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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellows Spring Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The future of Jewish Studies scholarship will be on display at the Stroum Center’s second annual Spring Research Symposium\, featuring the 2013-14 class of Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. Join us for two fascinating panels followed by a reception. \nFull schedule available here. \nRSVP here to reserve your spot. Last year’s symposium was completely sold out! \n\n \nSell Tickets Online through Eventbrite \n\n  \nClick here to find out more about the fellows and their diverse research interests\, which include Ottoman Turkish poetry\, Bedouins and solar energy in Israel\, Ladino newspapers\, post-Holocaust films\, and Russian-Jewish culture. \nAbout our fellowship program: The goal of the Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship at the University of Washington is to build an intellectual community around Jewish Studies. Fellows participate in a workshop series to foster professional development and advance their research agendas. Now in its second year\, the Fellowship is coordinated by Dr. Hannah Pressman\, an affiliate faculty member of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \nThanks to the generosity of our community supporters\, five outstanding graduate students received $3\,000 grants to support research related to Jewish Studies during the 2013-14 academic year. Our five new graduate fellows represent several UW departments. Each brings a unique perspective to the field of Jewish Studies and has great potential to contribute to the future of Jewish scholarship. \nThe 2013-14 Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows:\n\nEsra Bakkalbasioglu\nI. Mervyn and Georgiana Gorasht Scholarship in Jewish Studies \nEsra Bakkalbasioglu is a second year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Program on Near and Middle Eastern Studies. She completed her BA and MA degrees from the Political Science and International Relations Department of the University of Bogazici\, Turkey. She wrote her master thesis on the West Bank Wall and non-violent anti-wall movements. After completing her MA degree\, she worked for two years as the Democratization Program project coordinator\, in one of Turkey’s prominent think-tanks\, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation. Her main areas of research interest are infrastructure-politics relations\, social movements and state-society relations in the Middle East. Currently\, she is working on the political and social impacts of solar panel fields in Israel\, Turkey and Jordan.\n  \n\n\nOscar Aguirre-Mandujano\nMickey Sreebny Memorial Scholarship in Jewish Studies\nOscar Aguirre-Mandujano is a second-year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. He was born in Mexico City in 1986 and attended the National University of Mexico (UNam). In 2008 he obtained a BA degree in History\, and in 2009 he moved to the United Kingdom to read an MA degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. Oscar’s dissertation undertakes an interdisciplinary study of the impact of book production in the emergence of a new court literary culture during the reign of Bayezid II (r. 1452-1512) in the Ottoman Empire. As a Jewish Studies Graduate Fellow\, Oscar focuses on an in-depth study of the original compositions of Yehuda (Leon) Behar in Ottoman Turkish\, and examines the development of the main themes in the poetic and literary work of the Jewish community of the late Ottoman Empire.\n  \n\n\nDenise Grollmus\nPhilip Bernstein Memorial Scholarship in Jewish Studies\nDenise Grollmus is an award-winning journalist and Fulbright Scholar. After receiving her MFA in Creative Writing from Penn State University\, Denise lived in Warsaw\, Poland as a Fulbright scholar researching the Revival of Jewish Life throughout the country. She is now a PhD candidate in English at the University of Washington. Her project is a comparative study of Philip Roth’s novel Operation Shylock: A Confession and Yael Bartana’s film series And Europe Will Be Stunned… that examines how the satirical representations of counter-Zionist movements in both works perform and extend Hannah Arendt’s critique of the nation-state by performing the problematics not only of Jewish nationalism\, but also of nationalism (especially with regard to “The Jewish Question”) more generally.\n  \n\n\nCyrus Rodgers\nRichard M. Willner Memorial Scholarship in Jewish Studies\nIn 2011\, Cyrus began his master’s degree in the Slavic Languages and Literature Department at the University of Washington.  His main interests are Soviet literature\, film\, and visual art with special emphasis on Jewish themes in literature. Next year he will graduate with plans to complete a Master’s thesis\, which will discuss the relationship between art and Bolshevik politics at critical stages in the evolution of the Judeo-Soviet paradigm from 1917 to 1953.\n  \n\n\nSarah Zaides\nSamuel and Althea Stroum Fellowship in Jewish Studies\nSarah’s work studies the cultural and social histories of Jews in the Soviet Union\, particularly around the early years of Israeli Independence. Her current project examines the historical enigma of Arkady Raikin\, a yeshiva-educated Jewish actor who became one of the most famous satirists of the Soviet state. Her work uses the case of Raikin to engage broadly with the historiography of Soviet Jews and also employs the transnational histories of emigre communities in the United States and Israel.  After a successful year in the first class of Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows\, Sarah returns to continue her research in Jewish Studies.\n \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/graduate-fellows-symposium/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies,Student
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SUMMARY:40th Anniversary Gala
DESCRIPTION:Be there as UW Jewish Studies celebrates four decades of innovation and excellence at the University of Washington!\nClick here to visit our official 40th anniversary page\, where you can: \n–buy your tickets for the May 13th Gala \n-read interviews & articles highlighting the special history of UW Jewish Studies \n-view archival photographs from the past 40 years \nWe’ll be Thinking Forward on May 13th. Join us!\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/40th-anniversary-gala/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Gates Public Service Law Speaker Series:“Becoming an International Judge via the Holocaust”
DESCRIPTION:Gates Public Service Law Speaker Series \n“Becoming an International Judge via the Holocaust”  with Professor Thomas Buergenthal \nThomas Buergenthal is the Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at George Washington University. He came to the United States at the age of 17. He spent the first 11 years of his life in various German camps and is one of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz and Sachsen-hausen concentration camps. Considered one of the world’s leading international human rights ex-perts\, Professor Buergenthal was a Judge and President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as well as President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee and UN Truth Commission for El Salvador. He is a member of the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee and the honorary presi-dent of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in San José\, Costa Rica. \nMonday\, May 5\, 2014 \n4:30-5:30 pm\, William Gates Hall\, Room 138 \nReception to follow at the Burke Museum \ncelebrating the 5 Year Anniversary of the  \nUW Center for Human Rights  \n  \nRSVP via Symplicity or gatespsl@uw.edu  \n\n \nCo-Sponsors: The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, the UW Center for Human Rights\, Hillel\, and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies are our partners in this event. \n \nReception Sponsored by the Gates Public Service Law Program and the UW Center for Human Rights \n \nSponsorship of this event by the University of Washington School of Law and the W.H. Gates  \nPublic Service Law Program does not imply endorsement 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/gates-public-service-law-speaker-seriesbecoming-an-international-judge-via-the-holocaust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140430T123000
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SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah: Universal Perspectives on Holocaust Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:As the Holocaust (Shoah) is observed throughout the world this week and the UW community welcomes jurist\, memoirist and concentration camp survivor Thomas Buergenthal\, it is a fitting time to consider the contemporary commemoration of state-sponsored murder by the Nazi regime. Lawyer/Activist Reut Cohen writes: “We Israelis grow up in the shadows of the Holocaust. It’s always there and always very present. I don’t think this is necessarily bad\, but I recognize two possible educational messages that derive from this: the first is that ‘We must never let this happen to us [Jews/Israel] again and have to do everything in order to prevent it’ and the second is ‘We must never let this happen again to any other nation or people.’” Join us for a discussion about the public remembrance of genocidal events. \n*Light lunch provided* \nGuest Speaker: Reut Cohen\, New Israel Fund Civil Liberties Law Program Fellow \nRespondents: \nRabbi Oren Hayon\, Hillel UW                                                      Prof. Stephen Rosenbaum\, UW Law \n                                                            \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/yom-hashoah-universal-perspectives-on-holocaust-remembrance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140427T143000
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SUMMARY:Yom Hashoah Commemoration with Lecture by Prof. Dan Chirot
DESCRIPTION:The Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center will present a Holocaust Remembrance Day program at the University of Washington on Sunday\, April 27th.  “The Family: Ties\, Separations\, Rebuilding\, and Remembering” includes three speakers: \nHolocaust survivor Josh Gortler;\nDavid Laskin\, author of  The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century; and\nProf. Daniel Chirot\, author of Confronting Memories of World War II: European and Asian Legacies. \nProf. Dan Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. His lecture is entitled “Who Apologizes\, Who Means It\, and Why.” \nFor more information on “Family & Memory\,” please visit the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center at https://www.wsherc.org/ or view their events page at this link. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/yom-hashoah-commemoration-with-dan-chirot/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T213000
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SUMMARY:Cántame una romansa: Memory\, Family History\, and Sephardic Ballads in Seattle
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nDr. Rina Benmayor\, Professor of Oral History\, Latina/o Studies\, & Literature \nIn 1973\, Rina Benmayor came to Seattle to record Judeo-Spanish ballads (romansas) in the Sephardic community for her doctoral dissertation. She was following in the footsteps of her mentors\, Samuel Armistead and Joseph Silverman\, to collect\, preserve\, and analyze these precious living remnants of centuries past. It was an experience vividly etched in her memory. Now\, in a special lecture to mark forty years since her initial research project\, Dr. Benmayor reflects on that experience\, on how we remember\, and why we capture the past. Her presentation on April 24th will include the voices and images of elderly members of the Sephardic community in the 1970s\, as well as reflections from later explorations of her own family history. \nRead a new blog profile of Rina Benmayor\, including musical samples of Sephardic ballads\, plus links to oral histories of Seattle’s Sephardic community!\nRina Benmayor is Professor of oral history\, literature\, and Latina/o studies at California State University Monterey Bay. She has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Romance Languages and Literatures with an emphasis in Spanish literature.  She has taught at Stanford\, Hunter College (CUNY)\, and is founding faculty at CSU Monterey Bay. At CSUMB\, she teaches oral history\, digital life storytelling\, and narrative literature\, and directs an oral history archive.  Her first book was a collection of Judeo-Spanish ballads collected in Los Angeles and Seattle\, titled Romances judeo-españoles en la costa occidental de los Estados Unidos (Gredos\, 1979). Later books include Migration and Identity (OUP 1994)\, Latino Cultural Citizenship (Beacon\, 1997)\, Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Duke 2001). She has served as president of the Oral History Association (2010-11)\, and the International Oral History Association (2004-06).  She is currently directing a multi-year oral history project on Salinas Chinatown\, funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities and Cal Humanities\, and is writing a family memoir based on genealogical research in the United States and ancestral Sephardic communities in northern Greece. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Tickets may be reserved here: \n \nEvent management for ‘Cántame una cantiga/Sing me a song’: Collecting Sephardic Ballads in Seattle\, 1973 powered by Eventbrite\nWe thank our co-sponsors for this event: the Division of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/cantame-una-romansa-sephardic-ballads-in-seattle/
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Student Dinner and Discussion: School Photos in the Era of Assimilation
DESCRIPTION:Reserve your spot now\, space is limited: \n \nSell Tickets Online through Eventbrite\n\nSpecial student discussion and dinner with visiting scholars Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer about what school photos taken in the 19th and 20th century can tell us about efforts to assimilate or “civilize” Jews\, Indians\, and Blacks. Join us for this interactive conversation/workshop with these world-renown scholars. The event is co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Student Committee and the American Indian Student Commission. Free dinner provided. \nHirsch and Spitzer will also be giving two public lectures on March 31 and April 2 in Kane Hall 220 at 7:30pm on this topic (first lecture) and Framing Children: The Holocaust and After (second lecture). More info at jewishstudies.washington.edu/stroumlectures
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-dinner-and-discussion-school-photos-in-the-era-of-assimilation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140402T193000
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SUMMARY:2014 Stroum Lectures\, Day 2: School Photos and Their Afterlives
DESCRIPTION:2014 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies\n“School Photos and Their Afterlives: A Comparative Jewish Perspective”\nFeaturing Dr. Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Dr. Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College)\n  \nLecture 1: School Photos in the Era of Assimilation: Jews\, Indians\, and Blacks (March 31) \nLecture 2: Framing Children: The Holocaust and After (April 2) \nPhotographs of school classes appear very early in the history of photography and are pervasive in individual and family albums throughout the world.  This year’s Stroum Lectures examine the historical\, memorial\, and aesthetic dimensions of school photographs from a comparative Jewish perspective.  The lectures explore photography’s ideological role from the 19th century through World War II\, a span of decades wherein the political climate for Jews shifted from emancipation and integration to exclusion\, persecution\, and genocide. Reflecting on the afterlives of these images in memorial and artistic installations\, the talks also suggest that school photographs can represent the possibility of resistance and subversion—even during the most challenging time in the Jewish people’s history. \n  \nThe first lecture\, focusing on class images from the 19th and early 20th century\, examines practices of assimilation that are revealed in photographs from educational establishments intended for the “civilization” of indigenous and African American children in North America and from schools attended by Jewish children in Habsburg-ruled Central Europe.  The second lecture looks at the process of exclusion of Jews in 20th-century Central Europe by way of school pictures taken in the 1920’s and ’30s\, as well as in sanctioned and clandestine schools – some\, in ghettos and camps – in the years of the Holocaust. \nDr. Marianne Hirsch and Dr. Leo Spitzer\, the 2014 Stroum Lecturers. \nThis year’s Stroum Lecturers are Dr. Marianne Hirsch\, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, and Dr. Leo Spitzer\, the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Among numerous publications on the Holocaust and Jewish culture\, they have co-authored Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (University of California Press\, 2010). \nAmong the many achievements being celebrated by UW Jewish Studies during its 40th anniversary year\, the Stroum Lectures are a source of special pride for UW Jewish Studies. Since 1976\, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectureship in Jewish Studies has brought the best minds of the field to speak at the University of Washington. Several of the books published from these lectures have become watershed publications in Jewish thought\, history\, and culture. View our video archive of recent Stroum Lectures\, and find out more about the Stroum Book Series at the University of Washington Press. And don’t miss this year’s Stroum Lectures\, part of our ongoing 40th anniversary series of events. \nTickets may be reserved in advance here.  \n \nSell Tickets Online through Eventbrite\n\nWe thank our cosponsors for this year’s Stroum Lectures: the Center for West European Studies\, the Department of American Ethnic Studies\, the Department of American Indian Studies\, the Department of Germanics\, the School of Art at the University of Washington\, and Education Services at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. \n \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lectures-day-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140331T193000
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SUMMARY:2014 Stroum Lectures: School Photos and Their Afterlives
DESCRIPTION:  \nLecture 1: School Photos in the Era of Assimilation: Jews\, Indians\, and Blacks (March 31) \nLecture 2: Framing Children: The Holocaust and After (April 2) \nPhotographs of school classes appear very early in the history of photography and are pervasive in individual and family albums throughout the world.  This year’s Stroum Lectures examine the historical\, memorial\, and aesthetic dimensions of school photographs from a comparative Jewish perspective.  The lectures explore photography’s ideological role from the 19th century through World War II\, a span of decades wherein the political climate for Jews shifted from emancipation and integration to exclusion\, persecution\, and genocide. Reflecting on the afterlives of these images in memorial and artistic installations\, the talks also suggest that school photographs can represent the possibility of resistance and subversion—even during the most challenging time in the Jewish people’s history. \nThe first lecture\, focusing on class images from the 19th and early 20th century\, examines practices of assimilation that are revealed in photographs from educational establishments intended for the “civilization” of indigenous and African American children in North America and from schools attended by Jewish children in Habsburg-ruled Central Europe.  The second lecture looks at the process of exclusion of Jews in 20th-century Central Europe by way of school pictures taken in the 1920’s and ’30s\, as well as in sanctioned and clandestine schools – some\, in ghettos and camps – in the years of the Holocaust. \nDr. Marianne Hirsch and Dr. Leo Spitzer\, the 2014 Stroum Lecturers. \nThis year’s Stroum Lecturers are Dr. Marianne Hirsch\, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, and Dr. Leo Spitzer\, the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Among numerous publications on the Holocaust and Jewish culture\, they have co-authored Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (University of California Press\, 2010). \nAmong the many achievements being celebrated by UW Jewish Studies during its 40th anniversary year\, the Stroum Lectures are a source of special pride for UW Jewish Studies. Since 1976\, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectureship in Jewish Studies has brought the best minds of the field to speak at the University of Washington. Several of the books published from these lectures have become watershed publications in Jewish thought\, history\, and culture. View our video archive of recent Stroum Lectures\, and find out more about the Stroum Book Series at the University of Washington Press. And don’t miss this year’s Stroum Lectures\, part of our ongoing 40th anniversary series of events. \nTickets may be reserved in advance here. Kosher reception to follow the lecture on March 31. \n\n\nSell Tickets Online through Eventbrite\nWe thank our cosponsors for this year’s Stroum Lectures: the Center for West European Studies\, the Department of American Ethnic Studies\, the Department of American Indian Studies\, the Department of Germanics\, the School of Art at the University of Washington\, and Education Services at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroumlectures/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140312T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140312T210059
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SUMMARY:A Taste of Life in Israel Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSpend an evening exploring Israeli culture through one of our most popular courses\, “Life in Israel”! Taught by Prof. Naomi Sokoloff of the NELC Department and Jewish Studies Program\, the “Life in Israel” class showcases contemporary Israeli life through diverse cinema and television screenings. \nOn March 12\, you can attend a special screening being offered by the “Life in Israel” course. The screening will present two episodes of the television series “Arab Labor\,” Season Four. \nTickets: $12   [**Free admission to UW students and JConnect members!] \nFor more information\, click here. \nTo register in advance\, click here. \nThis event is cosponsored by Seattle Jewish Film Festival and the Stroum Jewish Community Center. We thank them for providing this cultural opportunity for students and the community. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/a-taste-of-life-in-israel-film-screening/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T190000
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SUMMARY:"The Life and Times of Dona Gracia Nasi"
DESCRIPTION:A new biography of Dona Gracia Nasi \n“The Woman Who Defied Kings: The Life and Times of Dona Gracia Nasi\,” lecture by journalist Andrée Aelion Brooks at the Sam\, March 6\, 2014\, at 7 pm. Sponsored by the Division of Spanish and Portuguese Studies as part of the Miro exhibition at the Sam\, and co-sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and its Sephardic Studies Program. This event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/brooks-lecture-on-dona-gracia-nasi/
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140302T135000
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SUMMARY:Roundtable on "Ladino: Past\, Present and Future"
DESCRIPTION:Courtesy of Elezar Behar \nA roundtable discussion\, “Ladino: Past\, Present and Future\,” featuring Prof. Eliezer Papo\, Sephardic Studies Research Institute\, Ben-Gurion of the Negev University; Prof. David Bunis\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ms. Karen Gerson Sarhon\, the Sephardic-Ottoman-Turkish Research Center in Istanbul; and Prof. Devin Naar\, University of Washington. The roundtable directly follows the Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight screening of “The Longest Journey: The Last Days of the Jews of Rhodes” (Italy\, 2012). Click here for more info about the screening. Click here for tickets to “The Longest Journey.”
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/roundtable-on-ladino-past-present-and-future/
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140302T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140302T135000
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20140115T235338Z
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SUMMARY:"The Longest Journey: The Last Days of the Jews of Rhodes" at SJFF
DESCRIPTION:Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight\, co-sponsored by the Sephardic Studies Program of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. This year’s spotlight film is “The Longest Journey: The Last Days of the Jews of Rhodes” (Italy\, 2012). The screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion on “Ladino: Past\, Present\, and Future.” Click here for more info about the roundtable. To purchase tickets click here. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/screening-of-the-longest-journey/
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:sjff@sjcc.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140302
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20130712T185815Z
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SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \nMay 1-9\, 2014 \nFounded in 1995\, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival (SJFF) is an annual\, 10-day and year-round cinematic exploration and celebration of global Jewish and Israeli life\, history\, complexity\, culture and filmmaking for everyone. SJFF is the largest and most highly anticipated Jewish event in the Pacific Northwest and a mainstay in the Seattle arts calendar\, attracting approximately 7\,500 diverse patrons annually and garnering international acclaim. SJFF showcases the best international\, independent and award-winning Jewish-themed and Israeli cinema\, enhanced by educational\, family\, social\, performing arts and year-round programming. \nFor more information about this years events\, please visit: www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140227T193059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20140221T220643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140221T223920Z
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SUMMARY:Transitions - Career Panel
DESCRIPTION:** Students Only **
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/transitions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T163059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20140210T205805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140210T205805Z
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SUMMARY:Student Info Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-info-session/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140225T210059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20130611T211439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140211T172319Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk by Joel Migdal on "Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East"
DESCRIPTION:Join the UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies for the book launch of Prof. Joel S. Migdal’s new publication\, Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East (Columbia University Press). \nShifting Sands explores the ups and downs of the United States since World War II in what has become the most important and volatile region in the world\, the Middle East.  In explaining America’s roller-coaster ride\, the book employs a novel approach\, showing how U.S. officials from the aftermath of World War II through the end of the twentieth century built a rigid strategic model atop the shifting sands of the region; they employed a constant formula to guide their policies\, even as the Mideast region underwent several cataclysmic changes. Now\, with the Arab Spring signifying another Mideast transformation\, Migdal offers a new\, workable strategy for the United States in this crucial region. \nJoel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and a faculty member for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. He has been writing about the Middle East and state-society relations worldwide for more than forty years. Among his books are The Palestinian People (with Baruch Kimmerling)\, Through the Lens of Israel\, Strong Societies and Weak States\, and State-in-Society. \nFollowing the event\, there will be a reception honoring Prof. Migdal for this milestone publication. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington. \n\n \nOnline Ticketing for Joel Migdal Book Launch powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/book-talk-by-joel-migdal/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20130611T211804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170831T230811Z
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SUMMARY:"Mixing Musics: The Sacred Songs of Istanbul Jews" with Maureen Jackson and Munir Beken
DESCRIPTION:“Mixing Musics: The Sacred Songs of Istanbul Jews”\n40th Anniversary Celebration of Jewish Music with Dr. Maureen Jackson (Cole Fellow ’08-’09) and visiting artist Dr. Münir Beken. \nThis lecture-demonstration explores the linked histories of Istanbul\, its Jewish community\, and historical musical traces of multi-religious music-making in Ottoman and Turkish society.  Author of the newly published Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song (Stanford University Press)\, which recently won the National Jewish Book Award\, Dr. Maureen Jackson focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim\, which developed in interaction with Ottoman court music.  Her research in Istanbul illuminates the people\, places\, and practices that shaped an Ottoman music world\, Jewish cultural life\, and continuities and ruptures experienced across the 20th and 21st centuries.  Ethnomusicologist and ud master\, Dr. Münir Beken\, will bring to life the Turkish musical forms at the heart of Dr. Jackson’s study. \nRead an interview with Dr. Maureen Jackson about her path into Sephardic musical research. \nRead a press release about Dr. Maureen Jackson’s 2013 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture. \nWe anticipate that this event will sell out. Please reserve your tickets advance here: \n\n \nOnline Ticketing for “Mixing Musics” with Maureen Jackson & Munir Beken powered by Eventbrite\n\nBiographies: \nDr. Maureen Jackson is author of Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song (Stanford University Press\, 2013) based on her ethnographic and archival research in Istanbul.  She received the Sabancı International Research Award 2nd Prize in 2008 as well as grants from the Fulbright Foundation\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, and Turkish Cultural Foundation.  In 2008-09 she was the Hazel D. Cole Fellow at UW Stroum Jewish Studies\, and later served as ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Carleton College and Harry Starr Fellow at Harvard University.  Dr. Jackson is currently working on her second book based on research in the Mediterranean port city of Izmir\, Turkey. \nDr. Münir Beken is a composer\, ethnomusicologist\, and virtuoso ud player who has performed in venues across the United States\, Europe\, and Turkey\, and was one of the founding members of the State Turkish Music Ensemble.  A faculty member of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Department\, he teaches world music theory\, music of the Middle East and Central Asia\, and composition.  His original compositions have been premiered in New York and Istanbul\, and he has won awards for film music and scored television documentaries both nationally and internationally. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/a-night-of-music-with-maureen-jackson-and-munir-beken/
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140209T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140209T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20140115T235444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170831T231113Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening & Panel Discussion of "The Visionary: The Life of Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Hai Uziel"
DESCRIPTION:“The Visionary: The Life of Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Hai Uziel” Seattle premiere of Israeli film about the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel followed by a panel discussion by Prof. Zvi Zohar\, Bar Ilan University; Rabbi Daniel Bouskila\, Sephardic Educational Center of Los Angeles; and Prof. Devin Naar\, University of Washington. Moderated by Neil Sheff\, Sephardic Educational Center.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/film-screening-of-the-visionary/
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Daniel Alhadeff":MAILTO:Daniel.Alhadeff@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140113T203059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20131118T234050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131212T205713Z
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SUMMARY:"Israel's Extraordinary Woodlands\," Lecture by Prof. Alon Tal
DESCRIPTION:“All the Trees of the Forest: Israel’s Extraordinary Woodlands\, from the Bible to the Present” \nProf. Alon Tal of Ben Gurion University is one of Israel’s leading environmental scholars and activists. \nIn an era when deforestation constitutes a paramount global challenge\, Israel’s woodlands tell an extraordinary story. They carry the scars of past military invaders and conquests. But most of the trees in Israel’s forests are contemporary and represent an expression of recent national zeal to restore the woodlands of the Bible\, making a harsh climate more hospitable. Drawing on insider anecdotes\, Prof. Tal’s presentation describes how the trial and error process evolved that transformed drylands and degraded soils into flourishing parks\, rangelands\, and renewed ecosystems. The talk is part of a book tour presenting the first history of Israel’s forest to be published in over forty years. \nProfessor Alon Tal teaches at Ben Gurion University and is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Prof. Tal founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense\, Israel’s leading green advocacy organization\, and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies\, a regional center for Arabs and Israelis. Between 2010 and 2013 he served as chair of Israel’s Green Party. Haaretz newspaper selected him as the country’s most effective environmental leader and Israel’s Ministry of Environment gave him a lifetime achievement award at age 48. In 2005 he was the winner of the prestigious Bronfman prize\, a humanitarian award for young Jewish leaders. \nProf. Tal’s talk at UW is co-sponsored by Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, Temple Beth Am\, UW Division of Spanish & Portuguese Studies\, and Latin and Caribbean Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/israels-extraordinary-woodlands-lecture-by-prof-alon-tal/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140110T130059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20130712T183113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131212T224649Z
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SUMMARY:"The Jews of Latin America\," Lunchtime Learning with Prof. Ilan Stavans
DESCRIPTION:A journey spanning over five centuries\, from the arrival of conversos to the New World and their clash with the Inquisition\, to the role Jews played during the 19th century as fosterers of modernity\, up until the present time where in countries like Argentina\, Brazil\, Cuba\, and Mexico their place in the economy\, politics\, and culture is essential if also contested by the status quo. Anti-Semitism\, the Holocaust\, the State of Israel\, assimilation\, and questions of identity will be lenses through which to appreciate this varied journey. \nIlan Stavans\, one of today’s preeminent essayists\, cultural critics\, and translators\, is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College-Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. A native of Mexico\, he received his Doctorate in Latin American Literature from Columbia University. His books include The Hispanic Condition (1995)\, On Borrowed Words (2001)\, Spanglish (2003)\, Love and Language (2007)\, and Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years (2010). He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998)\, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2003)\, the 3-volume set of Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories (2004)\, Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (2009)\, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010)\, and The FSG Books of 20th-Century Latin American Poetry (2011). His most recent titles are\, as translator\, Juan Rulfo’s The Plain in Flames (Texas\, 2012) and Pablo Neruda’s All the Odes (Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux\, 2013)\, and\, as author\, Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots (Rutgers\, 2012)\, the graphic novel El Iluminado (Basic\, 2012\, with Steve Sheinkin)\, and the children’s book Golemito (New South).
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/lunchtime-learning-with-prof-ilan-stavans/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
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SUMMARY:INTERNATIONAL LADINO DAY
DESCRIPTION:The first ever International Ladino Day will be celebrated in Seattle with a program at UW Hillel on Thursday\, December 5\, 2013 at 7 pm. The event is hosted by the Sephardic Studies Program of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies in collaboration with our local Sephardic community.  \nThis celebration of the Ladino language and Sephardic culture in Seattle and across the world will include poetry readings\, the singing of Ladino songs\, and a brief presentation of the history of Seattle’s Sephardic community. Presenters include community members\, UW undergraduate and graduate students\, and UW faculty. Kosher reception to follow. \nFree and open to the public. Co-sponsored by Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, Sephardic Bikur Holim\, and the Sephardic Brotherhood. \nSeating is limited. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-ladino-day-tickets-8881224983 \nBackground on International Ladino Day: \nThe National Authority for Ladino in Jerusalem\, established in 1997 under the direction of the Fifth President of Israel\, a native Ladino-speaker named Yitzchak Navon\, proclaimed December 5th\, 2013 to be the first International Ladino Day throughout the world. It provides an opportunity for Sephardic Jews and their communities\, cities\, states\, and countries to celebrate the Ladino language and culture around the globe. In Israel\, throughout Europe\, in cities in South America including Buenos Aires and Sao Paolo\, as well as in the United States\, in New York\, Dallas\, Los Angeles as well as Seattle\, the Day will be celebrated far and wide.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/international-ladino-day/
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131203T203059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20130620T212210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131121T020848Z
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SUMMARY:"Mirele Efros" Staged Yiddish Play Reading
DESCRIPTION:“Mirele Efros” \nSeattle premiere of the Yiddish theater classic \nWritten by Jacob Gordin \nNew English translation by Nahma Sandrow \nDirected by Art Feinglass\, artistic director\, Seattle Jewish Theater Company \n  \nStaged reading presented by the UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies \nand \nthe Seattle Jewish Theater Company \nTuesday\, December 3rd 2013\, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. \nThe Ethnic Cultural Theatre \n3940 Brooklyn Ave. NE (on the corner of Brooklyn Ave. and NE 39th St.) \nMirele Efros\, called “the Jewish Queen Lear\,” is a tale of power and pride.  The masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin\, a hugely influential Yiddish playwright\, it was the most widely performed play in the Yiddish theatrical canon. \n \nEvent management for Mirele Efros Staged Play Reading powered by Eventbrite\n\nThis classic of Yiddish theater recreates Jewish life in nineteenth century Grodno\, Poland. The title character Mirele is a wealthy and pious widow whose devotion to her children extends to hand-picking a wife for her eldest son.  She gravely mistakes the young woman’s character and a conflict soon erupts between the Jewish matriarch and her daughter-in-law who schemes to gain control of the Efros family wealth. More than a folkloric play\, it captures the drama of a power struggle between generations and between the old world and the new.  Gordin\, one of whose political causes was women’s rights\, takes as his central figure a woman who struggles\, falls\, and rises wiser than before. \nThe title role was performed by every leading Yiddish actress during the heyday of Yiddish theater in New York City. The play was created by the author as a vehicle for one actress; when another star with her own following first attempted the title role\, the Yiddish public was riveted by this battle of titans\, and newspapers published reviews and even cartoons commenting on the dueling prima donnas.  Yiddish actresses continue to measure themselves in the role\, as recently as 1967 (Warsaw and New York)\, 1996 (Montreal)\, 2003 (Tel Aviv) and 2009 (Bucharest). \nIn addition to Yiddish\, Mirele Efros has been performed in Russian\, Ukrainian\, Hungarian\, German\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew. This new English translation by Yiddish scholar Nahma Sandrow will be performed for the first time in Seattle.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/yiddish-play-readings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131107T210059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20130625T171929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131106T203139Z
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SUMMARY:JewDub Talks
DESCRIPTION:At the inaugural JewDub Talks on November 8th\, 2012\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington proved that\, indeed\, a pocket-sized lecture can be a window onto a new world. This special evening program was inspired by the phenomenon of TED Talks\, a global movement centered around “ideas worth spreading” through short talks given by experts and practitioners in a wide range of fields. In our Seattle spin on this popular format\, we showcased four UW faculty members giving short lectures on big ideas in Jewish history and culture. \nThe TED-inspired format provided  students and community members up-close access to several of our dynamic teachers. JewDub Talks allowed our faculty to explore topics that are personally and intellectually compelling for them\, but maybe never made it onto a course syllabus. The result? According to this review in the JTNews\, the event was thought-provoking for all involved. \nPlease visit our JewDub Talks page to find out more about this year’s faculty lineup. Our speakers\, who come from four different academic departments\, will tackle hybrid Jewish identities\, Spinoza’s modern legacy\, embracing the shtetl\, and tracking anti-Semitism. \nCan’t make it? Watch from home! We’ll offer livestreaming right here on our website. \nThe event is free and will be followed by a kosher reception in honor of the 40th anniversary celebration of Jewish Studies at UW. Register here: \n \nEvent Registration Online for JewDub Talks powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jewdub-talks/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131105T200059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20131022T155947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131106T203104Z
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SUMMARY:Screening of Two Sided Story at Hillel UW
DESCRIPTION:Join Hillel UW and JConnect Seattle for a screening of the documentary “Two Sided Story” by Emmy Award-winning director Tor Ben Mayor. This event is co-sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. \nThe film follows 27 Israelis and Palestinians as they participate in an extraordinary dialogue workshop organized by the Parents Circle-Families Forum (PCFF) – bereaved Palestinian and Israelis for Peace and Reconciliation. The project’s goal is to acknowledge the narrative of the other. Among them include Orthodox Jews and religious Muslims\, settlers\, ex-soldiers in the Israeli army\, ex-security prisoners\, citizens who live close to the Gaza border\, Kibbutz members\, second-generation Holocaust survivors\, nonviolent activists and more. Each holds a historical truth; each and every one carries his own emotional load. Ben Mayor documents all the meetings and escorts the participants back home when they return to their families and face the complicated reality. \nFollowing the screening of “Two Sided Story\,” there will be refreshments and a Q&A session led by Shiri Ourian\, the Executive Director of American Friends of the Parents Circle – Families Forum. Parents Circle is a grassroots organization made up of more than 600 bereaved Palestinians and Israelis\, all of whom have lost an immediate family member to the conflict. The PCFF promotes reconciliation as an alternative to hatred and revenge. Its long term vision is to create a framework for a reconciliation process to be an integral part of any future peace agreements. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/two-sided-story-screening/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131025T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131025T173059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
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LAST-MODIFIED:20131002T202956Z
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SUMMARY:Seyla Benhabib Colloquium\, "The Dilemmas of Human Rights: Ideals and Illusions"
DESCRIPTION:The UW Philosophy Department presents their Autumn Colloquium Series\, featuring Prof. Seyla Benhabib\, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. This colloquium is free and open the public. \nThe lecture topic will be “The Dilemmas of Human Rights: Ideals and Illusions.” \nEvent co-sponsors include: UW Graduate School\, UW Alumni Association\, Human Interaction and Normative Innovation Research Cluster (HI-NORM)\, UW Tacoma\, UW Bothell\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, Department of Political Science\, Department of Philosophy\, Department of Geography\, Stroum Jewish Studies Program\, and Program on Values in Society. \nClick here to find out more about Prof. Seyla Benhabib. \nClick here to find out about the 2013 Walker-Ames Lecture by Prof. Seyla Benhabib\, “Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem\, Fifty Years Later\,” taking place on Oct. 24th at 6:30 p.m. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/the-dilemmas-of-human-rights-ideals-and-illusions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131024T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131024T203059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
CREATED:20130806T155510Z
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SUMMARY:Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: Fifty Years Later
DESCRIPTION:2013 Walker-Ames Lecture: Seyla Benhabib\, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University\, will speak on “Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: Fifty Years Later” \nEichmann in Jerusalem (1963) is one of the most controversial books of the second half of the twentieth-century. Hannah Arendt’s complex narrative – which originally was prepares as a trial report for the New Yorker – moves at multiple levels: historical\, philosophical\, psychological and legal. At the historical level\, the book was one of the first times after the end of WWII that an extremely detailed historical account of the Jewish extermination policies of the Nazis was laid bare; furthermore\, Arendt questioned the role of the Jewish Councils in this process. Philosophically\, Arendt struggled with the question of evil and the relationship of evil to the activities of thinking and judging. Psychologically – and this is the aspect of Arendt’s analysis which gained most notoriety – Arendt introduced the term ‘the banality of evil\,’ to characterize Adolf Eichmann’s personality. Legally\, the Eichmann trial raised deep questions about international jurisdiction\, crimes against humanity\, and punishing the perpetrators of genocide. \nThis lecture will give an overview of the Eichmann controversy. Although some of Arendt’s claims concerning Eichmann’s personality and activities\, as well as her analysis of the Jewish Councils are historically inaccurate\, Benhabib will argue that her book leaves us with some enduring questions about human responsibility in extreme conditions. \nSeyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Professor Benhabib was the President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2006-07\, a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin in 2009\, at the NYU Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice in Spring 2012\, and at the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy in Washington DC in Spring 2013. In 2009\, she received the Ernst Bloch prize for her contributions to cultural dialogue in a global civilization and in May 2012\, the Leopold Lucas Prize of the Evangelical Academy of Tubingen. She holds honorary degrees from the Humanistic University in Utrecht in 2004\, the University of Valencia in November 2010 and from Bogazici University in May 2012. She received a Guggenheim grant during 2010-2011 for her work on sovereignty and international law. \nCo-sponsored by The Graduate School\, UW Alumni Association\,  Human Interaction and Normative Innovation Research Cluster (HI-NORM)\, UW Tacoma\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies\, Department of Political Science\, Department of Philosophy\, Program on Values in Society\, Department of Geography. \nAdvance registration is recommended for this event.  To reserve your tickets\, click here or paste this link into your browser: https://www.grad.washington.edu/lectures/seyla-benhabib.shtml  \nThe complete lineup for the 2013-14 public lecture series offered by the UW Graduate School can be viewed at this link: https://www.grad.washington.edu/lectures/ . For more information\, contact the Graduate School at 206.543.5900.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seyla-benhabib-hannah-arendt-eichmann-in-jerusalem/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131022T210059
DTSTAMP:20260403T133637
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of "Hannah Arendt"
DESCRIPTION:On Oct. 22 the Stroum Jewish Studies Program is hosting a free film screening of  the 2012 bio-drama “Hannah Arendt\,” starring Barbara Sukowa and directed by Margarethe Von Trotta. A post-film discussion will be moderated by Prof. Michael Rosenthal\, Chair of the UW Department of Philosophy and a Jewish Studies faculty member. \nRead all about it: Prof. Rosenthal’s new interview\, “Why Do Hannah Arendt’s Ideas about Evil and the Holocaust Still Matter?”\, has key historical background on the Eichmann trial and the lasting impact of Arendt’s ideas. \nThis event is part of a series connected to the 2013 Walker-Ames Lecture by Yale philosopher Seyla Benhabib\, who will be speaking on “Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: Fifty Years Later” on Oct. 24. \nThe Oct. 22 screening of “Hannah Arendt” is co-sponsored by the Seattle Jewish Film Festival\, the Stroum Jewish Community Center\, and the Department of Germanics at the University of Washington. \n\n \nEvent Registration Online for Film Screening of Hannah Arendt powered by Eventbrite\n\nAn overview of the film: “Hannah Arendt is a reporter for The New Yorker. After she attends the war crimes trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann\, she daringly chronicles the Holocaust in a way no one has ever done before and her work instantly becomes a scandal. She begins getting attacked by almost everyone—family and friends included. What follows is Arendt’s struggle to suppress her own painful memories of the past and how exile begins to define and derail her life.” \nYou can watch the trailer here. \nRelated events:\n“Eichmann in Jerusalem: Fifty Years Later\,” 2013 Walker-Ames Lecture by Seyla Benhabib on Oct. 24\n“The Dilemmas of Human Rights: Ideals and Illusions\,” Philosophy Dept. Colloquium with Seyla Benhabib on Oct. 25 \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/film-screening-of-hannah-arendt/
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SUMMARY:The Sephardim of Turkey: Photo Exhibit and Lecture at Turkfest
DESCRIPTION:Join Turkfest 2013 for an exhibit and lecture by renowned documentary photographer Laurence Salzmann. On Sunday\, October 20th at 2:00 pm\, Laurence Salzmann will discuss “500 Years of Sephardic History: Turkey’s Jews Revisited\,” his photo exhibit that is on display at Turkfest 2013. The discussion with Mr. Salzmann will take place at the Turkfest Main Stage. \nClick here for more information about Laurence Salzmann. \nClick here for more information about Turkfest 2013. \nCo-sponsored by the Stroum Jewish Studies Program and the  Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington. \nTurkish Bat Mitzvah Ceremony\, from Laurence Salzmann’s photo exhibit on the Sephardic Jews of Turkey.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/the-sephardim-of-turkey-photo-exhibit-at-turkfest/
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Student Auditions for Mirele Efros Staged Reading of Classic Yiddish Play
DESCRIPTION:Come audition to be a part of the Seattle Premier of Mirele Efros\, staged reading of the classic Yiddish play presented by the Stroum Jewish Studies Program and the Seattle Jewish Theater Company. \n \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-auditions-mirele-efros-staged-reading-classic-yiddish-play/
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