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SUMMARY:Turkey's Jews Revisited - Exhibit Opening & Lecture by Photographer Laurence Salzmann
DESCRIPTION:Turkey’s Jews Revisited: A look back (1984-2012).\nPhotographs by Laurence Salzmann \nOpening reception and lecture by Laurence Salzmann: Tuesday\, October 15th\, 2013 at 6:30pm \n\n \nEvent management for Turkey’s Jews Revisited Exhibit Opening Lecture and Reception powered by Eventbrite\n\nSponsored by the University of Washington Stroum Jewish Studies Program’s Sephardic Studies Initiative & the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington\, and Hillel UW \nAbout the artist: \nLaurence Salzmann is a native of Philadelphia who has worked as a photographer/ filmmaker since the early 1960’s. His projects document the lives of little known groups in America and abroad. He looks at the lives of people ranging from occupants of single room occupancy hotels in New York City to transhumant shepherds in Transylvania\, residents of a Mexican village\, and Philadelphia Mummers. His photographic study of a nearly extinct Jewish community in Romania was published as The Last Jews of Radauti by Dial/Doubleday in 1983\, with text by Ayse Gürsan-Salzmann. His most recent work in Cuba is soon to be published in book form by Blue Flower Press under the title: La Lucha/The Struggle. \nSalzmann’s photographic method is deeply informed by his background in anthropology and involves long term participation in and observation of groups or events. His work illustrates how lives and events are shaped by the environments and conditions in which people live.  More on Salzmann and this exhibit at his website: https://www.laurencesalzmann.com  A preview of the exhibit can be viewed here. \nExhibit venue:\nHillel UW 4745 17th Avenue NE Seattle\, WA 98105\nwww.hilleluw.org\nHours: 9am-5pm M-Th; 9am-4pm F.\n206-527-1997
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/laurence-salzmann-sephardim-of-turkey-photos-2/
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CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Ladino/Judezmo as a Jewish Language - Lecture by Prof. David Bunis
DESCRIPTION:Prof. David M. Bunis is a world-famous expert on Ladino and Jewish languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will be spending the 2013-14 academic year at the UW as a Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor of Israel Studies\, a position supported by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE)\, the Samis Foundation\, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at UW. \nPlease join the Stroum Jewish Studies Program and its Sephardic Studies Initiative in welcoming Prof. Bunis to Seattle. This special gathering will take place on October 9th at UW Hillel from 6:00-8:00 pm. Prof. Bunis will give a talk entitled\, “Ladino/Judezmo as a Jewish Language.” The Ladino language\, also known as Judezmo and Judeo-Spanish\, was born in medieval Spain and matured in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. So what’s Jewish about it? The lecture will focus on those of its features unique to its Sephardic Jewish speakers\, and on those shared with Yiddish and other Jewish languages. \nThere will be a kosher reception following the event. \nClick here to read a short profile about Prof. Bunis\, including info about the exciting courses he will be teaching at the UW for 2013-14. \nThis event is open to the community\, but advance registration is appreciated. Please register below: \n\n \nOnline Ticketing for Welcome David Bunis to UW! powered by Eventbrite\n\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/welcome-david-bunis-to-uw/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Movie Showing of Hava Nagila
DESCRIPTION:The Seattle Jewish Film Festival\, Jewish Junction and Seattle Jewish Community School come together to host a showing of Hava Nagila! \nThis joyous\, hilarious all ages film is being screened in the North End at SJCS for an End Summer\, Back To School Community Celebration. All are welcome! Kosher noshes and popcorn served. Tickets are $5 (6 and under free). Best of Fest is SJFF’s year-round encore series\, showcasing films for families at partner venues throughout the city. \nThis is our only remaining event in Seattle’s North end. Next stop… Rainier Cultural Center October 26/27. \nFeaturing interviews with Harry Belafonte\, Connie Francis\, Glen Campbell\, Leonard Nimoy\, Regina Spektor and more\, Hava Nagila (The Movie) follows the song from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the kibbutzim of Palestine to the cul-de-sacs of America. It excavates the layers of cultural complexity with humor\, depth and heart – traveling the distance between the Holocaust to Dick Dale and his surf guitar\, sometimes in the same sentence. It stops at key places – Ukraine\, Israel\, the Catskills and Greenwich Village\, where Belafonte performed a hopeful version in the late 1950s\, only to be countered by Bob Dylan\, who butchers the song in his version Talkin’ Hava Negiliah Blues. The film covers Allan Sherman’s parody Harvey and Sheila\, and Lena Horne’s civil rights anthem Now – both set to the tune of Hava Nagila. The film spotlights Italian-American crooner Connie Francis\, who made the song the first track on her famous album of Jewish favorites; and Glen Campbell\, who released an instrumental version of Hava on the B-side of his theme song from True Grit. It also dissects the proliferation of pop culture references to Hava Nagila in film and TV and brings the song up to the present\, where it’s a rallying tune at sports games\, a hot dance number in nightclubs and a global hit online. \nBuy tickets here!
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/movie-showing-of-hava-nagila/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130529T190000
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SUMMARY:End of Year Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Each year we take time to look back at what we have accomplished\, celebrate the talented students we have been fortunate enough to support\, and thank our generous community for enabling the Stroum Jewish Studies Program to do its work at the University of Washington.  Please join us as we celebrate another wonderful year and meet our student award recipients. \n  \nPlease register online here.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/end-of-year-celebration/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130509T133000
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Learning: Natan Meir on "People of the Poorhouse: The Jewish Dispossessed in Eastern Europe"
DESCRIPTION:How do we hear the voices of the voiceless? How do we reconstruct the history of those who were unable to write their own stories? This lecture explores the lives and experiences of Jews at the margins of society–including paupers\, orphans\, poor widows\, disabled people\, and the mentally ill –in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of documents\, Meir examines the Jewish community’s attitudes towards these individuals\, who were often both excluded from the mainstream and dependent on the community for survival. This “history from the margins” attempts to move us towards a richer and fuller portrait of East European Jewish society than ever before. \nNatan M. Meir is the Lorry I. Lokey Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Portland State University.  His research interest is modern Jewish history\, focusing on the social and cultural history of East European Jewry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of Kiev: Jewish Metropolis\, 1861-1914 (Indiana University Press\, 2010) and co-editor of Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History (Indiana\, 2010). His articles have appeared in Jewish Quarterly Review and Slavic Review. Meir is currently working on a study of vulnerable and marginalized groups among East European Jews in the nineteenth century\, and he is a consultant for the Russian Jewish Museum of Moscow\, which will open in November 2012. Prior to coming to PSU\, Meir taught at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Meir received his Ph.D. in Jewish history from Columbia University in 2003.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/lunch-time-learning-people-of-the-poorhouse-the-jewish-dispossessed-in-eastern-europe/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130428T193000
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust: The Future of the Field
DESCRIPTION:Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust: The Future of the Field\nApril 28–30\, 2013\nUniversity of Washington\nSeattle\, Washington \nLaurette Cohen (front row\, far right) poses for a class portrait with with her students at an Alliance Israélite Universelle school in Morocco\, 1935. US Holocaust Memorial Museum\, courtesy of Mathilde Tagger \nCo-organized through the Sephardic Studies Initiative of the University of Washington’s Samuel & Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program and the Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies\, this symposium explores the unique history of Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust. \nAlthough extensive research has been conducted on the Holocaust in recent decades\, the experience of Sephardic Jews on the periphery of occupied Europe\, along the Mediterranean\, and in Vichy-controlled colonies in North Africa has remained relatively unexplored. Understanding the Sephardic experience during the Holocaust forces us to refine our assumptions about its scope and the qualitative differences in the persecution\, destruction\, resistance\, and survival of varied Jewish communities under occupation. \nClick here to access the Symposium Homepage\, which includes Eventbrite links to register for all sessions. Symposium sessions are open to the public\, but due to limited seating\, advance registration is requested.\n\nPLEASE NOTE: The Keynote Address on April 28th and the Day Sessions on April 29th – 30th each require separate registration.\n\n\nClick here to access the Symposium Schedule for the Day Sessions on April 29th and 30th.\n\nClick here to access abstracts for all conference presentations.\n\nAdditional Details:\nKeynote Address: “Sephardim\, Memory\, and the Holocaust”\nDr. Aron Rodrigue\nCharles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture; Director and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities\, Stanford Humanities Center\, Stanford University\nSunday\, April 28\, 7:30 p.m.\nUniversity of Washington\nKane Hall\, Room 220\n1410 Northeast Campus Parkway\nSeattle\, Washington \nDay Sessions: These will take place in the University of Washington Allen Library Petersen Room\, #485. Click here to RSVP. \n  \nAdditional support for this symposium has been provided by the Hanauer Outreach Fund of the University of Washington’s Department of History.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/symposium-on-sephardic-jewry-and-the-holocaust-the-future-of-the-field/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Keynote Address by Dr. Aron Rodrigue: Sephardim\, Memory & the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust: The Future of the Field is a three-day symposium exploring the unique history of Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust. Co-organized through the Sephardic Studies Initiative of the University of Washington’s Samuel & Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies\, this is the first-ever academic gathering devoted to this topic. \nAlthough extensive research has been conducted on the Holocaust in recent decades\, the experience of Sephardic Jews on the periphery of occupied Europe\, along the Mediterranean\, and in Vichy-controlled colonies in North Africa has remained relatively unexplored. Understanding the Sephardic experience during the Holocaust forces us to refine our assumptions about its scope and the qualitative differences in the persecution\, destruction\, resistance\, and survival of varied Jewish communities under occupation. \nThe symposium begins on Sunday\, April 28th at 7:30 p.m. with a special Keynote Address by Dr. Aron Rodrigue\, Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture\, and Director and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities\, Stanford Humanities Center\, Stanford University. The topic of the address will be “Sephardim\, Memory\, & the Holocaust.” \nCLICK HERE to RSVP for the Keynote Address on April 28th. Advance registration is greatly appreciated. \nFor more information about the Symposium\, include links to the full schedule of the Symposium Day Sessions\, please visit https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/holocaustsymposium/.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sephardic-jewry-and-the-holocaust-the-future-of-the-field/
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CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Jews\, Greeks\, and Romans in the Ancient World: From Marginalization to Multiculturalism
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jews-greeks-and-romans-in-the-ancient-world-from-marginalization-to-multiculturalism-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130419T093000
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SUMMARY:Spring Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:On April 19th\, the Stroum Jewish Studies Program will be hosting its first-ever Spring Research Symposium highlighting graduate research in different disciplines. Join us for two fascinating panels\, followed by a reception celebrating this outstanding class of Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. \nClick here to RSVP. Advance registration is appreciated. \nClick here to find out more about this year’s Graduate Fellows\, including links to blog posts where they describe their current projects. \n  \nJewish Studies Spring Research Symposium\nApril 19th\, 2013\, 9:30 am – 1:00 pm\nLocation: HUB 214 \n9:30-9:45        Welcome \nHannah Pressman\, Graduate Fellowship Coordinator \nProf. Noam Pianko\, Chair\, Stroum Jewish Studies Program; Lucia S. and Herbert L. Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies \n9:45-11:00      Performing Russian-Jewish Identities: Popular Culture and the Soviet State \nChair: Prof. Susan Glenn\, Associate Chair\, Department of History \nSarah Zaides\, “Arkady Raikin and the Politics of Jewish Comedy in the Soviet Union 1948-1991”\nPhilip Bernstein Memorial Scholarship \nAnatoliy Klots\, “Victims\, Fighters\, Builders: Jews in Soviet Cinema of the Interwar Period”\nI. Mervin and Georgiana Gorasht Scholarship in Jewish Studies \n11:00-11:15    Coffee Break \n11:15-12:30    Out of Place: Dislocation\, Immigration\, and Jews’ Relationship with Empire \nChair: Prof. Paul Burstein\, Professor of Sociology\, Adjunct Professor of Political Science \nVeronica Muskheli\, “From Metropolis to Shtetl: S.A. An-sky and Questions of National Identity for Jews in Late Imperial Russia”\nRichard M. Willner Memorial Scholarship in Jewish Studies \nYoav Duman\, “Seeking Asylum in a Jewish State: Explaining Emerging Israeli Policies Toward African Asylum Seekers”\nMickey Sreebny Memorial Scholarship in Jewish Studies \n12:30-1:00      Concluding Remarks and Reception
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/spring-research-symposium/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130417T210059
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SUMMARY:Jews\, Greeks\, and Romans in the Ancient World: From Marginalization to Multiculturalism
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jews-greeks-and-romans-in-the-ancient-world-from-marginalization-to-multiculturalism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130410T190000
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SUMMARY:Two Fatherlands? Zionist Youth and the Politics of Belonging in 1930s Poland
DESCRIPTION:Why would a Zionist youth movement between the two world wars consider marching in Polish patriotic parades and training with Polish military groups to be Zionist acts? This talk will investigate the fascinating dynamics that led Betar\, one of interwar Poland’s most popular Jewish youth movements\, to model their ceremonies on Polish patriotic rituals\, call for their members to “act Polish” and include Polish government officials as both observers and participants in their celebrations. Drawing from autobiographies of Jewish youth written in Polish\, Yiddish and Hebrew\, as well as police reports from across Poland\, Dr. Heller will explore these performances of a Polish-Zionist alliance from the perspective of Betar’s members\, leaders and Polish government officials. By doing so\, the talk will provide a vivid portrait of Polish-Jewish relations and the world of Polish Jewish youth on the eve of the Second World War. \nClick here to read an interview with the featured speaker\, Dr. Daniel K. Heller. \n \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/two-fatherlands-zionist-youth-and-the-politics-of-belonging-in-1930s-poland/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130407T143000
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SUMMARY:Yom Hashoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day Community Program
DESCRIPTION:2:30pm – Liberator and Liberated: A liberator of Buchenwald and a survivor of Buchenwald share their stories.  At Kane Hall\, Room 210\, University of Washington. \n\nLeo Hymas\, a US soldier who helped to liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp\, and Robbie Waismann\, a survivor of Buchenwald\, share their powerful stories of compassion\, survival\, and hope. \nDate: April 7th\nTime: 2:30pm\nLocation: Kane Hall Room 210\, University of Washington – Seattle \nSponsored by the Holocaust Center and the UW Jewish Studies program.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/yom-hashoah-holocaust-remembrance-day-community-program/
LOCATION:WA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130328T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130328T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20130322T031659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170831T230557Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Andree Aelion Brooks: The Incredible Life of Dona Gracia Nasi
DESCRIPTION:Noted author\, journalist\, and lecturer Andree Aelion Brooks will discuss the life of a Renaissance Jewish woman named Dona Gracia Nasi. Event is free and open to the public. \nSponsored by the Division of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at UW\, with the generous assistance of Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Honorary Consulate of Spain\, the Instituto Cervantes Seattle\, and the Stroum Jewish Studies Program.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/lecture-by-andree-aelion-brooks-the-incredible-life-of-dona-gracia-nasi/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130314T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130314T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20121201T013806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170831T203355Z
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SUMMARY:New Voices in World Jewish Music: Guy Mendilow Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:New Voice in World Jewish Music: A Concert with Guy Mendilow Ensemble \nMarch 14\, 2013 \n6:30pm doors\, 7:30pm show. All ages\, mostly seated show \nThe Fremont Abbey Arts Center\n4272 Fremont Ave N.\, Seattle\, WA \nTickets: $10 students\, $12 general\, $15 at the door \nPurchase tickets for advance discount here. \n  \n \nStarting in ancient Spain and winding through Sarajevo\, Salonica and Jerusalem\, the award winning Guy Mendilow Ensemble breathes new life into centuries-old Sephardi songs.  Epic tales of sailors and love lost to the seas\, fantastic dreams and the intrigue of kings and queens abound in arrangements that crackle with rich musical storytelling.  A citizen of Israel\, Great Britain and the United States\, Guy has lived and performed in South Africa\, Israel\, Taiwan\, Canada\, Mexico\, Brazil and the United States. More on the Guy and his ensemble here: https://www.guymendilow.com
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/new-voices-in-world-jewish-music-guy-mendilow-ensemble/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130313T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130313T190000
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SUMMARY:Student Workshop: Ladino Music with Guy Mendilow
DESCRIPTION:Critically acclaimed Ladino musician Guy Mendilow and ensemble member Sofia Tosel will lead an interactive workshop entitled “Sailors\, Sirens & Kings: Traditions and Change in Ladino Song.” Open to all students at all levels\, no music or Jewish Studies experience required.  More info below: \n  \n \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-workshop-ladino-music-with-guy-mendilow/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130306T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130306T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20130124T230358Z
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SUMMARY:“El Angel de Budapest”  at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Embassy of Spain in collaboration with the Tourist Office of Spain in Los Angeles\, the Cervantes Institute\, Dragados U.S.A. \, the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of Washington\,  Spanish Arts and Culture\, Honorary Consul of Spain and Classical Wines of Spain present the movie “El Angel de Budapest”  at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/el-angel-de-budapest-at-the-seattle-jewish-film-festival/
LOCATION:WA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130305T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130305T153059
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20130124T010052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130227T002031Z
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SUMMARY:Campus Talk: Prof. Robin Judd on "What’s Love Got To Do With It?  Jewish War Brides\, Soldier Husbands\, and Postwar European History”
DESCRIPTION:“What’s Love Got To Do With It? Jewish War Brides\, Soldier Husbands\, and Postwar European Jewish History” explores the complicated relationships among some librated Jewish women and American\, British\, and Canadian victors.  To do so\, it will study an understudied population\, namely the Jewish female survivors in postwar Europe who married American\, Canadian\, and British military personnel.  It will examine the women and it will engage with their interactions with one another\, with the Jewish and non-Jewish men they married\, and with the different associations that strove to assist them.  By studying Jewish war brides\, this paper will provide unique insight into the transnational and gendered character of an understudied group of survivors of the Nazi persecution. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nBio:  Robin Judd (Phd\, University of Michigan) has served on the faculty of the History Department of the Ohio State University since 2000. Currently the director of the Graduate Studies Program of the History Department\, she also serves as an associate member of the Melton Center for Jewish Studies\, the Women’s/Gender Studies Department\, and the Center for the Study of Religion. Professor Judd is the author of Contested Rituals: Circumcision\, Kosher Butchering\, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany\, 1843-1933 (Cornell University Press) and a number of articles concerning Jewish history\, gender history\, and ritual behavior. She has received several research fellowships and grants including a Fulbright\, NEH summer stipend\, DAAD\, Lady Davis Award\, Coca Cola grant for Critical Difference\, and the American Historical Association’s Schmidt award. She is the recipient of two teaching awards: the History Department’s Clio award and the College of Arts and Science’s Rodica Botoman Award \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/prof-robin-judd-jewish-war-brides/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130304T190000
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SUMMARY:Circumcision as a Human Rights Issue: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Circumcision as a Human Rights Issue \nA Panel Discussion \nParticipants\nPanelists: \n\nRobin Judd\nThomas Schmidt\nBettina Shell-Duncan\n\nModerator: \n\nMichael Rosenthal\n\nBackground \nIs Circumcision a violation of the human right to bodily integrity?  Or is it protected under the human right that guarantees freedom liberty of religion?  Is it primarily a medical or is it a cultural practice?  Recent events have brought these issues into the news.  In Germany last year an appellate court criminalized the non-medical circumcision of children.  In Africa the World Health Organization now advocates a policy of medical male circumcision in order to prevent the spread of HIV\, at the same time as it works to stop female genital cutting.  In 2011 a proposal to ban male circumcision was placed on the ballot in San Francisco.  What is new about these current debates and what can we learn from the past?  The panel of experts will approach current controversies from three different disciplines—anthropology\, history\, and philosophy—to start an informed conversation.  Please join us. \n  \nParticipant Bios\nRobin Judd is an associate Professor of History at Ohio State University.  She is the author of Contested Rituals: Circumcision\, Kosher Butchering\, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany\, 1843-1933\, published by Cornell University Press. \nThomas Schmidt is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt\, Germany. He is the editor of the forthcoming Religion and Secularization:  An Interdisciplinary Guide [in German]\, published by J. B. Metzler Verlag. \nBettina Shell Duncan is Professor of Anthropology and Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington.  She is the co-editor of Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context\, published by Rutgers University Press. \nMichael Rosenthal is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington. \n  \nMain Sponsors\nStroum Jewish Studies Program \nWalter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities \n  \nCo-Sponsors\nDepartment of Philosophy
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/circumcision-as-a-human-rights-issue-a-panel-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130303T130500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130303T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
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SUMMARY:Seattle Jewish Film Festival: "Once Upon a Time at 55th and Hoover"
DESCRIPTION:Sephardic Echar Lashon Reception \nSunday\, March 3 | 1:05 pm | amC Pacific Place \nAndres Enrique | USA\, Spain 2012 | 25m | English and Ladino w/subtitles | Doc \nThe Sephardic Jews who arrived in Los Angeles in the first half of the 20th brought a rich culture from the Island of Rhodes. Though they struggled with cultural assimilation and maintaining their identity\, they built a thriving\, lively community centered on unique traditions\, foods\, songs and Ladino. \nGuest: Professor Devin Naar\, UW Jewish Studies \nSpecial Event: Join us for a Sephardic echar lashon (Ladino for coffee klatch) after the screening \nSponsor: Cathy Sarkowsky & Max Sarkowsky \nCommunity Partners: Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood\, Sam and Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program at UW \n  \n \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/seattle-jewish-film-festival-once-upon-a-time-on-the-corner-of-55th-and-hoover/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T143059
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Learning: Arie Dubnov of Stanford University\, "What is Jewish (if anything) about Sir Isaiah Berlin's political philosophy?"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 21\, 2013  \n1:30-2:30 in Thomson 317\, light lunch provided \nArie Dubnov of Stanford University will analyze Isaiah Berlin’s political thinking and consider the extent to which it can be considered “Jewish.” \nThis lecture has two central aims: First\, to reappraise Isaiah Berlin’s political thought in a historically contextualized way\, in particular to pay attention to central conceptual tensions between\, on the one hand\, his famous definition of liberalism as resting on a negative concept of liberty and\, on the other\, his defense of cultural nationalism in general and Zionism in particular. Second\, to see what we gain and what we lose by dubbing his philosophy “Jewish.” Arie Dubnov will discuss Berlin’s Jewishness and Zionism and explain how he came to develop a position that can be characterized as “Diaspora Zionism” which later animated his Cold War liberal philosophy. \n Arie Dubnov is an Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University’s Department of history and (starting Fall 2013) a Senior Lecturer at the School of History at the University of Haifa\, Israel. Dubnov holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, and is a past George L. Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history\, with a subsidiary interest in nationalism studies. He is the author\, most recently\, of Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2012)\, and he also edited the collection [in Hebrew] Zionism – A View from the Outside (The Bialik Institute\, 2010)\, seeking to put Zionist history in a larger comparative trajectory. In addition\, Dubnov has published essays in journals such as Nations & Nationalism\, Modern Intellectual History\, History of European Ideas\, The Journal of Israeli History. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/lunchtime-learning-arie-dubnov-of-stanford-university-what-is-jewish-if-anything-about-sir-isaiah-berlins-political-philosophy/
LOCATION:WA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130215T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130215T143000
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CREATED:20121114T014154Z
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SUMMARY:Traces of a Viennese Childhood: Uncovering the Early Life and Career of Edgar G. Ulmer
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Germanics presents a lecture by Noah Isenberg\, Director of Screen Studies at the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/traces-of-a-viennese-childhood-uncovering-the-early-life-and-career-of-edgar-g-ulmer/
LOCATION:WA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130214T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130214T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20130201T202821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130201T202835Z
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SUMMARY:From Paganism to Christianity: Cultural Identities in Horbat Beit Loya\, Israel
DESCRIPTION:In this talk Professor Gutfeld discusses a new and unknown site\, Beit Loya\, that he has been digging since 2005 and that has revealed new data regarding the Judean Lowlands.  Beit Loya features burial caves with Hebrew inscriptions from the Iron Age II; and was an Edumites settlement in the Hellenistic period\, a Jewish site until the destruction of the Second Temple\, and a Christian site with beautiful Church and Mosaic Floor from the Byzantine period.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/from-paganism-to-christianity-cultural-identities-in-horbat-beit-loya-israel/
LOCATION:WA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20130107T183005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170724T215103Z
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SUMMARY:Discovering Seattle's Sephardic Treasures
DESCRIPTION:Temple De Hirsch Sinai Libraries presents Discovering Seattle’s Sephardic Treasures.  Professor Devin Naar will offer a glimpse into Seattle’s Sephardic heritage by showcasing Sephardic treasures – unique Ladino books and documents – discovered in Seattle through the Stroum Jewish Studies Program’s groundbreaking Sephardic Studies Initiative at the University of Washington. \nReception to follow lecture and Q&A. \n  \nFor more information please visit tdhs-nw.org
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/discovering-seattles-sephardic-treasures/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T143000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20130123T182107Z
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Learning: Hannah Mayne of University of Florida\, “Making it Normal\, Making it Safe: Women's Voices from a West Bank Settlement”
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Manye\, PhD candidate in Department of Anthropology at University of Florida \nTopic: What women in established Jewish settlements can tell us about underlying economic\, cultural\, and religious issues that make the topography of this conflict a lot more complicated than often imagined and represented.  Hannah will share several ethnographic vignettes from her research and summarize some of the deeper issues that these conversations and stories reveal.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/lunchtime-learning-hannah-mayne-of-university-of-florida-what-women-in-jewish-settlements-have-to-tell-us-about-the-conflict/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20120919T000257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170724T215213Z
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SUMMARY:New Voices in World Jewish Music: Galeet Dardashti
DESCRIPTION:New Voice in Persian Music: A Conversation with Galeet Dardashti and Jessika Kenney \nAs the granddaughter of Yona Dardashti\, the most renowned singer of Persian classical music in Iran in his day\, and daughter of highly esteemed cantor Farid Dardashti\, Middle Eastern vocalist and composer Galeet Dardashti is the first woman in her family to continue her family tradition of distinguished Persian and Jewish musicianship. Galeet also pursues her passion for Jewish music and culture as an anthropologist. She recently completed her Ph.D. in anthropology on the performance of contemporary Mizrahi and Arab music in Israel. \nJessika Kenney \nOn February 10 at UW\, Galeet will discuss the roots of her work with local scholar and music artist Jessika Kenney. \nJessika Kenney is a vocalist\, composer\, and faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts. She has performed and recorded internationally for the last 15 years\, and studied many areas of vocal music\, particularly classical Persian vocal music and Central Javanese vocal music.\nVisit the New Voices in World Jewish Music page to learn more about Galeet Dardashti and other artists in this series. \nRegister for this event now: \n\n \nOnline event registration for New Voices in World Jewish Music: Galeet Dardashti powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/new-voice-in-persian-music-galeet-dardashti/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130124T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130124T200059
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20130107T183039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130107T213715Z
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SUMMARY:The 2013 Israeli Elections: Domestic Dynamics\, the Peace Process\, and Prospects for the Future
DESCRIPTION:The Samuel & Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program and the Middle East Center present \nThe 2013 Israeli Elections: Domestic Dynamics\, the Peace Process\, and Prospects for the Future \nJanuary 24\, 6:00 pm\, Thompson 101\, UW Seattle \nPanelists: \nJoel Migdal\, Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies\, UW. \nKaram Dana\, Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics\, UW Bothell. \nYoav Duman\, PhD Candidate\, Political Science\, UW. \nModerator: \nNoam Pianko\, Associate Professor and Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies\, UW. \nThe Middle East Center’s sponsorship of this event does not imply that the Center endorses the content of the event. \nFor questions please contact duman@uw.edu.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/the-2013-israeli-elections-domestic-dynamics-the-peace-process-and-prospects-for-the-future/
LOCATION:WA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130117T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20120918T235020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170724T215310Z
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SUMMARY:New Voices in World Jewish Music: Sarah Aroeste
DESCRIPTION:New Voice in Ladino Music: A Conversation with Sarah Aroeste \nSarah Aroeste\, inspired by her family’s Sephardic roots in Greece and Macedonia\, has spent the last 10 years bringing her contemporary style of original and traditional Ladino music to audiences around the world. American born and trained in classical opera at Westminster Choir College and Yale University\, Aroeste became drawn to her Sephardic musical past after spending a summer in 1997 performing at the Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv. Aroeste has worked tirelessly to keep Ladino music alive for a new generation. Her style\, whether with her original music or with interpreting Ladino folk repertoire\, combines traditional Mediterranean Sephardic sounds with contemporary influences such as rock\, funk jazz and blues. \nMs. Aroeste will demonstrate some of her music and speak about her work in conversation with Professor Devin Naar\, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington.  Dr. Naar is a European Jewish historian with an emphasis in Sephardic history\, specifically Salonica. \nVisit the New Voices in World Jewish Music page to learn more about Sarah Aroeste and other artists in this series. \nRegister for this event now: \n\n \nEvent Registration Online for New Voices in World Jewish Music: Sarah Aroeste powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/new-voices-in-world-jewish-music-sarah-aroeste/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121129T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121129T220059
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CREATED:20121130T022728Z
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SUMMARY:Global Rhythms: Gerard Edery Trio in Concert at Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:SJSP is pleased to offer tickets to this Sephardic music concert at the Town Hall member rate. \n  \nClick here to buy your discounted ticket!
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/global-rhythms-gerard-edery-trio-in-concert-at-town-hall/
LOCATION:WA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T003000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121114T133059
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20120918T230422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20120918T232105Z
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Learning: Leah Garrett of Monash University in Australia\, “Jewish American War Novels”
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 14\, 2012  \n12:30 – 1:30pm in Thomson 317\, Light lunch provided \nLeah Garrett of Monash University in Australia\, expert in Yiddish and Jewish-American literature\, will speak on “Jewish American War Novels” \nIn 1948 five books about the war dominated the New York Times bestseller list and were all written by Jews and made Jewish soldiers central protagonists: Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead\, Irwin Shaw’s The Young Lions\, Ira Wolfert’s An Act of Love\, Merle Miller’s That Winter\, and Stefan Heym’s The Crusaders.  A sixth book about a Jewish soldier also sold well that year (although it did not make the bestseller list)\, Martha Gellhorn’s The Wine of Astonishment.  The critical and popular dominance of Jewish war novels in America extended into the early 1960s.  For instance\, Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny (1952) was the largest postwar bestseller\, while Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) initiated the literary trend of satirizing and subverting America’s war aims. \nJewish writers argued in their novels that the Holocaust was a central\, rather than ancillary\, aspect of the war experience.  Other themes that Jewish war novelists took up included a focus on the endemic antisemitism and racism in the military\, the infusion of intellectualism into the figure of the ideal soldier hero\, and the reversal of the standard American understanding of the Japanese enemy as a devil and the German as an European brother.  In Jewish novels\, the Japanese are fellow minorities\, and the Germans are the true demons. \nYet the central role of Jews in fictionalizing War World II for a postwar readership has gone unnoticed in literary and historical studies.  Either the Jewishness of the writers is uncommented on\, or\, the Jewishness of the text is negated.  This factor is central\, because as I will discuss\, Jewish authors wrote about the war in very unique ways\, and since their novels were bestsellers\, they had a direct impact upon how postwar Americans understood the war effort.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/lunchtime-learning-leah-garrett-of-monash-university-in-australia-jewish-american-war-novels/
LOCATION:WA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162636
CREATED:20121030T235133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170901T001205Z
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SUMMARY:JewDUB Talks Premiere!
DESCRIPTION:One room. Four talks. Endless possibilities. \nExperience Jewish Studies in a dynamic new format: short talks offering quick windows onto fascinating topics. Inspired by the style of TED talks\, these pocket-sized public lectures will open up new avenues of discovery. \nDate: Thursday\, November 8th\, 7:00 pm \nLocation: UW Tower Auditorium \nCost: Free! Reception will follow. \nRSVP / Registration: jewdubtalks.eventbrite.com \nThe first-ever JewDUB Talks will feature four of our terrific faculty members. Here’s who is on tap: \n\nProf. Devin Naar – “In Search of Uncle Salomon”\nProf. Sarah Stroup – “The Myth of Tradition”\nProf. Shalom Sabar – “Where do our rituals come from?”\nProf. Barbara Henry – “So why Yiddish?”\n\nCome out on November 8th and hear what everyone’s talking about. \nJewDUB Talks is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Special Initiatives Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. \nFor continuing coverage of the Stroum Jewish Studies Program’s public programming\, check out JewDub.org!
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jewdubtalks/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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