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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: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:3/12 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: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: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:2/15 TALK | Masua Sagiv on Religious Feminism and Social Change in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nIn this talk\, scholar Masua Sagiv will dive into the past two decades in Israel to focus on how the Jewish religious (orthodox) society is undergoing a philosophical and theological revolution promoting gender equality\, in society and Halacha (religious law) alike. This revolution has a decisive impact on the Jewish religious society\, and in light of the Israeli constitutional arrangements that weave religious norms across the public sphere\, it influences the general Jewish public in Israel as well. The talk will introduce religious halachic feminism in Israel and some of its main struggles (in matters of marriage and divorce\, body and sexuality\, and spiritual leadership)\, focusing on the strategies the activists apply and their impact on Israeli society. \n\n\nRegister Now >\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\nMasua Sagiv is the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley and a Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel\, as a culture\, religion\, nationality\, and as part of Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores the role of law\, state actors and civil society organizations in promoting social change across diverse issues: shared society\, religion and gender\, religion and state\, and Jewish peoplehood. Prior to moving to the Bay Area\, Masua was the Academic Director of the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan University. In addition\, Masua earned her doctorate in law from Tel-Aviv University\, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic of law and social change in the Halachic Feminist struggle in Israel.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/2-15-talk-masua-sagiv-on-religious-feminism-and-social-change-in-israel/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:2/8 TALK | Michal Raucher on Medicine and Religion: Doctors and Rabbis in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nThe relationship between doctors and rabbis in Israel reflects the complex ways in which medicine and religion interact daily. Although doctors and rabbis can work together to resolve disputes in medical care or improve health care among certain populations\, their close relationships can also pose a challenge to quality medical treatment. In this talk Professor Raucher will show how these doctors and rabbis create a context in which Haredi women represent larger competing interests. Instead of working together toward holistic\, ethical medical care\, doctors and rabbis find themselves locked in a struggle to ensure their own interests. \n\nAbout the speaker\n\nMichal Raucher is an associate professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. Her research lies at the intersection of the anthropology of women in Judaism\, reproductive ethics\, and religious authority. Michal has a background in religion\, gender studies\, anthropology and bioethics. As a Fulbright Fellow\, Dr. Raucher conducted research on the reproductive ethics of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jewish women in Israel. Her first book\, which is based on this research\, was published by Indiana University Press in 2020. It is titled\, Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women. Dr. Raucher’s second book\, titled “The New Rabbis\,” is based on five years of research with women who have been ordained as Orthodox rabbis in America. Michal has also published on Jewish pronatalism\, the study of Orthodox Judaism\, sexuality and gender in Judaism\, religion and bioethics\, abortion legislation in Israel\, and female religious advisors on the Internet. Dr. Raucher is currently conducting research on abortion and religion in America. She is part of a research team interviewing Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims who have had abortions since 2021\, and she is surveying rabbis who are advocating for abortion rights and reproductive justice in the US. Michal has been teaching public audiences for several years on issues related to reproduction and abortion among Jews and in Jewish texts. Her work has been featured in NBC News\, JTA\, The Conversation\, the Feminist Studies in Religion blog\, and she has been quoted in The New York Times. \nDr. Raucher has degrees from Columbia University\, The Jewish Theological Seminary\, the University of Pennsylvania\, and a PhD from Northwestern University. She taught at The Jewish Theological Seminary and The University of Cincinnati before joining the faculty at Rutgers University.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/michal-raucher-on-medicine-and-religion-doctors-and-rabbis-in-israel/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:1/31 STUDENT EVENT | Feasting with Faculty ft. Assistant Prof. Senderovich
DESCRIPTION:Join Sasha Senderovich\, an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures\, for informal conversation over a free vegetarian dinner. \nOpen to undergraduate and graduate students only. \nNo cost. RSVP here! \nThis event is limited to 15 students.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/1-31-student-event-feasting-with-faculty-ft-prof-senderovich/
LOCATION:Taste of India\, 5517 Roosevelt Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Student
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SUMMARY:12/4 EVENT | Ladino Day 2022: The Future of Ladino
DESCRIPTION:Watch the program now:\n \nScholars\, writers\, and language activists working to preserve and revitalize Ladino join UW’s Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies\, in conversation regarding the future of the traditional language of Sephardi Jews. \nOn the tenth anniversary of Ladino Day\, UW’s Sephardic Studies Program presents four experts from different generations\, all working to revitalize Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)\, the traditional language of Sephardic Jews. \nThe program will feature\, in conversation with Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies: \n\nKaren Gerson Şarhon — editor-in-chief of the Ladino language publication El Amaneser\nNesi Altaras — editor of Avlaremoz\, a Turkish-Jewish online magazine\nRachel Amado Bortnick — founder of the Ladinokomunita online community\nEliezer Papo – Ladino scholar featured in the documentary “The Last Sephardic Jew”\n\nView the recording here. \nAbout the speakers\n\nBorn in Istanbul\, Karen Gerson Şarhon leads all of the projects at the Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center. In addition to founding that organization\, she also earned the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française in 2011 for her contribution to the world culture and her efforts in the preservation of Judeo-Spanish. After earning a BA in English Philology\, an MA in Social Psychology and an MA in Applied Linguistics\, Karen wrote both her MA theses on the Judeo-Spanish language! Now\, you can find her teaching Ladino on social media\, proudly serving as editor-in-chief of el amaneser [the only monthly newspaper in the world entirely in Ladino] and of the Judeo-Spanish page(s) of the Şalom newspaper [the only newspaper of the Turkish Jewish community]\, and singing in the authentic Turkish Sephardic music group she founded: Los Pasharos Sefaradis.\n Nesi Altaras is an Istanbuli Jew and editor of Avlaremoz\, a Jewish news platform in Turkish. He holds an MA in political science\, and his writing in English\, Turkish\, and Ladino has been published in various outlets. Nesi lives in Montreal where he works as the Digital Engagement Officer for the Institute for Reasearch on Public Policy.\n  \nBorn and raised in Izmir\, Rachel Amado Bortnick came to the United States in 1958 on a scholarship to Lindenwood College (now University) in St. Charles\, Missouri\, from which she earned a B.A. in Chemistry. She and American-born architect Bernard Bortnick went back to Izmir to get married and subsequently lived in Holland\, in Israel\, and several cities in the United States before settling in Dallas\, Texas in 1988. Rachel is now retired after teaching ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for 35 years. She has always actively promoted the preservation of Judeo-Spanish language and culture; in 1985\, while living in the San Francisco Bay area\, she founded and led the Ladino-speaking club Los Amigos Sefaradis\, and subsequently she was featured in the documentary film\, Trees Cry for Rain: a Sephardic Journey. In 1999 she founded Ladinokomunita\, the Ladino correspondence group on the Internet\, which now has over 1500 members worldwide.\n\nBorn and raised in Sarajevo\, Eliezer Papo‘s research centers on Hebrew/Jewish oral literatures\, with specialization in the field of Sephardic literatures (oral and written\, rabbinic and secular). His book And Thou Shall Jest with Your Son: Judeo-Spanish Parodies on the Passover Haggadah\, received the prestigious Ben-Tzvi award. Dr. Papo published around 50 articles\, in 10 different languages\, about different aspects of Sephardic culture and literature\, as well as four works of fiction — one in Ladino and three in Serbo-Croatian. \nAbout the facilitator\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. \nSupported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies \nCosponsored by the Departments of History\, Linguistics\, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington\, as well as Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, Sephardic Heritage International (SHIN) DC\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington (TACAWA). \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/ladino-day-2022-past-present-future/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
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SUMMARY:12/1 EVENT | Israeli Elections Panel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n \n\nOn the heels of the fifth Israeli election in four years\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ Israel Studies Program invites you to attend a panel of experts as they debrief the results and talk about what the outcome means—both for the future of Israel\, and the world at large. Zoom webinar format. With  Noam Pianko—the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies—moderating\, the speakers on the panel include: \n\nJoel Migdal— emeritus professor of Jewish Studies\nLiora Halperin— Chair in Israel Studies and professor of Jewish Studies\nAlan Dowty— associate faculty of Jewish Studies\nHayim Katsman— Ph.D. and Jackson School alumni\nAndrea Gevurtz Arai— associate faculty of Jewish Studies\n\nRegister Now >\n \nJoel Migdal is an emeritus faculty member and the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Migdal was formerly associate professor of Government at Harvard University and senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University. His research has been on two tracks–theories of comparative politics\, specifically state-society relations\, and Middle East politics\, with an emphasis on Israel and Palestinians. Joel has published various books and is enjoying his retirement in Eretz Israel.\nLiora Halperin is Chair of the Israel Studies Program and a scholar of Jewish cultural and social history\, with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory\, language ideology and policy\, and Jewish-Arab relations both in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and in the early years after Israeli statehood. Her first book\, “Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine” (Yale University Press\, 2015) was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She has published academic articles in The Journal of Social History\, Jewish Social Studies\, Middle Eastern Studies\, and The Jewish Quarterly Review\, among other venues. She recently published “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” (Stanford University Press\, 2021)\, which tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (mashavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011.\nAlan Dowty is an affiliate faculty member at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, and is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. From 1963-1975\, he was on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, during which time he served as Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and Chair of the Department of International Relations. From 2003-2006\, he was the first holder of the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli Studies at the University of Calgary\, and from 2005-2007 he was President of the Association for Israel Studies. Among his publications are basic texts on Israeli society and politics (“The Jewish State: A Century Later“) and on the Arab-Israel conflict (“Israel/Palestine\,” 4th edition 2017)\, as well as over 130 scholarly and popular articles. In 2017 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Israel Studies by the Israel Institute and the Association for Israel Studies.\nHayim Katsman received his Ph.D. in international studies from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies in 2021. He has researched the Religious-Zionist communities of Israel/Palestine extensively\, and written about current trends in Religious-Zionism and its relationship to radicalism. He received his B.A. in philosophy from the Open University of Israel and completed his M.A. thesis on the theology of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University\, where he also served as deputy chair of the Academic Junior-Staff Union from 2015-2017. Follow him on Twitter or on Facebook.\nAndrea Gevurtz Arai teaches anthropology and society courses in the Jackson School of International Studies\, University of Washington. Arai is currently researching the Israeli social movement “Standing Together” (“Omdim B’yachad”- עומדים ביחד)\, which advocates for equal justice for Jewish and Arab Israelis and for the reallocation of tax dollars from the military to under-funded areas of social welfare\, in particular health care\, education and housing. This research will be included in Arai’s in-process edited volume\, “Spaces of Creative Resistance in East Asia\,” which looks at the local\, cross-regional and international particularities of organizations of creative resistance\, which advocate for social infrastructures\, imagining and creating new forms of social and environmental sustainability.\nAbout the facilitator\n\n\nNoam Pianko is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies\, the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies\, and Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies. Pianko also directs the Samuel and Althea Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and serves as the Herbert and Lucy Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies. Pianko’s research interests include modern Jewish history\, Zionism\, and American Judaism.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/israeli-elections-panel/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20160929T180034Z
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SUMMARY:11/15 EVENT | Territories of Ladino in its Postvernacular Mode: The Case of Poetry and Literary Translation
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URL:https://spanport.washington.edu/calendar#new_tab
LOCATION:Denny Hall 213
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Spanish & Portuguese Studies":MAILTO:spsuw@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20160929T193401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223114Z
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SUMMARY:11/10 TALK | Coffeehouses\, Parks\, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims in 20th-Century Cairo
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20160929T192910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223126Z
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SUMMARY:11/2 TALK | Jews and Muslims in Colonial Algeria: Between Intimacy and Resentment
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220929T192339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223137Z
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SUMMARY:10/26 TALK | The Jews of Medieval Baghdad in the Abbasid Era
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220929T191243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223145Z
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SUMMARY:10/19 TALK | Arabian Judaism and Early Islam
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220908T212950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223155Z
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SUMMARY:10/6 TALK | How the Soviet Jew Was Made — Sasha Senderovich
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D160858950
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:20220601T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T121500
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220504T210223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223213Z
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SUMMARY:6/1 TALK | Silenced Horrors: Sexual Violence During the Holocaust in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D159578067
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220504T001211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T001311Z
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SUMMARY:GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Reimagining Jewish Narratives in New Contexts: From Antiquity to the Present
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/graduate-fellows-colloquia-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220504T000637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T000657Z
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SUMMARY:GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Political and Archival Policies: International and Local Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/graduate-fellows-colloquia-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220504T202308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T202308Z
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SUMMARY:5/23 EVENT| An Evening with Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.hilleluw.org/events/an-evening-with-gadeer-kamal-mreeh/#new_tab
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Student
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220404T232418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T232452Z
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SUMMARY:5/20 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In the Shadow of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220509T184944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T173849Z
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SUMMARY:5/19 WORKSHOP | Nation-State and Citizenship:  The Exclusion and Persecution of Greek Jews in Romania Under the National Legionary State
DESCRIPTION:When someone leaves his or her country of citizenship\, who is responsible for their protection: the country in which they now live\, or the state to which their passport points? \nJoin Fulbright Scholar and UW Visiting Lecturer Nikos Tzafleris (Ph.D.\, University of Thessaly) to workshop his article-in-progress on how this question impacted Jews with Greek citizenship living in Romania in the twentieth century — a time of rising antisemitism and nationalism across Europe. UW Department of History professor James Felak (Newman Center Professor in Catholic Christianity) will serve as a respondent. \nOpen to graduate students and faculty. Click here to RSVP and to receive Nikos’ paper in advance of the talk. All participants are asked to read the paper prior to the workshop. \n\nAbout the workshop\n\nThe stories of Jews with Greek citizenship living outside the boundaries of Greece are little known. The case of those who lived in Romania\, in particular\, illuminates Greece’s position towards its extraterritorial citizens. \nFor decades\, Greek Jews of Romania — recognized as Greek citizens — were considered “desirable” to the Greek state as long as they lived in Romania. Yet when it became evident that rising antisemitism in the region would force many of those Jews to sooner or later find refuge in Greece\, they were perceived as an imminent danger to the Greek state\, and to the integrity of its Greek Christian identity. \nThis talk follows the stories and vicissitudes of those Greek Jews living in Romania during the turbulent years of 1866-1940\, when the rights of Romanian Jews were in constant flux and when the Iron Guard came to power\, resulting in a dramatic uptick in antisemitism in the region. This talk will also consider the complex dynamics of Greek diplomats\, who could see the danger that Jews with Greek citizenship faced from Romanian antisemitism and impending Nazism\, but who also felt compelled to pursue a nationalist agenda. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the speakers\nNikos Tzafleris is a Fulbright Scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington hosted by the Department of History and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. His Fulbright project\, “The Relief Program of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Greece after WWII\,” investigates how the AJDC established a relief network to help Greek Jews in the immediate postwar years. He received his PhD from the University of Thessaly.\n\nRead Nikos’ full faculty profile > \n\n\nJames Felak is Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of History and the Newman Center Professor in Catholic Christianity. He teaches courses on the history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to World War I\, and the history of the region from 1918 to the present. He also teaches history of Modern Europe since 1648 and the History of Christianity\, as well as seminars on topics such as Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust; the Nazi-Soviet occupation of East Central Europe; and Christians in Nazi Germany. Read Prof. Felak’s full faculty profile >
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-19-workshop-nation-state-and-citizenship-the-exclusion-and-persecution-of-greek-jews-in-romania-under-the-national-legionary-state/
LOCATION:Mary Gates Hall\, Room 211B
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T201500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111115
CREATED:20220504T204205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T203239Z
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SUMMARY:5/12 STUDENT EVENT| Post-Stroum Lecture Boba and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.hilleluw.org/events/post-stroum-lecture-boba-conversation/
LOCATION:Private Location\, 1400 NE Campus Parkway\, Seattle\, WA\, 98102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Student
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111116
CREATED:20220210T214221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220324T003700Z
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SUMMARY:5/12 STROUM LECTURE | Belonging in Question: Jews in the American Civic and Legal Imagination
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/stroum-lectures-2022-americas-jewish-question-lila-corwin-berman/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111116
CREATED:20220210T213946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220324T003722Z
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SUMMARY:5/10 STROUM LECTURE | Does the United States Have a Jewish Question?
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/stroum-lectures-2022-americas-jewish-question-lila-corwin-berman/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T111116
CREATED:20220404T232041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T232102Z
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SUMMARY:5/6 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In the Midst of Pogrom Violence
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:COSPONSORED EVENT | De Inga y Mandinga: A Diaspora Tale from Latin America
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URL:https://earlymusicseattle.org/events/de-inga-y-mandinga/#new_tab
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:4/22 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In Anticipation of the Revolution
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T160000
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SUMMARY:4/12 TALK | The Rise of Modern Vernacular Hebrew: How Language Shapes Identity (and Vice Versa)
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, linguist Ivy Sichel will discuss the rise of modern vernacular Hebrew in the 1950s and related ideas — how using particular language variety can influence its speakers\, and how speakers make the language their own. \nWatch the talk now: \n \nAbout this talk\n\nHow did the modern vernacular variety of Hebrew — the informal\, everyday version of the language — come to eclipse the prestigious prescriptive variety of Hebrew to become the standard? How does value accrue to particular varieties of a language? \nIn this talk\, Ivy Sichel will analyze the social meanings associated with the new native vernacular of Modern Hebrew\, taking a positive stance towards the new native vernacular\, which is constructed via differentiation from its alternatives (formal or text-based Hebrew). \nThe new vernacular is reflexive\, and it speaks for itself with the authority of experience\, as opposed to the traditional authority of the text. A speaker of modern vernacular Hebrew necessarily\, and often unknowingly\, possesses a positive attitude towards it\, and is an active agent in the propagation of a new collective (of speakers) and its values. \nThe talk will explore this type of subjectivity\, and the ways in which speakers participate in the dissemination of a collective set of ideas about the modern vernacular. \nThe talk will also explore the consolidation and dissemination of these values by particular individuals\, with a focus on Ma Nishma\, a weekly column written in Modern Hebrew published in the 1950s. \nEvent image from the “World Dictionary of Hebrew Slang\,” written by Netiva Ben-Yehuda and Dan Ben-Amotz and published in 1982. Via the Jewish Women’s Archive. \nAbout the speaker\n\nIvy Sichel is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on syntactic theory. She is also interested in the sociolinguistics of the revival of Hebrew speech\, and has written about women’s contributions to the revival project at the turn of the 20th century (with Miri Bar-Ziv Levi)\, and about the relationship between the revival and the establishment of the State of Israel (with Uri Mor).
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/modern-vernacular-hebrew-language-identity/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T100000
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SUMMARY:4/10 PANEL | Perspectives on Cosmopolitan Istanbul in the Hit Netflix Series\, “The Club”
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual panel\, scholars Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington)\, Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley)\, and Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University) will discuss the historical context and contemporary significance of the hit Turkish Netflix series\, “Kulüp” (“The Club”). A recorded interview with “Kulüp” writer Rana Denizer conducted by Melike Yücel-Koç (University of Washington) will also be screened at the event. \nThis event is supported by the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement in Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington. \nWatch the panel now: \n \n\nView the interview with Rana Denizer\, conducted by Melike Yücel-Koç\n\nAbout this talk\n\nPoster for “Kulüp” (“The Club”). (Source: IMDB) \nDespite the fraught political climate in Turkey today\, Neflix recently released an unprecedented and wildly popular hit series\, “Kulüp” (“The Club”)\, that brings to life the once-cosmopolitan world of 1950s Istanbul. \nThe show features Turkey’s first mainstream depictions of Sephardic Jewish culture\, Ladino language and song\, and multidimensional Jewish characters that challenge common stereotypes on the screen in Turkey and the United States. “Kulüp” also tackles difficult questions not only about the position of Jews\, but also other non-Muslim populations in Istanbul and Turkey more broadly — especially Greeks. \nHow does the show depict controversial historical moments\, such as the Varlık Vergisi affair\, a capital tax imposed by the Turkish state on non-Muslims in 1942\, and the “Events of September 6-7\,” riots in 1955 targeting Istanbul’s non-Muslims? \nWhat social\, political\, and cultural factors help explain the emergence of such a poignant depiction of mid-century Istanbul in the 21st century? \nThese questions\, and many more\, will be addressed by the panel of experts. \nA recorded interview in Turkish (with English subtitles) with “Kulüp” writer Rana Denizer conducted by Melike Yücel-Koç (University of Washington) will also be screened at the event. \nAbout the panelists\n\n Rana Denizer’s family story is the inspiration for “Kulüp.” She began sharing her story first with friends\, then on her blog and Twitter under the pseudonym Ranini. She is a lead writer for “Kulüp.” \n  \n  \nReşat Kasaba (University of Washington)\, Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Professor in American Foreign Policy\, is an expert in the history and politics of the Middle East and has taught undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Washington for over 30 years. Kasaba served as the director of the UW’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies for 10 years\, completing his tenure in June 2020. He is currently researching history of U.S. foreign policy in Turkey\, and the political consequences of rural-urban divide in modern Turkey. \nChristine Philliou (University of California\, Berkeley) is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Programs in Modern Greek/Hellenic Studies and Ottoman/Turkish Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of two books: Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution (University of California Press\, 2011; Greek edition Alexandria Press\, 2021; Turkish edition İş Bankası Kültür Press\, 2022) and Turkey: A Past Against History (University of California Press\, 2021; Greek edition Alexandria Press\, 2022). Philliou is currently working on a third book and developing a collaborative digital humanities project\, the aim of which is a granular reconstruction and analysis of the Greek Orthodox communities of late Ottoman Istanbul/Constantinople (1821-1923) using a wide range of Ottoman and Greek sources. \nAron Rodrigue (Stanford University) is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History and Burke Family Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford University. He teaches courses in Modern Jewish history\, the history and culture of Sephardic Jews\, and the Ottoman Empire. His scholarship focuses on the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in modern times\, and his writings are considered among the most influential in the field. Rodrigue has held fellowships at the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum\, among others. He was awarded the honor of Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013. \nAbout the moderators\n\nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and is faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and 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. \nMelike Yücel-Koç is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington\, where she teaches courses in elementary and intermediate Turkish\, including Turkish Language and Culture; Turkish TV Series: ETHOS; Oral History: The Stories of Immigrants in the U.S.; and an honors course titled Immigrants from the Middle East in the U.S. She also has academic experience as a graduate teaching assistant at Portland State University\, where she served as a Fulbright Scholar\, and as a graduate research assistant at Seattle Pacific University. Since 2017\, Yücel-Koç has been at work on a research project titled “Turkey in Seattle Oral History Project.” \n\nPresented in partnership with the department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Middle East Center\, as well as Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/kulup-the-club-perspectives-cosmopolitan-istanbul-hit-netflix-series-the-club/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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