Seattle Jewish Film Festival | The Tobacconist
SIFF Cinema Uptown 511 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA, United StatesDirector Nikolaus Leytner's 2018 film portrays the connection between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and a young man in Nazi-occupied Austria.
STUDENT EVENT: Meza de Ladino ~ Ladino Table
SMITH 320Join Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington to explore Ladino, a Mediterranean language that blends Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Italian & French
4/3 PANEL | Perspectives on the 2019 Israeli Parliamentary Elections
HUB 214, UW Seattle Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin Stroum Center faculty and graduate students for a pre-election discussion of Israeli politics and Israel-U.S. relations in the week leading up to Israel's 2019 parliamentary elections.
4/17 COLLOQUIUM | International Politics, History, and Jews
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesGraduate fellows Berkay Gülen and Kerice Doten-Snitker share their research on Israeli foreign policy and anti-Semitism in medieval Europe.
STUDENT EVENT: Meza de Ladino ~ Ladino Table
SMITH 320Join Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington to explore Ladino, a Mediterranean language that blends Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Italian & French
5/6 TALK | “More Mexican than the Nopal”: From Ottoman Jew to Mexican Diplomat in Vichy France, or the Story of Mauricio Fresco
Thomson 317, UW Campus 2023 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Devi Mays will use the life of Mexican Jewish diplomat Mauricio Fresco to explore the multiple tensions undergirding global Sephardic life in the late interwar and World War II eras.
STUDENT EVENT: Queer Jews in Nazi-Era Berlin
RSVP for locationFor our quarterly Jewish Studies Coffee Hour, Prof Laurie Marhoefer (History) will present on research methods and challenges she has encountered while researching queer Jews
5/14 STROUM LECTURE | Jewish Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Lost Archives, Sacred Wastebins, and Jews of the Medieval Islamic World
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesIn our 2019 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, Dr. Marina Rustow will consider the enduring relevance of ancient Jewish texts in an online era.
STUDENT EVENT: Meza de Ladino ~ Ladino Table
SMITH 320Join Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington to explore Ladino, a Mediterranean language that blends Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Italian & French
5/16 STROUM LECTURE | Jewish Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Manuscripts, the Digital Revolution, and the New Materiality
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesIn our 2019 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, Dr. Marina Rustow will consider the enduring relevance of ancient Jewish texts in an online era.
5/21 COLLOQUIUM | Jewish Memory, History & Thought
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin 2018-2019 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Vincent Calvetti-Wolf, Pablo Jairo Tutillo and Hayim Katsman as they share their research.
5/23 TALK | Visualizing Resistance: From Conflict to Concord in a Synagogue Mosaic
Odegaard Library 220 4060 George Washington Lane NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Ra'anan Boustan interprets an ancient depiction of a Jewish victory over Greek forces, and the clues it offers about Jewish identity during Roman times.
Seattle Sephardic Legacies | National Endowment for the Humanities
HUB 160: Lyceum 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesTrace the journey of Seattle’s Sephardic Jews from the Ottoman Empire to the Pacific Northwest through artifacts transported to the Puget Sound. Do you have Ladino books, family letters, immigration documents, postcards, audio recordings, or other artifacts pertaining to the Sephardic experience? Bring your Sephardic treasures for evaluation, digitization, and inclusion in the Sephardic Studies Collection.
STUDENT EVENT: Meza de Ladino ~ Ladino Table
SMITH 320Join Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington to explore Ladino, a Mediterranean language that blends Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Italian & French
Katja Petrowskaja: A Family Story Between Memory and Forgetting
Communications 120 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe writer Katja Petrowskaja will speak about family history and memory in conversation with Sasha Senderovich.