STUDENT EVENT: Jewish Studies Student Advisory Council Meeting
HUB 214, UW Seattle Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe Jewish Studies Advisory Council (JSSAC) is a non-religious and non-political organization at UW that serves as a liaison between students and Stroum Center for
STUDENT EVENT: Feasting with Faculty: Profs. Mika Ahuvia and Sarah Culpepper Stroup
Thomson 317, UW Campus 2023 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesBeyond the Gender Binary Join Professor Mika Ahuvia (Assistant Professor of Classical Judaism, Jackson School of International Studies) and Professor Sarah Culpepper Stroup (Associate Professor of Classics) for an informal conversation about
“Dr. Loewenstein, I Presume?”: Israeli Eye Aid to Africa, 1959-1973
HUB 332 Husky Union Building, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is proud to offer this lecture as part of our Winter 2016 series, Beyond the Binary: Israel Studies Today which welcomes several emerging scholars to share new directions in the field of Israel Studies.
CANCELLED – Rabbi Shai Held on Heschel and Maimonides
Savery 408 408 Savery Hall, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin Rabbi Shai Held as he explores the very different ways two of Judaism's greatest thinkers - Maimonides and Abraham Joshua Heschel - thought about God, and ask what we might learn for our own spiritual and religious quests.
SJFF Sephardic Film Highlight: Bulgarian Rhapsody
AMC Pacific Place 600 Pine Street, Seattle, WA, United StatesA sweet and visually stunning tale of Sephardic life, first love, and friendship in a time of war.
STUDENT EVENT: Jewish Studies Student Advisory Committee Meeting
HUB 332 Husky Union Building, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe Jewish Studies Student Advisory Council (JSSAC) is a non-religious and non-political organization at UW that serves as a liaison between students and Stroum Center
Lunch and Learn with Dr. Gerhard Weinberg
Petersen Room University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin Dr. Gerhard Weinberg as he presents "Hitler and the U.S. Views, Plans, Policies and the Jewish Question in All Three"
SJFF Short Film Highlight: In the Footsteps of Regina Jonas
Stroum Jewish Community Center 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island, WA, United StatesAmerica’s pioneering female rabbis take a historic trip to Berlin to the birthplace of the first woman rabbi to ever be ordained.
Jewish Refugees and Their Lives in Shanghai
Hillel UW 4745 17th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, USProf. Xu will speak about the arrival of Jewish refugees from Central Europe during the Holocaust to Shanghai, their lives during War time in Shanghai and what caused them to leave when the war ended.
Lecture by Daniel Newman, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum–CANCELLED
Kane Hall 110 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesThis talk discusses the experiences of Holocaust victims who lived inside the borders of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the German invasion on June 22, 1941, through the Red Army’s victory, and to the divisiveness over the post-war memory of the events of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union.
Islam, Indonesia, Israel: Indonesian Perceptions of the Middle East and Middle Eastern Perceptions of Indonesia
UW Club - Yukon Pacific Room 4020 E Stevens Way, Seattle, United StatesA dialogue between Professors Muhamad Ali and Giora Eliraz about Indonesian perceptions of the Middle East and Middle Eastern perceptions of Indonesia. Southeast Asia Center Director Laurie J. Sears will moderate.
STUDENT EVENT: Jewish Studies Student Advisory Committee
Thomson 317, UW Campus 2023 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe Jewish Studies Advisory Council (JSSAC) is a non-religious and non-political organization at UW that serves as a liaison between students and Stroum Center for
STUDENT EVENT: Feasting with Faculty – Prof. Richard Block
Shalimar Restaurant 4214 University Way Northeast, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin Professor Richard Block, Associate Professor of Germanics and Jewish Studies faculty member, for conversation over a free vegetarian dinner at Shalimar on the Ave.
Graduate Fellows Spring Research Symposium
Intellectual House 4249 Whitman Court, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Research Symposium will highlight graduate research in diverse disciplines.
Stroum Lecture Night 1: Dara Horn on “Living in Hebrew”
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, USDara Horn is an award-winning author and scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literatures. Her opening night Stroum Lecture addresses the theme of "Hebrew and the Creative Imagination."