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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:11/15 EVENT | Territories of Ladino in its Postvernacular Mode: The Case of Poetry and Literary Translation
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LOCATION:Denny Hall 213
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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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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:Public Lecture - The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming visiting author and scholar Jacob Daniels\, discussing his new book\, The Jews of Edirne: The End of the Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders.  \nFree and open to all; registration required here. \nAt the turn of the twentieth century\, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne Province—among the most religiously diverse regions of the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923\, the city had become a Turkish border town\, and the province had lost much of its non-Muslim population. With this book\, Jacob Daniels explores how one of the world’s largest Sephardi communities dealt with the encroachment of modern borders. \nDaniels will give a short presentation and will then be joined by Canan Bolel\, Assistant Professor in Jewish Cultures\, Languages\, and Literatures of the Eastern Mediterranean\, for a lively conversation and Q&A. \nJacob Daniels is Assistant Professor of Instruction and Assistant Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University in 2022. \nSponsored by the Sephardic Studies Program\, the Middle East Center\, and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/book-talk-jacob-daniels-the-jews-of-edirne-the-end-of-ottoman-europe-and-the-arrival-of-borders/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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