Sephardic Studies
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12/3 EVENT | Ladino Day 2023: ‘Kantika’, a Sephardic Novel by Author Elizabeth Graver
Zoom 0The UW Sephardic Studies Program's Ladino Day 2023 features author Elizabeth Graver, who will discuss her novel "Kantika" — a multigenerational saga inspired by her Sephardic grandmother — with Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies Devin E. Naar.
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2/28 LUNCH & LEARN | The Invention of the Postcard: The Circulation of Jewish Visual Culture in Ottoman and Greek Salonica with Shalom Sabar
Thomson Hall 317 Thomson Hall 317, SeattleA presentation by art historian Shalom Sabar on what Jewish postcards from Ottoman and Greek Salonica teach us about the experiences of the people who sent them and about how they understood their identities.
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3/27 EVENT | A Spark of King David: The Musical Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara Then and Now
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, USEdwin Seroussi of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will discuss the pizmonim (musical religious poems) of 16th-century rabbi Israel Najara.
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Ladino Day 2025 | Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today
Kane Hall 210 4069 Spokane Ln NE, Seattle, WAIn Ladino Day 2025, speakers Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti and Devin E. Naar will discuss the significance of the Spanish and Portuguese governments' decision in 2015 to offer citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled five centuries ago.