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SUMMARY:Ladino Day 2025 | Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Ladino Day program\, “Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today\,” critically examines the significance of the decision exactly ten years ago\, in 2015\, of the Spanish and Portuguese governments to offer citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled five centuries ago. \nThe discussion will situate Spain and Portugal’s offers within broader debates about the homelands that Sephardic Jews have claimed as their own over the generations\, while also recognizing that millions of people in the world remain stateless today. \nRegister to attend > \nA kosher reception will follow the program. \nAbout the program\nIsaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies and program Chair\, Devin E. Naar\, will host Professor Emerita Rina Benmayor\, California State University Monterey Bay\, and Professor Dalia Kandiyoti\, City University of New York (CUNY)\, College of Staten Island\, in a conversation to discuss their research on this topic as featured in their edited volume\, “Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants\,” appearing in paperback this autumn. \nThe event will also feature readings by Los Muestros Ladineros\, Seattle’s Ladino-language group\, of Ladino poems about the multiple “patrias” claimed by Sephardic Jews. \nView the program livestream\n* This event will be livestreamed! *\nStarting at 10am Pacific Standard Time on Sunday\, November 16\, we invite you to view the livestream below on this page\, or on our YouTube channel.\n \nAbout the speakers\nRina Benmayor is Professor Emerita in the School of Humanities and Communication at California State University Monterey Bay\, where she taught oral history\, literature\, digital storytelling\, and Latinx studies. She has authored books and articles on these subjects as well as on Sephardic folklore\, identity and migration\, cultural citizenship\, testimonial writing and storytelling. She authored “Romances judeo-españoles de Oriente” (1979)\, an original field collection and study of Sephardic romansas collected in Los Angeles and Seattle (1972-73). The recordings are archived at the University of Washington Sephardic Studies Digital Collection. In 2017\, she conducted with Dalia Kandiyoti an extensive oral history project on the Spanish and Portuguese citizenship laws for Sephardi descendants\, and coedited “Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants: Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal” (Berghahn Books 2023). The interviews gathered for this study are being archived at the University of Washington as well. She is currently coediting\, with Rachel Amado Bortnick and Liliana Benveniste\, a Ladino translation of “Las Romansas de la Ratona Savia\,” a collection of Spanish ballads for children written by Paloma Díaz Mas. She has also been writing a family memoir about her Greek Sephardic family. \nDalia Kandiyoti is Professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY)\, College of Staten Island. Her Ph.D. is in Comparative Literature from New York University. She is the author of “The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture” (Stanford UP\, 2020) and “Migrant Sites: America\, Place\, and Diaspora Literatures” (Dartmouth College/UP of New England\, 2009)\, and of peer-reviewed articles on migration in contemporary literature and on Sephardic and Latin American diasporas and experiences. She has also co-edited\, with Rina Benmayor\, “Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants: Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal” (Berghahn\, 2023). Her contribution to this volume received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. With Rina Benmayor\, she has conducted extensive oral histories with Sephardic applicants for Spanish or Portuguese nationality. These oral histories are being archived at the University of Washington. \nLadino Day 2025 is generously supported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies and The Sephardic Foundation on Aging.  \nThe event is cosponsored by the Departments of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures and Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington\, as well as by the Sephardic Brotherhood of America.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2025-sephardic-homelands-spanish-portuguese-citizenship/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:3/27 EVENT | A Spark of King David: The Musical Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Can a 16th-century religious Hebrew poet remain relevant to contemporary audiences? Rabbi Israel Najara’s poetic legacy proves that this is indeed possible. A Middle Eastern contemporary of William Shakespeare\, nicknamed “A Spark of King David” by his followers\, Najara’s poems continue to be used for Jewish rituals and festivities in the present day. \nJoin us to hear from Professor Edwin Seroussiwhy Rabbi Najara’s poetry of hope and redemption has persisted in synagogues\, in Jewish homes\, and on Israeli pop stages to this very day. \nRegister Now >\nAlso register for Edwin Seroussi’s talk on Thursday\, March 28\, at 7:00 p.m.:\nSonic Ruins of Modernity: Ladino Folksongs Today \n\nAbout the speaker\n \nEdwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre\, Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College and\, in 2023/4\, Fellow at the Herbert G. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on Jewish musical cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East and their interactions with Islamic cultures\, Judeo-Spanish song and music in Israel. He explores processes of hybridization\, diaspora\, nationalism and transnationalism in diverse contexts and historical periods such as the Ottoman Empire\, colonial Morocco and Algeria\, Germany’s Second Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire\, the Zionist settlement in Palestine and the Judeo-Spanish-speaking diaspora.\n\nThis series is cosponsored by the UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the UW Middle East Center\, the UW Near and Middle East Studies Ph.D. Program\, ArtsUW\, part of the College of Arts and Sciences\, and by the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington. \nIt was made possible with the support of the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement\, which was created in partnership with the Isaac Alhadeff Foundation and the Benoliel Family Fund\, with additional support provided by Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, as well as Jack I. Azose\, Howard Behar\, Harley and Lela Franco\, Jeff and Jamie Merriman Cohen\, Jack Schaloum and Marlene Souriano Vinikoor.\n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or by emailing jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/musical-poetry-of-rabbi-israel-najara/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Israel Studies,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:2/28 LUNCH & LEARN | The Invention of the Postcard: The Circulation of Jewish Visual Culture in Ottoman and Greek Salonica with Shalom Sabar
DESCRIPTION:The invention of the postcard in the late nineteenth century revolutionized how people exchanged information and images. While first introduced in the United States\, the postcard quickly spread across the world. In the realm of the Ottoman Empire\, where post offices had operated since the middle of the nineteenth century\, the postcard added a new dimension to the emerging technologies of communication. \nJoin us to hear Professor Shalom Sabar discuss how his review of extensive collections of Jewish postcards from Salonica (1897-1917) helps us to understand the self-perception and the experience of the Jews living in the city. \nLunch will be provided. This event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Click the button below to register: \nRegister Now > \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Division of Art History at the University of Washington. \n \nAbout the speaker\nShalom Sabar is a Professor Emeritus of Jewish Art and Folklore at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. in Art History at the University of California\, Los Angeles in 1987. He is the author of more than 250 publications exploring Jewish art and the material culture of Jewish communities in the Sephardi and Ashkenazi worlds in Europe and the Islamic East. His research areas include Jewish ceremonies and rituals\, life cycle events\, objects of daily life\, ephemera\, folk art\, amulets\, and magic\, as well as the visual culture of illustrated Hebrew books and manuscripts. Shalom Sabar is also an avid collector of Israeli and Jewish ephemera and has guided numerous traveling seminars to Jewish sites in Europe\, North Africa\, India\, and Central Asia \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/shalom-sabar-lunch-and-learn-winter-2024/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 317\, Thomson Hall 317\, Seattle
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:12/3 EVENT | Ladino Day 2023: 'Kantika'\, a Sephardic Novel by Author Elizabeth Graver
DESCRIPTION:Join author Elizabeth Graver in conversation with Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies Devin E. Naar  for a discussion of “Kantika\,” a moving\, multi-generational saga inspired by Graver’s grandmother. Rebecca Baruch Levy (née Cohen) was born into a Sephardic Jewish family from Istanbul in the early 20th century\, and her kaleidoscopic journey takes her to Barcelona\, Havana\, and ultimately New York\, exploring themes of displacement\, endurance\, and family as home. \n“Kantika” — meaning “song” in Ladino — is a lush\, lyrical novel which celebrates the legacy of language\, and the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one’s one and only life. \n“Far from being a Pollyannaish tale of New World success\, ‘Kantika’ is a meticulous endeavor to preserve the memories of a family\, an elegy and a celebration both.” — Ayten Tartici\, New York Times\, April 2023 \n\nAbout the speakers\nElizabeth Graver’s fifth novel\, “Kantika” (Metropolitan Books/Holt\, 2023)\, was inspired by her grandmother\, Rebecca Baruch Levy (née Cohen)\, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul\, and whose tumultuous and shape-shifting life journey took her to Spain\, Cuba and New York.  German and Turkish editions are forthcoming. Elizabeth’s fourth novel\, The End of the Point\, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her other novels are “Awake\,” “The Honey Thief\,” and “Unravelling.” Her story collection\, “Have You Seen Me?\,” won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories\, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards\, The Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and Best American Essays. The mother of two daughters\, she teaches at Boston College. \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Born and raised in New Jersey\, Dr. Naar graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University. He has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. \n\nLadino Day 2023 is supported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund in Sephardic Studies and presented in partnership with the Sephardic Brotherhood of America. \nLadino Day 2023 is also cosponsored by the Departments of History\, Linguistics\, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures\, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington\, as well as by Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, Sephardic Heritage International (SHIN) DC\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington (TACAWA).
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/12-3-event-ladino-day-2023-feat-elizabeth-graver/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:5/21 - 5/22 UW Symposium | Jews Amidst the Embers of the Ottoman Empire
DESCRIPTION:Research in the fields of Jewish\, Ottoman\, and Middle East history is often focused either on the late Ottoman period (variously defined)\, or on successor regimes (e.g. Republican Turkey\, Arab and Balkan nation-states\, British mandate Palestine or French mandate Syria). Moreover\, scholars often divide the worlds of Ottoman Jewry into two discrete zones defined by geography\, culture\, or language: the Ladino-speaking Jews of the Balkans and Anatolia\, and the Arabic-speaking Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean and parts of North Africa. Yet due to the parameters imposed by multiple (sub)fields\, language limitations\, and other factors\, these various Jewish groups–who also intersect with Greek-speaking Jews\, Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jews\, Yiddish-speaking Jews and others–are often not conceptualized within an integrated framework. \nWorking across these temporal and geographic divides reveals the legacies and afterlives of the Ottoman Empire after its demise\, continuity as well as change across space and across moments of historical rupture\, and the mechanisms by which the Ottoman Empire took on meaning as an object of memory within and in light of later political\, cultural\, and social developments. \nConference Overview\n \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-21-5-22-uw-symposium-jews-amidst-the-embers-of-the-ottoman-empire/
LOCATION:Madrona 313 + Communications 202
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:4/3 TALK | Sarah Zaides Rosen on "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter"
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nIn this talk\, historian and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ Associate Director Sarah Zaides Rosen will trace the story of 19th- and 20th-century Russian Jews who left the Pale of Settlement\, crossed the Black Sea and arrived in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul)\, all in the twilight years of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. \nThis talk will introduce listeners not only to a fascinating Jewish community where Sephardic Jews were the majority (and Ashkenazi Jews the minority)\, but also to the ways in which Sephardic Jews responded to a refugee crisis\, and in turn how they contended with contemporary political ideas\, including Zionism. \nThe audience will also learn about hopeful Jews who created agricultural colonies in the western Aegean region of Turkey (such as Or Yehuda)\, funded by philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch and aided by the nascent agricultural school Mikveh Israel. There\, in these early “kibbutz”-like colonies\, Russian and Ashkenazi Jews would either await Ottoman citizenship\, which would allow them to move on to the Land of Israel\, or slip through the borders between what is now Turkey\, Syria\, and Israel. \nCentered on the book “Tevye’s Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire“\, Sarah will discuss Jewish identity in the late Ottoman world\, and the ways in which Zionism was being debated and interpreted in the late Ottoman context. \nRegister Now >\n\nPresented by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \nCosponsored by the Departments of History and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the Ellison Center for Russian\, East European\, and Central Asian Studies\, and the Middle East Center. \nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Sarah Zaides Rosen received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Washington in 2017 and her B.A. from the University of California San Diego. She was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and has held the Titus Ellison Fellowship and multiple Joff Hanauer Fellowships at the University of Washington. Her research has been supported by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture\, Brandeis University\, and the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Zaides Rosen is currently Associate Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. \nIn conversation with Professors Canan Bolel (MELC) and Devin E. Naar (History and Jewish Studies). \n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/szr-book-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:3/12 FILM | Sephardic Spotlight at Seattle Jewish Film Festival: "Alegría" (Happiness)
DESCRIPTION:Film: ALEGRÍA\nVioleta Salama | Narrative Comedy/Drama | Spain | 2021 | Spanish\, Chelja w/English subtitles | 104m | PG \nThe North African city of Melilla—where Jews\, Muslims\, and Christians converge—is the unique backdrop for this moving\, comedic family drama where Alegría must face her Jewish family and rejected heritage during her niece’s Orthodox wedding. \nShowing with short film SONGS OF THE SEPHARDIM IN IZMIR. \nSpecial Event: Sephardic Spotlight + “Echar lashon”\nAt 12:55\, Prof. Canan Bolel of  UW Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures will briefly introduce Alegría and Songs of the Sephardim in Izmir. After the film ends around 3:10\, join us outside the theater to “echar lashon”\, the Sephardic version of schmoozing including coffee\, tea\, and biscochos! \nIn-Person Showtime: March 12 | AMC | 1 pm • Streaming Window: March 20-26 \nBuy Tickets >\n\nShort Film: SONGS OF THE SEPHARDIM IN IZMIR\nBrooke Saias\, Anna Clare Spelman | Short Documentary | Turkey | 2022 | English and Turkish\, Ladino w/Engish subtitles | 16m \nIn Izmir\, an ancient Turkish city rich with religious history and culture\, Ceni grew up hearing Ladino at home\, but the language wasn’t passed down. Through music and song\, Ceni finds a deep connection with her heritage and works to preserve Ladino—the endangered language of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain—for future generations. \n\nTo browse the rest of the films offered this year at SJFF\, check out the Films page. For all things SJFF\, including FAQs\, ticket procurement\, etc.\, check out the event program page and watch the event trailer here. \n\nThis screening is made possible by:\nFilm Sponsors:\nMaureen and Joel Benoliel\nCeleste and David Rind\, in memory of Bernice Rind z”l\nSamis Foundation \nCatering Sponsors: Dancing Goats Coffee\, Sholom Tea \nCommunity Partners: \n\nSeattle Sephardic Network\nSephardic Studies Program of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\nDepartment of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/3-12-film-sephardic-spotlight-at-seattle-jewish-film-festival-alegria-happiness/
LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine Street\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:2/28 EVENT | "Muestros Artistas" [Our Artists] Sephardic Arts Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Image: ‘The Inquisition’ by Ellen Benjoya Skotheim. \nJoin us for a celebration of Sephardic art\, music\, poetry and prose. “Muestros Artistas” [Our Artists] brings six Sephardic American artists together for the first time in Seattle to share their work with each other\, with our community\, and to explore what it means to create Sephardic art in the 21st century. \nWatch the program now:\n \nFeatured artists include: \n\nAsher Shasho Levy — musician and hazzan\nEllen Benjoya Skotheim — multidisciplinary artist\nHarry Naar — painter\nJane Mushabac — playwright and writer\nSarah Aroeste — singer-songwriter and author\nTom Haviv — writer\, artist\, and publisher\n\nOn Tuesday\, February 28\, the two-day symposium event will culminate in a showcase that is free and open to the public. There\, you can enjoy Sephardic fare\, artist performances and a panel discussion led by Gabriel Solis\, Divisional Dean of the Arts. \nPresented by the Sephardic Studies Program and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.\nSupported by the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement in Sephardic Studies.\nCo-sponsored by HillelUW and the Division of the Arts at the University of Washington. \nAbout the artists\n\n\n Oudist\, vocalist\, and multi-instrumentalist Asher Shasho-Levy is a Syrian Jewish musician and scholar of Sephardic heritage and culture\, who seeks to spread the beauty of the Sephardic tradition through his writing\, recording\, research\, and concerts. He performs and teaches internationally and is the founder and leader of the Aram Soba Ensemble\, a group dedicated to the musical heritage of Syrian Jewry. Studying with elders and scholars in the Sephardic community of Los Angeles\, Asher has amassed a large repertoire of liturgical music\, secular song in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic\, as well as piyyutim\, pizmonim and baqashot\, the religious poetry and song of the Jewish Middle East. \n\n\n A Personal Odyssey from Maimonides to Benjoya bridges the gap between art and life\, the ancestral and the contemporary. Ms. Ellen Benjoya Skotheim’s work combines prints\, artist books and textiles to examine her Sephardic family’s history. This Jewish family left Spain during the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 and migrated to the Ottoman Empire where they remained until the beginning of World War I. Then the family emigrated to Cuba\, South America and the United States. Using a personal lens\, these works focus on a 500 year period of history. \n\nHarry Naar is professor emeritus of Fine Arts at Rider University in Lawrenceville\, NJ\, where he taught drawing\, painting\, and art history for nearly forty years. He served as the founder and director of the university’s art gallery and curator of the art collection. Along with curating several hundred exhibitions\, Naar has conducted interviews and written and published catalogs on numerous artists. Born in New Brunswick\, NJ\, he received his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and his MFA from Indiana University. He also studied in Paris where he met frequently with the figurative painter Jean Hélion. Naar is best known for his still lifes and landscapes\, and has exhibited his work in over thirty one-person exhibitions and over a hundred group exhibitions throughout the country\, including at the Corcoran Museum (D.C.)\, the High Museum (Atlanta)\, the NJ State Museum (Trenton)\, and abroad\, including in Moscow and Havana. His work is also included in numerous public and private art collections\, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters which awarded him the Hassam\, Speicher\, Betts and Symons Fund Purchase Award\, Bristol Myers Squibb Co.\, Vassar College\, The New Jersey State Museum\, Rutgers University\, and Johnson & Johnson. \n Writer Jane Mushabac’s many awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. Her work has been performed on National Public Radio\, at Jazz at Lincoln Center\, and in cities here and abroad; her writing has appeared in periodicals including Jewish Currents\, Midstream\, Aki Yerushalayim\, The Village Voice\, AJS Perspectives\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Sephardic Horizons\, and Chautauqua\, and has been translated into Russian\, German\, Bulgarian\, Turkish\, and Ladino. Her Ladino short stories and other pieces have been published in both Ladino and English.Her novel\, His Hundred Years\, A Tale\, introduces a scrappy Jewish peddler who sells his wares in theOttoman Empire and in New York. Her writing has been called “bold and ambitious” (Sewanee Review). Morris Dickstein praised her novel’s “crisp detail and dappled mosaic”; Ari Goldman said the novel “calls to mind the work of Orhan Pamuk—it’s that good”; Tovah Feldshuh said it’s “rowdy and absorbing.”Since 2018 Dr. Mushabac\, Professor emerita of City University of New York\, has curated the annual New York Ladino Day at the Center for Jewish History.\n\n Inspired by her family’s roots in Northern Macedonia and Greece\, Sarah Aroeste is determined to bring Sephardic culture to new audiences. Since 2001\, Aroeste has toured the globe presenting traditional and original Ladino songs with her unique blend of Balkan sounds\, pop\, and jazz. She has recorded eight albums\, including the all-original Ladino children’s album\, Ora de Despertar\, the bilingual Ladino/English holiday album Together/Endjuntos\, the boundary pushing Gracia\, a feminist musical homage to Sephardic heroine Doña Gracia Nasi\, and the award-winning Monastir\, an international musical tribute to a once thriving Balkan Jewish community. In 2014 she won the Sephardic prize at the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam\, and in 2015 she represented the USA in the International Sephardic Music Festival in Córdoba\, Spain. Sarah is currently co-directing her newest initiative\, Savor: A Sephardic Music & Food Experience\, which unites Sephardic song and cuisine in multi-sensory platforms. In addition to composing songs\, Sarah has published numerous articles and essays about Sephardic cultural preservation and writes Sephardic themed books for children\, including Buen Shabat\, Shabbat Shalom (Kar-Ben 2020)\, and the forthcoming Mazal Bueno (Kar-Ben 2023).\n\n\n \nTom Haviv is a writer\, artist\, educator\, and publisher based in New York. He authored a book of poetry\, Flag of No Nation (Jewish Currents\, 2019)\, and the children’s books\, Woven (Somewhere\, 2018) and The Porcupine Prince (Somewhere\, 2023). He is the cofounder and creative director of Ayin Press as well as the founder of the Hamsa Flag Project. \n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/muestros-artistas/
LOCATION:Kane Hall — Walker-Ames Room and 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:12/4 EVENT | Ladino Day 2022: The Future of Ladino
DESCRIPTION:Watch the program now:\n \nScholars\, writers\, and language activists working to preserve and revitalize Ladino join UW’s Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies\, in conversation regarding the future of the traditional language of Sephardi Jews. \nOn the tenth anniversary of Ladino Day\, UW’s Sephardic Studies Program presents four experts from different generations\, all working to revitalize Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)\, the traditional language of Sephardic Jews. \nThe program will feature\, in conversation with Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies: \n\nKaren Gerson Şarhon — editor-in-chief of the Ladino language publication El Amaneser\nNesi Altaras — editor of Avlaremoz\, a Turkish-Jewish online magazine\nRachel Amado Bortnick — founder of the Ladinokomunita online community\nEliezer Papo – Ladino scholar featured in the documentary “The Last Sephardic Jew”\n\nView the recording here. \nAbout the speakers\n\nBorn in Istanbul\, Karen Gerson Şarhon leads all of the projects at the Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center. In addition to founding that organization\, she also earned the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française in 2011 for her contribution to the world culture and her efforts in the preservation of Judeo-Spanish. After earning a BA in English Philology\, an MA in Social Psychology and an MA in Applied Linguistics\, Karen wrote both her MA theses on the Judeo-Spanish language! Now\, you can find her teaching Ladino on social media\, proudly serving as editor-in-chief of el amaneser [the only monthly newspaper in the world entirely in Ladino] and of the Judeo-Spanish page(s) of the Şalom newspaper [the only newspaper of the Turkish Jewish community]\, and singing in the authentic Turkish Sephardic music group she founded: Los Pasharos Sefaradis.\n Nesi Altaras is an Istanbuli Jew and editor of Avlaremoz\, a Jewish news platform in Turkish. He holds an MA in political science\, and his writing in English\, Turkish\, and Ladino has been published in various outlets. Nesi lives in Montreal where he works as the Digital Engagement Officer for the Institute for Reasearch on Public Policy.\n  \nBorn and raised in Izmir\, Rachel Amado Bortnick came to the United States in 1958 on a scholarship to Lindenwood College (now University) in St. Charles\, Missouri\, from which she earned a B.A. in Chemistry. She and American-born architect Bernard Bortnick went back to Izmir to get married and subsequently lived in Holland\, in Israel\, and several cities in the United States before settling in Dallas\, Texas in 1988. Rachel is now retired after teaching ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for 35 years. She has always actively promoted the preservation of Judeo-Spanish language and culture; in 1985\, while living in the San Francisco Bay area\, she founded and led the Ladino-speaking club Los Amigos Sefaradis\, and subsequently she was featured in the documentary film\, Trees Cry for Rain: a Sephardic Journey. In 1999 she founded Ladinokomunita\, the Ladino correspondence group on the Internet\, which now has over 1500 members worldwide.\n\nBorn and raised in Sarajevo\, Eliezer Papo‘s research centers on Hebrew/Jewish oral literatures\, with specialization in the field of Sephardic literatures (oral and written\, rabbinic and secular). His book And Thou Shall Jest with Your Son: Judeo-Spanish Parodies on the Passover Haggadah\, received the prestigious Ben-Tzvi award. Dr. Papo published around 50 articles\, in 10 different languages\, about different aspects of Sephardic culture and literature\, as well as four works of fiction — one in Ladino and three in Serbo-Croatian. \nAbout the facilitator\n\n\nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. As chair\, Naar has spearheaded a project to collect\, preserve and disseminate the rich Sephardic and Ladino historical\, literary and cultural heritage. After serving as a Fulbright fellow to Greece\, his first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. As a fellow in the Society of Scholars at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington in 2013-2014\, Dr. Naar began his second book project\, Reimagining the Sephardic Diaspora. He conducts research in Judeo-Spanish\, Greek\, Hebrew and French. \nSupported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies \nCosponsored by the Departments of History\, Linguistics\, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington\, as well as Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, Sephardic Heritage International (SHIN) DC\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington (TACAWA). \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2022-past-present-future/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:11/15 EVENT | Territories of Ladino in its Postvernacular Mode: The Case of Poetry and Literary Translation
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URL:https://spanport.washington.edu/calendar#new_tab
LOCATION:Denny Hall 213
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:5/19 WORKSHOP | Nation-State and Citizenship:  The Exclusion and Persecution of Greek Jews in Romania Under the National Legionary State
DESCRIPTION:When someone leaves his or her country of citizenship\, who is responsible for their protection: the country in which they now live\, or the state to which their passport points? \nJoin Fulbright Scholar and UW Visiting Lecturer Nikos Tzafleris (Ph.D.\, University of Thessaly) to workshop his article-in-progress on how this question impacted Jews with Greek citizenship living in Romania in the twentieth century — a time of rising antisemitism and nationalism across Europe. UW Department of History professor James Felak (Newman Center Professor in Catholic Christianity) will serve as a respondent. \nOpen to graduate students and faculty. Click here to RSVP and to receive Nikos’ paper in advance of the talk. All participants are asked to read the paper prior to the workshop. \n\nAbout the workshop\n\nThe stories of Jews with Greek citizenship living outside the boundaries of Greece are little known. The case of those who lived in Romania\, in particular\, illuminates Greece’s position towards its extraterritorial citizens. \nFor decades\, Greek Jews of Romania — recognized as Greek citizens — were considered “desirable” to the Greek state as long as they lived in Romania. Yet when it became evident that rising antisemitism in the region would force many of those Jews to sooner or later find refuge in Greece\, they were perceived as an imminent danger to the Greek state\, and to the integrity of its Greek Christian identity. \nThis talk follows the stories and vicissitudes of those Greek Jews living in Romania during the turbulent years of 1866-1940\, when the rights of Romanian Jews were in constant flux and when the Iron Guard came to power\, resulting in a dramatic uptick in antisemitism in the region. This talk will also consider the complex dynamics of Greek diplomats\, who could see the danger that Jews with Greek citizenship faced from Romanian antisemitism and impending Nazism\, but who also felt compelled to pursue a nationalist agenda. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the speakers\nNikos Tzafleris is a Fulbright Scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington hosted by the Department of History and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. His Fulbright project\, “The Relief Program of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Greece after WWII\,” investigates how the AJDC established a relief network to help Greek Jews in the immediate postwar years. He received his PhD from the University of Thessaly.\n\nRead Nikos’ full faculty profile > \n\n\nJames Felak is Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of History and the Newman Center Professor in Catholic Christianity. He teaches courses on the history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to World War I\, and the history of the region from 1918 to the present. He also teaches history of Modern Europe since 1648 and the History of Christianity\, as well as seminars on topics such as Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust; the Nazi-Soviet occupation of East Central Europe; and Christians in Nazi Germany. Read Prof. Felak’s full faculty profile >
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-19-workshop-nation-state-and-citizenship-the-exclusion-and-persecution-of-greek-jews-in-romania-under-the-national-legionary-state/
LOCATION:Mary Gates Hall\, Room 211B
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:4/10 PANEL | Perspectives on Cosmopolitan Istanbul in the Hit Netflix Series\, “The Club”
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual panel\, scholars Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington)\, Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley)\, and Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University) will discuss the historical context and contemporary significance of the hit Turkish Netflix series\, “Kulüp” (“The Club”). A recorded interview with “Kulüp” writer Rana Denizer conducted by Melike Yücel-Koç (University of Washington) will also be screened at the event. \nThis event is supported by the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement in Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington. \nWatch the panel now: \n \n\nView the interview with Rana Denizer\, conducted by Melike Yücel-Koç\n\nAbout this talk\n\nPoster for “Kulüp” (“The Club”). (Source: IMDB) \nDespite the fraught political climate in Turkey today\, Neflix recently released an unprecedented and wildly popular hit series\, “Kulüp” (“The Club”)\, that brings to life the once-cosmopolitan world of 1950s Istanbul. \nThe show features Turkey’s first mainstream depictions of Sephardic Jewish culture\, Ladino language and song\, and multidimensional Jewish characters that challenge common stereotypes on the screen in Turkey and the United States. “Kulüp” also tackles difficult questions not only about the position of Jews\, but also other non-Muslim populations in Istanbul and Turkey more broadly — especially Greeks. \nHow does the show depict controversial historical moments\, such as the Varlık Vergisi affair\, a capital tax imposed by the Turkish state on non-Muslims in 1942\, and the “Events of September 6-7\,” riots in 1955 targeting Istanbul’s non-Muslims? \nWhat social\, political\, and cultural factors help explain the emergence of such a poignant depiction of mid-century Istanbul in the 21st century? \nThese questions\, and many more\, will be addressed by the panel of experts. \nA recorded interview in Turkish (with English subtitles) with “Kulüp” writer Rana Denizer conducted by Melike Yücel-Koç (University of Washington) will also be screened at the event. \nAbout the panelists\n\n Rana Denizer’s family story is the inspiration for “Kulüp.” She began sharing her story first with friends\, then on her blog and Twitter under the pseudonym Ranini. She is a lead writer for “Kulüp.” \n  \n  \nReşat Kasaba (University of Washington)\, Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Professor in American Foreign Policy\, is an expert in the history and politics of the Middle East and has taught undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Washington for over 30 years. Kasaba served as the director of the UW’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies for 10 years\, completing his tenure in June 2020. He is currently researching history of U.S. foreign policy in Turkey\, and the political consequences of rural-urban divide in modern Turkey. \nChristine Philliou (University of California\, Berkeley) is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Programs in Modern Greek/Hellenic Studies and Ottoman/Turkish Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of two books: Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution (University of California Press\, 2011; Greek edition Alexandria Press\, 2021; Turkish edition İş Bankası Kültür Press\, 2022) and Turkey: A Past Against History (University of California Press\, 2021; Greek edition Alexandria Press\, 2022). Philliou is currently working on a third book and developing a collaborative digital humanities project\, the aim of which is a granular reconstruction and analysis of the Greek Orthodox communities of late Ottoman Istanbul/Constantinople (1821-1923) using a wide range of Ottoman and Greek sources. \nAron Rodrigue (Stanford University) is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History and Burke Family Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford University. He teaches courses in Modern Jewish history\, the history and culture of Sephardic Jews\, and the Ottoman Empire. His scholarship focuses on the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in modern times\, and his writings are considered among the most influential in the field. Rodrigue has held fellowships at the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum\, among others. He was awarded the honor of Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013. \nAbout the moderators\n\nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and is faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, “Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\,” was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. \nMelike Yücel-Koç is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington\, where she teaches courses in elementary and intermediate Turkish\, including Turkish Language and Culture; Turkish TV Series: ETHOS; Oral History: The Stories of Immigrants in the U.S.; and an honors course titled Immigrants from the Middle East in the U.S. She also has academic experience as a graduate teaching assistant at Portland State University\, where she served as a Fulbright Scholar\, and as a graduate research assistant at Seattle Pacific University. Since 2017\, Yücel-Koç has been at work on a research project titled “Turkey in Seattle Oral History Project.” \n\nPresented in partnership with the department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Middle East Center\, as well as Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/kulup-the-club-perspectives-cosmopolitan-istanbul-hit-netflix-series-the-club/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:12/12 LADINO DAY | Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States
DESCRIPTION:In the University of Washington’s 9th annual Ladino Day celebration\, editors of the new book “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States” discuss the book project\, alongside presentations from three contributors to the volume. \nWatch the program now:\n \nAbout this event\n\nHow can family heirlooms\, papers\, and memorabilia help us to understand the process of migration from the Ottoman Empire to the United States? In a newly released edited volume\, “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States” (Koç University Press\, 2021)\, scholars of Ottoman history and Jewish studies explore this question using objects from the UW’s own Sephardic Studies Digital Collection\, the world’s largest online collection of Ladino-language books and documents. \nTo commemorate Ladino Day 2021\, join us for an interdisciplinary conversation with Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (University of Pennsylvania) and Kerem Tınaz (Koç University)\, the editors of this book\, and with Hannah S. Pressman (Director of Education and Engagement\, Jewish Languages Project)\, Maureen Jackson (independent scholar)\, and Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford)\, three of the book’s contributors\, as they discuss important artifacts and their impact on Ottoman and Jewish history. \nAbout the speakers\n\nOscar Aguirre-Mandujano is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research focuses on intellectual and cultural history of the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on his first monograph\, which examines the relationship among literary composition\, Sufi doctrine\, and political thought in the early modern Islamic world. He is a co-editor of “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States.”\nKerem Tınaz is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University where he teaches courses on the history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. His research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire with a particular interest in identity\, ideology\, and networks. He is a co-editor of “Sephardic Trajectories.”\nHannah S. Pressman\, Ph.D.\, is a widely published scholar of Jewish languages and literatures. She is currently at work on “Galante’s Daughter: A Sephardic Family Journey\,” a memoir tracing her family’s travels from the Levant into southern Africa and beyond\, which she highlights in her contribution to “Sephardic Trajectories.” You can find her writings on Jewish culture and Sephardic family history at hannahpressman.com.\nMaureen Jackson\, Ph.D.\, is an independent scholar focusing on the urban history of Ottoman\, Turkish\, and Jewish music. She is the author of Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song (Stanford University Press\, 2013)\, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture. She has published in both English and Turkish language presses and created the online exhibit Bailar a la Turka: 78 rpm records in Seattle Sephardi Households.\nLaurent Mignon is Associate Professor of Turkish language and literature at the University of Oxford\, a Fellow of St Antony’s College\, and Affiliate Professor at the Luxembourg School of Religion and Society. His research focuses on the minor literatures of Ottoman and Republican Turkey\, in particular Jewish literatures\, as well as the literary engagement with non-Abrahamic religions during the era straddling the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.\nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and is faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, “Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\,” was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association.\nThis event is supported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies.\n \nPresented in partnership with the Departments of Anthropology\, History\, Linguistics\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, and Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Aki Estamos\, Centro Cultural Sefarad\, El Amaneser\, Ladino 21\, Los Shadarim\, Şalom Gazetesi\, the Salti International Institute for Ladino Research at Bar Ilan University\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2021-sephardic-trajectories-archives-objects-ottoman-jewish-past/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:12/8 STUDENT EVENT | Narrating Migration Stories: Podcasting Sephardic Jewish Journeys
DESCRIPTION:Scholar and co-creator of the well-known Ottoman History Podcast Chris Gratien and retired journalist Sam Negri discuss their approach to telling the stories of marginalized migrants to the United States\, focusing on the story of Negri’s father\, Sephardic Jew Leo Negri\, who came to the United States undocumented in the early 1900s along with thousands of other Sephardim (Jews expelled from modern-day Spain in 1492 who sought refuge throughout the Ottoman Empire). \nWatch the conversation now:\n \nAbout this talk\nIn the early twentieth century\, tens of thousands of Sephardic Jews migrated to the United States from the borders of the collapsing Ottoman Empire. In addition to navigating inter-Jewish communal relationships with fellow Ashkenazi Jews\, Sephardic Jews were also subject to racially biased immigration quotas that were becoming ever more restrictive during the 1920s. \nFalsified papers were often the only way for many Sepharadim to gain entry to the United States — a route taken by Istanbul-born Leo Negri\, whose fraudulent passport listed his country of origin as Cuba. \nHow can the podcast medium be leveraged to share the complex stories of Ottoman migrants to the United States? How can Negri’s story help us understand the stories of thousands of other Ottoman migrants like him\, many of whom faced deportation threats and racism in their new American neighborhoods? \nJoin Chris Gratien\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of Virginia\, co-creator of the Ottoman History Podcast\, and Sam Negri\, a retired journalist and Leo Negri’s son\, for a conversation about this understudied moment in Jewish\, Ottoman\, and American history. \nAbout the speakers\nChris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He teaches courses on environmental history and the modern Middle East\, with a research focus on the late Ottoman Empire. He is the co-creator of the Ottoman History Podcast and recently contributed a chapter to “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States” (Koç University Press\, 2021) that was co-authored with Sam Negri. \n Sam Negri is a retired journalist based in Arizona. His articles have appeared in the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, and numerous other publications. His father\, Leo Negri\, was an Istanbul-born Jew who immigrated to the United States in the early twentieth century. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/narrating-migration-stories-podcast-student-event/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies,Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T181500
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
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SUMMARY:VIDEO | The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: Dina Danon in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
DESCRIPTION:Dina Danon (Binghamton University) will discuss her new book\, “The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History.” \nView the talk:\n\nAbout this talk\nAcross Europe at the turn of the twentieth century\, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir\, a Mediterranean port city\, invites a different approach: what happens when Jewish difference is totally unremarkable? What happens when there is no “Jewish Question?” \nDrawing extensively on a rich body of previously untapped Ladino archival material\, Danon will offer a new read on Jewish modernity. Through the voices of beggars on the street and mercantile elites\, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors\, rabbis and housewives\, this talk will underscore how it was new attitudes to poverty and social class\, not Judaism\, that most significantly framed this Sepharadi community’s encounter with the modern age. \nAbout the speakers\nDina Danon is associate professor of Judaic Studies at Binghamton University. She holds a doctorate in History from Stanford University. She was recently a fellow at the Katz Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, where she began work on new project on the marketplace of matchmaking\, marriage\, and divorce in the eastern Sepharadi diaspora. \n  \n  \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. \nPresented in partnership with Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington; the department of History\, and the Middle East Center.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-5-talk-jews-of-ottoman-izmir/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210105T193722Z
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SUMMARY:1/14 TALK | The Converso's Return: Dalia Kandiyoti in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
DESCRIPTION:Dalia Kandiyoti (College of Staten Island\, City University of New York) will discuss her new book “The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture.” \nTo purchase the book at a discount from Stanford University Press\, use code Kandiyoti20. \nPlease note your time zone if you are tuning in outside of Seattle:\nThis event will begin at 5 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. EST  \nRegister Now\n  \nAbout the talk \nIn the fifteenth century\, thousands of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula (today’s Spain and Portugal) were forced to convert to Catholicism under threat of death and became known as conversos (literally meaning “the converted”). Five centuries later\, their descendants have been uncovering their long-hidden Jewish roots; as these stories come to light\, they have taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts\, familial whispers and secrets\, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed dead and buried. “The Converso’s Return” explores the cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest in converso and crypto-Jewish history\, ancestry\, and identity\, and asks what this fascination with lost-and-found heritage can tell us about how we relate to and make use of the past. \nAbout the speakers \nDalia Kandiyoti is Professor of English at the College of Staten Island\, City University of New York. She is the author of “The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture” (Stanford\, 2020). Her first book\, published by University Press of New England\, is called “Migrant Sites: America\, Place\, and Diaspora Literatures.” She has also published articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes on Sephardi and Latinx writing and co-edited a special journal issue entitled “Jewish-Muslim Crossings in the Americas.” Her current work includes an oral history project and an edited volume about Sephardi Jews and the citizenship laws in Spain and Portugal\, both in collaboration with Rina Benmayor. This work has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \n  \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. \nPresented in partnership with the departments of English\, History\, Latin American & Caribbean Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, and Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, Jewish Currents Magazine\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/the-conversos-return-dalia-kandiyoti-in-conversation-with-devin-e-naar/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T113000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201218T203637Z
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SUMMARY:12/6 | Ladino Day 2020 — Revolutionizing Ladino: From the Printing Press to the Smartphone
DESCRIPTION:The 8th annual Ladino Day at the University of Washington will explore the intersection of Ladino and technology over the last century\, and how revolutions in print and on the web have impacted the language over time. \nWe’ll begin with a multimedia talk by Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies\, on the history of the Ladino press in the Ottoman Empire and the United States. Naar will then host virtual conversations with Rachel Amado Bortnick\, founder of Ladinokomunita\, and Carlos Yebra López\, Ph.D.\, creator of the Ladino module on uTalk\, a language learning app. \nThe program will include a demo of uTalk Ladino led by Yebra López. Throughout the virtual event\, audience members can submit questions to be answered by all speakers during a Q&A session at the end of the program. \nPlease note your time zone if you are tuning in outside of Seattle:\nLadino Day will begin at 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST / 8 p.m. Israel \nRegister Now\nAbout the speakers\nRachel Amado Bortnick was born and raised in Izmir\, Turkey\, and came to the United States in 1958 on a scholarship to Lindenwood College (now University) in St. Charles\, Missouri\, from which she earned a B.A. in Chemistry. She and American-born architect Bernard Bortnick went back to Izmir to get married and subsequently lived in Holland\, in Israel\, and several cities in the United States before settling in Dallas\, Texas in 1988. Rachel is now retired after teaching ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for 35 years. Rachel has always been active in the preservation and promotion of Judeo-Spanish language and culture. In the San Francisco Bay area she founded and led the Ladino-speaking club Los Amigos Sefaradis\, and was featured in the documentary film\, “Trees Cry for Rain: a Sephardic Journey.” In 1999 she founded Ladinokomunita\, the Ladino correspondence group on the Internet\, which now has nearly 1\,500 members worldwide. \n  \nCarlos Yebra López is a Lecturer in Spanish at New York University\, and a Research Assistant in Judeo-Spanish at the University of Birmingham\, UK. Since 2017\, he is the CEO of Ladino 21\, a community-based company devoted to the online documentation\, preservation and promotion of Ladino in the 21st century. In 2019 he helped create\, launch and promote the first-ever Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) course on any online language-learning platform through a partnership with the uTalk app. This course allows people across the globe to learn Ladino from over 150 different languages. \n  \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Dr. Naar received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. \nSupported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies. \nCosponsored by the departments of Linguistics and Spanish & Portuguese Studies\, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, and the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2020/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T160000
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT | Teaching computers to read Ladino\, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews
DESCRIPTION:How do you teach a computer to read an endangered language — and a language that many people don’t even know exists? While machine learning technology has enabled us to read and research texts online in many languages\, there’s one language that our computers and smartphones have yet to learn: Ladino\, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews. \nJoin Benjamin Charles Germain Lee\, a third year PhD student in the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering and the Stroum Center’s Richard Willner Memorial graduate fellow\, who will speak about his Library of Congress Innovator in Residence project\, Newspaper Navigator\, and his ongoing work with Professor Devin Naar studying Ladino newspapers using machine learning and computer vision. \nGreat for students of Ladino\, Sephardic studies\, information science and management\, digital humanities\, computer science & engineering\, history\, Spanish\, communications\, and any fan of the UW libraries. \nFor undergraduates and graduate students only. \nRSVP for Zoom link.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-machine-learning-and-computer-vision/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200809T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200809T110000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
CREATED:20200722T230100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200806T182608Z
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SUMMARY:Insights from a Half-Century of Ladino Studies: David M. Bunis in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online conversation between Professor David Bunis\, internationally renowned expert on the Ladino language and chair of Ladino Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and chair of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington. \nAbout this event\nAs a world-renowned authority on Ladino (also known as Judezmo) at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, Professor David Bunis has dedicated his career to documenting and analyzing Ladino\, and inspiring generations of students to take an interest in this endangered Sephardic language. \nWhat led Professor Bunis\, originally from New York City and interested in Yiddish\, to delve into the realm of Ladino? What people\, places\, and experiences most shaped his scholarly trajectory? What major insights has Professor Bunis gleaned along the way? And what does the future hold for Ladino? \nRegister for this event\n*NOTE: This event is an online webinar. Please register below to receive a link to attend. The link will be e-mailed to you several days in advance of the event\, and again several hours before the event begins.* \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\nDavid Bunis is the chair of Ladino Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was a visiting professor at the University of Washington in 2013-2014. He is the world’s leading authority in the field of Ladino linguistics and one of most notable instructors of the language in the world. Professor Bunis received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Columbia University and has published extensively on Ladino\, including in the fields of sociocultural linguistics\, language and politics\, and translation studies\, including the translations of important Ladino texts from the 16th to 20th centuries. He has also authored a highly regarded Ladino language textbook and is an expert in soletreo\, the traditional Sephardic Hebrew cursive script.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/insights-from-ladino-studies-david-bunis-devin-naar/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200619T190000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
CREATED:20200302T210143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200616T175552Z
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SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight | The Final Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join the Seattle Jewish Film Festival for this year’s Sephardic Spotlight film\, the 2019 documentary “The Final Hour\,” directed by Ҫağlar Malli. The film will stream online from June 17 through June 19\, 2020 as part of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival’s 2020 online programming. \nAbout the film: Deniz Bensusan is a young Sephardic woman who has just come to the realization that her ancestral language\, Ladino (also known as Judeo-Spanish)\, is on the verge of extinction. Alarmed by the imminent demise of her heritage\, she embarks on a journey of discovery in an attempt to uncover the roots of her Sephardic culture\, language\, and traditions. She voyages across Europe through Turkey\, Greece\, Spain\, Portugal\, and Poland to visit sites where her relatives once lived and thrived. \nJoin producer Cem Kitapci\, subject Deniz Bensusan\, and UW Sephardic Studies Chair and Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies Devin Naar for a Zoom discussion of the film on June 21 at 1:00 p.m. \nAbout Cem Kitapci: Cem Kitapci has been in film production for ten years and is the cofounder of Case Productions UK Ltd. He coproduced “The Final Hour” with Selim Kemahli. \nBuy tickets and learn more on the Seattle Jewish Film Festival website.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-sephardic-spotlight-the-final-hour/
LOCATION:WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
CREATED:20191218T203851Z
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SUMMARY:2/4 TALK | "Family Papers" Book Talk with Sarah Abrevaya Stein
DESCRIPTION:About the event \nJoin the Sephardic Studies Program at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Seattle Public Library for a conversation with Dr. Devin E. Naar and Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein about her new book\, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century. \nNote: Seating for this lecture is first come\, first served\, and no RSVP is required. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. We cannot guarantee late seating. \nAbout the book \nExplore the intertwined histories of Sephardic Jewry through the personal correspondence of the Levy family from Salonica. In “Family Papers\,” Stein weaves together a narrative of the Sephardic diaspora through the lens of one family during the most tumultuous moment in European history. \nAbout the author \nSarah Abrevaya Stein is the Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. She is also co-editor (with David Biale of UCD) of Stanford University Press Series in Jewish History and Culture and co-editor (with Tony Michels and Ken Moss) of Jewish Social Studies. She is the author or editor of nine books\, and her books and articles have won numerous prizes\, including two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/family-papers-talk-sarah-abrevaya-stein/
LOCATION:The Seattle Public Library Central Library\, 1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, Washington 98104\, The Seattle Public Library\, Central Library\, 1000 4th Ave\, Seattle\, Washington 98104\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
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SUMMARY:Ladino Day 2019: Exploring Sephardic Life Cycle Customs
DESCRIPTION:De la fasha asta la mortaja: From the cradle to the grave\nLadino Day 2019 will survey the life cycle customs and traditions unique to Sepharadim from the Ottoman Empire. From berit mila to bar mitsva\, weddings to funerals\, the program will highlight a selection of major life events and explore shifts in Sephardic culture and the Ladino language through textual and material artifacts\, oral histories\, and photographs. Performances of Ladino songs by the Ladineros\, Seattle’s long-time Ladino conversation group\, a Ladino reading by Anna Jacoby (Northwest Yeshiva High School ’22)\, and a multimedia presentation by Professor Devin Naar will bring memories of these Sephardic traditions to life. \nShare your memories and photos with us\n \nThe Sephardic Studies Program is actively collecting photographs for the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection. We are specifically interested in photos that document: \n\nbirth\nberit mila (circumcision)\npidyon ha-ben (ceremony for the first born son)\nzeved ha-bat (baby naming for a girl)\nbar/bat mitsva (Jewish coming of age)\nweddings\nfunerals/mourning\n\nPlease share your photos on this form. \nWe are also interested in hearing your memories\, reflections\, and impressions of Sephardic life cycle events that you experienced. Did your wedding have a Sephardic twist? Does your family have unique traditions related to celebrating birth\, death\, or anything in between? Share your memories with us here. \nBeyond Ladino Day: Sephardic life cycles digital exhibit\nThe Sephardic Studies Program will be piloting a new digital exhibit with the same theme as this year’s Ladino Day celebration. The exhibit will go live online the evening of December 5th and will offer a deeper dive into the themes\, questions\, and artifacts presented at the public Ladino Day program. Make sure you are following the Sephardic Studies Program on Facebook\, Twitter\, and Instagram\, and are signed up for our e-newsletter\, to receive updates about the digital exhibit! \nRegister for the event\nIf you are a UW student or faculty member\, please register for a UW student or faculty ticket.  \nBecause of a high level of interest in the program\, our remaining general-audience tickets are very limited! \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible through the generosity of the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies. Cosponsored by the Departments of Spanish & Portuguese Studies\, Linguistics\, History\, and Anthropology; The University of Washington Libraries; The Turkish and Ottoman Studies Fund at the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations; Sephardic Bikur Holim\, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, and the Seattle Sephardic Network.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2019-exploring-sephardic-life-cycle-customs/
LOCATION:HUB 160: Lyceum\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190602T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190602T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
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SUMMARY:Seattle Sephardic Legacies | National Endowment for the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Trace the journey of Seattle’s Sephardic Jews from the Ottoman Empire to the Pacific Northwest through the letters\, documents\, books\, and material artifacts transported from the Mediterranean world to the Puget Sound. Get a glimpse of the diverse and rich libraries of Ladino literature that they established right here in Seattle to transmit Ladino culture to future generations in the United States. \nDo you have Ladino books\, family letters\, immigration documents\, postcards\, audio recordings\, or other artifacts pertaining to the Sephardic experience? Bring your Sephardic treasures for evaluation\, digitization\, and inclusion in the Sephardic Studies Collection. Museum-quality professional scanning services will be available onsite! \nThe program will recognize and acknowledge the individuals and institutions from Seattle and beyond who have contributed their treasures to the UW Sephardic Studies Program’s Sephardic Studies Collection–now one of the largest repositories of Ladino artifacts in the world. \n2:00 pm Multimedia presentation by Devin Naar\, the Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program \n3:30 pm Exhibition\, open house scanning\, and kosher reception. \nMore information on Open House Scanning at 3:30 pm:\nDo you have books\, family letters\, immigration documents\, postcards\, photographs\, artifacts including tapestries\, ritual items\, oral histories\, audio recordings\, or other items related to the Sephardic Jewish experience and Ladino culture? Please bring them in for evaluation\, digitization\, and possible inclusion in the UW Sephardic Studies Collection. For more information contact the Sephardic Studies Research Coordinator\, Ty Alhadeff\, at tda2@uw.edu.\nThis event is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-sephardic-legacies/
LOCATION:HUB 160: Lyceum\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190324T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190324T153000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
CREATED:20190308T204749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190318T223140Z
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SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight | Children of the Inquisition
DESCRIPTION:Carlos DeMedeiros\, one of the subjects featured in “Children of the Inquisition” \nJoin the Seattle Jewish Film Festival for this year’s Sephardic Spotlight film\, the 2018 documentary “Children of Inquisition\,” directed by Joseph Lovett. \nImagine discovering a hidden past that shakes your worldview and sense of self. For New York Times journalist Doreen Carvajal\, learning of her family’s Jewish roots in Spain challenged her Catholic identity and led her on a journey of historical and self-discovery. \nThis documentary follows Carvajal and other descendants of Spanish and Portuguese families and “conversos” (the Spanish term for Jews converted to Roman Catholicism) as they uncover their complicated and nuanced roots. \n“Children of the Inquisition” uses a familiar travelogue style to trot around the globe and delve into the global mass conversion resulting from the Spanish Inquisition. Original manuscripts dating as far back as the 14th century and oral traditions secretly passed down through the generations unearth hidden histories of the Jews of Spain and Portugal. \nThe film features University of Washington historian Devin Naar and members of Seattle’s Sephardic Congregation Ezra Bessaroth. \nBuy tickets and learn more on the Seattle Jewish Film Festival website. \nFollowed by an echar lashon (coffee klatch) with coffee\, tea\, biscochos\, and our special guests.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-children-inquisition-documentary/
LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine Street\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
CREATED:20190128T060852Z
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SUMMARY:3/13 CONCERT | Singing the Sephardic Diaspora: Mediterranean Elements in Judeo-Spanish Choral Arrangements
DESCRIPTION:**Note: The location of this event has changed. It will take place in Kane Hall\, room 220.\nLadino songs reflect a wealth of musical influences\, from Turkish scales to Balkan rhythms. In this lecture-recital\, recent Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) graduate Sarah Riskind will discuss Mediterranean features of Sephardic music and how these elements can be highlighted in arrangements for chorus. The Seattle Jewish Chorale (directed by Jacob Finkle) will perform a selection of classic Judeo-Spanish songs\, including “Par’o Era Estrellero\,” “Durme\, Durme\,” and “Cuando el Rey Nimrod.” \nPlease RSVP for this event at the bottom of the page. \nGet ready with Dr. Riskind’s brief explainer: What makes music sound Jewish (2018) \nDid you miss the event? Check out the UW Daily’s writeup\, which includes a number of audio excerpts. \nAbout the speaker\nSarah Riskind is a choral conductor\, composer\, vocalist\, and music educator based in Seattle. She recently received her DMA in choral conducting from the University of Washington\, completing a dissertation entitled “Informed and Informative: New Choral Arrangements of Sephardic Music\,” and she is the Music Director at Magnolia United Church of Christ. With previous degrees from Williams College and the University of Wisconsin at Madison\, she has directed ensembles at the University of Washington\, the University of Wisconsin at Madison\, Williams College\, the German International School of Boston\, and the First Parish Church of Berlin\, MA; she has also assistant-conducted the Renaissance choir Convivium Musicum and the Boston Children’s Chorus. Her compositions have been performed by the Seattle Jewish Chorale\, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble\, Triad: Boston’s Choral Collective\, the Bennington Children’s Chorus\, and other college\, community\, synagogue\, and church choirs across the country. Dr. Riskind enjoys folk and classical improvisation on violin\, which led her to pursue doctoral research on choral improvisation in addition to Renaissance and Sephardic music. Riskind participated in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship program during the 2017-18 academic year.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/singing-the-sephardic-diaspora-mediterranean-elements-in-judeo-spanish-choral-arrangements/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
CREATED:20190128T053124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190308T183036Z
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SUMMARY:3/4 TALK | New Language\, New Story: How Translation Changed the Bible for Sephardic Jews Across History
DESCRIPTION:The Torah\, as Heinrich Heine is said to have written\, is the portable homeland of the Jews. As Jews move from place to place\, the land that is the setting for the Bible (or “Tanakh\,” in Hebrew) is the one place that does not change. In their diaspora\, Jewish communities learn new languages with each move\, and use these languages to reinterpret the stories of the Bible anew. \nIn this talk\, Dr. David Wacks of the University of Oregon will discuss the history of how new translations affected Sephardic Jews’ understanding of the Bible and biblical stories\, from medieval Arabic translations to later translations into Ladino and Judeo-Spanish.  \nWacks will explore how generations of Sepharadim (Jews in the Mediterranean) used translations\, commentaries and legends from their own time periods to reinterpret the Bible in new ways for the world in which they lived\, and offer insights into how translation might influence our own understandings of important texts. \nGet ready with a related essay by David Wacks: “Rabbis\, a Spanish Biblical History\, and the Roots of Vernacular Fiction.” \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies. \nAbout the speaker\nDavid Wacks is Head of the Department of Romance Languages and Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. He earned his PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley in 2003. In 2006 he was Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.  \nWacks is author of “Framing Iberia: Frametales and Maqamat in Medieval Spain\,” (Brill\, 2007)\, winner of the 2009 La corónica award\, and “Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production before and after 1492″ (Indiana University Press\, 2015)\, winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture\, and co-editor\, with Michelle Hamilton\, of “The Study of al-Andalus: The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe” (ILEX Foundation\, 2018). His most recent monograph\, “Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World\,” is forthcoming in 2019 from University of Toronto Press.\nHe blogs on his current research at https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/new-language-new-story-how-translation-changed-the-bible-for-sephardic-jews-across-history/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
CREATED:20180827T231636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T224328Z
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SUMMARY:Ladino Day 2018: Jewish Folktales of the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:Illustration by Aude Samama (2014) \n \nLadino Day 2018 will showcase a creative initiative to bring Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) traditions to future generations. \nParis-based author François Azar will discuss his two new collections of Sephardic folktales\, “The Jewish Parrot” and “Bewitched by Solika” — written in both Ladino and English — and the significance of storytelling and art in Sephardic culture. Through live performance\, members of Seattle’s “Ladineros” Ladino-speaking group will help to bring several of these classic tales to life. \n* Watch the full video of Ladino Day 2018 now * \nAbout Judeo-Spanish Tales\nIllustration by Petros Bouloubasis (2016) \nJudeo-Spanish tales transmit the wisdom and humor of Sephardic Jews\, Jews who originated in the Iberian peninsula (present-day Spain) and who settled all around the Mediterranean\, particularly in the Balkans\, Turkey and northern Morocco. Sephardic Jews adapted their neighbors’ tales and legends to their own culture\, while also crafting original stories set in their new environments. \nTales were transmitted orally within families\, providing entertainment\, relief from everyday worries\, and a way to laugh off human weaknesses. Through these tales\, essential elements of Jewish and universal life are transmitted in a lively\, imaginative way. The tales collected in “The Jewish Parrot” and “Bewitched by Solika” are presented in both English and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)\, a language based in old Castilian that has been enriched by borrowed elements of Turkish\, Greek\, Hebrew\, Arabic\, Italian\, Portuguese and French. \nAbout the Speaker\nFrançois Azar is the vice president of the Judeo-Spanish society Aki Estamos – Les Amis de la Lettre Sépharade and the founder of Lior Press in Paris\, France. \nRead a profile of François Azar\, and learn more about his Ladino publishing initiative and his connection to Ladino folktales: \nFrançois Azar brings folktales and the French Sephardic revival to Seattle Ladino Day — by Hannah Pressman\nRegister for the Event\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible through the generosity of the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies\, and is cosponsored by Congregation Sephardic Bikur Holim\, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, Seattle Sephardic Network\, the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese Studies\, French and Italian Studies\, and Linguistics; and the Turkish & Ottoman Studies Program in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sephardic-folktales-francois-azar-ladino-day-2018/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 130\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
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:20180427T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T074202
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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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