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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220523T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T103000
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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/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T170000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T103000
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SUMMARY:5/6 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In the Midst of Pogrom Violence
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220423T140000
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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
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:4/22 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In Anticipation of the Revolution
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-writers-20th-century-ukraine-seminar-sasha-senderovich/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Issachar_Ber_Ryback_-_Town.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T171500
DTSTAMP:20260405T124600
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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/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T113000
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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/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:3/31 COSPONSORED EVENT | Negotiating Carceral Regimes: Why Is It So Hard to Shrink the Carceral State?
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URL:https://simpsoncenter.org/events/event-detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D156933239&eventid=156933239
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T120000
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SUMMARY:3/11 COSPONSORED EVENT | Negotiating Carceral Regimes - Colloquium: "Interior Frontiers and the Entrails of Inequality"
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/colloquium-ann-laura-stoler-interior-frontiers/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:3/10 COSPONSORED EVENT | Negotiating Carceral Regimes - "All Things Being Equal": Mobile Extractions in a Carceral World
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URL:https://simpsoncenter.org/events/event-detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D156932877&eventid=156932877
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T124600
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SUMMARY:2/24 TALK | "Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx" — Jonathan Israel
DESCRIPTION:In this online webinar\, intellectual historian Jonathan Israel will discuss his recent book\, “Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx” — part of the University of Washington Press’ Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies series — and the idea that revolutionary movements of the 18th and 19th centuries were deeply rooted in Enlightenment philosophy\, particularly the works of Jewish thinkers like Baruch Spinoza. \nThe talk will be facilitated by Michael Rosenthal\, Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy at the University of Toronto and UW Emeritus Professor of Philosophy. \nWatch the webinar now: \n\nAbout this talk\n\nIn the 18th and early 19th centuries\, a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world’s most resolute\, most intellectually driven\, and most philosophical revolutionaries\, among them the pre-Marxist Karl Marx. Yet the roots of their alienation from existing society\, and their determination to change it\, extend back to the very heart of the Enlightenment\, when Spinoza and others living in a rigid\, hierarchical society first developed a modern revolutionary consciousness. \nDrawing on his recent book\, “Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights\,” part of the University of Washington Press’s Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies series\, leading intellectual historian Jonathan Israel will show how the radical ideas in Marx’s early writings were influenced by this legacy. \nIsrael will also consider how writers of the “Radical Enlightenment” understood Jewish marginalization and ghetto-ization — and the forces of superstition\, prejudice\, and ignorance that sustained these structures — and how the quest for Jewish emancipation led “revolutionary” thinkers to formulate theories of social and legal reform\, paving the way for later revolutionary actions that helped to change the world from the French Revolution onwards — though perhaps not in the ways these thinkers intended. \nAbout the speakers\n\nJonathan Israel is professor emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. His many books include “European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism\, 1550–1750” and “Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity\, 1650–1750.” He delivered the 2017 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies\, which focused on Spinoza as a revolutionary thinker and the idea of the “Radical Enlightenment” and the Jewish Emancipation. \nMichael A. Rosenthal holds the Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy\, with appointments in both the Department and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. Prior to joining the department\, he was professor of philosophy and Jewish studies at the University of Washington at Seattle. He teaches and publishes in the areas of early modern philosophy\, ethics\, political philosophy\, and Jewish philosophy. Michael’s current research focus is Spinoza’s political philosophy\, both in relation to central issues in Spinoza studies and Spinoza’s engagement with the Jewish Philosophical Tradition\, particularly Maimonides. Michael is also interested in the reception of Spinoza in subsequent Jewish philosophy including Moses Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1996.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/revolutionary-jews-book-talk-jonathan-israel/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T133000
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SUMMARY:2/8 EVENT | The Detention of Uyghur Muslims in China
DESCRIPTION:In this event\, UW alum Darren Byler\, Ph.D.\, will draw on his research\, fieldwork\, and first-hand experiences to explain the scope and impact of China’s detainment of Uyghur Muslims in forced labor camps\, in conversation with UW Professor Emerita Sandra Silberstein. \nAbout the speakers\n\nDarren Byler is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University. His recent book\, “Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City” (Duke University Press\, 2021) is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Uyghur homeland in Chinese Central Asia\, and examines the impact of detention and surveillance on Uhgyur and Han male migrants. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington. \nSandra Silberstein is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Washington\, where she researches rhetoric in times of national crisis and discourses around terrorism; linguistic constructions of gender\, race\, ethnicity; critical applied linguistics and second language studies.\n \n  \nThis event is cosponsored by the Center for Human Rights\, the China Studies Program\, and the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/detention-of-uyghur-muslims-in-china/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220120T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220120T104500
DTSTAMP:20260405T124600
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SUMMARY:1/20 PANEL| Scholarly Perspectives — "The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past"
DESCRIPTION:In a panel conversation\, three scholars will offer responses to and commentary around faculty member Liora R. Halperin’s new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” and how the history of early Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine has been folded into the story of the State of Israel. \nAbout this talk\n\nIn her new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” Liora R. Halperin looks at the history of moshavot\, Jewish agricultural settlements in Ottoman Palestine\, and the ways in which the history of these settlements has been folded into the story of the State of Israel in the early 20th century. \nIn this panel conversation\, scholars Alon Confino (University of Massachussetts Amherst)\, Nahum Karlinsky (Ben-Gurion University)\, and Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara) will offer their responses to the book\, connecting it to broader understandings around the processes of creating history and historical narratives\, in particular as these relate to the State of Israel. \nAbout the speakers\n\nAlon Confino is Director of the Institute for Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Memory Studies\, and Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His recent books include “Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust As Historical Understanding” (Cambridge University Press\, New York\, 2012) and “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” (Yale University Press\, 2014). He studied at the University of Tel Aviv and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nNahum Karlinsky is a Senior Lecturer at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism\, where he has taught numerous courses on Israeli identity\, the social\, cultural and urban history of Israel/Palestine\, and post-Zionism\, neo-Zionism and Jewish fundamentalism. In 2006-2007\, he was chair of the Israel Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University. In 2008-2009\, he was a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2008\, he has been affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MISTI-Israel as a visiting associate professor at MIT’s Political Science Department. He is currenly a visiting professor at Boston University. \nSherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. In her forthcoming book\, titled “From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine\,” she will follow the trajectory of her great grandfather. Traveling with her ancestor from his nineteenth century mobility across Baltimore and Sudan to twentieth century immobility in Lebanon\, Seikaly places the question of Palestine in the context of a global history of race\, capital\, slavery\, and dispossession. She is co-editor of Journal of Palestine Studies and co-editor of Jadaliyya. \nLiora R. Halperin is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington\, and has scholarly 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 received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011\, and is the Benaroya Chair of the UW Israel Studies Program. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Middle East Center and the Department of History at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/oldest-guard-zionist-past-liora-halperin-panel/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T171500
DTSTAMP:20260405T124600
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SUMMARY:1/19 EVENT| Book Talk & Discussion: “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” - Liora R. Halperin
DESCRIPTION:In this event\, faculty member Liora R. Halperin will discuss her new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” and the creation of historical narratives around Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine\, with Stroum Center Director and fellow faculty member Noam Pianko. \nAbout this talk\n\nIn her new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” Liora R. Halperin looks at the history of moshavot\, Jewish agricultural settlements in Ottoman Palestine\, and the ways in which the history of these settlements has been folded into the story of the State of Israel in the early 20th century. \nBeginning in the late 1870s\, Jews from the religious communities of urban Palestine\, joined in the 1880s by migrants from the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire and other parts eastern Europe\, began to purchase land and establish private agricultural colonies in Ottoman Palestine\, with the goal of creating productive\, self-sufficient Jewish communities. Though these agricultural colonies predated the Zionist movement of the late 1890s\, they served as hubs for subsequent Jewish migrants and later came to be seen as the first Zionist wave of Settlement\, or “First Aliyah.” Yet\, because of their more religious or socially traditional ethos and use of Arab workers\, the stories and ideas surrounding these private settlements were often at odds with later Zionist movements\, especially Labor Zionism and the call for “Hebrew Labor.” \nIn a conversation with Noam Pianko\, Professor of Jewish Studies\, Halperin will discuss the stories around these Jewish settlements\, how they fit into the broader story of Zionism\, and how she reconstructed this history via a wide range of sources. \nAbout the speakers\n\nLiora R. Halperin is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington\, and has scholarly 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 received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011\, and is the Benaroya Chair of the UW Israel Studies Program. \nNoam Pianko is the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor in the Henry M. 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. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies & Judaic Studies from Yale University in 2004. His most recent book\, “Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation” (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press\, 2015)\, won the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book prize\, and traces how the concept of “peoplehood” emerged at the beginning of the last century as an American-Jewish innovation calibrated to shape discussions of nationalism\, Zionism\, and American Jewish identity. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Department of History at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/book-launch-oldest-guard-zionist-past-liora-halperin/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211212T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211212T111500
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SUMMARY:12/12 LADINO DAY | Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States
DESCRIPTION:In the University of Washington’s 9th annual Ladino Day celebration\, editors of the new book “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States” discuss the book project\, alongside presentations from three contributors to the volume. \nWatch the program now:\n \nAbout this event\n\nHow can family heirlooms\, papers\, and memorabilia help us to understand the process of migration from the Ottoman Empire to the United States? In a newly released edited volume\, “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States” (Koç University Press\, 2021)\, scholars of Ottoman history and Jewish studies explore this question using objects from the UW’s own Sephardic Studies Digital Collection\, the world’s largest online collection of Ladino-language books and documents. \nTo commemorate Ladino Day 2021\, join us for an interdisciplinary conversation with Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (University of Pennsylvania) and Kerem Tınaz (Koç University)\, the editors of this book\, and with Hannah S. Pressman (Director of Education and Engagement\, Jewish Languages Project)\, Maureen Jackson (independent scholar)\, and Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford)\, three of the book’s contributors\, as they discuss important artifacts and their impact on Ottoman and Jewish history. \nAbout the speakers\n\nOscar Aguirre-Mandujano is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research focuses on intellectual and cultural history of the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on his first monograph\, which examines the relationship among literary composition\, Sufi doctrine\, and political thought in the early modern Islamic world. He is a co-editor of “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States.”\nKerem Tınaz is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University where he teaches courses on the history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. His research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire with a particular interest in identity\, ideology\, and networks. He is a co-editor of “Sephardic Trajectories.”\nHannah S. Pressman\, Ph.D.\, is a widely published scholar of Jewish languages and literatures. She is currently at work on “Galante’s Daughter: A Sephardic Family Journey\,” a memoir tracing her family’s travels from the Levant into southern Africa and beyond\, which she highlights in her contribution to “Sephardic Trajectories.” You can find her writings on Jewish culture and Sephardic family history at hannahpressman.com.\nMaureen Jackson\, Ph.D.\, is an independent scholar focusing on the urban history of Ottoman\, Turkish\, and Jewish music. She is the author of Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song (Stanford University Press\, 2013)\, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture. She has published in both English and Turkish language presses and created the online exhibit Bailar a la Turka: 78 rpm records in Seattle Sephardi Households.\nLaurent Mignon is Associate Professor of Turkish language and literature at the University of Oxford\, a Fellow of St Antony’s College\, and Affiliate Professor at the Luxembourg School of Religion and Society. His research focuses on the minor literatures of Ottoman and Republican Turkey\, in particular Jewish literatures\, as well as the literary engagement with non-Abrahamic religions during the era straddling the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.\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.\nThis event is supported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies.\n \nPresented in partnership with the Departments of Anthropology\, History\, Linguistics\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, and Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Aki Estamos\, Centro Cultural Sefarad\, El Amaneser\, Ladino 21\, Los Shadarim\, Şalom Gazetesi\, the Salti International Institute for Ladino Research at Bar Ilan University\, 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/ladino-day-2021-sephardic-trajectories-archives-objects-ottoman-jewish-past/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211208T180000
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SUMMARY:12/8 STUDENT EVENT | Narrating Migration Stories: Podcasting Sephardic Jewish Journeys
DESCRIPTION:Scholar and co-creator of the well-known Ottoman History Podcast Chris Gratien and retired journalist Sam Negri discuss their approach to telling the stories of marginalized migrants to the United States\, focusing on the story of Negri’s father\, Sephardic Jew Leo Negri\, who came to the United States undocumented in the early 1900s along with thousands of other Sephardim (Jews expelled from modern-day Spain in 1492 who sought refuge throughout the Ottoman Empire). \nWatch the conversation now:\n \nAbout this talk\nIn the early twentieth century\, tens of thousands of Sephardic Jews migrated to the United States from the borders of the collapsing Ottoman Empire. In addition to navigating inter-Jewish communal relationships with fellow Ashkenazi Jews\, Sephardic Jews were also subject to racially biased immigration quotas that were becoming ever more restrictive during the 1920s. \nFalsified papers were often the only way for many Sepharadim to gain entry to the United States — a route taken by Istanbul-born Leo Negri\, whose fraudulent passport listed his country of origin as Cuba. \nHow can the podcast medium be leveraged to share the complex stories of Ottoman migrants to the United States? How can Negri’s story help us understand the stories of thousands of other Ottoman migrants like him\, many of whom faced deportation threats and racism in their new American neighborhoods? \nJoin Chris Gratien\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of Virginia\, co-creator of the Ottoman History Podcast\, and Sam Negri\, a retired journalist and Leo Negri’s son\, for a conversation about this understudied moment in Jewish\, Ottoman\, and American history. \nAbout the speakers\nChris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He teaches courses on environmental history and the modern Middle East\, with a research focus on the late Ottoman Empire. He is the co-creator of the Ottoman History Podcast and recently contributed a chapter to “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States” (Koç University Press\, 2021) that was co-authored with Sam Negri. \n Sam Negri is a retired journalist based in Arizona. His articles have appeared in the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, and numerous other publications. His father\, Leo Negri\, was an Istanbul-born Jew who immigrated to the United States in the early twentieth century. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/narrating-migration-stories-podcast-student-event/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies,Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T210000
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SUMMARY:11/18 BENAROYA LECTURE | Analyzing the Israeli COVID-19 Response in Context: Social\, Historical and Ethical Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Image: Wheel of public health interventions\, developed by the Minnesota Department of Health (2019). \nNadav Davidovitch\, Professor of Health Systems Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, gave the 2021 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies\, discussing Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in conversation with Abraham Flaxman\, Associate Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington. \nWatch the presentations now:\n \nAbout this talk\n\nNadav Davidovitch\, a public health professor and epidemiologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, will explore the different meanings of public health from historical\, sociological\, political and health policy perspectives\, focusing on several case studies from the Israeli perspective\, from the 1950s absorption of mass immigration and related vaccination and public health efforts to the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the present day. \nIn conversation with Abraham Flaxman\, UW professor of global health\, Davidovitch will discuss the interaction between scientific advisory committees and policy makers\, and pressing issues including health inequities\, the influence of politics\, and the role of trust and solidarity in public health practices and policy-making. \nAbout the speakers\n\nNadav Davidovitch\, M.D.\, MPH\, Ph.D.\, is an epidemiologist and public health physician. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Systems Management in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Guilford-Glaser Faculty of Business and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He teaches on health policy\, public health\, health promotion\, the Israeli healthcare system\, public health ethics\, and global health. He is also affiliated with the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the School of Public Health\, Columbia University\, NY\, and with the School of Public Health\, University of Illinois – Chicago. \nAbraham Flaxman is Associate Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington\, where he is currently leading the development of new methods for cost effective analysis through microsimulation. Prior to becoming an associate professor\, Dr. Flaxman was a post-graduate fellow at IHME\, and before that he was a post-doctoral fellow at Microsoft Research. Originally from Evanston\, IL\, Dr. Flaxman earned his B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in algorithms\, combinatorics\, and optimization from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. Dr. Flaxman has written his popular blog\, Healthy Algorithms\, since 2008. His posts cover mathematics\, computer science\, and his research at IHME. \nThis event made possible through the generosity of the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Fund for Excellence in Israel Studies\, and is cosponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and the Population Health Initiative at the University of Washington\, and by Americans for Ben-Gurion University.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/public-health-covid-19-israel-historical-perspective/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T124600
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SUMMARY:11/16 COSPONSORED TALK | Was the Biblical Joseph on the Spectrum?
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URL:https://www.hilleluw.org/events/talk-was-the-biblical-joseph-on-the-spectrum/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T124600
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SUMMARY:10/25 EVENT | "The Hangman": On Adolf Eichmann’s Executioner — Screening & Conversation with Director Netalie Braun
DESCRIPTION:Following a screening of the 60-minute documentary\, director Netalie Braun discussed “The Hangman” with faculty member and Benaroya Fellow in Israel Studies Smadar Ben-Natan. \n*Stream “The Hangman” documentary any time as a $5 rental through Movie Discovery\, a distributor of Israeli & other international films.* \nAbout the event\nThe 2010 documentary “The Hangman” (“Hatalyan“) profiles Shalom Nagar\, the Yemenite Jew who guarded\, and eventually executed\, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. In spite of Eichmann’s role as a key organizer of the Holocaust\, Nagar didn’t wish to execute him. \nThe film reflects on the assignment of the executioner role to Nagar as illuminating the position of Mizrahi Jews in Holocaust memory in Israel. Nagar’s reflections on this experience\, and on the meaning of capital punishment even in the face of unforgivable acts\, raises pressing questions about crime and punishment in our time. \nArticles and essays related to the topic\, compiled by faculty member Smadar Ben-Natan\, are available below. \nFurther reading related to the documentary\nCurated by Smadar Ben-Natan\, 2021-22 Benaroya Fellow in Israel Studies \n\nDuring & following the Eichmann trial\n\n\n“Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil” by Hannah Arendt; view online study guide for the book\n“Buber Calls Eichmann Execution ‘Great Mistake’” by Lawrence Fellows\, The New York Times (1962)\n\n\nArticles for a general audience\n\n\n“Who Opposed Adolf Eichmann’s Execution?” by Amit Naor\, The Librarians\, National Library of Israel\n“‘I Don’t Know If This Letter Will Reach You’: The Letters Of Hannah Arendt And Gershom Scholem” by Nathan Goldman\, Los Angeles Review of Books\n\n\nAcademic articles\n\n\n“Theaters of Justice: Arendt in Jerusalem\, the Eichmann Trial\, and the Redefinition of Legal Meaning in the Wake of the Holocaust” by Shoshana Feldman\n“The Eichmann Trial – Toward a Jurisprudence of Eyewitness Testimonies of Atrocity?” by Leora Bilsky\n“Hangman’s Perspective: Three Genres of Critique Following Eichmann” by Itamar Mann\, available as PDF or video lecture\n\n\nBooks\n\n\n“Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial” by Leora Bilsky (University of Michigan Press\, 2004)\n\n\nAbout the participants\nNetalie Braun is a writer\, director and producer of documentary and fiction films\, and has won the Israeli Academy Award for best documentary. She currently teaches at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television in Tel Aviv University\, and was previously the artistic director of the International Women’s Film Festival in Israel. She has a B.A. in literature and philosophy and an M.A. in film studies from Tel Aviv University. Her films include “Hope I’m in the Frame\,” “The Hangman” & “Vow.” \nSmadar Ben-Natan is the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ 2020-2022 Benaroya Fellow in Israel Studies. She is a longtime Israeli human rights lawyer who completed her Ph.D. in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. She specializes in law & society and international law\, with a particular focus on the intersection of criminal justice\, national security and human rights. She holds a master’s in international human rights law\, with distinction\, from the University of Oxford (2011)\, and an LLB from Tel Aviv University (1995).
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/hangman-documentary-screening-conversation-director-netalie-braun/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:10/14 TALK | Book Launch: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture - Mika Ahuvia
DESCRIPTION:In a discussion with author and journalist Sigal Samuel\, faculty member Mika Ahuvia will discuss the large role that angels played in the ancient Mediterranean world\, drawing on her recent book\, “On My Right Michael\, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture.” \nWatch the conversation now:\n \nAbout this talk\nMika Ahuvia’s new book on angels in ancient Jewish culture examines a common element of Jewish practice that is often overlooked or dismissed: angels\, the invisible beings who serve as intermediaries\, guardians and role models for humans. \nIn a conversation with author and journalist Sigal Samuel\, Ahuvia will explain how angels have extended humans’ experience of the divine beyond scriptures and synagogue walls across time\, and how related practices — including magical invocations — illustrate the many ways in which people have practiced Judaism and Jewishness throughout history. Learn more about the book. \nAbout the speakers\nMika Ahuvia researches the formative history of Jewish and Christian communities in the ancient Mediterranean world. Specializing in Late Antique Jewish history\, she works with rabbinic sources\, liturgical poetry\, magical texts\, early mystical literature\, and archaeological evidence. \nHer new book\, “On My Right Michael\, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture\,” investigates conceptions of angels in foundational Jewish texts and ritual sources\, and uncovers how angels made their way into the practices and worldview of ancient Jews. Ahuvia teaches courses in Jewish Studies\, comparative religion\, and global studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and is also the Stroum Center’s Undergraduate Program Coordinator. \n\nSigal Samuel is senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect project\, and co-host of the Future Perfect podcast. She is also the author of two books. “Osnat and Her Dove\,” a children’s book\, tells the true story of the world’s first female rabbi. “The Mystics of Mile End\,” a novel\, tells the story of a dysfunctional family dealing with mysticism\, madness\, and mathematics in Montreal. The book was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award. Sigal earned her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and her B.A. in philosophy from McGill University.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/angels-in-ancient-jewish-culture-mika-ahuvia/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:5/27 STROUM LECTURE | Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change: The Afterlives of Noah’s Ark – Gender\, Disability & the Politics of Survival
DESCRIPTION:Julia Watts Belser shows how ancient Jewish stories invite us to tangle with grief\, confront vulnerability\, and re-imagine our survival. In the 2020 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies\, Professor Julia Watts Belser will use classic rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence\, imperialism\, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice. \nBringing disability studies and activism into conversation with queer and feminist theory\, these talks will examine how ancient Jewish stories invite us to tangle with grief\, confront vulnerability\, and re-imagine possibilities for communal survival.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/julia-watts-belser-stroum-lectures-reading-jewish-texts-age-of-climate-change/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210525T160000
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SUMMARY:5/25 | STROUM LECTURES | Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change: Grappling with Risk\, Reimagining Hope
DESCRIPTION:Julia Watts Belser shows how ancient Jewish stories invite us to tangle with grief\, confront vulnerability\, and re-imagine our survival.\nIn the 2020 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies\, Professor Julia Watts Belser will use classic rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence\, imperialism\, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice. Bringing disability studies and activism into conversation with queer and feminist theory\, these talks will examine how ancient Jewish stories invite us to tangle with grief\, confront vulnerability\, and re-imagine possibilities for communal survival.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/julia-watts-belser-stroum-lectures-reading-jewish-texts-age-of-climate-change/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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