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SUMMARY:5/23 EVENT| An Evening with Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.hilleluw.org/events/an-evening-with-gadeer-kamal-mreeh/#new_tab
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Student
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SUMMARY:GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Political and Archival Policies: International and Local Perspectives
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/graduate-fellows-colloquia-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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SUMMARY:GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Reimagining Jewish Narratives in New Contexts: From Antiquity to the Present
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/graduate-fellows-colloquia-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T110000
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SUMMARY:6/1 TALK | Silenced Horrors: Sexual Violence During the Holocaust in Ukraine
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URL:https://slavic.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D159578067
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:10/6 TALK | How the Soviet Jew Was Made — Sasha Senderovich
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URL:https://slavic.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D160858950
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:10/19 TALK | Arabian Judaism and Early Islam
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:10/26 TALK | The Jews of Medieval Baghdad in the Abbasid Era
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:11/2 TALK | Jews and Muslims in Colonial Algeria: Between Intimacy and Resentment
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T150000
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SUMMARY:11/10 TALK | Coffeehouses\, Parks\, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims in 20th-Century Cairo
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T110000
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SUMMARY:12/1 EVENT | Israeli Elections Panel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n \n\nOn the heels of the fifth Israeli election in four years\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ Israel Studies Program invites you to attend a panel of experts as they debrief the results and talk about what the outcome means—both for the future of Israel\, and the world at large. Zoom webinar format. With  Noam Pianko—the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies—moderating\, the speakers on the panel include: \n\nJoel Migdal— emeritus professor of Jewish Studies\nLiora Halperin— Chair in Israel Studies and professor of Jewish Studies\nAlan Dowty— associate faculty of Jewish Studies\nHayim Katsman— Ph.D. and Jackson School alumni\nAndrea Gevurtz Arai— associate faculty of Jewish Studies\n\nRegister Now >\n \nJoel Migdal is an emeritus faculty member and the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Migdal was formerly associate professor of Government at Harvard University and senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University. His research has been on two tracks–theories of comparative politics\, specifically state-society relations\, and Middle East politics\, with an emphasis on Israel and Palestinians. Joel has published various books and is enjoying his retirement in Eretz Israel.\nLiora Halperin is Chair of the Israel Studies Program and a scholar of Jewish cultural and social history\, with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory\, language ideology and policy\, and Jewish-Arab relations both in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and in the early years after Israeli statehood. Her first book\, “Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine” (Yale University Press\, 2015) was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She has published academic articles in The Journal of Social History\, Jewish Social Studies\, Middle Eastern Studies\, and The Jewish Quarterly Review\, among other venues. She recently published “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” (Stanford University Press\, 2021)\, which tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (mashavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011.\nAlan Dowty is an affiliate faculty member at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, and is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. From 1963-1975\, he was on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, during which time he served as Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and Chair of the Department of International Relations. From 2003-2006\, he was the first holder of the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli Studies at the University of Calgary\, and from 2005-2007 he was President of the Association for Israel Studies. Among his publications are basic texts on Israeli society and politics (“The Jewish State: A Century Later“) and on the Arab-Israel conflict (“Israel/Palestine\,” 4th edition 2017)\, as well as over 130 scholarly and popular articles. In 2017 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Israel Studies by the Israel Institute and the Association for Israel Studies.\nHayim Katsman received his Ph.D. in international studies from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies in 2021. He has researched the Religious-Zionist communities of Israel/Palestine extensively\, and written about current trends in Religious-Zionism and its relationship to radicalism. He received his B.A. in philosophy from the Open University of Israel and completed his M.A. thesis on the theology of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University\, where he also served as deputy chair of the Academic Junior-Staff Union from 2015-2017. Follow him on Twitter or on Facebook.\nAndrea Gevurtz Arai teaches anthropology and society courses in the Jackson School of International Studies\, University of Washington. Arai is currently researching the Israeli social movement “Standing Together” (“Omdim B’yachad”- עומדים ביחד)\, which advocates for equal justice for Jewish and Arab Israelis and for the reallocation of tax dollars from the military to under-funded areas of social welfare\, in particular health care\, education and housing. This research will be included in Arai’s in-process edited volume\, “Spaces of Creative Resistance in East Asia\,” which looks at the local\, cross-regional and international particularities of organizations of creative resistance\, which advocate for social infrastructures\, imagining and creating new forms of social and environmental sustainability.\nAbout the facilitator\n\n\nNoam Pianko is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies\, the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies\, and Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies. Pianko also directs the Samuel and Althea Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and serves as the Herbert and Lucy Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies. Pianko’s research interests include modern Jewish history\, Zionism\, and American Judaism.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/israeli-elections-panel/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221204T100000
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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:1/31 STUDENT EVENT | Feasting with Faculty ft. Assistant Prof. Senderovich
DESCRIPTION:Join Sasha Senderovich\, an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures\, for informal conversation over a free vegetarian dinner. \nOpen to undergraduate and graduate students only. \nNo cost. RSVP here! \nThis event is limited to 15 students.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/1-31-student-event-feasting-with-faculty-ft-prof-senderovich/
LOCATION:Taste of India\, 5517 Roosevelt Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T122000
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SUMMARY:2/8 TALK | Michal Raucher on Medicine and Religion: Doctors and Rabbis in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nThe relationship between doctors and rabbis in Israel reflects the complex ways in which medicine and religion interact daily. Although doctors and rabbis can work together to resolve disputes in medical care or improve health care among certain populations\, their close relationships can also pose a challenge to quality medical treatment. In this talk Professor Raucher will show how these doctors and rabbis create a context in which Haredi women represent larger competing interests. Instead of working together toward holistic\, ethical medical care\, doctors and rabbis find themselves locked in a struggle to ensure their own interests. \n\nAbout the speaker\n\nMichal Raucher is an associate professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. Her research lies at the intersection of the anthropology of women in Judaism\, reproductive ethics\, and religious authority. Michal has a background in religion\, gender studies\, anthropology and bioethics. As a Fulbright Fellow\, Dr. Raucher conducted research on the reproductive ethics of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jewish women in Israel. Her first book\, which is based on this research\, was published by Indiana University Press in 2020. It is titled\, Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women. Dr. Raucher’s second book\, titled “The New Rabbis\,” is based on five years of research with women who have been ordained as Orthodox rabbis in America. Michal has also published on Jewish pronatalism\, the study of Orthodox Judaism\, sexuality and gender in Judaism\, religion and bioethics\, abortion legislation in Israel\, and female religious advisors on the Internet. Dr. Raucher is currently conducting research on abortion and religion in America. She is part of a research team interviewing Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims who have had abortions since 2021\, and she is surveying rabbis who are advocating for abortion rights and reproductive justice in the US. Michal has been teaching public audiences for several years on issues related to reproduction and abortion among Jews and in Jewish texts. Her work has been featured in NBC News\, JTA\, The Conversation\, the Feminist Studies in Religion blog\, and she has been quoted in The New York Times. \nDr. Raucher has degrees from Columbia University\, The Jewish Theological Seminary\, the University of Pennsylvania\, and a PhD from Northwestern University. She taught at The Jewish Theological Seminary and The University of Cincinnati before joining the faculty at Rutgers University.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/michal-raucher-on-medicine-and-religion-doctors-and-rabbis-in-israel/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T103000
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SUMMARY:2/15 TALK | Masua Sagiv on Religious Feminism and Social Change in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nIn this talk\, scholar Masua Sagiv will dive into the past two decades in Israel to focus on how the Jewish religious (orthodox) society is undergoing a philosophical and theological revolution promoting gender equality\, in society and Halacha (religious law) alike. This revolution has a decisive impact on the Jewish religious society\, and in light of the Israeli constitutional arrangements that weave religious norms across the public sphere\, it influences the general Jewish public in Israel as well. The talk will introduce religious halachic feminism in Israel and some of its main struggles (in matters of marriage and divorce\, body and sexuality\, and spiritual leadership)\, focusing on the strategies the activists apply and their impact on Israeli society. \n\n\nRegister Now >\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\nMasua Sagiv is the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley and a Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel\, as a culture\, religion\, nationality\, and as part of Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores the role of law\, state actors and civil society organizations in promoting social change across diverse issues: shared society\, religion and gender\, religion and state\, and Jewish peoplehood. Prior to moving to the Bay Area\, Masua was the Academic Director of the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan University. In addition\, Masua earned her doctorate in law from Tel-Aviv University\, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic of law and social change in the Halachic Feminist struggle in Israel.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/2-15-talk-masua-sagiv-on-religious-feminism-and-social-change-in-israel/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T163000
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SUMMARY:2/23 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM | "Suppose the Mother were Jewish"\, a Happy Hour with Susan Glenn
DESCRIPTION:Leo Pfeffer speaking at the National Convention of the American Jewish Congress (1966). Seated is Shad Polier. Image credit: American Jewish Historical Society\, Center for Jewish History\, New York City.  \nRegister Now >\n\nThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is thrilled to invite you to the first in a new series of workshops\, a happy-hour research colloquium led by Susan Glenn. Please join us to celebrate Susan’s three years as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Professor in Jewish Studies! Plus\, you can enjoy alcohol and light charcuterie. \nIn this colloquium\, Susan Glenn will share some of her research from her work-in-progress\, “Suppose the Mother Were Jewish”: Leo Pfeffer\, the American Jewish Congress\, and the Problem of Religious Protection Law\, to which a Ph.D. candidate Joana Bürger will pose some initial questions before the floor opens for discussion. Read on for a brief synopsis of her forthcoming paper: \n\nA towering figure in the history of twentieth-century First Amendment litigation\, Leo Pfeffer (1909-1993)\, intervened in more church-state cases than any other twentieth century lawyer. Pfeffer is best remembered for challenging the constitutionality of religious activities in the public schools\, state aid to parochial schools\, tax exemptions for religious institutions\, and discriminatory Sunday closing laws. This paper focuses on an important arena of Pfeffer’s church-state jurisprudence that has been ignored by historians and legal scholars: his daring and controversial forays into the religious minefield of child adoption and custody. A deeply religious Jew for whom the strict separation of church and state was also an article of faith\, Pfeffer not only challenged the constitutionality of “religious protection” laws and judicial practices that made it difficult\, if not impossible\, for couples to adopt children born to mothers whose religion differed from theirs\, he also argued for the First Amendment rights of mothers\, including Jewish mothers\, to have their children raised in a religion that differed from their own. \nThe paper argues that Pfeffer’s views on religion\, the constitution\, and child adoption–and the controversies they provoked — constitute an important\, but yet to be written\, chapter in the history of postwar American Jewish debates about religion\, the family\, and Jewish “continuity.” \nRegister Now >\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Susan Glenn is a University of Washington History Professor who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley (1983).  She previously served as the Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of History\, and now serves as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Professor in Jewish Studies. Her published work includes two books and a co-edited volume of cross-disciplinary essays\, Boundaries of Jewish Identity (University of Washington Press\, 2010)\, Susan’s book Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\, won the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for the best book in gender and women’s history. Her second book\, Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism (Harvard University Press\, 2000)\, analyzed the significance of late nineteenth and early twentieth century popular theater as a critical site of women’s enlarging cultural and social authority. Currently\, she is working on a study of religious conflicts over child adoption in the aftermath of World War II. \nMoreover\, Susan has twice been appointed as Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of Historians\, and has also served on both the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Advisory Council of the Jewish Women’s Archive. \nCosponsored by the Department of History. \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/2-23-research-colloquium-suppose-if-the-mother-were-jewish-happy-hour-with-susan-glenn/
LOCATION:Smith Room\, Suzzallo Library\, UW\, 4000 15th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T210000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T150000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230322T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230322T203000
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SUMMARY:3/22 FILM  + CONVERSATION (virtual) | "Divorce Denied" at Seattle Jewish Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Film: DIVORCE DENIED\nDavid Ofek and Mia Webb | Documentary | Israel | 2019 | Hebrew w/English subtitles | 59m | PG-13 \nIn Israel\, no Jewish divorce is complete without the man literally giving the woman back her freedom. The film follows several such “chained” women and their religious lawyer\, Batya\, as they embark on a struggle against the rabbinical courts. \nAccompanied by a Zoom webinar about the film; see below for details. Ticket and pass holders are pre-registered\, and will receive an initial confirmation and a reminder one (1) hour before the program starts. Please join us for this powerful conversation as part of both Israel@75 Birthday Series and Women’s History Month. \nPanel Conversation (March 22\, 7 pm): Dr. Smadar Ben-Natan\, affiliate faculty at UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and Israeli human rights lawyer and Rabbi Moshe Kletenik\, head of the Pacific Northwest Regional Beth Din speak with Prof. Mika Ahuvia of UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \nBuy Tickets > Streaming Window: March 13-26 \nTalk Sign-Up >\n\nTo learn more about the film and watch a trailer\, check out the SJFF event page. To 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 sponsored by Jewish Family Service and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/3-22-virtual-film-screening-discussion-divorce-denied-at-seattle-jewish-film-festival/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230331T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230331T103000
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SUMMARY:3/31 EVENT | A Workshop with Rachel Brown
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is hosting Rachel Brown for a morning workshop\, in which she’ll discuss chapter 1 of her forthcoming paper\, titled “Land\, Reproductive Labor and Accumulation: Situating Migrant Carework in Israel/Palestine”. Jewish Studies grad fellow Jake Beckert will serve as respondent. \n\nRegister Now >\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Rachel Brown‘s research and teaching interests include feminist and queer political theory\, settler colonialism\, Marxist feminism and questions of labor migration\, transnational feminisms\, and the politics of debt. \nShe earned her doctorate from The Graduate Center\, City University of New York in 2017. Her book manuscript\, Unsettled Labors: Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel\, is under contract at Duke University Press. Her work has appeared in Feminist Theory\, Political Theory\, International Feminist Journal of Politics\, Theory & Event\, and Global Networks. Her most recent article is forthcoming in Race & Class. \n\n  \n\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/3-31-event-a-workshop-and-talk-with-rachel-brown/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230403T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T130000
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SUMMARY:4/19 | FREE FOOD! A "Grub n' gab" with Stroum Center leadership
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n \nCurious about Jewish Studies? Anytime from 11 AM — 1 PM on Wednesday\, April 19\, stop by the Microsoft Cafe on campus to learn more about the Stroum Center from our own leaders: Director Mika Ahuvia\,  and Interim Associate Director Brendan Goldman\, who also serves as Program Manager. Plus\, free food and drinks will be provided! This casual setting is a great way to: \n• Explore the Stroum Center programs you may be curious about \n• Get your questions answered on-the-spot \n• Meet other undergraduate students with common interests or backgrounds \n• Fuel up (coffee\, please!) while talking with an engaging duo \n• Get to know Mika and Brendan on a more personal level \nSo if you think you might come by\, feel free to register here! Mika and Brendan look forward to meeting with students\, both current and new. \nAbout the leaders\nMika Ahuvia researches the formative history of Jewish and Christian communities in the ancient Mediterranean world. Specializing in Late Antique Jewish history\, she works with rabbinic sources\, liturgical poetry\, magical texts\, early mystical literature\, and archaeological evidence. \nHer  book\, “On My Right Michael\, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture\,” investigates conceptions of angels in foundational Jewish texts and ritual sources\, and uncovers how angels made their way into the practices and worldview of ancient Jews. As the Herbert L. and Lucia S. Pruzan Chair in Jewish Studies\, Ahuvia teaches courses in Jewish Studies\, comparative religion\, and global studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She is also the Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \n\nBrendan Goldman came to the Stroum Center from Princeton University\, where he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Program in Judaic Studies\, in addition to coordinating the Comparative Diplomatics Workshop and teaching at Northern State Prison in Newark\, New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in history from The Johns Hopkins University in 2018\, and now serves as the Stroum Center’s Interim Associate Director and Program Manager. \nHis first book\, “Camps of the Uncircumcised: The Cairo Geniza and Jewish Life in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem\,” is under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press and will be published in 2021. His second book project\, tentatively titled “A Disciplinary Society: Medieval Prisons through Jewish Eyes\, 1000-1300\,” examines how documents found in the Cairo Geniza\, a synagogue storehouse preserving more than 40\,000 medieval writings\, can illuminate the ways in which state violence shaped the lives of everyday people during the Middle Ages. \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/4-19-coffee-chats-with-mika-and-brendan/
LOCATION:Microsoft Cafe\, 3785 Jefferson Rd NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T203000
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SUMMARY:5/2 STROUM LECTURE | "Melodeklamatsiye": A Yiddish Performance Genre ?
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LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T203000
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SUMMARY:5/4 STROUM LECTURE | "Between Me and the Other World"\, an Immersive Music Experience
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URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vrv1qEDeI&list=PL90oKJgqWC2aPPrKo70l0kj0I0ZYDncHa&index=2
LOCATION:Kane Hall 225\, UW Campus
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:5/4 | Boba After Dark?(and after Stroum Lectures)
DESCRIPTION:Image by Freepik \nRegister Now >\n \nAre you highly anticipating this year’s Stroum Lectures? Are you interested in meeting Anthony Russell in the flesh? Do you enjoy getting boba with friends? Are you an undergraduate or graduate student? If you answered yes to any of those questions\, you’re in luck! \nFrom 8:45 PM — 10:00 PM (or later) on Thursday\, May 4\, head over to Boba Up on “the Ave” for free boba and low-stakes face-time with the guests of honor. Right after his performance\, you can: \n• Meet Anthony and Dmitri — and learn their Boba orders! \n• Ask questions about their careers\, music\, and lives \n• Get to know them on a more personal level \n• Mingle with other like-minded students from across the UW’s School of Music\, German Department\, Jewish Studies Center\, History Department\, and more. \nIf interested\, please register here. Anthony and Dmitri look forward to mingling and kicking back with you all after the show! \nAbout the Musicians\n\nAnthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell is a performer\, composer and arranger specializing in music in the Yiddish language. His work in traditional Ashkenazi Jewish musical forms led to a musical exploration of his own ethnic roots through the research\, arrangement and performance of African American folk music\, resulting in the EP Convergence (2018)\, a collaboration with klezmer consort Veretski Pass exploring the sounds and themes of one hundred years of African American and Ashkenazi Jewish music.\nInspired by an ethnographic trip to Belarus and Poland as a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellow\, Anthony formed a duo\, Tsvey Brider (“Two Brothers”)\, with accordionist and pianist Dmitri Gaskin for the creation of new music set to modernist Yiddish poetry of the 20th century. Their new album\, Kosmopolitn\, is set for release this August on the Borscht Beat label.\nA Hadar Rising Song Fellow (2021-22)\, Anthony is also an essayist on music and culture in a number of publications including Jewish Currents and Moment Magazine.  Anthony lives in Atlanta\, GA with his husband of seven years\, Rabbi Michael Rothbaum. \n\nDmitri Gaskin is an accomplished accordion player\, composer\, and arranger specializing in Klezmer and Romanian folk music. He performs with several Klezmer bands throughout California\, most notably with Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band. Dmitri has also performed and taught at several music festivals\, including KlezKalifornia.\nOutside of klezmer music\, Dmitri won the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for a contemporary classical composition. He also formed Harmonikos\, a performing collective of young composers and musicians.\nDmitri studied accordion with Josh Horowitz and Alan Bern. He lives in California with his wife and their three accordions. \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. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-4-boba-after-dark-and-after-stroum-lectures/
LOCATION:Boba Up\, 4141 University Way NE # 103\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105
CATEGORIES:Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T170000
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SUMMARY:5/15 BOOK TALK | Wordplay in Ancient Near Eastern Texts with Professor Scott Noegel
DESCRIPTION:As part of the UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures‘ “Conversations With Scholars” lecture series\, this will be an all-access book talk that will be completely open for questions from attendees after a few brief introductory remarks from the author himself\, Professor Scott Noegel. \nBOOK TALK\n\n\nThe monograph offers a comparative study of the various functions that wordplay serves in ancient Near Eastern texts and provides a comprehensive classification for the phenomenon. \nLanguages covered include Sumerian\, Akkadian\, Egyptian\, Ugaritic\, biblical Hebrew\, and Aramaic. The monograph also examines definitions of “wordplay” by exploring ancient conceptions of words and the generative role of scripts (consonantal\, syllabic\, and pictographic). Also discussed are issues of terminology\, genre\, audience\, grammaticality\, interpretation\, and methodology. \nThe book further considers the distribution and preferences of these devices among the languages and discusses a number of principles and strategies that inform their creation\, such as ambiguity\, repetition and variation\, delayed comprehension\, metaphor and metonymy\, clustering\, and the use of rare words. The book concludes by suggesting potential avenues for future research. \n\n \nDownload a free copy of the book at: https://www.sbl-site.org/…/pdfs/pubs/9780884144762_OA.pdf and click on the button below to join the Zoom event on Monday\, May 15\, 2023 at 5:00 pm. \nBOOK TALK
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-15-book-talk-wordplay-in-ancient-near-eastern-texts-with-prof-scott-noegel/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T183000
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SUMMARY:5/25 WORKSHOP | 'Anglo-Saxons of the East': Armenian Self-Definition... with Ara Daglian
DESCRIPTION:‘Anglo-Saxons of the East’:\nArmenian Self-Definition in Early 20th Century America\nRegister Now >\n\nThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is thrilled to invite you to the second in a new series of workshops\, a lecture led by Jewish Studies Graduate Fellow Ara Daglian. Please join us to celebrate his imminent graduation and learn something new from him\, all while enjoying wine and Dingfelder’s Deli delights. Yes\, you read that right! \nIn this lecture\, Ara Daglian will share some of his research from his work-in-progress\, “Anglo-Saxons of the East”: Armenian Self-Definition in Early 20th Century America\, to which Professor Devin E. Naar of the Sephardic Studies Program will pose some initial questions before the floor opens for discussion. Read on for a brief synopsis of his forthcoming paper: \n\nThis paper focuses on an important work of Armenian-American identity — The Armenians in America by M. Vartan Malcom. While previously known as a source of statistical and quantitative information on early Armenian-American history\, the text also provided a voice to Armenian-Americans in an era where the American public knew them only through paternalistic aid campaigns and fundraiser slogans. \n\n\nTo analyze The Armenians in America as a work to redefine the Armenian-American identity\, this paper turn towards Jewish studies for inspiration. Jewish studies historiography boasts a highly developed framework for understanding how Jewish Americans redefined themselves in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, offering a useful tool for studying Armenian-Americans as well. \n\nRegister Now >\n\nCo-sponsored by UW’s Middle East Center and UW’s Armenian Student Association. \nAbout the speakers\n\n \nAra Daglian is a master’s student in the Middle East Studies program at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Originally from Connecticut\, he received his B.A. in history from Eastern Connecticut State University before coming to the University of Washington. As a Stroum Center graduate fellow\, Ara plans to examine the complex inter-communal relations between Jews\, Arabs and Armenians residing in Jerusalem during the British Mandate era. He is a Robinovitch Family Fellow. \n\n\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.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-25-workshop-anglo-saxons-of-the-east-armenian-self-definition-with-ara-daglian/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows,Workshop
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SUMMARY:5/30 — 6/1 TALKS | '22 — '23 Graduate Fellow Colloquia
DESCRIPTION:See the event page for more details. \nRegister Now >
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/22-23-graduate-fellow-presentations/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T130000
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SUMMARY:9/12 LUNCH & LEARN | Antisemitism and the Politics of "Tolerance"
DESCRIPTION:Russell Shorto has called Amsterdam “the world’s most liberal city\,” and indeed\, the Netherlands is well known for its tolerant approaches to drug enforcement\, legalized sex work\, and gay rights. However\, recent events have brought this self-congratulatory attitude into question\, especially in debates over immigration and multiculturalism. \nIs tolerance as positive of an ideal as it seems on the surface? Or might a focus on tolerance reinforce the very conflicts it is intended to manage? This conversation will explore the legacies of the Holocaust for how antisemitism is approached in the Netherlands today and its complex relation to anti-Muslim racism. \nLUNCH & LEARN\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Nicolaas P. Barr\, Ph.D.\, teaches in Comparative History of Ideas and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle. He leads a UW study abroad program to Amsterdam and is the Dutch-to-English translator of Tofik Dibi’s coming-out memoir Djinn. Nicolaas has appeared on The Stranger’s podcast “Blabbermouth” to discuss such terms as anarchy\, progressive\, and neoliberal\, and written on Dutch racism in The Nation and Jewish Currents. He’s an editor for H-Low Countries and a trombonist in the Mexican band Banda Vagos.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/9-12-lunch-learn-antisemitism-and-the-politics-of-tolerance/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Holocaust Center for Humanity":MAILTO:info@HolocaustCenterSeattle.org
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