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SUMMARY:Book launch with Prof. Sasha Senderovich at Elliott Bay Books
DESCRIPTION:Professor Sasha Senderovich will discuss his recently published translation of the 1929 Yiddish-language novel Judgment in this evening at The Elliott Bay Book Company. Prof. Senderovich’s translation\, a collaboration with Professor Harriet Murav of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, is the first time Bergelson’s portrait of a Jewish shtetl in the Russian Revolution has been rendered into English.  \nRSVP is not required for this event. Inquiries should be directed to the Elliott Bay Book Company. Learn more about this event here. \nBook synopsis\nNever before available in English\, Judgment is a work of startling power by David Bergelson\, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era. \nSet in 1920 during the Russian Civil War\, Judgment (titled Mides-hadin in Yiddish) traces the death of the shtetl and the birth of the “new\, harsher world” created by the 1917 Russian Revolution. As Bolshevik power expanded toward the border between Poland and Ukraine\, Jews and non-Jews smuggled people\, goods\, and anti-Bolshevik literature back and forth. In the novel’s fictional town of Golikhovke\, the Bolsheviks have established their local outpost in a former monastery\, where the non-Jewish Filipov acts as the arbiter of “judgment” and metes out punishments and executions to the prisoners held there: Yuzi Spivak\, arrested for anti-Bolshevik activities; Aaron Lemberger\, a pious and wealthy Jew; a seductive woman referred to as “the blonde” who believes she can appease Filipov with sex; and a memorable cast of toughs\, smugglers\, and criminals. \nOrdinary people\, depicted in a grotesque\, aphoristic style—comparable to Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry—confront the overwhelming\, mysterious forces of history\, whose ultimate outcome remains unknown. Murav and Senderovich’s new translation expertly captures Bergelson’s inimitable modernist style. \nBios\nSASHA SENDEROVICH is an assistant professor of Russian and Jewish studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published on Soviet Jewish culture and literature\, including on Yiddish writer Moyshe Kulbak’s novel The Zelmenyaners\, as well as on contemporary fiction by émigré Russian Jewish writers in America. \nDAVID BERGELSON (1884–1952)\, a Jewish novelist\, short-story writer\, and literary editor\, was born in Ukraine. He moved to Berlin in 1921 and traveled throughout Europe and the United States until Hitler came to power in Germany. He returned to the Soviet Union in 1934\, where he was eventually executed under Stalin’s orders. The author of The End of Everything and Descent\, Bergelson was one of the most widely read Yiddish-language writers of the twentieth century. \nHARRIET MURAV is a professor of Russian and comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia and Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky’s Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/senderovich-elliott-bay-books/
LOCATION:The Elliott Bay Book Company\, 1521 10th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Enforcing Ethnic Nationalism: Partition and Population Exchange in the Modern Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, pundits and diplomats alike have repeatedly proposed partition – and its twin\, forcible population exchange – as “solutions” to what they depict as inveterate sectarian conflict across the Middle East. In this lecture\, Laura Robson explores the twentieth-century history of such ideas\, suggesting that proposals for partition and population transfer originated not from humanitarian concern for victimized communities but as concrete strategies for political and military intervention in the Middle East. In particular\, she discusses how Zionism and other early twentieth century models of ethno-communal settlement contributed to a new rhetoric and practice of French and British colonial state-building via Assyrian and Armenian refugee resettlement in interwar Syria and Iraq\, resulting in imperially produced geographies of ethnicity that permanently impacted the political landscape of these emerging states. \nSpeaker Bio\nLaura Robson (PhD Yale\, 2009) is an associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Portland State University. Her most recent book\, States of Separation: Transfer\, Partition\, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (University of California\,2017) explores the history of forced migration\, population exchanges\, and refugee resettlement in Iraq\, Syria\, and Palestine during the interwar period. She is also the author of Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine and editor of Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/robson-enforcing-ethnic-nationalism/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:Fences: Jews as Dealers in Stolen Goods in Early Modern Poland
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Shaul Stampfer \nWhile most Jews in early modern Poland had standard occupations\, there is a great deal of evidence that many of the limited numbers of “fences” (dealers in illicit goods) were Jewish. \nThe active presence of Jews as “fences” is well documented in other Ashkenazi communities across Europe\, as well. Why is this? This talk will explore the reasons why Jews entered and succeeded as fences and the ways in which Jewish communities dealt with this illicit activity. \nJews and non-Jews had different concepts aroung the legal status of stolen objects\, and these changing ideas explain why Jews regarded “fencing” in different ways than non-Jews did. While the Christian authorities in Poland could have clamped down on fencing\,had they wanted to\, it seems that the benefits to society outweighed the negative consequences. \nThis seemingly simple topic reveals many of the complexities of inter-group relations in diverse societies. \nThis will be a “brown bag” lunch event. Please bring your own lunch and learn while you eat! \nSpeaker Bio\nProf. Shaul Stampfer grew up in Portland\, Oregon\, went to college in New York\, and continued eastward for his graduate and post-graduate studies. He earned his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a resident of Jerusalem ever since.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talk-fences-jews-dealers-stolen-goods-early-modern-poland/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: Feasting with Faculty ft. Prof. Halperin
DESCRIPTION:Join Liora Halperin\, UW’s new Benaroya Chair in Israel Studies and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History while enjoying a free vegetarian dinner at a local restaurant. \nCome hungry\, and ready to share a student’s perspective on UW and learn more about Prof. Halperin. \nRSVP for location. \nOpen to undergraduate and graduate students only. Limited to 10 students.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/feasting-with-faculty-ft-prof-halperin/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Student
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SUMMARY:Salud y Shalom: Jews in the Spanish Civil War
DESCRIPTION:American Jewish volunteer George Watt marches with his unit in Spain \nEighty years ago\, nearly 3\,000 Americans embarked for Europe to join the democratically elected Spanish Republic in its effort to repel a military coup led by Francisco Franco. Nearly one-third of the American volunteers were Jews. \nIn the early ’90s\, Professor Joe Butwin interviewed dozens of these Jewish veterans of the Spanish Civil War\, collecting their stories and inviting them to reflect on the connection between their Judaism and their decision to serve. \nNow\, in collaboration with the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, Professor Butwin has curated a new digital exhibit presenting the recollections of five of these volunteer service members – three soldiers and two nurses – who discuss their motivations\, their experiences during the war\, and their connections to Judaism\, past and present. \nFrom the “Salud y Shalom” homepage \nThis multimedia project brings together veterans’ voices\, via original audio recordings of the interviews\, and contemporary photographs and artifacts\, creating a vivid portrait of a radically different period in the American Jewish past. \nIn this event\, Professor Butwin will talk about the origins of the project\, the war volunteers he spoke with in the 1990s\, and the process he went through in translating his materials into an accessible online format. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nNote: We are expecting full capacity for this event. While we cannot guarantee space to guests who did not RSVP\, there will be a first come\, first served waitlist. We hope to be able to accommodate everyone who is interested in the program. \nExplore “Salud y Shalom: American Jews in the Spanish Civil War\, 1936-1939”: \n \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/talk-salud-y-shalom-jews-spanish-civil-war/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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