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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:UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Mother Tongue in Other Tongues: Life in Translation; Public talk by translator Aron Aji
DESCRIPTION:Aron Aji cannot recall a time when he was not translating. Growing up in Turkey among Ladino\, Hebrew\, and French used at home and then\, from elementary school on\, in Turkish—and studying in English later—he learned to move between languages long before he began translating Turkish literature. In this talk\, Aji asks what that lifelong experience brings to the page. What happens when English meets a Turkish text on its own terms? How might the text stretch English’s rhythms and expressive habits\, rather than simply fit into them? Aji calls his approach “acoustic translation”: an act of close listening that draws on memory\, sound\, and the senses to recreate the experience of a work in another language. Translation\, in this account\, is a way of hearing a text—and of finding one’s way back to the languages of one’s life. \nRegister here. \nAbout the speaker: Aron Aji has published ten book-length translations of modern and contemporary Turkish literature\, alongside numerous translations of poetry and prose. His translation of Bilge Karasu’s The Garden of Departed Cats won the National Translation Award\, and his co-translation with Selin Gökçesu of Ebru Ojen’s Lojman won the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize. His translations also include works by Murathan Mungan (with David Gramling) and Ferit Edgü. His most recent translation of Edgu’s landmark novel\, A Season in Hakkari\, will be published in 2027. For many years\, Aji directed the University of Iowa’s Translation Programs; he is a past president (2016-2019) of the American Literary Translators Association.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/mother-tongue-in-other-tongues-life-in-translation-public-talk-by-translator-aron-aji/
LOCATION:Communications 120\, UW Campus\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Ladino Day 2027 | The Seattle Sephardic Bookshelf: A Glimpse into the Adatto Family Collection
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the University of Washington since 2013\, Ladino Day is an annual educational and celebratory program that centers the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language through story and song\, and with lectures and reflections from scholars\, activists\, and community members. \n\nThis Ladino Day 2027\, join us on a curated tour through the Adatto collection – in both digital and physical form – with presentations by Sephardic Studies chair Devin Naar and other special guests. \nThe first scholars of Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington–and among the very first scholars in the field anywhere in the United States–siblings Albert and Emma Adatto completed their masters degrees in the 1930s focusing on Seattle Sephardic history and culture\, respectively. Since then\, Albert Adatto amassed one of the largest private collections of Ladino books from the Ottoman Empire located anywhere in the United States. Now digitized by the UW Sephardic Studies Program with the originals housed at UW Special Collections\, the Adatto bookshelf offers an unprecedented glimpse into the astounding literary and cultural creativity among Sephardic Jews over the centuries that has been hidden from public view until today. \nThis event will be held in-person on the 5th floor of the Suzzallo Library\, 5 East Conference Room. More details forthcoming. Registration links will be posted soon.  \nNavigating to the room: Please enter through the main entrance of Suzzallo Library (the entrance facing Red Square). Walk straight until you see the elevators on the right side. Take the elevator to the 5th floor. The room will be right across from the elevators when they open. \n\nThis event is hosted by the Sephardic Studies Program and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\, made possible by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies and the New York Sephardic Foundation on Aging. 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2027-the-seattle-sephardic-bookshelf-a-glimpse-into-the-adatto-family-collection/
LOCATION:Suzzallo Library\, 5 East Conference Room\, 4000 15th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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