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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T123000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T203000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180507T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T140000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180417T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180417T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
CREATED:20180212T035108Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180409T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180409T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
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:20260511T104224
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
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:20260511T104224
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
CREATED:20170705T234817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T205856Z
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SUMMARY:Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies for the inaugural Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture. \nAward-winning essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman will trace the footsteps of the three very different architects who helped to shape modern Jerusalem. \nAbout this talk\nThe celebrated Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn was a refugee from Hitler’s Germany\, a man of fiercely held views about both politics and aesthetics\, and the creator of several singular Jerusalem buildings. The “most private of public servants\,” Austen St. Barbe Harrison\, British Mandatory Palestine’s chief government architect from 1922-1937\, arrived in the city steeped in the traditions of Byzantine and Islamic building\, and left behind a number of remarkable structures. And the mysterious Greek-Arab architect Spyro Houris\, once a fixture on the local scene\, has been utterly forgotten\, though his grand\, Armenian-tile-clad buildings still stand\, a ghostly testimony to the cultural fluidity that has historically characterized Jerusalem at its best. \nBased on her critically acclaimed new book\, Till We Have Built Jerusalem\, Hoffman’s talk uncovers layers of one great city’s buried history as it asks what it means to be foreign and to belong. \nBio\nEssayist and biographer Adina Hoffman writes often of the Middle East\, approaching it from unusual angles and shedding light on overlooked dimensions of the place\, its people\, and their cultures. She is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood\, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century\, and\, with Peter Cole\, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza\, which won the American Library Association’s prize for the best Jewish book of 2011. The Los Angeles Times called her most recent book\, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City\, “brave and often beautiful\,” and Haaretz described it as “a passionate\, lyrical defense of a Jerusalem that could still be.” Her essays and criticism have appeared the Nation\, the Washington Post\, the TLS\, the Boston Globe\, and on the World Service of the BBC.  A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and one of the inaugural winners of the Windham-Campbell Literary Prizes\, she divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven. \n\nThis lecture is generously supported by the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Fund for Excellence in Israel Studies. \nThe Jackson School and Stroum Center would like to thank the cosponsors of this event:\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\, Cinema & Media\nMiddle East Center – Jackson School of International Studies
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/israel_studies_adina_hoffman/
LOCATION:Kane Hall — Walker-Ames Room and 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
CREATED:20160923T003138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170726T175451Z
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SUMMARY:Stroum Lecture Night 2: Jewish Emancipation and the Radical Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about Spinoza\, and read writing by Jonathan Israel and other Spinoza scholars\, at the 2017 Spinoza & Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference website.\n \nThe 2017 Stroum Lectures will feature Prof. Jonathan Israel of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The second night’s lecture\, on May 23\, 2017\, will explore “Eighteenth-Century Jewish Emancipation: a Consequence of the Radical Enlightenment?” \nJonathan Israel’s recent work focuses on the impact of radical thought (especially Spinoza\, Bayle\, Diderot\, and the eighteenth-century French materialists) on the Enlightenment and on the emergence of modern ideas of democracy\, equality\, toleration\, freedom of the press\, and individual freedom. His books include European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism\, 1550–1750 (1985); The Dutch Republic: Its Rise\, Greatness\, and Fall\, 1477–1806 (1995); Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity\, 1650–1750 (2001); Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy\, Modernity\, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752 (2006); and A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (2009). \nProf. Israel received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1972. Prior to the IAS\, he taught at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne\, the University of Hull\, and University College London. He has been awarded numerous prizes\, including the PROSE Award 2015; City of Amsterdam\, Frans Banninck Cocq Medal 2012; London Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts\, Manufactures and Commerce\, Benjamin Franklin Medal 2010; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize in History 2008; Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion 2004; American Historical Association\, Leo Gershoy Award 2001; Wolfson Literary Award for History 1986. He is a member of the British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nJewish Emancipation and the Radical Enlightenment\nThe process of Jewish emancipation in Europe proved to be long\, hard\, and bitter. Most people\, most churchmen\, and most governments\, as well as most academics in Europe did not accept that Jews had rights equal to those of other citizens until well into the second half of the nineteenth century. How then did Jewish emancipation come about? What were the forces that dismantled the near-universal prevalence of restrictions that controlled where Jews could live\, excluded them from occupations\, limited their property rights\, kept them out of the universities and excluded them from holding public office? \nThis lecture will explore how the Jewish emancipation is inseparable from the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century revolutionary tendency\, especially the subversive call for “universal and equal rights” that first arose in the 1770s and 1780s. The intellectual forces that rallied behind the call for Jewish emancipation were the same as those fighting for “universal and equal rights” in Europe generally– the Radical Enlightenment.  \nBecause of this\, modern Jewish history is fundamentally embedded in a style of political and religious thinking that was anti-monarchical\, anti-aristocratic and anti-ecclesiastical\, one that began in Holland with the group around Baurch Spinoza in the seventeenth century. This Radical Enlightenment included a long list of subversive thinkers and revolutionaries from a variety of backgrounds\, including a remarkable batch of Jewish revolutionaries before Marx: Moses Mendelssohn\, the “gentle revolutionary\,” Zalkind Hourwitz\, Hartog de Hartog Lemon\, Ludwig Börne\, Heinrich Heine\, Moses Hess. Even young Marx himself can be seen as part of this tradition–until he turned away from democracy and equal rights\, rejected Spinoza\, and finally became a “Marxist.” \n\nThis year’s Stroum Lectures will take place in conjunction with the international conference on “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy\,” taking place at the UW on May 21-22\, 2017. Learn more about the conference\, which has been organized by Prof. Michael Rosenthal\, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies and professor in the Department of Philosophy. \n  \n \nPowered by Eventbrite\n\n\nRelated Events:\n\nStroum Lecture Night 1\, May 21\, 2017: “In What Sense was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?” featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference\, May 21-22\, 2017: Hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\n\nRelated Links:\n\nStroum Lecture Digital Archive – watch lectures from previous years by scholars such as Ruth Behar\, Jonathan Sarna\, and Yael Zerubavel\nStroum Lectures at the University of Washington Press – browse titles that emerged from previous years’ Stroum Lectures\, including Yosef Haim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory and Ilana Pardes’ Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israel Culture.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lecture-jonathan-israel-night-2/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
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SUMMARY:Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Spinoza by Studio Odilo Girod. \nThis international conference aims to explore the myriad ways in which Spinoza contributed to the development of modern Jewish philosophy. Although Spinoza was banned from the Jewish community in 1656 due to his “abominable heresies\,” posterity has come to see his work differently. For some he is the central figure of the radical Enlightenment and the secular world. For others he is the first modern Jew\, the harbinger of reforms that make Judaism possible in the modern world. Is Spinoza antithetical to the basic tenets of Judaism\, or is his work essential to the articulation of a modern Jewish identity? The sessions will explore Spinoza’s philosophy and its impact on the philosophical\, historical\, and literary understanding of the modern world. \nConfirmed speakers include:\nLeora Batnitzky (Princeton University) ● Julie E. Cooper (Tel Aviv University) ● Paul Franks (Yale University) ● Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto) ● Michah Gottlieb (New York University) ● Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Studies\, Princeton University) ● Julie R. Klein (Villanova University) ● Tracie Matysik (University of Texas) ● Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) ● Michael Morgan (University of Indiana & University of Toronto) ● Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin) ● Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew University) ● Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington) ● Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) ● Abraham Socher (Oberlin College) \nThe conference schedule\, along with information about speakers and panels\, are online now on the conference webpage. Conference sessions (excluding meals) are free and open to the public; please register in advance. You may reserve a seat at either day session\, and attend any or all panels on that day. \nThe UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to host “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy” in conjunction with the 2017 Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel. Prof. Israel will be speaking on May 21st and 23rd\, 7:00 pm in Kane Hall. Click here for more information and registration for the Stroum Lectures. \nWe thank the following units for their support of this event: the Department of Philosophy\, the Department of Germanics\, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. \nRelated Events:\n\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 1 – May 21\, 2017\nSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/spinoza-modern-jewish-philosophy/
LOCATION:HUB 334\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
CREATED:20160923T002831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170726T175706Z
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SUMMARY:Stroum Lecture Night 1: In What Sense was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about Spinoza\, and read writing by Jonathan Israel and other Spinoza scholars\, at the 2017 Spinoza & Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference website.\n \nThe 2017 Stroum Lectures will feature Prof. Jonathan Israel of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. \nJonathan Israel’s recent work focuses on the impact of radical thought (especially Spinoza\, Bayle\, Diderot\, and the eighteenth-century French materialists) on the Enlightenment and on the emergence of modern ideas of democracy\, equality\, toleration\, freedom of the press\, and individual freedom. His books include European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism\, 1550–1750 (1985); The Dutch Republic: Its Rise\, Greatness\, and Fall\, 1477–1806 (1995); Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity\, 1650–1750 (2001); Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy\, Modernity\, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752 (2006); and A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (2009). \nProf. Israel received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1972. Prior to the IAS\, he taught at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne\, the University of Hull\, and University College London. He has been awarded numerous prizes\, including the PROSE Award 2015; City of Amsterdam\, Frans Banninck Cocq Medal 2012; London Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts\, Manufactures and Commerce\, Benjamin Franklin Medal 2010; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize in History 2008; Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion 2004; American Historical Association\, Leo Gershoy Award 2001; Wolfson Literary Award for History 1986. He is a member of the British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nIn What Sense was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?\nIn the centuries since his expulsion from the synagogue in 1656\, Spinoza has been a notorious figure within the Jewish world\, and in the wider Western world as a whole. Spinoza is seen as the very embodiment of irreligion\, of the rejection of religious authority\, and of skepticism about the Hebrew Bible as divine revelation. As several key passages of his writings make clear\, however\, his principal aim was not to spread irreligious attitudes\, but rather to promote “freedom” and to fight political tyranny\, especially tyranny in the form of great monarchical empires\, like those of Philip II of Spain and Louis XIV of France\, which operated in close alliance with religious authority. \nSpinoza was a revolutionary in his attempt to undermine political tyranny in alliance with institutionalized religion and philosophy in alliance with theology\, and in his efforts to move the intellectually aware toward the view that the democratic republic guaranteeing individual freedom is the best\, safest and freest form of government. In this respect\, Spinoza can be described as the greatest Jewish “revolutionary” before Karl Marx. \n\nFollowing Prof. Israel’s first Stroum Lecture\, the Stroum Center will host a kosher reception in the Walker Ames Room of Kane Hall. \nThis year’s Stroum Lectures will take place in conjunction with the international conference on “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy\,” taking place at the UW on May 21-22\, 2017. Learn more about the conference\, which has been organized by Prof. Michael Rosenthal\, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies and professor in the Department of Philosophy. \n  \n \nPowered by Eventbrite\n\n\nRelated Events:\n\nStroum Lecture Night 2\, May 23\, 2017: “Eighteenth-Century Jewish Emancipation: a Consequence of the Radical Enlightenment?” featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference\, May 21-22\, 2017: Hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\n\nRelated Links:\n\nStroum Lecture Digital Archive – watch lectures from previous years by scholars such as Ruth Behar\, Jonathan Sarna\, and Yael Zerubavel\nStroum Lectures at the University of Washington Press – browse titles that emerged from previous years’ Stroum Lectures\, including Yosef Haim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory and Ilana Pardes’ Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israel Culture.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lecture-jonathan-israel-night-1/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T171500
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
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SUMMARY:Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 1
DESCRIPTION:This international conference aims to explore the myriad ways in which Spinoza contributed to the development of modern Jewish philosophy. Although Spinoza was banned from the Jewish community in 1656 due to his “abominable heresies\,” posterity has come to see his work differently. For some he is the central figure of the radical Enlightenment and the secular world. For others he is the first modern Jew\, the harbinger of reforms that make Judaism possible in the modern world. Is Spinoza antithetical to the basic tenets of Judaism\, or is his work essential to the articulation of a modern Jewish identity? The sessions will explore Spinoza’s philosophy and its impact on the philosophical\, historical\, and literary understanding of the modern world. \nConfirmed speakers include: \nLeora Batnitzky (Princeton University) ● Julie E. Cooper (Tel Aviv University) ● Paul Franks (Yale University) ● Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto) ● Michah Gottlieb (New York University) ● Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Studies\, Princeton University) ● Julie R. Klein (Villanova University) ● Tracie Matysik (University of Texas) ● Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) ● Michael Morgan (University of Indiana & University of Toronto) ● Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin) ● Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew University) ● Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington) ● Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) ● Abraham Socher (Oberlin College) \nThe conference schedule\, along with information about speakers and panels\, are online now on the conference webpage. Conference sessions (excluding meals) are free and open to the public; please register in advance. You may reserve a seat at both day sessions\, and attend any or all panels on that day. \nThe UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to host “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy” in conjunction with the 2017 Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel. Prof. Israel will be speaking on May 21st and 23rd\, 7:00 pm in Kane Hall. Click here for more information and registration. \nWe thank the following units for their support of this event: the Department of Philosophy\, the Department of Germanics\, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. \nRelated Events:\n\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 2 – May 22\, 2017\nSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel\n\n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/spinoza-modern-jewish-philosophy/
LOCATION:Hillel UW\, 4745 17th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
CREATED:20161024T221630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T212115Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Life in Conflict Zones
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. \n“Non-Muslim Military Service and Minority Experience in the Late Ottoman Empire”\nOzgur Ozkan – 2016-17 I. Mervin & Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\nOzgur Ozkan is a PhD candidate in the Jackson’s School International Studies doctoral program. He holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering and an MA degree in Regional Security Studies from the US Naval Postgraduate School. Ozgur is planning to study Sephardic Jewish heritage in the Northern Aegean and Southern Marmara\, especially in Canakkale and its vicinity. He is particularly interested in Sephardic Jewish participation in the Ottoman Gallipoli Front in the First World War and the immigration patterns of Sephardic Jews of this region. \n“Effects of Violence on Civilian Support for Militancy”\nEmily Gade – 2016-17 Samuel & Althea Stroum Fellow\nEmily Gade is a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on civilians in conflict zones\, political violence and nonviolent resistance\, and she is especially interested in the role of ZAKA recovery workers in Israel. Before coming to Seattle\, she worked as a contract research and writer\, most recently completing research for the LSE Center for the Study of Global Governance on peace agreements. Emily also enjoys athletic endeavors\, having competed at the 2012 Olympic Trials (rowing) in the lightweight double sculls and placed second in that same event at the 2013 US National Team Trials. \nProfessor Noam Pianko will serve as moderator and respondent for these presentations. \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/life-in-conflict-zones/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T134500
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
CREATED:20170324T195343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T171804Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn with Dr. Federica Francesconi
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center is proud to host Dr. Francesconi’s lunchtime talk\, “The Italian Jewish Household in the Early Modern Mediterranean\,” with a response from Dr. Rena Lauer. Complimentary falafel lunch to be provided. Please RSVP to ensure enough food. \n \nFederica Francesconi (PhD\, University of Haifa) is Assistant Professor of History and the Howard Berger-Ray Neilsen Chair in Judaic Studies at The College of Idaho. Her research and publications address the social\, religious\, and cultural aspects of the early modern history of Jews in Italy\, focusing on the multifaceted politics and dynamics of ghetto life. She has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania\, the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and the University of Oxford. She has just completed a monograph\, Invisible Enlighteners: Modenese Jewry from the Renaissance to Emancipation. Her new book project is tentatively entitled “Cosmopolitan Intimacy: Jewish Spaces as Crossroads for Multi-Religious Communities in Early Modern Italy.” \n  \nRespondent Rena Lauer (PhD\, Harvard) studies minority life on the borders of medieval Christendom and cross-cultural contacts in the late medieval Mediterranean. Her current book project is a social history of the Jews of Venetian Crete in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries\, particularly through the lens of intra-Jewish litigation in the Venetian secular courtroom. \n  \nThis seminar is made possible thanks to the American Academy of Jewish Research. \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/feasting-faculty-federica-francesconi/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
CREATED:20160728T232859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T214131Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn with Prof. Jeffrey Herf
DESCRIPTION:Undeclared Wars with Israel:  East Germany and the West German Far Left\, 1967-1989  examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations – ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel’s Arab armed adversaries – from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. The book is about ideas and politics as well as details of arms deliveries and military training. \nVegetarian lunch provided. \n  \nProf. Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland\, College Park. \n  \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jeffrey-herf/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104224
CREATED:20161024T215547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T212128Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Refugees and Minorities in Israel
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. Everyone who RSVPs will receive an advance copy of the research papers to be discussed. \nOded Oron \nOded Oron – 2016-17 Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Fellow. His research project is “Migrants’ Mobilization for Rights and Recognition in Israel and the United States” \nOded Oron was born and raised in Tel Aviv\, and his research focuses on the political mobilization of labor migrants and undocumented workers in Israel and the USA. Oded already holds degrees in Political Science and Communications as well as in Politics and Government. Prior to his enrollment in the Jackson School’s International Studies doctoral program\, Oded worked in the Israeli media and government communications\, and also worked for Hillel at UCLA. This is his second year in the Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship. \nEsra Bakkalbasioglu – 2016-17 Robert and Pamela Center Fellow. Her research project is “Non-Jewish Citizens of the Jewish State: Bedouin Citizens’ Perception of the State in Israel.” \nEsra Bakkalbasioglu is a PhD candidate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She received her MA and BA degrees in Political Sciences and International Relations from Bogazici University\, Turkey. She is writing her dissertation on the politics of infrastructure in the peripheral regions of Turkey and Israel. This is Esra’s second year in the Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship. Check out Esra’s new blog post\, Questions of Denial. \nThis research seminar will be facilitated by Prof. Kathie Friedman of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. \nSave the date for the final seminar in the series:\nLife in Conflict Zones\, Thursday\, May 11th\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, featuring Ozgur Ozkan (JSIS-International Studies) and Emily Gade (Political Science)
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/refugees-minorities-in-israel/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T190000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104225
CREATED:20161031T222608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180707T010832Z
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SUMMARY:Medicine & Medical Ethics After the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:In this public lecture\, Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld of the Baylor College of Medicine will speak on how medicine and medical ethics were challenged and affected by the Holocaust.\nGerman physicians embraced eugenics\, a worldwide movement in the first three decades of the twentieth century\, transformed the Hippocratic Oath from a doctor-patient relationship into a StateVolkskörper relationship\, and developed a politicized philosophy of medicine called “Applied Biology.” Hitler refashioned these ideas into public health policies such as involuntary sterilization\, the Nuremberg Laws\, and involuntary euthanasia.\nThe United States was the world leader in eugenics\, providing moral\, legal\, and philanthropic support to the Third Reich. After the end of World War II and the Nuremberg Medical Trial\, the United States dismissed the behavior of German medical professionals as an irrelevant aberration\, developed comforting but false myths about medicine and the Holocaust\, and failed to examine her own eugenic past and its implication for contemporary medicine.\nThis lecture will review this history and challenge medical professionals and healthcare policy makers to personally confront the bioethics of the Holocaust and apply that knowledge to contemporary medicine.\nDr. Sheldon Rubenfeld is the editor of Medicine After the Holocaust: From the Master Race to the Human Genome and Beyond (Palgrave\, 2010). Dr. Rubenfeld is Clinical Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine\, Clinical Professor of Nursing at the University of Texas School of Nursing in Houston\, and a Fellow in the American College of Endocrinology. He has taught courses on medical ethics and the Holocaust at the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston\, and publishes and lectures throughout the world on both subjects. Dr. Rubenfeld is the founding chairman of the Center for Medicine After the Holocaust. Among other activities\, the Center hosts a biennial trip to European medical sites relevant to the Holocaust\, and is preparing a documentary about medicine and the Holocaust. In April of 2015 Dr. Rubenfeld convened the First International Scholars Workshop on Medicine After the Holocaust to promote medicine and the Holocaust as an academic discipline in medical centers throughout the world.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/medicine-medical-ethics-holocaust/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161208T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104225
CREATED:20161024T215012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T185903Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Spinoza\, Borges\, and Literary Imagination
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. Everyone who RSVPs will receive an advance copy of the research paper to be discussed. \nFirst Presentation: Zachary Tavlin\, “Polishing Crystals in the Twilight: Spinoza\, Borges\, and the Literary Imagination”\nOn Thursday\, December 8th at 12:00 pm\, Zachary Tavlin\, a PhD candidate in the Department of English\, will present “Polishing Crystals in the Twilight: Spinoza\, Borges\, and the Literary Imagination.” Zachary Tavlin is the 2017-17 Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar at the Stroum Center. He is a PhD candidate in the UW Department of English. He received his BA in Philosophy from The George Washington University in 2011\, and his MA in Philosophy from Louisiana State University in 2013. He is currently writing a dissertation on nineteenth-century American literature\, the visual arts\, and embodied phenomenology. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics including psychoanalysis\, Victorian materialisms\, eco-criticism\, poetics\, philosophy and American literature\, and film theory. \nCheck out Zachary Tavlin’s new blog post\, Is It Time to Reconsider Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s Jews? \nProf. Michael Rosenthal\, this year’s Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair\, will serve as the respondent to Zachary’s paper. Prof. Rosenthal is faculty for the UW Department of Philosophy. He teaches and publishes in the areas of early modern philosophy\, ethics\, political philosophy\, and Jewish philosophy. Prof. Rosenthal’s current research focuses on the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza\, and he is currently finishing a book on Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise. \nCheck out Prof. Rosenthal’s blog post\, Was Spinoza a Heretic or a Theologian? \nSave the dates for the Winter Quarter and Spring Quarter Graduate Fellow presentations:\nThursday\, March 9th\, 12:00-1:30 pm: Oded Oron (JSIS-International Studies) and Esra Bakkalbasioglu (JSIS-Near and Middle Eastern Studies) will speak on Refugees and Minorities in Israel \nThursday\, May 11th\, 12:00-1:30 pm: Ozgur Ozkan (JSIS-International Studies) and Emily Gade (Political Science) will speak on Life in Conflict Zones \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/spinoza-borges-literary-imagination/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 317\, Thomson Hall 317\, Seattle
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104225
CREATED:20160728T223206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170724T210800Z
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SUMMARY:"Oriental Neighbors" Discussion with Prof. Moshe Naor
DESCRIPTION:Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine \nFocusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine\, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews\, and discusses their unique role as political\, social\, and cultural mediators between Jews and Arabs. Integrating Mandatory Palestine and its inhabitants into the contemporary Semitic-Levantine surroundings\, Oriental Neighbors illuminates broad areas of cooperation and coexistence\, which coincided with conflict and friction\, between Oriental and Sephardi Jews and their Arab neighbors. The book brings the Oriental Jewish community to the fore\, examines its role in the Zionist nation-building process\, and studies its diverse and complex links with the Arab community in Palestine. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization\, UW Middle East Center*\, and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \nKosher lunch will be provided. Note that registration is required to attend this event. \n  \n*The Middle East Center’s sponsorship of this of this event does not imply that the Center endorses the content of the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/moshe-naor/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104225
CREATED:20160728T220958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160926T232149Z
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SUMMARY:Tomasz Łysak: Classic Documentary Films About Auschwitz-Birkenau
DESCRIPTION:After WWII there was a significant shift in the visual principles of rendering the operations of Auschwitz-Birkenau\, its history\, and its moral significance. Soviet and Polish filmmakers established the cinematographic conventions of Holocaust documentaries\, which contributed to the conceptualization of concentration camps and industrial genocide as modernist events. The films in question span the period between the liberation of Auschwitz and the 1960s\, and include liberation footage recorded by the Red Army and the Polish Film Chronicle\, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (1955)\, Andrzej Brzozowski’s Archeology (1967)\, and Tadeusz Jaworski’s I was a Kapo (1963). This selection sheds light on the aesthetic choices of film genres like newsreel\, post-traumatic film\, scientific film\, and first person testimony.\n \nJoin former Polish Fulbright Scholar Tomasz Łysak as he discusses his new book Od kroniki do filmu posttraumatycznego – filmy dokumentalne o Zagładzie. The book explores a comparative perspective on Holocaust cinema\, placing Polish productions in the context of the larger international phenomenon of this genre.\n \nThis event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.\n \nOrganized by UW Polish Studies\, co-sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.\n \n \nAbout the Speaker:\nTomasz Łysak\, University of Warsaw\, received his PhD in Philosophy from the Polish Academy of Sciences. His work focuses on representations of the Holocaust in relation to trauma studies and psychoanalysis. He has held fellowships at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, the University of Edinburgh\, and the University of Chicago.\n \n  \nAbout the Book:\nDocumentary materials shot during the war by Nazi cameramen came to define the audiovisual memory of Polish Jews in the ghettoes and Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation footage became a powerful symbol of the Holocaust. Polish documentary filmmakers had relied on these materials in order to present various aspects of the genocide\, Nazi atrocities\, and the fate of Jews under the occupation. Subsequently\, quoting of archival footage lost its appeal and other modes of documentary film-making prevail: cinematic memory work (in response to Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog)\, audiovisual testimony\, documentaries of return etc. The book traces these developments and adopts a comparative perspective showing Polish productions in the context of a larger international phenomenon of Holocaust cinema. The argument combines insights from psychoanalytical trauma theory\, generic criticism\, memory studies\, and political aesthetics.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/tomasz-lysak/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T203000
DTSTAMP:20260511T104225
CREATED:20160725T225847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T183827Z
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SUMMARY:Jewish Salonica Book Launch with Prof. Devin Naar
DESCRIPTION:Note: This event is sold out and no more tickets are available. A waitlist will be available at the event on a first-come\, first-served basis. Thank you for your understanding.\nA video of Prof. Naar’s lecture will be available by the end of Autumn Quarter. He will also be among the featured speakers at International Ladino Day on Nov. 30th. More info and registration are available here.\n  \nThe city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. In this lecture\, Prof. Naar will explore the fate of Salonica’s Jews and offer behind-the-scenes insight into how he uncovered the previously lost sources necessary to tell the story. Join the Stroum Center and the Sephardic Studies Program for this exciting book launch event. \nLight kosher reception to follow lecture. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Washington’s Department of History\, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, and the Center for West European Studies. \nDevin Naar at Ladino Day 2015 \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. \nParking & Transportation to the UW Tower\nThe W-46 parking garage is attached to the UW Tower via a skybridge located on the 3rd floor of the garage. Vehicles may enter on 12th Ave NE and NE 43rd Street. The garage and skybridge entrance normally close at 6pm\, but the Stroum Center has arranged to hire a guard for the entrance so that our guests may enter until 7:30pm. This should give everyone plenty of time to park and get to the book launch.\nVisitors should be sure to park only in numbered spaces and use machines on the 1st or 3rd floor to prepay. The cost is $3 per hour.\nFor more information including details on ADA accessibility and public transit\, see the UW Tower’s “Getting Here” page: https://www.washington.edu/facilities/uwtower/getting-here. \n[separator top=”10″ style=”none”] \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Links for Further Exploration[/title] \n\nLearn more about Prof. Naar’s book Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\nExplore the UW Sephardic Studies program\nVisit the Sephardic Studies Collection at the UW Libraries Digital Collections
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/naar-book-launch/
LOCATION:UW Tower Auditorium\, 4333 Brooklyn Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Immigration\, Religion & Human Rights Panel
DESCRIPTION:Should our country discriminate among potential immigrants on the basis of religion? Our policy has been not to do so. But there have been recent calls by prominent politicians to change that practice. Our panelists will discuss this and related questions from philosophical\, sociological\, and historical perspectives. \nModerator:\nMichael Rosenthal\, Professor of Philosophy and Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies\, UW Seattle \nParticipants:\nMichael Blake\, Professor of Philosophy\, Public Policy\, and Governance\, Department of Philosophy and Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance\, UW Seattle \nSarah Eltantawi\, Assistant Professor of Comparative Religion and Islamic Studies\, Evergreen State College \nKathie Friedman\, Associate Professor\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, UW Seattle \nThomas Schmidt\, Professor of Philosophy of Religion\, Department of Catholic Theology\, Goethe University\, Frankfurt\, Germany \nThis panel is part of a conference\, “Immigration\, Toleration\, and Human Rights\,” which will take place on October 27-28th. Please see the Simpson Center website for more details: https://simpsoncenter.org/projects/immigration-toleration-and-human-rights. \nSponsors: The conference and related events are co-sponsored by the UW Tri-Campus Research Cluster on Human Interactions and Normative Innovation (HI-NORM)\, the Global Innovation Fund of the UW Office of Global Affairs\, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities\, the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW-Tacoma\, the Department of Philosophy\, the Program on Values in Society\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, the Friends of Philosophy\, the UW Center for Human Rights\, the MERCUR Research Project: Ethics of Immigration at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen\, and the Cluster of Excellence: The Formation of Normative Orders at the Goethe University\, Frankfurt\, Germany.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/immigration-religion-human-rights/
LOCATION:HUB 332\, Husky Union Building\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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