BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230922T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230922T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20230803T003151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230912T054228Z UID:42009-1695384000-1695394800@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CDtour4-scaled-e1691690778737.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20230608T165558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231103T235506Z UID:42053-1697137200-1697142600@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Zakhor-event-page.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20230808T184954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231018T182713Z UID:42055-1698345000-1698350400@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wild_Garden_of_Earthy_Delight-1600x1065-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20230809T030405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T215723Z UID:42067-1700161200-1700166600@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Baker-portrait-HighRes-Cynthia-Baker-croppedresized-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231203T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231203T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20230808T190830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T180238Z UID:42069-1701597600-1701601200@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EventPicresized.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240114T153000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240105T205320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T192515Z UID:42849-1705240800-1705246200@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:1/14 EVENT | Photojournalist B.A. Van Sise\, “Invited to Life” Survivor Portraits DESCRIPTION:  URL:https://sjcc.org/event/photojournalist-b-a-van-sise-invited-to-life/ CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Invited-to-Life.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T133000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240105T204334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T190720Z UID:42720-1706097600-1706103000@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sara-Hirschhorn-Header.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240102T220225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T211830Z UID:42763-1706727600-1706733000@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Jordan-Valley-Path-scaled-e1704998928481.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240102T220118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T204758Z UID:42765-1707418800-1707424200@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Untitled-design.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240209T180828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240209T185547Z UID:43004-1707912000-1707915600@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/arch_of_titus_menorah-copy.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240222T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240102T220219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T222328Z UID:42778-1708628400-1708633800@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Jerusalem_Madaba-Map-Mosaic.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240209T183135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T233026Z UID:43011-1709121600-1709125200@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/sephardic-postcard.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240327T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240327T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240109T185931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T192246Z UID:42827-1711566000-1711571400@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Edwin_Seroussi-Najara-collage-e1704826813888.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240328T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240328T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20231107T215930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T173119Z UID:42645-1711652400-1711657800@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Sonic-Ruins-of-Modernity-photo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240103T000837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T183123Z UID:42822-1712862000-1712867400@jewishstudies.washington.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/פרופיל-2022-Efrat-Yerday-1-scaled-e1704240456264.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240318T194342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T210854Z UID:42969-1715108400-1715113800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:5/7 STROUM LECTURE | The Complexities of Jewish Friendships: Jews and Non-Jews in Imperial Germany DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2024 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series\, featuring acclaimed Holocaust historian Marion Kaplan. \nThe first lecture in the series will focus on grassroots social interactions between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans and\, where possible\, on the feelings these evoked among Jews—both heartening and discouraging. Antisemitism set limits on Jewish success and also the boundaries against which Jews pushed relentlessly — and often successfully.  Although the lecture will focus on Jews\, moments of acceptance and animosity provide a vantage point from which to study the diversity of German society as well. \nLearn more and register for the following lecture\, happening Thursday May 9\, here. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Click the button below to register: \nRegister Now > \n \nAbout the speaker\nMarion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History Emerita at NYU. She is a three-time National Jewish Book Award winner for The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women\, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991)\, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998)\, and Gender and Jewish History (with Deborah Dash Moore\, 2011) as well as a finalist for Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua (2008). Her other monographs include: The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany; Jewish Daily Life in Germany\, 1618-1945 (ed.); and Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal\, 1940-45 (2020). \nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies are an annual series of talks given by luminaries in the field of Jewish Studies\, hosted by Stroum Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For more than thirty years\, through the generosity of Samuel and Althea Stroum\, Jewish Studies has been able to bolster public scholarship around Judaism. View highlights from the past thirty years below\, or scroll further to learn more about the history of the lectures and view the full archive. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/stroum-lectures-2024-friendship-fear-life-imperial-germany-escape-nazi-germany/ LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UWM-Libraries-1940s-Bartholomews-map-of-Europe-adjusted.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240318T194542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T200028Z UID:42977-1715281200-1715286600@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:5/9 STROUM LECTURE | Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2024 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series\, featuring acclaimed Holocaust historian Marion Kaplan. \nIn her second lecture\, Kaplan will focus on the experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and then lived in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals these refugees experienced\, she will highlight their complicated feelings as they fled their homes and histories\, while having to beg strangers for kindness. \nLearn more and register for the first lecture\, happening Tuesday May 7\, here. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Click the button below to register: \nRegister Now > \n \nAbout the speaker\nMarion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History Emerita at NYU. She is a three-time National Jewish Book Award winner for The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women\, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991)\, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998)\, and Gender and Jewish History (with Deborah Dash Moore\, 2011) as well as a finalist for Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua (2008). Her other monographs include: The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany; Jewish Daily Life in Germany\, 1618-1945 (ed.); and Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal\, 1940-45 (2020). \nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies are an annual series of talks given by luminaries in the field of Jewish Studies\, hosted by Stroum Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For more than thirty years\, through the generosity of Samuel and Althea Stroum\, Jewish Studies has been able to bolster public scholarship around Judaism. View highlights from the past thirty years below\, or scroll further to learn more about the history of the lectures and view the full archive. \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/stroum-lectures-2024-friendship-fear-life-imperial-germany-escape-nazi-germany/ CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UWM-Libraries-1940s-Bartholomews-map-of-Europe-adjusted.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240625T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240625T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240522T185320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T183114Z UID:43297-1719342000-1719347400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:6/25 LECTURE | Not a Good Time for Hebrew? Novelist Maya Arad & "The Hebrew Teacher" DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lively discussion with best-selling Hebrew-language author and Stanford University faculty member Maya Arad. \nOften called the “foremost Hebrew writer outside Israel\,” Arad will discuss her latest book\, “The Hebrew Teacher\,” which presents three remarkable novellas focusing on Israeli American life\, with Professor Naomi Sokoloff. \nThis event will be held in person on the UW main campus. Please register for more details: \nRegister Now >\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n \nMaya Arad is the author of eleven books of Hebrew fiction\, as well as studies in literary criticism and linguistics. Born in Israel in 1971\, she received a Ph.D. in linguistics from University College London and for the past twenty years has lived in California\, where she is currently writer in residence at Stanford University’s Taube Center for 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 Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/novelist-maya-arad-hebrew-teacher-not-a-good-time-for-hebrew/ LOCATION:RSVP for location CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Maya-Arad-Header.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240923T172536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193355Z UID:43590-1728986400-1728991800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:10/15 PANEL | The Scholarly Legacy of Hayim Katsman DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, October 15\, 2024\, to commemorate the life of Hayim Katsman\, Ph.D. 2021 and 2018-2019 Stroum Center graduate fellow. \nThis memorial event will feature a panel led by UW Professor Emeritus Joel Migdal\, with remarks from others who knew Katsman’s scholarly works well. \nOpen to the public\, this event will take place as a Zoom webinar\, with an in-person viewing option on the University of Washington campus. \nRegister Now >\nAbout the event\n\nIn this event\, Joel Migdal\, UW Professor Emeritus of International Studies\, along with a panel of other distinguished scholars\, will discuss the scope and impact of Hayim Katsman’s academic works\, which focused on the interrelationship between religion and politics in the Middle East\, with a focus on the Religious Zionist movement. \nPanelists \nJoel Migdal\, Professor Emeritus\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, University of Washington \nYoav Duman\, Professor\, Green River College \nLiora Halperin\, Professor\, History\, University of Washington \nFrancis Abugbilla\, Lecturer\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, University of Washington \nJim Wellman\, Professor of Comparative History\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, University of Washington \nHannah Wacholder Katsman\, Hayim’s mother \nRegister for the event > \nEvent will be offered as a Zoom webinar with in-person viewing option. For in-person\, please register to receive the location information in advance of the event. \nThe in-person event will be followed by a kosher reception. \nAbout Dr. Katsman\n\nHayim Katsman graduated in June 2021 from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington with a Ph.D. in international Studies. His doctoral focus was in religions\, cultures\, and civilization\, and his research explored the interrelations between religion and politics in the Middle East\, with a focus on the Religious Zionist movement in Israel. He was murdered at his home on Kibbutz Holit on October 7\, 2023. \nPhoto of Hayim Katsman by Eliyahu Hershkovitz. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/scholarly-legacy-of-hayim-katsman/ LOCATION:UW Campus\, 1410 NE Campus Parkway\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195 CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Hayim-Katsman-outside-cropped-e1727114019851.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20241007T193311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T171657Z UID:43695-1729697400-1729702800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:10/23 COSPONSORED TALK | Rabbis in Zoroastrian Fire Temples: New Histories of Babylonian Jews DESCRIPTION: URL:https://history.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D177985137#new_tab LOCATION:UW Campus\, 1410 NE Campus Parkway\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195 CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Rabbis-in-Zoroastrian-Fire-Temples.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20241007T194715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T194715Z UID:43698-1730219400-1730224800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:10/29 COSPONSORED TALK | Were the Ancient Greeks Responsible for Antisemitism? DESCRIPTION: URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-10-29/were-ancient-greeks-responsible-antisemitism LOCATION:UW Campus\, 1410 NE Campus Parkway\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195 CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Greco-Roman-Mural-Dura-Europos-Synagogue-Syria.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20240923T185920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250716T164210Z UID:43602-1733652000-1733657400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:12/8 LADINO DAY | "The Familiar" with Author Leigh Bardugo DESCRIPTION:In Ladino Day 2024\, acclaimed fantasy author Leigh Bardugo (“Shadow and Bone”) discusses her new novel\, “The Familiar\,” which features a Sephardic Jewish heroine in 16th-century Spain who draws magic and power from her family’s secret language\, Ladino\, also known as Judeo-Spanish. \n\nAbout the event\n\nIn this event\, author Leigh Bardugo discusses her new novel\, “The Familiar\,” and its use of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)  with UW faculty member Canan Bolel\, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. \nIn the novel\, Bardugo follows the struggles of a “converso” heroine — from a family forced to convert to Christianity and keep its Jewish heritage secret in 16th-century Spain — who draws magic from her family’s secret language\, Ladino\, and the refranes (sayings) that preserve Sephardic Jewish wit and wisdom across time. \nIn the conversation\, Bardguo discusses what drew her to this story and setting\, how she wove Ladino into her narrative\, the family history that inspired her\, and the collaboration with Bolel that led to the selection of refranes included in the book. \nAbout Leigh Bardugo & Canan Bolel\n\nLeigh Bardugo is the New York Times bestselling author of “The Familiar” and “Ninth House\,” and is the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy\, the Six of Crows duology\, the King of Scars duology. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University.\n \nCanan Bolel is a historian of the Ottoman Empire’s Jewish communities and is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Her first book project\, “Constructions of Jewish Modernity and Marginality in Izmir\, 1860–1907\,” explores how Sephardic Jews constituted their identities in imperial and communal settings\, focusing on marginalized Jews — the diseased\, criminals\, and converts to Christianity. She teaches courses on Ladino every year at the UW\, and consulted on the use of Ladino in “The Familiar.”\n\nLadino Day 2024 is supported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies. This event is cosponsored by the Departments of History\, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures\, Spanish & Portuguese Studies and the Arts & Sciences Humanities Division at the University of Washington\, as well as the American Ladino League\, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2024-the-familiar-leigh-bardugo-sephardic-jews/ LOCATION:Kane Hall 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105 CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ladino-Day-2024_for-website-V-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20241204T231622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T201240Z UID:43854-1738782000-1738787400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:2/5 | Bad Jews: Bad for the Jews? Sex\, Shame and Moral Policing in Argentine Jewish History with Mir Yarfitz DESCRIPTION:How did twentieth century Argentine Jewish organizations view sexual morality? And how did these views impact the broader Jewish community? Hear guest lecturer Mir Yarfitz discuss this and more. \nRegister Now >\nAbout the event\n\nFearful not only of shame in front of non-Jews\, but violent reprisals\, Jewish leaders and institutions have often tried to keep dirty laundry indoors. In early twentieth century Argentina\, as the Jewish population became one of the largest in the world\, the Zwi Migdal\, a mutual aid and burial society of several hundred Ashkenazi Jews\, became infamous for moving thousands of Jewish sex workers across the Atlantic to brothels in South America. “Respectable” Jews battled this organization for decades\, and in later years continued public conflicts over other aspects of sexual morality\, raising debates about protecting Jews from antisemitism and from one another. \nRegister for the event > \nThis event is co-sponsored by UW’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies program \nAbout the speaker\n\n \nMir Yarfitz has lived in each of the four corners of the US as well as South and Central America. His enthusiasm for Latin America grew from his college study abroad experience in Nicaragua\, a Fulbright in Argentina\, and work with migrant farmworker labor unions in Washington\, Oregon\, and Georgia. His teaching and research interests include Latin American cultural production\, social movements\, dictatorships and resistance\, racial hierarchies\, migration\, gender\, sexuality\,  masculinity\, and transgender studies. His current research explores what might fruitfully be framed as trans lives in Argentina from 1900 to 1945\, as part of the larger development of archivally-based trans studies. His 2019 Rutgers University Press book  “Impure Migrations: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina”\, historicizes immigrant Ashkenazi Jews in organized prostitution in Buenos Aires between the 1890s and 1930s and in broader transnational flows of sex workers and moral opposition. In addition to publishing in the fields of Latin American trans studies\, sex work history\, and Jewish studies\, he has written collaboratively with a team of Wake Forest Librarians about their experiences in cooperative pedagogy and ungrading\, including creating a zine together about the books (and zines) their students have written. He is a 2023 Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award winner\, selected by students for bridging “the gap between the classroom and student life.” URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sex-and-shame-jewish-history-argentina/ LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AdobeStock_240340123-scaled.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T183000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20250203T180056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T183924Z UID:44184-1738859400-1738866600@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:2/6 | Letters from Mothers in the Thessaloniki Ghetto to their Sons: Researching the Holocaust through eye-witness accounts and intimate correspondence DESCRIPTION: URL:https://jsis.washington.edu/ellisoncenter/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D180106290#new_tab LOCATION:Communications 120\, UW Campus\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Photo-of-mother-and-son-with-violin.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ellison Center for Russian%2C East European and Central Asian Studies":MAILTO:reecas@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20241203T000327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T235828Z UID:43864-1739982600-1739988000@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:2/19 | Translating Freud: Psychoanalysis in the Popular Jewish Press with Naomi Seidman DESCRIPTION:Guest lecturer Naomi Seidman will take us inside  “the Freud craze” to explore the impact Freud’s work had on Eastern European Jews. \nRegister Now >\nAbout the event\nThe Austrian journalist Karl Kraus reportedly quipped\, “Psychoanalysis is the disease of assimilated Jews; Eastern European Jews make do with diabetes.” And yet\, Eastern European Jews were fascinated by Freud and psychoanalysis\, flocking to lectures on the subject and following Freud’s life and career with curiosity and enthusiasm. This lecture will trace “the Freud craze” in the burgeoning Hebrew and Yiddish press of the interwar period\, when readers eagerly sought information about “the most famous Jew in the world\,” and journalists and others were compelled to actively translate psychoanalytic terminology from German into Jewish languages. \nRegister for the event > \nPhoto credit: Nancy Rosenblum/Frisco Graphics \n\nAbout the speaker\nNaomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016\, and a National Jewish Book Award in 2019. Her writings include the 2006 Faithful Renderings: Jewish—Christian Difference and the Politics of Difference\, The Marriage Plot\, Or\, How Jews Fell in Love with Love\, and with Literature (2016) and the 2019 Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition. Her podcast\, “Heretic in the House\,” was released in 2022. Translating the Jewish Freud (2024) is her fifth book.\n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities Translation Studies Hub URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/2-19-translating-freud-psychoanalysis-naomi-seidman/ LOCATION:Communications 120\, UW Campus\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Freud_Glasses-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250311T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250311T124500 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20250228T180652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T000425Z UID:44299-1741685400-1741697100@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:Daytime panels: 50 years of impact on campus and beyond DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join past and present SCJS faculty and students as we mark fostering five decades of meaningful and insightful discussions on diverse Jewish experiences. \nWe have a full day of events planned\, starting with a series of daytime panels highlighting SCJS’s key accomplishments.\n \nMorning panels: “50 years of impact on campus and beyond”\n9:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m\, Petersen Room\, Allen Library \n\n9:30-10:15 – Panel 1: Engaging the Public: The Legacy of the Stroum Lectures\n\nModerator: Sasha Senderovich\, University of Washington\nAnita Norich\, University of Michigan\nRuth Behar\, University of Michigan\n\n\n10:15-11:00 – Panel 2: Launching the Next Generation of Scholars with the Cole and Graduate Fellowships\n\nModerator: Sarah Zaides Rosen\, University of Washington\n Michael Alexander\, University of California\, Riverside\nCharlotte Elisheva Fonrobert\, Stanford University\nBenjamin Lee\, University of Washington\n\n\n11:00-11:15 – Break — Coffee/Snack\n\n\n11:15-12:00 – Panel 3: Creating an Institutional Mark on UW’s Campus: Honoring our Faculty Trailblazers\n\nModerator: Noam Pianko\, University of Washington\n Paul Burstein\, University of Washington (emeritus)\n Hillel Kieval\, Washington University (emeritus)\n Joel Migdal\, University of Washington (emeritus)\n Sarah Stein\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n12:00-12:45 – Panel 4: Shaping the Future of Sephardic Studies: A Decade of Scholarship\, Global Engagement and Cultural Preservation\n\nModerator: Devin Naar\, University of Washington\n Canan Bolel\, University of Washington\n Jonathan Decter\, Brandeis University \n Makena Mezistrano\, Stanford University\nHannah Pressman\, Jewish Language Project\, Hebrew Union College\n\n\n\nRSVP HERE > URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/50-years-of-impact-on-campus-and-beyond/ LOCATION:Petersen Room\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/50th-hero-1400x700-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250311T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250311T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20250127T185601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250228T181801Z UID:44091-1741719600-1741725000@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:Today's campus conflicts and the future of Jewish Studies DESCRIPTION: URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/scjs-events/celebrating-the-stroum-center-at-50/ LOCATION:Kane Hall 210\, 4069 Spokane Ln NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105 CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/50th-evening-talk_1400x700.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T173000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20250324T231625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T183230Z UID:44484-1746720000-1746725400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:STROUM LECTURES 2025 | Jewish Women in Antiquity DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is proud to announce our 2025 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series\, featuring Bernadette Brooten from Brandeis University.  \n\n\nStroum Lectures 2025 | Jewish Women in Antiquity: Untold Stories of Leadership and Desire\nJoin us as 2025 Stroum Lecturer\, Bernadette Brooten\, explores new scholarship on taboo topics in Judaism and Christianity in the ancient world. While Judaism and Christianity today often emphasize conservative values\, the evidence suggests that ancient Jews were far more comfortable with women in leadership roles than many modern interpretations would acknowledge. This series provides an opportunity to grapple anew with how the Judeo-Christian tradition has dramatically changed over the centuries. \nLecture 1: Gender and Leadership in Ancient Synagogues\nTuesday\, May 6\, 7 – 8:30 p.m. | UW Campus\, Thomson Hall 101\nCould it be that some women held official positions in ancient Mediterranean synagogues? And where did women\, men\, and non-binary persons sit in these synagogues? Visiting scholar Brooten discusses ancient burial and other inscriptions and what we can know about gendered and non-gendered experiences. \nView a recording of this event: \n\n\nLecture 2: Jewish and Christian Women Desiring Women in the Early Roman Empire\nThursday\, May 8\, 4 – 5:30 p.m. | Zoom webinar\nThe Hebrew Bible does not prohibit or condemn sexual relations between women\, the New Testament does. Brooten will discuss why\, as well as compare ancient Jewish and Christian responses. Although not present in Jewish sources\, the names of women who desired other women appear in texts from an ancient Egyptian monastery. Jewish and Christian leaders overlap in condemning marriages between women\, raising the question of what they meant. \nView a recording of this event: \n\n\nAbout the speaker\n \nBernadette J. Brooten\, Ph.D.\, is the Kraft – Hiatt Professor Emerita at Brandeis University. She is also Director for the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project (https://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/). She researches enslaved and slaveholding women in early Christianity\, female homoerotic desire\, and texts on female-female marriage in the Roman world. Publications include: Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues (1982; 2020); Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (1996; 2020); and\, with Jacqueline L. Hazelton\, editor: Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies (2010). Fellowships include: MacArthur\, Fulbright\, Harvard Law School\, and Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. \n  \n\nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies are an annual series of talks given by luminaries in the field of Jewish Studies\, hosted by Stroum Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For more than thirty years\, through the generosity of Samuel and Althea Stroum\, Jewish Studies has been able to bolster public scholarship around Judaism. View highlights from the past thirty years\, learn more about the history of the lectures\, or view the full archive. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lectures-2025-exploring-the-roles-and-relationships-of-women-in-the-early-roman-empire-with-bernadette-j-brooten/ LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AdobeStock_138375124-scaled-e1746206933455.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20250516T200433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T200743Z UID:44737-1747731600-1747760400@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:AI and the Future of Holocaust Research & Memory: A Public Symposium DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ischool.uw.edu/events/2025/05/ai-and-future-holocaust-research-memory-public-symposium#new_tab CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/nazi-germany-1-e1566412310627.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T033551 CREATED:20250929T184116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T190302Z UID:44952-1761762600-1761769800@jewishstudies.washington.edu SUMMARY:10/29 | Book Launch - Gilah Kletenik's "Sovereignty Disrupted: Spinoza and the Disparity of Reality" DESCRIPTION:Please join the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies as we celebrate the recent publication of faculty member and Hazel D. Cole Fellow Gilah Kletenik’s new book\, “Sovereignty Disrupted: Spinoza and the Disparity of Reality.” \nIn it\, Kletenik takes a dazzlingly fresh reading of Spinoza’s “Ethics\,” thinking with Spinoza to present an alternative to dominant “Western” theories about the nature of reality\, the promise of reason\, and the status of humans. \nKletenik will be joined by Stroum Center Director Noam Pianko to discuss the book\, share how Jewish philosophy can be applied in this moment\, and answer questions. Light refreshments will be provided before the talk and the book will be available for purchase. \nRegister to attend > \n“It is rare to find a thorough and compelling reading of a great philosophical classic\, Spinoza’s ‘Ethics\,’ that upends some of the central presumptions about sovereignty that have populated standard readings for many years. Kletenik shows that sovereign rule functions neither as a political form nor as a model of conceptual mastery in that work. The implications of this thesis include the critique of anthropocentrism\, and the socially idealized human form upon which it depends. The book offers a way to expose and criticize social inequalities in light of a political theology that prompts us all to question what we thought we know about what is and what ought to be.”\n—Judith Butler\, University of California\, Berkeley \nAbout the speaker\nGilah Kletenik is Hazel D. Cole Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/book-launch-sovereignty-disrupted-spinoza-gilah-kletenik/ LOCATION:Kane Hall 225\, UW Campus\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Spinoza-and-the-Disparity-of-Reality-book-cover-cropped.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR