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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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SUMMARY:2/28 EVENT | "Muestros Artistas" [Our Artists] Sephardic Arts Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Image: ‘The Inquisition’ by Ellen Benjoya Skotheim. \nJoin us for a celebration of Sephardic art\, music\, poetry and prose. “Muestros Artistas” [Our Artists] brings six Sephardic American artists together for the first time in Seattle to share their work with each other\, with our community\, and to explore what it means to create Sephardic art in the 21st century. \nWatch the program now:\n \nFeatured artists include: \n\nAsher Shasho Levy — musician and hazzan\nEllen Benjoya Skotheim — multidisciplinary artist\nHarry Naar — painter\nJane Mushabac — playwright and writer\nSarah Aroeste — singer-songwriter and author\nTom Haviv — writer\, artist\, and publisher\n\nOn Tuesday\, February 28\, the two-day symposium event will culminate in a showcase that is free and open to the public. There\, you can enjoy Sephardic fare\, artist performances and a panel discussion led by Gabriel Solis\, Divisional Dean of the Arts. \nPresented by the Sephardic Studies Program and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.\nSupported by the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement in Sephardic Studies.\nCo-sponsored by HillelUW and the Division of the Arts at the University of Washington. \nAbout the artists\n\n\n Oudist\, vocalist\, and multi-instrumentalist Asher Shasho-Levy is a Syrian Jewish musician and scholar of Sephardic heritage and culture\, who seeks to spread the beauty of the Sephardic tradition through his writing\, recording\, research\, and concerts. He performs and teaches internationally and is the founder and leader of the Aram Soba Ensemble\, a group dedicated to the musical heritage of Syrian Jewry. Studying with elders and scholars in the Sephardic community of Los Angeles\, Asher has amassed a large repertoire of liturgical music\, secular song in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic\, as well as piyyutim\, pizmonim and baqashot\, the religious poetry and song of the Jewish Middle East. \n\n\n A Personal Odyssey from Maimonides to Benjoya bridges the gap between art and life\, the ancestral and the contemporary. Ms. Ellen Benjoya Skotheim’s work combines prints\, artist books and textiles to examine her Sephardic family’s history. This Jewish family left Spain during the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 and migrated to the Ottoman Empire where they remained until the beginning of World War I. Then the family emigrated to Cuba\, South America and the United States. Using a personal lens\, these works focus on a 500 year period of history. \n\nHarry Naar is professor emeritus of Fine Arts at Rider University in Lawrenceville\, NJ\, where he taught drawing\, painting\, and art history for nearly forty years. He served as the founder and director of the university’s art gallery and curator of the art collection. Along with curating several hundred exhibitions\, Naar has conducted interviews and written and published catalogs on numerous artists. Born in New Brunswick\, NJ\, he received his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and his MFA from Indiana University. He also studied in Paris where he met frequently with the figurative painter Jean Hélion. Naar is best known for his still lifes and landscapes\, and has exhibited his work in over thirty one-person exhibitions and over a hundred group exhibitions throughout the country\, including at the Corcoran Museum (D.C.)\, the High Museum (Atlanta)\, the NJ State Museum (Trenton)\, and abroad\, including in Moscow and Havana. His work is also included in numerous public and private art collections\, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters which awarded him the Hassam\, Speicher\, Betts and Symons Fund Purchase Award\, Bristol Myers Squibb Co.\, Vassar College\, The New Jersey State Museum\, Rutgers University\, and Johnson & Johnson. \n Writer Jane Mushabac’s many awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. Her work has been performed on National Public Radio\, at Jazz at Lincoln Center\, and in cities here and abroad; her writing has appeared in periodicals including Jewish Currents\, Midstream\, Aki Yerushalayim\, The Village Voice\, AJS Perspectives\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Sephardic Horizons\, and Chautauqua\, and has been translated into Russian\, German\, Bulgarian\, Turkish\, and Ladino. Her Ladino short stories and other pieces have been published in both Ladino and English.Her novel\, His Hundred Years\, A Tale\, introduces a scrappy Jewish peddler who sells his wares in theOttoman Empire and in New York. Her writing has been called “bold and ambitious” (Sewanee Review). Morris Dickstein praised her novel’s “crisp detail and dappled mosaic”; Ari Goldman said the novel “calls to mind the work of Orhan Pamuk—it’s that good”; Tovah Feldshuh said it’s “rowdy and absorbing.”Since 2018 Dr. Mushabac\, Professor emerita of City University of New York\, has curated the annual New York Ladino Day at the Center for Jewish History.\n\n Inspired by her family’s roots in Northern Macedonia and Greece\, Sarah Aroeste is determined to bring Sephardic culture to new audiences. Since 2001\, Aroeste has toured the globe presenting traditional and original Ladino songs with her unique blend of Balkan sounds\, pop\, and jazz. She has recorded eight albums\, including the all-original Ladino children’s album\, Ora de Despertar\, the bilingual Ladino/English holiday album Together/Endjuntos\, the boundary pushing Gracia\, a feminist musical homage to Sephardic heroine Doña Gracia Nasi\, and the award-winning Monastir\, an international musical tribute to a once thriving Balkan Jewish community. In 2014 she won the Sephardic prize at the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam\, and in 2015 she represented the USA in the International Sephardic Music Festival in Córdoba\, Spain. Sarah is currently co-directing her newest initiative\, Savor: A Sephardic Music & Food Experience\, which unites Sephardic song and cuisine in multi-sensory platforms. In addition to composing songs\, Sarah has published numerous articles and essays about Sephardic cultural preservation and writes Sephardic themed books for children\, including Buen Shabat\, Shabbat Shalom (Kar-Ben 2020)\, and the forthcoming Mazal Bueno (Kar-Ben 2023).\n\n\n \nTom Haviv is a writer\, artist\, educator\, and publisher based in New York. He authored a book of poetry\, Flag of No Nation (Jewish Currents\, 2019)\, and the children’s books\, Woven (Somewhere\, 2018) and The Porcupine Prince (Somewhere\, 2023). He is the cofounder and creative director of Ayin Press as well as the founder of the Hamsa Flag Project. \n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/muestros-artistas/
LOCATION:Kane Hall — Walker-Ames Room and 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:3/12 FILM | Sephardic Spotlight at Seattle Jewish Film Festival: "Alegría" (Happiness)
DESCRIPTION:Film: ALEGRÍA\nVioleta Salama | Narrative Comedy/Drama | Spain | 2021 | Spanish\, Chelja w/English subtitles | 104m | PG \nThe North African city of Melilla—where Jews\, Muslims\, and Christians converge—is the unique backdrop for this moving\, comedic family drama where Alegría must face her Jewish family and rejected heritage during her niece’s Orthodox wedding. \nShowing with short film SONGS OF THE SEPHARDIM IN IZMIR. \nSpecial Event: Sephardic Spotlight + “Echar lashon”\nAt 12:55\, Prof. Canan Bolel of  UW Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures will briefly introduce Alegría and Songs of the Sephardim in Izmir. After the film ends around 3:10\, join us outside the theater to “echar lashon”\, the Sephardic version of schmoozing including coffee\, tea\, and biscochos! \nIn-Person Showtime: March 12 | AMC | 1 pm • Streaming Window: March 20-26 \nBuy Tickets >\n\nShort Film: SONGS OF THE SEPHARDIM IN IZMIR\nBrooke Saias\, Anna Clare Spelman | Short Documentary | Turkey | 2022 | English and Turkish\, Ladino w/Engish subtitles | 16m \nIn Izmir\, an ancient Turkish city rich with religious history and culture\, Ceni grew up hearing Ladino at home\, but the language wasn’t passed down. Through music and song\, Ceni finds a deep connection with her heritage and works to preserve Ladino—the endangered language of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain—for future generations. \n\nTo browse the rest of the films offered this year at SJFF\, check out the Films page. For all things SJFF\, including FAQs\, ticket procurement\, etc.\, check out the event program page and watch the event trailer here. \n\nThis screening is made possible by:\nFilm Sponsors:\nMaureen and Joel Benoliel\nCeleste and David Rind\, in memory of Bernice Rind z”l\nSamis Foundation \nCatering Sponsors: Dancing Goats Coffee\, Sholom Tea \nCommunity Partners: \n\nSeattle Sephardic Network\nSephardic Studies Program of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\nDepartment of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/3-12-film-sephardic-spotlight-at-seattle-jewish-film-festival-alegria-happiness/
LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine Street\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY: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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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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SUMMARY:4/3 TALK | Sarah Zaides Rosen on "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter"
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nIn this talk\, historian and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ Associate Director Sarah Zaides Rosen will trace the story of 19th- and 20th-century Russian Jews who left the Pale of Settlement\, crossed the Black Sea and arrived in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul)\, all in the twilight years of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. \nThis talk will introduce listeners not only to a fascinating Jewish community where Sephardic Jews were the majority (and Ashkenazi Jews the minority)\, but also to the ways in which Sephardic Jews responded to a refugee crisis\, and in turn how they contended with contemporary political ideas\, including Zionism. \nThe audience will also learn about hopeful Jews who created agricultural colonies in the western Aegean region of Turkey (such as Or Yehuda)\, funded by philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch and aided by the nascent agricultural school Mikveh Israel. There\, in these early “kibbutz”-like colonies\, Russian and Ashkenazi Jews would either await Ottoman citizenship\, which would allow them to move on to the Land of Israel\, or slip through the borders between what is now Turkey\, Syria\, and Israel. \nCentered on the book “Tevye’s Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire“\, Sarah will discuss Jewish identity in the late Ottoman world\, and the ways in which Zionism was being debated and interpreted in the late Ottoman context. \nRegister Now >\n\nPresented by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \nCosponsored by the Departments of History and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the Ellison Center for Russian\, East European\, and Central Asian Studies\, and the Middle East Center. \nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Sarah Zaides Rosen received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Washington in 2017 and her B.A. from the University of California San Diego. She was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and has held the Titus Ellison Fellowship and multiple Joff Hanauer Fellowships at the University of Washington. Her research has been supported by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture\, Brandeis University\, and the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Zaides Rosen is currently Associate Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. \nIn conversation with Professors Canan Bolel (MELC) and Devin E. Naar (History and Jewish Studies). \n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/szr-book-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY: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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T204500
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T183000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230524
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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T020658
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230530T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T020658
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230922T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230922T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T020658
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SUMMARY:9/ 22 DAWG DAZE | Shared Spaces: The Making and Remaking of Black and Jewish Seattle
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is proud to be collaborating with Black Heritage Society President Stephanie Johnson-Toliver and local Jewish historian Howard Droker to offer a walking tour of the Central District‘s historic Black and Jewish neighborhoods. On Friday\, 9/22 at noon\, this Dawg Daze event will take a group off campus to an area where immigrants and ethnic minorities lived\, shaping the vibrant character of the district over the past century. While strolling through the neighborhood for approximately 2 miles\, students will view some of the cultural hub’s most important houses of worship (like synagogues turned to churches and mosques) and shared gathering spaces. Come join us to discover Seattle through the eyes of two of its oldest ethnic communities. \nRSVP\n\nCo-sponsored by American Ethnic Studies. \n \nWe will meet outside of Thomson Hall at noon in front of the bust of David Thomson\, where we will board a bus that will arrive in Seattle’s Central District around 12:30 pm. \nAfterwards\, we’ll finish the tour at Cafe Selam. \n  \n  \nTo learn more\, check out some of our related journal articles and exhibits: \n\nUncovering the history of Seattle’s first settlers from the Ottoman Empire\nSeattle Sephardic Legacies\nBetween Rhodes and Seattle: Three generations of Sephardic women in family letters\n“Hidden manuscripts\, come out!”: Seattle Sephardic Legacies highlights Ladino literature
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/dawg-daze-shared-spaces-the-making-and-remaking-of-black-and-jewish-seattle/
LOCATION:Outside Thomson Hall\, King Ln NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T020658
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SUMMARY:PANEL - POSTPONED | Jewish History and Jewish Memory Revisited: Yerushalmi’s 'Zakhor' at 40
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center is turning 50 years old and author Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor isn’t far behind! Please join us for the first SCJS 50th Anniversary event of the year. \nNote: This event has been postponed to a TBD date later in autumn quarter. Check back soon for more information. \nA tribute to Zakhor\nRachel B. Gross\, an expert on Judaism and American Jewish history\, will open the conversation by addressing Yerushalmi’s influence on the field of Jewish Studies. Then she will give an overview of how and why she uses the term “nostalgia” to bridge what Yerushalmi sees as a division between Jewish history and memory. \nAcross all editions\, just under 20\,000 copies of Zakhor have been sold to date! This panel on Jewish history and Jewish memory will be moderated by faculty member Nicolaas P. Barr (Comparative History of Ideas)\, who specializes in antisemitism\, intellectual history and modern Europe. Faculty member Jason Groves (German Studies)\, who specializes in memory studies in the context of ecology\, will share his perspective as well. \nRSVP\nNote: This event has been postponed to a TBD date later in autumn quarter. Check back soon for more information. \nAbout the speakers\n\n\n Rachel B. Gross is Associate Professor and John and Marcia Goldman Chair in American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. She is a religious studies scholar who studies twentieth- and twenty-first-century American Jews. Her book\, Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice\, is a 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist in American Jewish Studies and received an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize\, given by the American Jewish Historical Society. She is currently working on a religious biography of the twentieth-century immigration writer Mary Antin. \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. \n Jason Groves is an associate professor of German Studies at the University of Washington\, where he is also a core faculty member in the Environmental Cultures and Values minor. His research interests encompass literature and art in German romanticism and realism\, Jewish German literature\, especially post-Holocaust poetry\, literary theory\, cultural criticism\, memory studies\, and trauma studies\, particularly in the context of historical and ongoing ecological crises.\nSince 2019 he has co-organized the Colloquium on Transcultural Approaches to Europe and from 2016-2019 he co-organized the Cross-disciplinary Research Cluster on the Anthropocene\, both funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. \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/10-12-panel-jewish-history-and-jewish-memory-revisited-yerushalmis-zakhor-at-40/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T200000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED | "Luminous": Book Talk and Art Showcase with Canadian Jewish Author and Artist Linda Dayan Frimer
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Canadian Studies Center (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)\, we are hosting Linda Dayan Frimer\, a Jewish artist with Eastern European roots from Vancouver\, Canada whose art focuses on the dignity and preservation of both culture and nature. \nThis event will start with a happy hour and art exhibit\, followed by a lecture. As part of our Stroum Center 50th Anniversary events\, Frimer will present on her new book\, Luminous: An artist’s story as a guide to radical creativity. She maintains that “radical creativity in this sense reaches the foundational core of self where real change occurs\, through the sharing of story\, art\, nature and culture in a global\, Canadian and Jewish context.” \nIn conversation with faculty member Galya Diment. \nNote: This event has been postponed to a TBD date later in the 2023-24 academic year. Check back soon for more information. \n\nCo-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. \nAbout the author and artist\nLinda Dayan Frimer is an internationally recognized artist and celebrated facilitator\, whose esthetically powerful works of art address memory\, trauma\, culture\, and the environment. Born in the wilderness town of Wells\, British Columbia\, Frimer was immersed in the wonder of the surrounding landscape. At a young age\, she overheard stories of the Holocaust and became determined to champion and protect the sanctity of all life forms. She turned to art as her natural medium. Her work with the Gesher Intergenerational Holocaust project made an astonishing contribution to healing trauma through creativity while her work with Cree artist George Littlechild resulted in a book entitled “In Honor of our Grandmothers”\, sharing reverence and championing dignity of those who have suffered. Frimer’s artworks have supported the work of environmental organizations such as the Trans Canada Trail\, Raincoast Conservation Foundation\, and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. “Some paintings beg comparison with Emily Carr’s famous forests\, but Frimer’s light-filled spaces and Post-Impressionist/Fauvist palette will hit a stronger emotional chord with many people” – in British Columbia Reviews by Michael Kluckner. Her new book\, nominated for many awards\, “Luminous: An artist’s story as a guide to radical creativity\,” reaches the foundational core where real change occurs. \nAbout the moderator\nGalya Diment is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington. Her teaching specialties include Russian literary and cultural history\, the works of Vladimir Nabokov\, and Russian Jewish film. \nProf. Diment received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and is on the editorial boards of Nabokov Studies\, Russian Studies in Literature\, and Studies in Russian and European Literature. She has authored and edited eight books\, among them “Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel” (1997; Paperback 2013)\, and “A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky” (2011; Paperback 2013). \nHer essay about her grandfather\, who was a rabbi near Vitebsk\, and his family was featured in a Vitebsk publication\, “Mishpoka\,” in 2013. Her articles have also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, New York Magazine\, and London Magazine. \nShe is currently working on a book about Jewish painters from Vitebsk at the turn of the twentieth century — “Vitebsk and Beyond: Yehuda Pen\, Marc Chagall\, and Leon Gaspard.” \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/10-26-event-book-talk-and-art-showcase-with-author-and-artist-linda-dayan-frimer/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 225\, UW Campus
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T203000
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SUMMARY:11/16 LECTURE | What Can Jewish Mothers Teach Us About Jewish Origins and Ethnicities?
DESCRIPTION:From ancient biblical narratives to cutting-edge genomic research\, putting mothers at the center of our questions\, definitions\, and research into Jewish history can provide unexpected insights and startlingly unfamiliar perspectives. As part of our Stroum Center 50th Anniversary events\, author Cynthia Baker will discuss how this is especially true in relation to issues of race/ethnicity and its entanglements with gender\, religion\, and nationality. \nIn conversation with faculty member and SCJS Director Mika Ahuvia. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Click the button below to register:  \nRegister Now >\n \nAbout the speaker\n \nCynthia M. Baker is the author of “Jew” in the Key Words in Jewish Studies series\, published by Rutgers University Press. The book offers a wide-ranging exploration of this key term that lies not only at the heart of Jewish experience but also at the core of Western civilizational projects. Baker is Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Bates College in Lewiston\, Maine\, USA\, where her teaching and research engage broadly with Jewish history and historiography\, early Christianity\, gender\, violence\, and religio-ethnic nationalisms. \nAbout the moderator\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. \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. In the book\, Ahuvia uncovers how angels made their way into the practices and worldview of ancient Jews and makes sense of why angels continue to play such an important role within and outside of institutional religious settings. \nAhuvia teaches courses in Jewish Studies\, comparative religion\, and global studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and is also the Stroum Center’s Undergraduate Program Coordinator.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/11-16-lecture-what-can-jewish-mothers-teach-us-about-jewish-origins-and-ethnicities/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231203T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T020658
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SUMMARY:12/3 EVENT | Ladino Day 2023: 'Kantika'\, a Sephardic Novel by Author Elizabeth Graver
DESCRIPTION:Join author Elizabeth Graver in conversation with Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies Devin E. Naar  for a discussion of “Kantika\,” a moving\, multi-generational saga inspired by Graver’s grandmother. Rebecca Baruch Levy (née Cohen) was born into a Sephardic Jewish family from Istanbul in the early 20th century\, and her kaleidoscopic journey takes her to Barcelona\, Havana\, and ultimately New York\, exploring themes of displacement\, endurance\, and family as home. \n“Kantika” — meaning “song” in Ladino — is a lush\, lyrical novel which celebrates the legacy of language\, and the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one’s one and only life. \n“Far from being a Pollyannaish tale of New World success\, ‘Kantika’ is a meticulous endeavor to preserve the memories of a family\, an elegy and a celebration both.” — Ayten Tartici\, New York Times\, April 2023 \n\nAbout the speakers\nElizabeth Graver’s fifth novel\, “Kantika” (Metropolitan Books/Holt\, 2023)\, was inspired by her grandmother\, Rebecca Baruch Levy (née Cohen)\, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul\, and whose tumultuous and shape-shifting life journey took her to Spain\, Cuba and New York.  German and Turkish editions are forthcoming. Elizabeth’s fourth novel\, The End of the Point\, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her other novels are “Awake\,” “The Honey Thief\,” and “Unravelling.” Her story collection\, “Have You Seen Me?\,” won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories\, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards\, The Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and Best American Essays. The mother of two daughters\, she teaches at Boston College. \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Born and raised in New Jersey\, Dr. Naar graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University. He has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. \n\nLadino Day 2023 is supported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund in Sephardic Studies and presented in partnership with the Sephardic Brotherhood of America. \nLadino Day 2023 is also cosponsored by the Departments of History\, Linguistics\, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures\, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington\, as well as by Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, Sephardic Heritage International (SHIN) DC\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington (TACAWA).
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/12-3-event-ladino-day-2023-feat-elizabeth-graver/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:1/14 EVENT | Photojournalist B.A. Van Sise\, “Invited to Life” Survivor Portraits
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URL:https://sjcc.org/event/photojournalist-b-a-van-sise-invited-to-life/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:1/24 WEBINAR | A New Day in Babylon and Jerusalem: Zionism\, Power\, Politics\, and Identity
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, based upon her forthcoming second book project\, historian and author Sara Hirschhorn will consider the modern histories of Zionism and the Left\, the rise of transnational “power” movements\, and the unraveling of American Jewish unanimity around Israel between 1967 and 1975.  The talk will historically inform pressing and politicized questions in the face of resurgent contemporary antisemitism. \nThe event will be held in Zoom webinar format. \nClick the button below to register and receive a link to the event: \nRegister Now > \n \nAbout the speaker\nSara Hirschhorn is currently a visiting professor at the University of Haifa Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Haifa Comper Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism and Racism. She is also a research fellow at the Center for Antisemitism Research at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and a fellow of the Jewish People Policy Institute. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 2012. \nHer research\, teaching\, and public engagement activities are focused on the Israeli settler movement\, the Arab-Israeli conflict\, and Diaspora-Israel relations. These interests culminated in her first book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement (Harvard University Press\, 2017)\, which won the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature Choice Award and was a finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award. \n \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sara-hirschhorn-zionism-power-politics-identity/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:1/31 LECTURE | The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Finding a Path Forward - Lecture with Alon Tal
DESCRIPTION:After a century of conflict\, it is often said that in the Middle East the past is the enemy of the future. Nonetheless\, it is unwise to consider alternatives for resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict without understanding the antecedents to the present Gaza War\, the concerns of the sides and the key reasons behind the failed past efforts for reconciliation. \nAlon Tal\, a leading Israeli environmentalist and former member of the Knesset\, Israel’s parliament\, has been working to promote cooperation in sustainability between Israel and its neighbors for almost thirty years. \nThis talk will briefly consider the basic history of the military conflicts in the region\, how the present war in Gaza is changing perceptions\, the shift in the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East\, and the prospects for transforming the present tragedy in order to open a new page in the relations between these historic adversaries. \nRegister to attend the event: \nRegister Now > \nThis event will also have a livestream option. View the livestream on YouTube: \nLivestream: The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Finding a Path Forward \n \nAbout the speaker\nAlon Tal is a visiting professor in sustainability at Stanford University and a professor of public policy at Tel Aviv University. In 2021 and 2022\, he was a member of Israel’s Knesset\, where he chaired the country’s first parliamentary sub-committee on climate change and the environment. \n \nThis lecture is cosponsored by the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Ph.D. Program and by the Middle East Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/alon-tal-israel-palestine-path-forward/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED | Time's Echo: The Second World War\, the Holocaust\, and the Music of Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:Writer\, music critic\, and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler will present on the relationship between music\, war\, and memory\, as presented in his recent book Time’s Echo: The Second World War\, the Holocaust\, and the Music of Remembrance. \nNote: This event has been postponed. Check back soon for more information. \n \nAbout the speaker\n \nAn award-winning writer\, scholar and critic\, Jeremy Eichler is the author of Time’s Echo\, a new book on music\, war and memory that has been named “History Book of the Year” by The Sunday Times and hailed as “the outstanding music book of this and several years” by The Times Literary Supplement. Published by Knopf in North America and Faber in the U.K.\, Time’s Echo was a finalist for the UK’s premier non-fiction prize\, and is currently being translated into six languages. \nEichler is the recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for writing published in The New Yorker\, a fellowship from Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, and a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He earned his PhD in modern European history at Columbia University and has taught at Brandeis University. His criticism has appeared in The New York Times and many other national publications\, and since 2006\, he has served as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe. \n \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/times-echo-second-world-war-holocaust-music-of-remembrance/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:2/14 LUNCH & LEARN | Exile\, Diaspora\, and the Jews in the Roman and Byzantine Era with Mika Ahuvia
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear Professor Mika Ahuvia present on her forthcoming paper\, Exile\, Diaspora\, and the Jews in the Roman and Byzantine Era. \nAbstract: In the centuries around the turn of the Common Era\, successive empires repeatedly enslaved thousands of Jews and displaced them from their homeland. Displaced Jews joined established Jewish communities dispersed over three continents and lacked uniform\, central or stable governance structures for the first one thousand years of the Common Era. Jews who witnessed the expulsions of their co-religionists drew on historical precedents and biblical models to develop new conceptions of God’s ongoing faithfulness to the Jewish people (e.g. the Shekhina). A full account of Jewish experiences of exile and forced migration in the Roman era must acknowledge divergent responses found in a variety of textual sources (e.g. rabbinic literature\, piyyut\, Targum\, Latin and Greek witnesses) as well archaeological sources (e.g. funerary inscriptions\, synagogue art\, incantation bowls) from ancient Syro-Palestine and beyond. \nLunch will be provided. This event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Click the button below to register: \nRegister Now > \n \nAbout the speaker\n \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. \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. In the book\, Ahuvia uncovers how angels made their way into the practices and worldview of ancient Jews and makes sense of why angels continue to play such an important role within and outside of institutional religious settings. \nAhuvia is the Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and teaches courses in Jewish Studies\, comparative religion\, and global studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/mika-ahuvia-lunch-and-learn-winter-2024/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 317\, Thomson Hall 317\, Seattle
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Workshop
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SUMMARY:2/22 LECTURE | Jerusalem in Rome and Galilee: Encountering the Holy City in Jewish and Christian Mosaics
DESCRIPTION:The city of Jerusalem has long been of vital importance to numerous religious groups\, from antiquity to the present. But where did rank-and-file believers in the ancient world actually encounter images of the “Holy City” in their daily lives? And what cultural and social work did these images perform? \nJoin Professors Karen Britt and Ra‘anan Boustan as they explore a wide range of depictions of Jerusalem in floor and wall mosaics produced during late antiquity (third to eighth centuries CE). During this period\, which saw the emergence of both orthodox Christianity and novel forms of Judaism\, visual representations of Jerusalem became increasingly prominent in the decoration of religious buildings throughout the Mediterranean\, from the grand basilicas of Rome in the west to rural synagogues and churches in Palestine and Arabia in the east. They will show how images of Jerusalem bridged the great gaps in both space and time that separated the religious communities of late antiquity from Jerusalem and its glorious past. In the process\, these images brought the visual presence of the Holy City into spaces of worship throughout the Roman Empire\, thereby fostering memories of the past\, hopes for the future\, and forging networks of belonging that radiated out from this sacred center into the cities\, towns\, and even villages of the late Roman world. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Middle East Center in the Jackson School of International Studies\, the School of Art + Art History + Design\, the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, and the Department of Classics at the University of Washington. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, however RSVP is required. Click the button below to register: \nRegister Now >\nAbout the speakers\n\nKaren Britt is assistant professor of art history at Northwest Missouri State University. As an art historian engaged in archaeology\, her research focuses on the eastern Mediterranean. She has worked on archaeological projects at various sites in the region\, and is currently the mosaics specialist for the Huqoq Excavation Project in Israel. In her scholarship\, Britt explores how architectural decoration\, in particular mosaics\, can illuminate culture and society in the late Roman\, Byzantine\, and early Islamic worlds. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the U.S. Department of State’s division of Educational and Cultural Affairs\, the J. William Fulbright Foundation\, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation\, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. She is the co-author of The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq (2017) and has authored or co-authored articles published in venues including Studies in Late Antiquity\, Journal of Late Antiquity\, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research\, Mediterranean Studies\, Journal of Art Historiography\, and Journal of Roman Archaeology. Britt has collaborated with Ra‘anan Boustan since 2014 on the publication of the synagogue mosaics in the village of Huqoq in lower eastern Galilee. \n Ra‘anan Boustan has been a Research Scholar in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University since 2017. Before coming to Princeton\, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of History at UCLA. Boustan’s work explores the dynamic intersections between Judaism and other Mediterranean religious traditions in late antiquity\, with a special focus on the impact of Christianization on Jewish culture and society. In addition to publishing numerous articles and edited volumes\, Boustan is the author of From Martyr to Mystic (2005) and co-author of The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq (2017). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of two international journals\, Jewish Studies Quarterly and Studies in Late Antiquity. Boustan is the site historian for the Huqoq Excavation Project and collaborates with Dr. Karen Britt on the publication of the mosaic floor in the site’s late fourth-century synagogue. \nBritt’s and Boustan’s collaboration represents a close partnership between a specialist in late antique material culture who has worked on mosaics at archaeological sites in the eastern Mediterranean and a historian of religion with expertise in literary evidence\, especially the Jewish textual tradition from the Hellenistic\, Roman\, and Byzantine periods. They endeavor not only to bring their respective tools and expertise to bear on their work on mosaics\, but more importantly to develop as much as possible a fully integrated approach that avoids privileging one type of historical source. \n \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jerusalem-rome-galilee-holy-city-jewish-christian-mosaics/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:2/28 LUNCH & LEARN | The Invention of the Postcard: The Circulation of Jewish Visual Culture in Ottoman and Greek Salonica with Shalom Sabar
DESCRIPTION:The invention of the postcard in the late nineteenth century revolutionized how people exchanged information and images. While first introduced in the United States\, the postcard quickly spread across the world. In the realm of the Ottoman Empire\, where post offices had operated since the middle of the nineteenth century\, the postcard added a new dimension to the emerging technologies of communication. \nJoin us to hear Professor Shalom Sabar discuss how his review of extensive collections of Jewish postcards from Salonica (1897-1917) helps us to understand the self-perception and the experience of the Jews living in the city. \nLunch will be provided. This event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Click the button below to register: \nRegister Now > \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Division of Art History at the University of Washington. \n \nAbout the speaker\nShalom Sabar is a Professor Emeritus of Jewish Art and Folklore at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. in Art History at the University of California\, Los Angeles in 1987. He is the author of more than 250 publications exploring Jewish art and the material culture of Jewish communities in the Sephardi and Ashkenazi worlds in Europe and the Islamic East. His research areas include Jewish ceremonies and rituals\, life cycle events\, objects of daily life\, ephemera\, folk art\, amulets\, and magic\, as well as the visual culture of illustrated Hebrew books and manuscripts. Shalom Sabar is also an avid collector of Israeli and Jewish ephemera and has guided numerous traveling seminars to Jewish sites in Europe\, North Africa\, India\, and Central Asia \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/shalom-sabar-lunch-and-learn-winter-2024/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 317\, Thomson Hall 317\, Seattle
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:3/27 EVENT | A Spark of King David: The Musical Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Can a 16th-century religious Hebrew poet remain relevant to contemporary audiences? Rabbi Israel Najara’s poetic legacy proves that this is indeed possible. A Middle Eastern contemporary of William Shakespeare\, nicknamed “A Spark of King David” by his followers\, Najara’s poems continue to be used for Jewish rituals and festivities in the present day. \nJoin us to hear from Professor Edwin Seroussiwhy Rabbi Najara’s poetry of hope and redemption has persisted in synagogues\, in Jewish homes\, and on Israeli pop stages to this very day. \nRegister Now >\nAlso register for Edwin Seroussi’s talk on Thursday\, March 28\, at 7:00 p.m.:\nSonic Ruins of Modernity: Ladino Folksongs Today \n\nAbout the speaker\n \nEdwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre\, Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College and\, in 2023/4\, Fellow at the Herbert G. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on Jewish musical cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East and their interactions with Islamic cultures\, Judeo-Spanish song and music in Israel. He explores processes of hybridization\, diaspora\, nationalism and transnationalism in diverse contexts and historical periods such as the Ottoman Empire\, colonial Morocco and Algeria\, Germany’s Second Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire\, the Zionist settlement in Palestine and the Judeo-Spanish-speaking diaspora.\n\nThis series is cosponsored by the UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the UW Middle East Center\, the UW Near and Middle East Studies Ph.D. Program\, ArtsUW\, part of the College of Arts and Sciences\, and by the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington. \nIt was made possible with the support of the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement\, which was created in partnership with the Isaac Alhadeff Foundation and the Benoliel Family Fund\, with additional support provided by Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, as well as Jack I. Azose\, Howard Behar\, Harley and Lela Franco\, Jeff and Jamie Merriman Cohen\, Jack Schaloum and Marlene Souriano Vinikoor.\n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or by emailing jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/musical-poetry-of-rabbi-israel-najara/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Israel Studies,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:3/28 LECTURE | Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Ladino Folksongs Today
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on his forthcoming book\, “Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today\,” musicologist Edwin Seroussi will examine a repertoire of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) folksongs transmitted by Sephardic Jews\, a process made possible by a complex network of people and forces extending from the distant past to the “post-tradition era” of the present. \nIn addition to the lecture\, Ke Guo\, musician and Ph.D. candidate in the UW School of Music\, will perform Sephardic folksongs. \nRegister Now >\n\nAlso register for Edwin Seroussi’s talk on Wednesday\, March 27\, at 7:00 p.m.:\nA Spark of King David: The Musical Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara Then and Now \n\nAbout the speaker\nEdwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre\, Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College and\, in 2023/4\, Fellow at the Herbert G. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on Jewish musical cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East and their interactions with Islamic cultures\, Judeo-Spanish song and music in Israel. He explores processes of hybridization\, diaspora\, nationalism and transnationalism in diverse contexts and historical periods such as the Ottoman Empire\, colonial Morocco and Algeria\, Germany’s Second Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire\, the Zionist settlement in Palestine and the Judeo-Spanish-speaking diaspora. \n\nThis series is cosponsored by the UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the UW Middle East Center\, the UW Near and Middle East Studies Ph.D. Program\, ArtsUW\, part of the College of Arts and Sciences\, and by the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington. \nIt is presented by the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement\, created in partnership with the Isaac Alhadeff Foundation and the Benoliel Family Fund\, with additional support provided by Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, as well as Jack I. Azose\, Howard Behar\, Harley and Lela Franco\, Jeff and Jamie Merriman Cohen\, Jack Schaloum and Marlene Souriano Vinikoor.\n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or by emailing jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/edwin-seroussi-judeo-spanish-folksongs/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:4/11 LECTURE | Contemporary Ethiopian Artists in Israel and the Question of Hyphenated Identity
DESCRIPTION:Artist and researcher Efrat Yerday will draw upon the work of several contemporary visual artists\, including Zauditu Yossef-Seri\, Tgst Ron Yossef\, Michal Mamit Worku\, and Nirit Takele\, as well as the works of younger artists\, including Ephraim Wasse\, Jenet Belai\, and Rachel Aniyu\, to illustrate the challenges faced by Ethiopian Jewish artists in Israel today. \nYerday will discuss how Israeli artists of Ethiopian descent often feel forced to choose one side of their identity in their lives and work\, along with the diverse strategies these artists use to navigate these challenges. \nRegister Now >\n\nAbout the speaker\nEfrat Yerday is an artist and researcher\, poet and cultural entrepreneur. She is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Tel Aviv University\, writing about Ethiopian Jews in Israel between 1955-1975 and the struggle for citizenship. Yerday is also the chairwoman of the Association for Ethiopian Jews and in 2020 won New Israel Fund’s Gallanter Prize for emerging Israeli social justice leaders. \nYerday is the co-editor of “The Monk and the Lion: Contemporary Ethiopian Visual Art in Israel” (Achoti Press\, 2017) and wrote the epilogue for the 2018 Hebrew translation of Zora Neal Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” In 2018\, Yerday joined film director Bazi Gete in coordinating the Atesib! African film festival\, the first of its kind in Israel. \nHer scholarly work has appeared in the journal Anthropology of the Middle East and she was a panelist and presenter at the Annual Israeli Sociological Society Conference in 2020 and 2021. \n\nThis event is cosponsored by the UW African Studies Program. \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/efrat-yerday-ethiopian-artists-in-israel-hyphenated-identity/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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