of Washington Department of Classical Studies\, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, Department of Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion program.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/hebrew-traditions-hellenistic-jewish-sources-philo-alexandria-epistle-galatians/
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:20180213T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180108T204624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180212T175223Z
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SUMMARY:Was the Etrog Jewish? Science\, Trade & Religion in the 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:Etrog fruits in a stall at an Israeli market. Via Wikimedia Commons. \nThis talk will explore the global history of the etrog fruit – a staple of the Jewish harvest holiday Sukkot – from the Sephardi eastern Mediterranean to Ashkenazi northern Europe during the nineteenth century. \nLearn more about the etrog’s multiple incarnations – as a citrus fruit\, a commodity\, and a sacred object – as it passed from the hands of Muslim producers and Ottoman traders to Jewish consumers. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nAbout the Speaker\nConstanze Kolbe is a scholar of Mediterranean Jewish history and global history with interests in economic\, trans-national and cultural history\, and is the Stroum Center’s Hazel D. Cole Fellow for the 2017-2018 academic year. She received her Ph.D. from the history department at Indiana University in 2017. Before coming to the US\, she graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. \nHer dissertation “Crossing Regions\, Nations\, Empires: The Jews of Corfu and the Making of a Jewish Adriatic\, 1850-1914” examines how the Jews of the small Mediterranean island of Corfu created a regional commercial and cultural network in the Adriatic during the nineteenth century. The protagonists are the merchants\, publishers and rabbis who lived in Corfu and created intimate ties with Corfiote and non-Corfiote Jews\, Muslims\, Catholics and Christian Orthodox peoples in several cities: Italian Padua\, Ottoman-Albanian Scutari and Hapsburg Trieste. The Corfiote Jews created a distinctively Jewish regional space through circulating religious discourses and commodities such as the etrog fruit\, soap\, and people.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/etrog-ever-jewish-science-trade-religion-19th-century/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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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:20180207T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20180108T212423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180203T014916Z
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SUMMARY:Looking at the Irish with Envy: American Zionism and the Uses of Irish Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Irish nationalist Daniel O’Connell depicted in an 1847 Pennsylvania poster. Via Wikimedia Commons. \nOf the minority nationalisms that American Zionists encountered in a United States context rife with nationalist activity\, it was the Irish movement that they most admired. Why was this\, and what lessons did Zionists take from Irish nationalism? \nHistorian Judah Bernstein will tackle these questions and others in this lunchtime talk. \nThis is a brown bag lunch event – bring a lunch to enjoy during the talk. \nAbout the Speaker\nJudah Bernstein received his Ph.D. at New York University in Hebrew-Judaic Studies and History. His dissertation examined the evolution of Zionism in America in the early 20th century. \nHe is currently an adjunct lecturer at Rutgers University and a faculty fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talk-looking-irish-envy-american-zionism-uses-irish-nationalism/
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:20180118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T132000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20171207T203220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T205813Z
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SUMMARY:Fences: Jews as Dealers in Stolen Goods in Early Modern Poland
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Shaul Stampfer \nWhile most Jews in early modern Poland had standard occupations\, there is a great deal of evidence that many of the limited numbers of “fences” (dealers in illicit goods) were Jewish. \nThe active presence of Jews as “fences” is well documented in other Ashkenazi communities across Europe\, as well. Why is this? This talk will explore the reasons why Jews entered and succeeded as fences and the ways in which Jewish communities dealt with this illicit activity. \nJews and non-Jews had different concepts aroung the legal status of stolen objects\, and these changing ideas explain why Jews regarded “fencing” in different ways than non-Jews did. While the Christian authorities in Poland could have clamped down on fencing\,had they wanted to\, it seems that the benefits to society outweighed the negative consequences. \nThis seemingly simple topic reveals many of the complexities of inter-group relations in diverse societies. \nThis will be a “brown bag” lunch event. Please bring your own lunch and learn while you eat! \nSpeaker Bio\nProf. Shaul Stampfer grew up in Portland\, Oregon\, went to college in New York\, and continued eastward for his graduate and post-graduate studies. He earned his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a resident of Jerusalem ever since.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talk-fences-jews-dealers-stolen-goods-early-modern-poland/
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:20180111T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20171117T202628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T205832Z
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SUMMARY:Enforcing Ethnic Nationalism: Partition and Population Exchange in the Modern Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, pundits and diplomats alike have repeatedly proposed partition – and its twin\, forcible population exchange – as “solutions” to what they depict as inveterate sectarian conflict across the Middle East. In this lecture\, Laura Robson explores the twentieth-century history of such ideas\, suggesting that proposals for partition and population transfer originated not from humanitarian concern for victimized communities but as concrete strategies for political and military intervention in the Middle East. In particular\, she discusses how Zionism and other early twentieth century models of ethno-communal settlement contributed to a new rhetoric and practice of French and British colonial state-building via Assyrian and Armenian refugee resettlement in interwar Syria and Iraq\, resulting in imperially produced geographies of ethnicity that permanently impacted the political landscape of these emerging states. \nSpeaker Bio\nLaura Robson (PhD Yale\, 2009) is an associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Portland State University. Her most recent book\, States of Separation: Transfer\, Partition\, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (University of California\,2017) explores the history of forced migration\, population exchanges\, and refugee resettlement in Iraq\, Syria\, and Palestine during the interwar period. She is also the author of Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine and editor of Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/robson-enforcing-ethnic-nationalism/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T101202
CREATED:20161018T214744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T094829Z
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SUMMARY:Referendum on the Deli Menu: American Jewish Nostalgia and the Deli Revival
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in American Jewish cuisine. Restaurateurs are making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century\, emphasizing sustainability\, reliance on local goods\, and the slow food movement. Through a playful\, edible nostalgia for the Jewish deli\, contemporary American Jews express their longing for authentic Jewish pasts\, build community in the present\, and pass on their values to future generations. \nBio\nProf. Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently working on a book that examines the religious nature of contemporary nostalgic representations of American Jewish immigration history. She received her PhD in Religion from Princeton University in 2014. \nWenn man in seiner Jugend z.B. jeden Tag aktiv Sex hatte apothekeein.com\, und das sogar mehrmals\, dann ist mit 40-50 Jahren die Grenze der sexuellen Möglichkeiten erreicht – stimmt das? Physiologisch gesehen ist diese Aussage völlig unbegründet. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/referendum-deli-menu-american-jewish-nostalgia-deli-revival/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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