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SUMMARY:Ancient Jewish Magic
DESCRIPTION:Ancient magical artifact (a bowl) depicting demons\, ringed with Aramaic. Found in Iraq. From the University of Pennsylvania Museum *collection. \n*ROOM CHANGE! By popular demand\, we’ve moved this event to a larger space: Room 220 in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library* \nNOTE: If the event sells out\, we still encourage you to come. Seats typically open up\, though we can’t guarantee seating. \nWhat is magic? What is Jewish magic? Who are the witches that the rabbis worry about? \nIn this talk\, Prof. Ahuvia will share evidence from her recent and forthcoming publications about Jewish engagement with magic\, angels\, and demons in the ancient world. She will discuss how practices we might deem “magical” have influenced Jewish rituals\, liturgy\, and beliefs to this day. \nTo whet your appetite: According to scholar B. Barry Levy\, the ancient magical artifact at the right “was prepared to protect Abuna bar Geribta and Ibba bar Zawithai from a series of evil forces. Its writer drew his power from the garment of Hermes and the Creator of heaven and earth. He threatened the destructive forces with the curses of the Leviathan and Sodom and Gemorrah.” \nAbout the Speaker\nMika Ahuvia was born in Kibbutz Beit Hashita in northern Israel. She 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. Her dissertation was on angels in Jewish texts from the fourth to eighth century CE. \nAhuvia is fascinated by the daily life of ancient Jews and investigates the different ways they struck a balance between their local religious environment (whether Roman\, Christian\, or Zoroastrian) and biblical\, rabbinic\, and other Jewish traditions. \nShe co-authored an article with John Gager on the portrayal of Mary the mother of Jesus in the Toledot Yeshu\, an early medieval Jewish satire of Jesus’ life as recorded by the gospels. There she paid careful attention to the sympathy shown to Mary in the Jewish sources and how it might reflect broader Jewish interest in the figure of a messianic mother. In another article in a volume on Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity\, Ahuvia analyzed depictions of the abyss in late antique church mosaics in the Transjordan region and the Near Eastern\, Greco-Roman\, as well as Jewish and Christian sources that may have inspired emphasis on this abstract concept. \nProfessor Ahuvia currently holds the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ancient-jewish-magic/
LOCATION:Odegaard Library 220\, 4060 George Washington Lane NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180409T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180409T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
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SUMMARY:Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Cover of “Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel” (Stanford University Press\, 2017) \n*Note that the location of this event has changed since our winter events postcard was mailed. The correct room is HUB 214.* \nBetween 1949 and 1951\, 123\,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all\, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot\, or transit camps. \nRather than returning to a homeland as native sons\, Iraqi Jews were newcomers in a foreign place. Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel\, Professor Orit Bashkin’s new book\, tells the story of these Iraqi Jews’ first decades in Israel. \nFaced with ill treatment and discrimination from state officials\, Iraqi Jews resisted: they joined Israeli political parties\, demonstrated in the streets\, and fought for the education of their children\, leading a civil rights struggle whose legacy continues to influence contemporary debates in Israel. \nOrit Bashkin sheds light on the everyday lives of this population and their determination to thrive in a new country\, uncovering their long\, painful transformation from Iraqis to Israelis. In doing so\, she shares the resilience and humanity of a community whose story has yet to be told. \nAbout the Speaker\nOrit Bashkin is Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Chicago. \nShe is the author of New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford\, 2012) and The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford\, 2008). She currently directs the center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago.\n \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Middle East Center\, part of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/iraqi-jews-israel-resettlement-orit-bashkin/
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:20180313T185000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180313T210000
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SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival: Praise the Lard
DESCRIPTION:About the Film\nThe untold story of the pork industry in Israel\, an industry that has raised ethnic tensions and heated struggles over the country’s short history. \nSitting firmly between Israel’s essential identity issues and the fundamental right to freedom of choice\, this taboo in Jewish tradition has become one of the secular state’s most prominent symbols. \nDirector Chen Shelach traces pig farming back to the Zionist movement’s attempt to create a “new Jew” in the land of Israel\, not beholden to old traditions\, and explores this new identity’s struggle to survive in the face of fierce resistance from religious and observant Jews. PRAISE THE LARD presents a sharply fascinating\, little-discussed take on the outsized role one farm animal has historically played in the Holy Land. \nThe film will include an introduction by Stroum Center Professor Sasha Senderovich. \nLearn more about the film\, and purchase tickets\, on the Seattle Jewish Film Festival website.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-praise-lard/
LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival: "Trezoros" Sephardic Spotlight
DESCRIPTION:About the Film\nA coastal city renowned for its idyllic beauty\, Kastoria was once home to a harmonious and vibrant population of Jews and Christians. \nIlluminating the moving\, individual stories of the Greek Sephardic families forced from their homes when Nazis took control of the town\, this carefully crafted documentary serves as a tribute and reminder of the many displaced communities forced out and afflicted by Nazi occupation. \nUsing never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with survivors scattered across the diaspora\, TREZOROS stitches together a compelling and affecting portrait of a unique and dynamic Jewish community. \nThe film will be followed by a discussion with Professor Devin Naar of the Stroum Center’s Sephardic Studies Program\, director Lawrence Russo\, and Larry Confino; then by a post-film Sephardic coffee klatsch (echar lashon) with coffee/tea and biscochos. Included in ticket price. \nLearn more about the film\, and purchase tickets\, at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival website.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-trezoros-sephardic-spotlight/
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:20180226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20180109T211246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180222T194538Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Sephardic Culture: Music\, Language & Literature from Spain to Seattle
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Molly FitzMorris\, Vivian Mills and Sarah Riskind as they share their research on the topics of Ladino language\, Sephardic music\, and the early-modern literature of Spain. \nProfessor Devin Naar of the Stroum Center’s Sephardic Studies Program will offer commentary on the Fellows’ work as the faculty respondent for this panel. \nA light lunch will be served; please RSVP below to be included in the lunch order.\n \nMolly FitzMorris\, Isaac Alhadeff Sephardic Studies Fellow\nPaper title: “The search for the shinedji: Using Ladinokomunita as a corpus to study Modern Ladino morphology” \nMolly is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics.  She has a BA in Latin American Studies from New York University\, and an MA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Washington.  Her research focuses on the documentation of Ladino in Seattle\, and her two current projects explore the dialects of Ladino spoken in Seattle and the use of a common Turkish suffix in Ladino.  Molly helped organize the first three International Ladino Day celebrations in Seattle\, and is an occasional student at the weekly Ladineros classes.\n \n \nVivian Mills\, Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar\nPaper title: “Shem Tov of Carrión: Jewish Poetry and Moneylending in Fourteenth Century Castile” \nVivian is a second-year PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington. She was born in Ecuador and moved to the United States with her family at the age of sixteen. She received a BA in Business Economics and an MA in Spanish from the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on identity and the building of textual authority in the literary works of Jewish\, Converso and Morisco writers of late medieval and early-modern Iberia. Her latest research focuses on the works of Shem Tov of Carrion\, a medieval poet and rabbi. When not reading poetry\, you can find Vivian at work in her garden or spending time with her family.\n \n \nSarah Riskind\, Robinovitch Family Fellow\nPaper title: “Sephardic Music Reimagined: Modern Arrangements for Choir” \nSarah is a doctoral student in choral conducting in the UW School of Music. Originally from Boston\, MA\, she holds degrees from Williams College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to conducting\, singing\, and teaching\, she has composed choral and instrumental works that have been performed in Massachusetts\, Vermont\, New Hampshire\, Wisconsin\, and Washington\, many of which use Jewish liturgical texts in Hebrew and English. She is currently pursuing research on choral arrangements of Sephardic Jewish music.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sephardic-culture-music-language-literature-spain-seattle/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Graduate Fellows,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20180112T204416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180208T202600Z
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SUMMARY:Hebrew Traditions in Hellenistic Jewish Sources: Philo of Alexandria & the Epistle to the Galatians
DESCRIPTION:Speculative portrait of Philo of Alexandria by 16th-century artist Andre Thevet. Via Wikimedia Commons. \nProfessors Michal and Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal draw on their expertise in ancient Jewish and Christian texts to show how understanding contemporary Hebrew influences can help us to understand the Epistle to the Galatians. \nPaul’s words in Galatians 4:21–31 evoke the ancient story of Sarah and Hagar and quote the prophetic book of Isaiah\, assuring the Galatians that “we are not the children of the slave woman\, but of the free woman.” \nAssuming a Hebrew-based tradition in Paul’s use of biblical verses – one drawn on by the contemporary writings of Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria – can solve several interpretive problems that past readers of the Galatians passage have pointed out. More importantly\, reading this text with a knowledge of Hebrew traditions emphasizes the importance these traditions held in Paul’s Jewish-Hellenistic world. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nAbout the Speakers\nMichal Bar-Asher Siegal (PhD 2010\, Yale University) is a scholar of rabbinic Judaism. Her work focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian interactions in the ancient world and compares between early Christian and rabbinic sources. Her book\, Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press\, 2013\, winner of the 2014 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award) compared Christian monastic and rabbinic sources. Her upcoming book Jewish – Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretics Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud will focus on heretics’ stories in the Babylonian Talmud. She is an elected member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences and holds the Rosen Family Career Development Chair in Judaic Studies at The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought\, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. \n  \nElitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (PhD 2009\, Harvard University) joined the faculty of the department of Hebrew Language at Hebrew University in 2010\, after being the lecturer in Semitics at Yale University. His areas of research include the history of the Semitic languages (Hebrew\, Aramaic\, and Akkadian)\, historical linguistics\, formal semantics and typology. He also studies the history of linguistics using methodologies from the philosophy of sciences. In recent years\, he has mostly worked in linguistics on reciprocal constructions\, causative constructions and constructions with non-argument datives\, both from the semantic and the historical point of views. He also publishes in fields related to rabbinic literature and Jewish Studies more broadly. Elitzur was a visiting professor at Harvard University and Yale University. \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of British Columbia’s Department of Classical\, Near Eastern\, and Religious Studies and Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics\, as well as by the University of Washington Department of Classical Studies\, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, Department of Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion program.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/hebrew-traditions-hellenistic-jewish-sources-philo-alexandria-epistle-galatians/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T170000
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SUMMARY:Was the Etrog Jewish? Science\, Trade & Religion in the 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:Etrog fruits in a stall at an Israeli market. Via Wikimedia Commons. \nThis talk will explore the global history of the etrog fruit – a staple of the Jewish harvest holiday Sukkot – from the Sephardi eastern Mediterranean to Ashkenazi northern Europe during the nineteenth century. \nLearn more about the etrog’s multiple incarnations – as a citrus fruit\, a commodity\, and a sacred object – as it passed from the hands of Muslim producers and Ottoman traders to Jewish consumers. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nAbout the Speaker\nConstanze Kolbe is a scholar of Mediterranean Jewish history and global history with interests in economic\, trans-national and cultural history\, and is the Stroum Center’s Hazel D. Cole Fellow for the 2017-2018 academic year. She received her Ph.D. from the history department at Indiana University in 2017. Before coming to the US\, she graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. \nHer dissertation “Crossing Regions\, Nations\, Empires: The Jews of Corfu and the Making of a Jewish Adriatic\, 1850-1914” examines how the Jews of the small Mediterranean island of Corfu created a regional commercial and cultural network in the Adriatic during the nineteenth century. The protagonists are the merchants\, publishers and rabbis who lived in Corfu and created intimate ties with Corfiote and non-Corfiote Jews\, Muslims\, Catholics and Christian Orthodox peoples in several cities: Italian Padua\, Ottoman-Albanian Scutari and Hapsburg Trieste. The Corfiote Jews created a distinctively Jewish regional space through circulating religious discourses and commodities such as the etrog fruit\, soap\, and people.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/etrog-ever-jewish-science-trade-religion-19th-century/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20180108T212423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180203T014916Z
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SUMMARY:Looking at the Irish with Envy: American Zionism and the Uses of Irish Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Irish nationalist Daniel O’Connell depicted in an 1847 Pennsylvania poster. Via Wikimedia Commons. \nOf the minority nationalisms that American Zionists encountered in a United States context rife with nationalist activity\, it was the Irish movement that they most admired. Why was this\, and what lessons did Zionists take from Irish nationalism? \nHistorian Judah Bernstein will tackle these questions and others in this lunchtime talk. \nThis is a brown bag lunch event – bring a lunch to enjoy during the talk. \nAbout the Speaker\nJudah Bernstein received his Ph.D. at New York University in Hebrew-Judaic Studies and History. His dissertation examined the evolution of Zionism in America in the early 20th century. \nHe is currently an adjunct lecturer at Rutgers University and a faculty fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talk-looking-irish-envy-american-zionism-uses-irish-nationalism/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20180104T193823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T201414Z
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: From Shylock to Charlottesville: Jews\, money\, and racism
DESCRIPTION:Virulent centuries-old tropes about Jews\, money and power have reemerged in the public square. What is the history of these themes and their implications for people of all races and creeds? \nJoin Dr. Constanze Kolbe\, UW’s 2017-18 Hazel D. Cole Fellow\, for a conversation about these particularistic themes and their universal impact. \nDinner provided. RSVP for on-campus location. \nOpen to all undergrads and graduate students. Limited to 15 students.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-event-from-shylock-to-charlottesville/
CATEGORIES:Student
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20180108T184718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T185331Z
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SUMMARY:Salud y Shalom: Jews in the Spanish Civil War
DESCRIPTION:American Jewish volunteer George Watt marches with his unit in Spain \nEighty years ago\, nearly 3\,000 Americans embarked for Europe to join the democratically elected Spanish Republic in its effort to repel a military coup led by Francisco Franco. Nearly one-third of the American volunteers were Jews. \nIn the early ’90s\, Professor Joe Butwin interviewed dozens of these Jewish veterans of the Spanish Civil War\, collecting their stories and inviting them to reflect on the connection between their Judaism and their decision to serve. \nNow\, in collaboration with the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, Professor Butwin has curated a new digital exhibit presenting the recollections of five of these volunteer service members – three soldiers and two nurses – who discuss their motivations\, their experiences during the war\, and their connections to Judaism\, past and present. \nFrom the “Salud y Shalom” homepage \nThis multimedia project brings together veterans’ voices\, via original audio recordings of the interviews\, and contemporary photographs and artifacts\, creating a vivid portrait of a radically different period in the American Jewish past. \nIn this event\, Professor Butwin will talk about the origins of the project\, the war volunteers he spoke with in the 1990s\, and the process he went through in translating his materials into an accessible online format. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nNote: We are expecting full capacity for this event. While we cannot guarantee space to guests who did not RSVP\, there will be a first come\, first served waitlist. We hope to be able to accommodate everyone who is interested in the program. \nExplore “Salud y Shalom: American Jews in the Spanish Civil War\, 1936-1939”: \n \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talk-salud-y-shalom-jews-spanish-civil-war/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180129T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20180104T192441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180104T194127Z
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: Feasting with Faculty ft. Prof. Halperin
DESCRIPTION:Join Liora Halperin\, UW’s new Benaroya Chair in Israel Studies and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History while enjoying a free vegetarian dinner at a local restaurant. \nCome hungry\, and ready to share a student’s perspective on UW and learn more about Prof. Halperin. \nRSVP for location. \nOpen to undergraduate and graduate students only. Limited to 10 students.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/feasting-with-faculty-ft-prof-halperin/
CATEGORIES:Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180118T132000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20171207T203220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T205813Z
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SUMMARY:Fences: Jews as Dealers in Stolen Goods in Early Modern Poland
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Shaul Stampfer \nWhile most Jews in early modern Poland had standard occupations\, there is a great deal of evidence that many of the limited numbers of “fences” (dealers in illicit goods) were Jewish. \nThe active presence of Jews as “fences” is well documented in other Ashkenazi communities across Europe\, as well. Why is this? This talk will explore the reasons why Jews entered and succeeded as fences and the ways in which Jewish communities dealt with this illicit activity. \nJews and non-Jews had different concepts aroung the legal status of stolen objects\, and these changing ideas explain why Jews regarded “fencing” in different ways than non-Jews did. While the Christian authorities in Poland could have clamped down on fencing\,had they wanted to\, it seems that the benefits to society outweighed the negative consequences. \nThis seemingly simple topic reveals many of the complexities of inter-group relations in diverse societies. \nThis will be a “brown bag” lunch event. Please bring your own lunch and learn while you eat! \nSpeaker Bio\nProf. Shaul Stampfer grew up in Portland\, Oregon\, went to college in New York\, and continued eastward for his graduate and post-graduate studies. He earned his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a resident of Jerusalem ever since.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talk-fences-jews-dealers-stolen-goods-early-modern-poland/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
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SUMMARY:Enforcing Ethnic Nationalism: Partition and Population Exchange in the Modern Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, pundits and diplomats alike have repeatedly proposed partition – and its twin\, forcible population exchange – as “solutions” to what they depict as inveterate sectarian conflict across the Middle East. In this lecture\, Laura Robson explores the twentieth-century history of such ideas\, suggesting that proposals for partition and population transfer originated not from humanitarian concern for victimized communities but as concrete strategies for political and military intervention in the Middle East. In particular\, she discusses how Zionism and other early twentieth century models of ethno-communal settlement contributed to a new rhetoric and practice of French and British colonial state-building via Assyrian and Armenian refugee resettlement in interwar Syria and Iraq\, resulting in imperially produced geographies of ethnicity that permanently impacted the political landscape of these emerging states. \nSpeaker Bio\nLaura Robson (PhD Yale\, 2009) is an associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Portland State University. Her most recent book\, States of Separation: Transfer\, Partition\, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (University of California\,2017) explores the history of forced migration\, population exchanges\, and refugee resettlement in Iraq\, Syria\, and Palestine during the interwar period. She is also the author of Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine and editor of Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/robson-enforcing-ethnic-nationalism/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180108T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20171214T004213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171229T203240Z
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SUMMARY:Book launch with Prof. Sasha Senderovich at Elliott Bay Books
DESCRIPTION:Professor Sasha Senderovich will discuss his recently published translation of the 1929 Yiddish-language novel Judgment in this evening at The Elliott Bay Book Company. Prof. Senderovich’s translation\, a collaboration with Professor Harriet Murav of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, is the first time Bergelson’s portrait of a Jewish shtetl in the Russian Revolution has been rendered into English.  \nRSVP is not required for this event. Inquiries should be directed to the Elliott Bay Book Company. Learn more about this event here. \nBook synopsis\nNever before available in English\, Judgment is a work of startling power by David Bergelson\, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era. \nSet in 1920 during the Russian Civil War\, Judgment (titled Mides-hadin in Yiddish) traces the death of the shtetl and the birth of the “new\, harsher world” created by the 1917 Russian Revolution. As Bolshevik power expanded toward the border between Poland and Ukraine\, Jews and non-Jews smuggled people\, goods\, and anti-Bolshevik literature back and forth. In the novel’s fictional town of Golikhovke\, the Bolsheviks have established their local outpost in a former monastery\, where the non-Jewish Filipov acts as the arbiter of “judgment” and metes out punishments and executions to the prisoners held there: Yuzi Spivak\, arrested for anti-Bolshevik activities; Aaron Lemberger\, a pious and wealthy Jew; a seductive woman referred to as “the blonde” who believes she can appease Filipov with sex; and a memorable cast of toughs\, smugglers\, and criminals. \nOrdinary people\, depicted in a grotesque\, aphoristic style—comparable to Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry—confront the overwhelming\, mysterious forces of history\, whose ultimate outcome remains unknown. Murav and Senderovich’s new translation expertly captures Bergelson’s inimitable modernist style. \nBios\nSASHA SENDEROVICH is an assistant professor of Russian and Jewish studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published on Soviet Jewish culture and literature\, including on Yiddish writer Moyshe Kulbak’s novel The Zelmenyaners\, as well as on contemporary fiction by émigré Russian Jewish writers in America. \nDAVID BERGELSON (1884–1952)\, a Jewish novelist\, short-story writer\, and literary editor\, was born in Ukraine. He moved to Berlin in 1921 and traveled throughout Europe and the United States until Hitler came to power in Germany. He returned to the Soviet Union in 1934\, where he was eventually executed under Stalin’s orders. The author of The End of Everything and Descent\, Bergelson was one of the most widely read Yiddish-language writers of the twentieth century. \nHARRIET MURAV is a professor of Russian and comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia and Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky’s Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/senderovich-elliott-bay-books/
LOCATION:The Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20161018T214744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T094829Z
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SUMMARY:Referendum on the Deli Menu: American Jewish Nostalgia and the Deli Revival
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in American Jewish cuisine. Restaurateurs are making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century\, emphasizing sustainability\, reliance on local goods\, and the slow food movement. Through a playful\, edible nostalgia for the Jewish deli\, contemporary American Jews express their longing for authentic Jewish pasts\, build community in the present\, and pass on their values to future generations. \nBio\nProf. Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently working on a book that examines the religious nature of contemporary nostalgic representations of American Jewish immigration history. She received her PhD in Religion from Princeton University in 2014. \nWenn man in seiner Jugend z.B. jeden Tag aktiv Sex hatte apothekeein.com\, und das sogar mehrmals\, dann ist mit 40-50 Jahren die Grenze der sexuellen Möglichkeiten erreicht – stimmt das? Physiologisch gesehen ist diese Aussage völlig unbegründet. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/referendum-deli-menu-american-jewish-nostalgia-deli-revival/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171111T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171111T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20170915T002537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170915T005251Z
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SUMMARY:5th Annual International Ladino Day: Yasmin Levy in Concert
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the 5th Annual International Ladino Day\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is proud to present a concert with Sephardic singer Yasmin Levy\, to be held at the Stroum Jewish Community Center in Seattle in conjunction with Town Hall Seattle.\n \nIn her haunting\, deeply spiritual and passionate style of singing\, Yasmin Levy preserves and revives the most beautiful\, romantic songs of her Ladino/Judeo-Spanish heritage and fuses them with the distinctive\, smoldering sounds of Andalusia. Yasmin uniquely blends old and new – traditional Sephardic Jewish ballads with new flamenco – and evokes the emotional rhythms and style of ancient Spain and the Middle East.\n \nThe performance will be followed by a Q&A with Prof. Devin Naar\, the Chair of the Stroum Center’s Sephardic Studies Program\, along with Jon Kertzer\, co-curator of Town Hall Seattle’s Global Rhythms concert series.\n \nPlease note that tickets to this event will be sold by Stroum Jewish Community Center (SJCC) and are available online here.\n \nContact SJCC’s box office at BoxOffice@SJCC.org or 206.388.0833 for more details.\n \nThis event is sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, the Sephardic Studies Program\, the Stroum Jewish Community Center\, and Town Hall Seattle. It is made possible by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5th-annual-international-ladino-day-yasmin-levy-concert/
LOCATION:Stroum Jewish Community Center\, 3801 East Mercer Way\, Mercer Island\, WA\, 98040\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20170818T214601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T051059Z
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SUMMARY:Unsettling the Occupation: Israel and Palestine in 2017 with Prof. Gershon Shafir
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Shafir will speak about his new book\, A Half Century of Occupation \nThe Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the world’s most polarizing confrontations. Its current phase\, Israel’s “temporary” occupation of the West Bank\, Gaza\, and East Jerusalem\, turned a half century old in June 2017. \nShafir will give a talk based on his new book\, A Half Century of Occupation (University of California Press\, 2017). In the book’s timely and provocative essays\, Gershon Shafir asks three questions —What is the occupation\, why has it lasted so long\, and how has it transformed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? \nShafir demonstrates that at its fiftieth year\, the occupation is riven with paradoxes\, legal inconsistencies\, and conflicting interests that weaken the occupiers’ hold and leave the occupation itself vulnerable to challenge. \nGershon Shafir is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California\, San Diego\, and the founding director of its Human Rights Program. He has served as President of the Association for Israel Studies and is the author or editor of ten books\, among them Land\, Labor\, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict\, 1882–1914. He is also the coauthor\, with Yoav Peled\, of Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship\, which won the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award in 2002\, and the coeditor\, with Mark Levine\, of Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel. \nNote: The contents of this event do not represent an official position of the University of Washington or the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \nThis event will take place on November 7\, 2017 at 3:30pm in Thomson Hall 317. Refreshments will be provided; please RSVP below.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/gershon-shafir/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20170810T183234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180104T193533Z
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: Feasting with Faculty ft. Prof. Senderovich
DESCRIPTION:Join Sasha Senderovich\, a professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies\, for informal conversation over a free vegetarian dinner. \nOpen to undergraduate and graduate students only. \nNo cost. \nRSVP for location. \nThis event is limited to 15 students.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-event-feasting-faculty-ft-prof-senderovich/
LOCATION:RSVP for location
CATEGORIES:Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171024T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20170221T225118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171018T212352Z
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: Medical Ethics: A Conversation with an Expert
DESCRIPTION:Meet other students and enjoy complementary Veggie Grill with Dr. Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz\, who will challenge us with a compelling case study related to her upcoming Winter course\, Bioethics: Jewish and Secular Perspectives.\n \n\nIn addition to being a sought-after lecturer in Hebrew\, Dr. Khazzam-Horovitz received a PhD in Medical Ethics/Bioethics at the UW.\n \nRSVP to reserve your spot.  \nNote: This conversation will be the main focus of the JSSAC meeting scheduled for this time. \n\nOpen to all undergrads.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/students-jssac/
LOCATION:THO 403
CATEGORIES:Student
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20170705T234817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T205856Z
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SUMMARY:Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies for the inaugural Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture. \nAward-winning essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman will trace the footsteps of the three very different architects who helped to shape modern Jerusalem. \nAbout this talk\nThe celebrated Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn was a refugee from Hitler’s Germany\, a man of fiercely held views about both politics and aesthetics\, and the creator of several singular Jerusalem buildings. The “most private of public servants\,” Austen St. Barbe Harrison\, British Mandatory Palestine’s chief government architect from 1922-1937\, arrived in the city steeped in the traditions of Byzantine and Islamic building\, and left behind a number of remarkable structures. And the mysterious Greek-Arab architect Spyro Houris\, once a fixture on the local scene\, has been utterly forgotten\, though his grand\, Armenian-tile-clad buildings still stand\, a ghostly testimony to the cultural fluidity that has historically characterized Jerusalem at its best. \nBased on her critically acclaimed new book\, Till We Have Built Jerusalem\, Hoffman’s talk uncovers layers of one great city’s buried history as it asks what it means to be foreign and to belong. \nBio\nEssayist and biographer Adina Hoffman writes often of the Middle East\, approaching it from unusual angles and shedding light on overlooked dimensions of the place\, its people\, and their cultures. She is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood\, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century\, and\, with Peter Cole\, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza\, which won the American Library Association’s prize for the best Jewish book of 2011. The Los Angeles Times called her most recent book\, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City\, “brave and often beautiful\,” and Haaretz described it as “a passionate\, lyrical defense of a Jerusalem that could still be.” Her essays and criticism have appeared the Nation\, the Washington Post\, the TLS\, the Boston Globe\, and on the World Service of the BBC.  A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and one of the inaugural winners of the Windham-Campbell Literary Prizes\, she divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven. \n\nThis lecture is generously supported by the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Fund for Excellence in Israel Studies. \nThe Jackson School and Stroum Center would like to thank the cosponsors of this event:\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\, Cinema & Media\nMiddle East Center – Jackson School of International Studies
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/israel_studies_adina_hoffman/
LOCATION:Kane Hall — Walker-Ames Room and 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170929T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170929T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20170810T184546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T204004Z
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SUMMARY:Talking International Studies @ Dawg Daze
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Studies is one of seven majors offered by the Jackson School of International Studies. \nMeet other International Studies students\, advisers and staff to learn about classes\, internships\, study abroad and career possibilities all over the world. \nWe will have globally-minded food\, fun and prizes. \nUndergraduate\, transfer\, and graduate students welcome. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talking-international-studies-dawg-daze/
LOCATION:HUB 334\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170929T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170929T113000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20170810T185232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T203816Z
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SUMMARY:Learn Salsa with the Jackson School @ Dawg Daze
DESCRIPTION:¡Vamos a bailar! \nLearn and practice the basic rhythms and footwork of salsa dancing with Reinier Valdes\, an Afro-Cuban master dancer and leader of the “La Clave Cubana” dance troupe. No dance experience or partner necessary. Free snacks. \nEat\, Salsa and be merry! \nSponsored by the Jackson School of International Studies\, the home of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/learn-salsa/
LOCATION:HUB 334\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20160923T003138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170726T175451Z
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SUMMARY:Stroum Lecture Night 2: Jewish Emancipation and the Radical Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about Spinoza\, and read writing by Jonathan Israel and other Spinoza scholars\, at the 2017 Spinoza & Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference website.\n \nThe 2017 Stroum Lectures will feature Prof. Jonathan Israel of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The second night’s lecture\, on May 23\, 2017\, will explore “Eighteenth-Century Jewish Emancipation: a Consequence of the Radical Enlightenment?” \nJonathan Israel’s recent work focuses on the impact of radical thought (especially Spinoza\, Bayle\, Diderot\, and the eighteenth-century French materialists) on the Enlightenment and on the emergence of modern ideas of democracy\, equality\, toleration\, freedom of the press\, and individual freedom. His books include European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism\, 1550–1750 (1985); The Dutch Republic: Its Rise\, Greatness\, and Fall\, 1477–1806 (1995); Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity\, 1650–1750 (2001); Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy\, Modernity\, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752 (2006); and A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (2009). \nProf. Israel received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1972. Prior to the IAS\, he taught at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne\, the University of Hull\, and University College London. He has been awarded numerous prizes\, including the PROSE Award 2015; City of Amsterdam\, Frans Banninck Cocq Medal 2012; London Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts\, Manufactures and Commerce\, Benjamin Franklin Medal 2010; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize in History 2008; Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion 2004; American Historical Association\, Leo Gershoy Award 2001; Wolfson Literary Award for History 1986. He is a member of the British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nJewish Emancipation and the Radical Enlightenment\nThe process of Jewish emancipation in Europe proved to be long\, hard\, and bitter. Most people\, most churchmen\, and most governments\, as well as most academics in Europe did not accept that Jews had rights equal to those of other citizens until well into the second half of the nineteenth century. How then did Jewish emancipation come about? What were the forces that dismantled the near-universal prevalence of restrictions that controlled where Jews could live\, excluded them from occupations\, limited their property rights\, kept them out of the universities and excluded them from holding public office? \nThis lecture will explore how the Jewish emancipation is inseparable from the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century revolutionary tendency\, especially the subversive call for “universal and equal rights” that first arose in the 1770s and 1780s. The intellectual forces that rallied behind the call for Jewish emancipation were the same as those fighting for “universal and equal rights” in Europe generally– the Radical Enlightenment.  \nBecause of this\, modern Jewish history is fundamentally embedded in a style of political and religious thinking that was anti-monarchical\, anti-aristocratic and anti-ecclesiastical\, one that began in Holland with the group around Baurch Spinoza in the seventeenth century. This Radical Enlightenment included a long list of subversive thinkers and revolutionaries from a variety of backgrounds\, including a remarkable batch of Jewish revolutionaries before Marx: Moses Mendelssohn\, the “gentle revolutionary\,” Zalkind Hourwitz\, Hartog de Hartog Lemon\, Ludwig Börne\, Heinrich Heine\, Moses Hess. Even young Marx himself can be seen as part of this tradition–until he turned away from democracy and equal rights\, rejected Spinoza\, and finally became a “Marxist.” \n\nThis year’s Stroum Lectures will take place in conjunction with the international conference on “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy\,” taking place at the UW on May 21-22\, 2017. Learn more about the conference\, which has been organized by Prof. Michael Rosenthal\, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies and professor in the Department of Philosophy. \n  \n \nPowered by Eventbrite\n\n\nRelated Events:\n\nStroum Lecture Night 1\, May 21\, 2017: “In What Sense was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?” featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference\, May 21-22\, 2017: Hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\n\nRelated Links:\n\nStroum Lecture Digital Archive – watch lectures from previous years by scholars such as Ruth Behar\, Jonathan Sarna\, and Yael Zerubavel\nStroum Lectures at the University of Washington Press – browse titles that emerged from previous years’ Stroum Lectures\, including Yosef Haim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory and Ilana Pardes’ Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israel Culture.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lecture-jonathan-israel-night-2/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
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SUMMARY:Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Spinoza by Studio Odilo Girod. \nThis international conference aims to explore the myriad ways in which Spinoza contributed to the development of modern Jewish philosophy. Although Spinoza was banned from the Jewish community in 1656 due to his “abominable heresies\,” posterity has come to see his work differently. For some he is the central figure of the radical Enlightenment and the secular world. For others he is the first modern Jew\, the harbinger of reforms that make Judaism possible in the modern world. Is Spinoza antithetical to the basic tenets of Judaism\, or is his work essential to the articulation of a modern Jewish identity? The sessions will explore Spinoza’s philosophy and its impact on the philosophical\, historical\, and literary understanding of the modern world. \nConfirmed speakers include:\nLeora Batnitzky (Princeton University) ● Julie E. Cooper (Tel Aviv University) ● Paul Franks (Yale University) ● Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto) ● Michah Gottlieb (New York University) ● Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Studies\, Princeton University) ● Julie R. Klein (Villanova University) ● Tracie Matysik (University of Texas) ● Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) ● Michael Morgan (University of Indiana & University of Toronto) ● Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin) ● Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew University) ● Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington) ● Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) ● Abraham Socher (Oberlin College) \nThe conference schedule\, along with information about speakers and panels\, are online now on the conference webpage. Conference sessions (excluding meals) are free and open to the public; please register in advance. You may reserve a seat at either day session\, and attend any or all panels on that day. \nThe UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to host “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy” in conjunction with the 2017 Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel. Prof. Israel will be speaking on May 21st and 23rd\, 7:00 pm in Kane Hall. Click here for more information and registration for the Stroum Lectures. \nWe thank the following units for their support of this event: the Department of Philosophy\, the Department of Germanics\, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. \nRelated Events:\n\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 1 – May 21\, 2017\nSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/spinoza-modern-jewish-philosophy/
LOCATION:HUB 334\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
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SUMMARY:Stroum Lecture Night 1: In What Sense was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about Spinoza\, and read writing by Jonathan Israel and other Spinoza scholars\, at the 2017 Spinoza & Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference website.\n \nThe 2017 Stroum Lectures will feature Prof. Jonathan Israel of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. \nJonathan Israel’s recent work focuses on the impact of radical thought (especially Spinoza\, Bayle\, Diderot\, and the eighteenth-century French materialists) on the Enlightenment and on the emergence of modern ideas of democracy\, equality\, toleration\, freedom of the press\, and individual freedom. His books include European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism\, 1550–1750 (1985); The Dutch Republic: Its Rise\, Greatness\, and Fall\, 1477–1806 (1995); Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity\, 1650–1750 (2001); Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy\, Modernity\, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752 (2006); and A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (2009). \nProf. Israel received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1972. Prior to the IAS\, he taught at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne\, the University of Hull\, and University College London. He has been awarded numerous prizes\, including the PROSE Award 2015; City of Amsterdam\, Frans Banninck Cocq Medal 2012; London Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts\, Manufactures and Commerce\, Benjamin Franklin Medal 2010; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize in History 2008; Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion 2004; American Historical Association\, Leo Gershoy Award 2001; Wolfson Literary Award for History 1986. He is a member of the British Academy and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nIn What Sense was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?\nIn the centuries since his expulsion from the synagogue in 1656\, Spinoza has been a notorious figure within the Jewish world\, and in the wider Western world as a whole. Spinoza is seen as the very embodiment of irreligion\, of the rejection of religious authority\, and of skepticism about the Hebrew Bible as divine revelation. As several key passages of his writings make clear\, however\, his principal aim was not to spread irreligious attitudes\, but rather to promote “freedom” and to fight political tyranny\, especially tyranny in the form of great monarchical empires\, like those of Philip II of Spain and Louis XIV of France\, which operated in close alliance with religious authority. \nSpinoza was a revolutionary in his attempt to undermine political tyranny in alliance with institutionalized religion and philosophy in alliance with theology\, and in his efforts to move the intellectually aware toward the view that the democratic republic guaranteeing individual freedom is the best\, safest and freest form of government. In this respect\, Spinoza can be described as the greatest Jewish “revolutionary” before Karl Marx. \n\nFollowing Prof. Israel’s first Stroum Lecture\, the Stroum Center will host a kosher reception in the Walker Ames Room of Kane Hall. \nThis year’s Stroum Lectures will take place in conjunction with the international conference on “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy\,” taking place at the UW on May 21-22\, 2017. Learn more about the conference\, which has been organized by Prof. Michael Rosenthal\, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies and professor in the Department of Philosophy. \n  \n \nPowered by Eventbrite\n\n\nRelated Events:\n\nStroum Lecture Night 2\, May 23\, 2017: “Eighteenth-Century Jewish Emancipation: a Consequence of the Radical Enlightenment?” featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference\, May 21-22\, 2017: Hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\n\nRelated Links:\n\nStroum Lecture Digital Archive – watch lectures from previous years by scholars such as Ruth Behar\, Jonathan Sarna\, and Yael Zerubavel\nStroum Lectures at the University of Washington Press – browse titles that emerged from previous years’ Stroum Lectures\, including Yosef Haim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory and Ilana Pardes’ Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israel Culture.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lecture-jonathan-israel-night-1/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170521T171500
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
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SUMMARY:Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 1
DESCRIPTION:This international conference aims to explore the myriad ways in which Spinoza contributed to the development of modern Jewish philosophy. Although Spinoza was banned from the Jewish community in 1656 due to his “abominable heresies\,” posterity has come to see his work differently. For some he is the central figure of the radical Enlightenment and the secular world. For others he is the first modern Jew\, the harbinger of reforms that make Judaism possible in the modern world. Is Spinoza antithetical to the basic tenets of Judaism\, or is his work essential to the articulation of a modern Jewish identity? The sessions will explore Spinoza’s philosophy and its impact on the philosophical\, historical\, and literary understanding of the modern world. \nConfirmed speakers include: \nLeora Batnitzky (Princeton University) ● Julie E. Cooper (Tel Aviv University) ● Paul Franks (Yale University) ● Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto) ● Michah Gottlieb (New York University) ● Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Studies\, Princeton University) ● Julie R. Klein (Villanova University) ● Tracie Matysik (University of Texas) ● Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) ● Michael Morgan (University of Indiana & University of Toronto) ● Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin) ● Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew University) ● Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington) ● Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) ● Abraham Socher (Oberlin College) \nThe conference schedule\, along with information about speakers and panels\, are online now on the conference webpage. Conference sessions (excluding meals) are free and open to the public; please register in advance. You may reserve a seat at both day sessions\, and attend any or all panels on that day. \nThe UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to host “Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy” in conjunction with the 2017 Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel. Prof. Israel will be speaking on May 21st and 23rd\, 7:00 pm in Kane Hall. Click here for more information and registration. \nWe thank the following units for their support of this event: the Department of Philosophy\, the Department of Germanics\, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. \nRelated Events:\n\nSpinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference: Day 2 – May 22\, 2017\nSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel\n\n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/spinoza-modern-jewish-philosophy/
LOCATION:Hillel UW\, 4745 17th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20161024T221630Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Life in Conflict Zones
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. \n“Non-Muslim Military Service and Minority Experience in the Late Ottoman Empire”\nOzgur Ozkan – 2016-17 I. Mervin & Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\nOzgur Ozkan is a PhD candidate in the Jackson’s School International Studies doctoral program. He holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering and an MA degree in Regional Security Studies from the US Naval Postgraduate School. Ozgur is planning to study Sephardic Jewish heritage in the Northern Aegean and Southern Marmara\, especially in Canakkale and its vicinity. He is particularly interested in Sephardic Jewish participation in the Ottoman Gallipoli Front in the First World War and the immigration patterns of Sephardic Jews of this region. \n“Effects of Violence on Civilian Support for Militancy”\nEmily Gade – 2016-17 Samuel & Althea Stroum Fellow\nEmily Gade is a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on civilians in conflict zones\, political violence and nonviolent resistance\, and she is especially interested in the role of ZAKA recovery workers in Israel. Before coming to Seattle\, she worked as a contract research and writer\, most recently completing research for the LSE Center for the Study of Global Governance on peace agreements. Emily also enjoys athletic endeavors\, having competed at the 2012 Olympic Trials (rowing) in the lightweight double sculls and placed second in that same event at the 2013 US National Team Trials. \nProfessor Noam Pianko will serve as moderator and respondent for these presentations. \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/life-in-conflict-zones/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T140000
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CREATED:20170501T150414Z
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SUMMARY:Tabling Outside Thomson!
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nJoin UW Stroum Center outside Thomson hall to learn about upcoming courses and to get a free Stroum Center Tote Bag! \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/tabling-outside-thomson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T131500
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
CREATED:20170130T195628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170403T210414Z
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SUMMARY:Screening of "Ha'Ivrim" ("The Writers") and Discussion with Professor Sokoloff
DESCRIPTION:Access Students and community members are invited to join Professor Naomi Sokoloff for a screening of an episode from the Israeli television series Ha’Ivrim (“The Writers”) about the Sephardic cantor and hymnist Rabbi David Buzaglo. \nThe Moroccan-born rabbi\, considered the greatest Hebrew liturgical poet of the 20th century\, took inspiration from all sources\, including even Arab pop music in the synagogue while remaining faithful to a musical tradition dating back to Andalusian Spain. \nProfessor Sokoloff will lead a discussion after the screening. \nPlease bring a lunch; the Stroum Center will provide complimentary tea\, coffee and cookies. \nThe film is in Hebrew with English subtitles. \nCo-sponsored with UW’s Department of Near Eastern Language and Civilization. \n  \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/screening-haivrim-writers-discussion-professor-sokoloff/
LOCATION:HUB 334\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T134500
DTSTAMP:20260406T023914
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn with Dr. Federica Francesconi
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center is proud to host Dr. Francesconi’s lunchtime talk\, “The Italian Jewish Household in the Early Modern Mediterranean\,” with a response from Dr. Rena Lauer. Complimentary falafel lunch to be provided. Please RSVP to ensure enough food. \n \nFederica Francesconi (PhD\, University of Haifa) is Assistant Professor of History and the Howard Berger-Ray Neilsen Chair in Judaic Studies at The College of Idaho. Her research and publications address the social\, religious\, and cultural aspects of the early modern history of Jews in Italy\, focusing on the multifaceted politics and dynamics of ghetto life. She has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania\, the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and the University of Oxford. She has just completed a monograph\, Invisible Enlighteners: Modenese Jewry from the Renaissance to Emancipation. Her new book project is tentatively entitled “Cosmopolitan Intimacy: Jewish Spaces as Crossroads for Multi-Religious Communities in Early Modern Italy.” \n  \nRespondent Rena Lauer (PhD\, Harvard) studies minority life on the borders of medieval Christendom and cross-cultural contacts in the late medieval Mediterranean. Her current book project is a social history of the Jews of Venetian Crete in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries\, particularly through the lens of intra-Jewish litigation in the Venetian secular courtroom. \n  \nThis seminar is made possible thanks to the American Academy of Jewish Research. \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/feasting-faculty-federica-francesconi/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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