Water and the Environment in the Middle East: Israel’s Sustainability Challenges in the Desalination Era
Kane Hall 110 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesProfessor Alon Tal will discuss the lessons that Israel's experience with desalination can offer an increasingly water-scarce world.
Ladino Day 2018: Jewish Folktales of the Mediterranean
Kane Hall 130 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesLadino Day 2018 will showcase Paris-based author François Azar's collections of Ladino folktales, which bring Sephardic traditions to new generations.
Zionism and Emotion: Love, Fear, and Guilt
Kane Hall 110 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesProfessor Derek Penslar will consider Zionism, and all forms of modern nationalism, as expressions of emotions -- emotions that motivate both positive strengths and negative feelings of guilt.
Jews and Human Rights: Forgotten Past, Uncertain Future
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesProfessor James Loeffler will discuss the nearly forgotten ties between Zionism, Jewish activism, and the emergence of the international human rights movement.
CANCELED: Dancing with the Angel of Death: Demonic Femininity in the Ancient Synagogue
Thomson 317, UW Campus 2023 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Laura Lieber of Duke University will discuss demonic femininity in ancient Jewish poetry.
STUDENT EVENT: Reading Group for “The Best Place on Earth”
RSVP for locationIn advance of author Ayelet Tsabari's upcoming visit to the UW, undergrads are invited to discuss Tsabari's 2013 novel, "The Best Place on Earth," with Professor Sasha Senderovich.
CANCELED: How Frontier Jews Made American Judaism
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesProfessor Shari Rabin explores how Jewish migrants in the era of westward expansion shaped the religious idioms, institutions, and ideologies of American Judaism.
STUDENT EVENT: The Rabbis on Love
Get insights on love, desire, and relationships from the greatest rabbis in history. Discussion over coffee with Mika Ahuvia (Jewish Studies, Comparative Religion).
Can Patients Refuse Lifesaving Treatment? A Comparative Review of Secular, Jewish & Israeli Perspectives
Thomson Hall 101 2023 King Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz will review secular and Jewish-rabbinic approaches to the question of whether patients can refuse lifesaving treatment, and what role physicians should play in that decision.
STUDENT EVENT: Learning from the Holocaust in the Age of Trump
Join Richard Block for a discussion of Nazi Germany and how its painful history can help us understand how fear of immigrants and minorities is weaponized by politicians today.
STUDENT/FACULTY EVENT: Writing Displacement: A Seminar on Memoir with Author Ayelet Tsabari
RSVP for venueWriter Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her new memoir, "The Art of Leaving," and the process of writing and publishing literary nonfiction.
“The Art of Leaving” with Author Ayelet Tsabari: Language, Longing, and Belonging
Ethnic Cultural Theater 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WAWriter Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her new memoir of immigration to and from Israel, "The Art of Leaving," with Professor Sasha Senderovich.
STUDENT EVENT: Conversation with author Ayelet Tsabari
RSVP for locationUndergrads are invited to meet with Ayelet Tsabari, author of the award-winning novel "The Best Place on Earth" and the new memoir "The Art of Leaving."
3/4 TALK | New Language, New Story: How Translation Changed the Bible for Sephardic Jews Across History
Thomson Hall 101 2023 King Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. David Wacks will discuss the history of Sephardic engagement with the Tanakh, from the medieval Arabic translations to the Ladino and Judeo-Spanish translations, commentaries, and legends through which generations of Sepharadim reinterpreted the Tanakh for the worlds in which they lived.
Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century: Between Iranian Nationalism, Communism, and Zionism
The 2019 Afrassiabi Distinguished Lecture in Persian and Iranian Studies with Lior Sternfeld, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Penn State University In the early