2/25 COLE FELLOW TALK | Minorities and State Violence: The View from the Jews of Medieval Cairo
RSVP for Zoom linkCole Fellow Brendan Goldman will delve into the history of incarceration of minorities by looking at Jews from the medieval Islamic world, using medieval documents found in the Cairo Geniza, a synagogue storehouse.
VIDEO | Israel Through a Colored Lens: African American Perspectives on Mizrahi Israelis
RSVP for Zoom linkBryan Roby (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor) will give a virtual talk on the works of Black writers who examined Ashkenazi-Mizrahi relations within Israel.
VIDEO | Writing Trauma, from the Holocaust to the Pandemic: Poetry from Immigrant Jewish Writers from the Former Soviet Union
RSVP for Zoom linkJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan discuss their poetry with faculty member Sasha Senderovich.
COSPONSORED TALK | Ethnic Identity & Ethnic Organizing: Darfurian Asylum Seekers in Israel
Ph.D. student Lisa Richlen will discuss how Darfurian Sudanese refugees construct identity through community organizing in Israel.
VIDEO | American Christians and the Holy Land: Before, During and After Contemporary Pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine
RSVP for Zoom linkHillary Kaell discusses the modern phenomenon of American Christian pilgrimage trips to Israel/Palestine and how American Christians make sense of these experiences.
VIDEO | Ghetto: The History of a Word
Zoom 0Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) will give a talk on the history of the word "ghetto" from 16th-century Venice until today.
VIDEO | The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: Dina Danon in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
RSVP for Zoom linkDina Danon (Binghamton University) will discuss her new book, "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History."
GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Sephardic Experiences of Modernity: Newspapers, Migrants and Midwives
Zoom 02020-2021 graduate fellows discuss Ladino newspapers, Ottoman Jews in Seattle, and Jewish midwives at the turn of the 20th century.
GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Tradition and Continuity: Jewish Cultural History Through Art, Music and Travelogue
Graduate fellows Ke Guo, Abby Massrano and Jeffrey Haines present on modern Sephardic music, ancient art, and medieval writing.
5/25 | STROUM LECTURES | Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change: Grappling with Risk, Reimagining Hope
RSVP for Zoom linkJulia Watts Belser uses rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence, imperialism, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice.
5/27 STROUM LECTURE | Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change: The Afterlives of Noah’s Ark – Gender, Disability & the Politics of Survival
RSVP for Zoom linkJulia Watts Belser uses rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence, imperialism, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice.
10/14 TALK | Book Launch: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture – Mika Ahuvia
Faculty member Mika Ahuvia discusses her new book on the sizable role of angels in ancient Jewish culture.
10/25 EVENT | “The Hangman”: On Adolf Eichmann’s Executioner — Screening & Conversation with Director Netalie Braun
Following a screening, director Netalie Braun will discuss the story of Shalom Nagav, the Yemenite Jew who executed Adolf Eichmann and has ruminated on this experience ever since. In conversation with Smadar Ben-Natan and Liora Halperin.
11/16 COSPONSORED TALK | Was the Biblical Joseph on the Spectrum?
In an event at Hillel UW, Samuel J. Levine, a Touro Law Center professor, will offer a reading of Joseph's story that presents a portrait of him as an individual on the autism spectrum.