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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Rabbi Shai Held on Heschel and Maimonides
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, Rabbi Shai Held has had to cancel his upcoming visit to Seattle so this event will no longer be taking place. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. \nWhat do we mean when we say “God”? Are we talking about an abstract\, distant\, unknowable being? A personal God who loves and cares about us? Something else entirely? In this session\, we’ll explore the very different ways two of Judaism’s greatest thinkers – Maimonides and Abraham Joshua Heschel – thought about God\, and ask what we might learn for our own spiritual and religious quests. \n  \n  \nRabbi Shai Held is Co-Founder\, Dean and Chair in Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar. Shai also directs Mechon Hadar’s Center for Jewish Leadership and Ideas\, for which he has written over a year’s worth of weekly divrei Torah on the parashah. Previously\, he served for six years as Scholar-in-Residence at Kehilat Hadar in New York City\, and taught both theology and Halakha at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Shai holds a doctorate in religion from Harvard; his main academic interests are in modern Jewish and Christian thought and in the history of Zionism. His book\, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence was published by Indiana University Press in 2013.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/coffee-conversation-with-rabbi-shai-held/
LOCATION:Savery 408\, 408 Savery Hall\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
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SUMMARY:SJFF Sephardic Film Highlight: Bulgarian Rhapsody
DESCRIPTION:A visually stunning tale of first love and friendship in a time of war. In the summer of 1943 in Sofia\, Bulgaria\, a shy 17-year-old Jewish boy\, meets his cousin and is immediately smitten. Unfortunately\, so is his more worldly friend Giogio. The boys navigate more than a love triangle; however\, as the police begin rounding up the Jews in this Ladino-speaking community under pressure from their German allies\, who are also devastating Shelli’s hometown of Kavala\, Greece. To complicate matters\, Giogio’s father is a brutish anti-Semite who works for the government department in charge of deporting Sofia’s Jews to forced labor and death camps. \n  \nDespite its grim setting\, the film’s tender evocation of childhood exuberance\, innocence\, and budding romance recreates the sweet and sumptuous lost world of Bulgarian Sephardic Jewish culture. \n  \nBulgaria’s submission to the 2014 Academy Awards® for Best Foreign Language Film\, BULGARIAN RHAPSODY is part of director Ivan Nichev’s historic trilogy about Bulgarian Jews\, which also includes AFTER THE END OF THE WAR (1999) and THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM (2003). Warning: some nudity. \n  \nFeaturing commentary and echar lashon with Prof. Devin Naar and special performances by the Bulgarian Women’s Choir group Dunava. \n  \nTickets for this film are available through the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sjff-sephardic/
LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine Street\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160405T180000
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: Jewish Studies Student Advisory Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Jewish Studies Student Advisory Council (JSSAC) is a non-religious and non-political organization at UW that serves as a liaison between students and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies faculty and staff. The council provides a forum for student input and ideas\, and offers students the opportunity to build leadership skills and gain mentorship in curriculum development and organizational management. JSSAC also builds community and friendships among students who are interested in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. Undergraduate and graduate students from all backgrounds and majors with an interest in Jewish Studies are welcome to join. \nDinner is provided! RSVPs appreciated so we can order the right amount of food. Please RSVP to Lauren Kurland at lkurland@uw.edu.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/19823/
LOCATION:HUB 332\, Husky Union Building\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn with Dr. Gerhard Weinberg
DESCRIPTION:[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Hitler and the U.S.: Views\, Plans\, Policies\, and the Jewish Question in All Three[/title]\nDr. Gerhard Weinberg\, Professor Emeritus of University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, will be joining us for a Lunch and Learn event on Thursday\, April 6\, 2016. \nProf. Devin Naar\, chair of the UW Sephardic Studies Program\, will be the faculty respondent to Dr. Weinberg’s paper. \nThis talk\, entitled “Hitler and the U.S.:. Views\, Plans\, Policies and the Jewish Question in All Three\,” will engage Hitler’s hopes and plans for world conquest which from an early date included war with the United States. He also expected to have Germans kill all Jews throughout the world as well as the handicapped. Once becoming chancellor of Germany\, he began preparations for both the wars to be fought — including the one against the US — and persecution of Jews. It was wartime that in his eyes made systematic killing possible; first of the handicapped and then of the Jews. The talk then reviews the plans for dividing the world between Germany and Japan after victory in World War II and the implications of a division of the United States between the two with Washington going to Japan and the other 47 to Germany. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UW Department of History. \n  \n \nDr. Gerhard Weinberg is a leading world scholar on the topics of Nazi Germany\, WWII\, foreign policy\, and the Holocaust. He was born in Nazi Germany into a family of German Jews\, he and his family escaped to London. Later\, Dr. Weinberg joined the U.S Military. He earned his Ph.D. in 1951 at the University of Chicago. He worked on Columbia University’s War Documentation Project\, and established the program for microfilming the captured German documents. Professor Weinberg has\, over the course of his long career\, taught at Universities of Chicago\, Kentucky\, Michigan\, and North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has chaired several professional organizations and served on and chaired several U.S. government advisory committees. Now retired\, he has authored or edited eleven books and over 100 chapters\, articles\, guides to archives and other publications. \nA light kosher lunch will be served.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/gerhard-weinberg/
LOCATION:Petersen Room\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
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SUMMARY:SJFF Short Film Highlight: In the Footsteps of Regina Jonas
DESCRIPTION:Who was the first woman rabbi and why don’t we know about her? Most American Jews believe that women in the rabbinate is an American phenomenon that arose out of the feminist movement of the 1970s. So it is surprising to discover that the first woman rabbi\, Regina Jonas\, was ordained in Berlin in 1935 and served German Jewry as they faced the agonies of Hitler’s murderous regime in Germany and then in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The film explores that question through a trip to Berlin and Terezin undertaken by America’s pioneering rabbis to recover their fore-mother and to discover both who she was and why she matters to us. \nTickets for this short film are available through the Seattle Jewish Film Festival. This short will be screened immediately before the showing of Raise the Roof. 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sjff-short-film/
LOCATION:Stroum Jewish Community Center\, 3801 East Mercer Way\, Mercer Island\, WA\, 98040\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160411T090000
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SUMMARY:Jewish Refugees and Their Lives in Shanghai
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Xu will speak about the arrival of Jewish refugees from Central Europe during the Holocaust to Shanghai\, their lives during War time in Shanghai and what caused them to leave when the war ended. \nRegistration for this event is available through the Confucius Institute. \nThis event is offered as part of the The Jewish Refugees in Shanghai Exhibition (1933-1941)\, which brings together for the first time photos\, personal stories\, and artifacts from Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum. The exhibition will run at Hillel at UW from April 6 through April 30\, 2016. It is free and open to the public Monday to Friday\, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. \n  \nXU XIN is a professor at Nanjing University and China’s leading Judaic scholar\, as well as the founder and director of the Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies at Nanjing University\, China. Prof. Xu is the President of the China Judaic Studies Association\, Vice President of the China Mid-East Studies Association\, and Editor-in-Chief and a major contributor of the Chinese edition Encyclopedia Judaica (Shanghai: The Shanghai People’s Publishing House\, 1993). \n  \nProf. Xu is the first Chinese scholar who introduced Modern Hebrew literature to Chinese readers and has introduced over 50 Israeli poets and writers to Chinese public readers. He was a guest speaker at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1988 and at Tel Aviv University (1993 and 1998). In 1995\, he served as a Fellow at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion. In 1996 and 1998\, he served as a visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies of Harvard University. \n  \nProf. Xu has given over 600 public lectures in the world since 1995 and his activities have been widely reported by newspapers such as Chicago Tribune\, Jerusalem Post\, New York Times\, Harvard University Gazette\, The Jerusalem Report\, The Jewish Week\, Forward and etc. \n  \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Links for Further Exploration[/title] \n\nProfile of Prof. Xu from Tablet Magazine
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jewish-refugees-lives-shanghai/
LOCATION:Hillel UW\, 4745 17th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160413T190000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Daniel Newman\, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum--CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:EVENT UPDATE – Dr. Newman has had to cancel his visit to Seattle. The Ellison Center is working on rescheduling this lecture for another time.  \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]An Overview of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union[/title] \nThis talk discusses the experiences of Holocaust victims who lived inside the borders of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the German invasion on June 22\, 1941\, through the Red Army’s victory\, and to the divisiveness over the post-war memory of the events of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union. The scope of this subject is expansive in terms of the physical territory covered\, the destruction of human life wrought by a variety of perpetrators\, and the political factors affecting the remembrance of the Holocaust. Though exact figures will likely never be determined\, leading historians currently believe that between 1.5 and close to 3 million Soviet Jews lost their lives during the occupation. Regrettably\, the memory of their destruction has proven a contentious issue throughout the Soviet period and to the present day\, with various political considerations and (some would argue) anti-Semitic agendas relegating the story of the Jews during the Holocaust as a byline at best\, and completely absent from the historical record at worst. Today’s talk will provide an overview of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and explain why it is so important that we understand and continue to study this horrific tragedy both in the context of Holocaust history and in assessing the state of international politics and conflict in the contemporary space of the former Soviet Union. \nFor more information about this event\, please check out the Ellison Center for Russian\, East European and Central Asian Studies. \n  \nDaniel Newman is the Program Manager of the Initiative for the Study of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union at the Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He holds a PhD in modern European history from the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA)\, where he completed a dissertation entitled “Criminal Strategies and Institutional Concerns in the Soviet Legal System: An Analysis of Criminal Appeals in Moscow Province\, 1921-1928.” His research interests include Russian and Soviet history\, comparative legal history\, and the history of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. He has presented his work at international scholarly conferences hosted by the Department of State\, the Kennan Institute\, the Higher School of Economics in Moscow\, the German Historical Institute\, and the Franco-Russian Center for Research in Human and Social Sciences. His most recent work was published in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. He has received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and a Hans Rogger Fellowship in Russian history\, has translated children’s stories from Russian to English for publication\, and has taught at Loyola Marymount University.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/holocaust-soviet-union/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T173000
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SUMMARY:Islam\, Indonesia\, Israel: Indonesian Perceptions of the Middle East and Middle Eastern Perceptions of Indonesia
DESCRIPTION:The Southeast Asia Center\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies invite you to a dialogue between Professors Muhamad Ali and Giora Eliraz about Indonesian perceptions of the Middle East and Middle Eastern perceptions of Indonesia. Southeast Asia Center Director Laurie J. Sears will moderate.\n\nLight dinner reception begins at 5:30pm. Main event begins at 6:30pm.\n  \n\nMuhamad Ali is an Indonesian scholar of Islam. He is currently an associate professor of Islamic Studies in the Religious Studies Department and is a faculty member of the Southeast Asia: Text\, Ritual\, and Performance Program at the University of California\, Riverside. Dr. Ali has published books\, essays\, and chapters on topics related to Islam\, including violence and peace\, gender\, interfaith dialog and global education\, Indonesian Muslims’ perceptions of Judaism and Jews\, Indonesian Islamic liberal movements\, and a modern history of Southeast Asia. His recent book is Islam and Colonialism: Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya (Edinburgh University Press\, 2015). His two earlier books\, Multicultural-Pluralist Theology (2003) and Bridging Islam and the West: An Indonesian View (2009)\, were published in Indonesia. His current projects are concerning religious freedom and pluralism in modern Indonesia; Indonesian Islam; and the expressions of adab in Indonesia and Malaysia. \n \n  \n  \nDr. Giora Eliraz is a Research Associate at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of two publications about Islam in Indonesia: Islam in Indonesia: Modernism\, Radicalism and the Middle East Dimension and Islam and Polity in Indonesia: An Intriguing Case Study. Dr. Eliraz holds several other research positions\, including as Affiliated Fellow at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden\, a Member of a research group at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University\, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya\, and as a Visiting Writer at the Forum for Regional Thought. In 2002\, Dr. Eliraz ended about 30 years of service in the IDF and in the Office of the Prime Minister. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by Southeast Asia Center\, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, and Jackson School of International Studies
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/islam-indonesia-israel/
LOCATION:UW Club – Yukon Pacific Room\, 4020 E Stevens Way\, Seattle\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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