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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Dancing with the Angel of Death: Demonic Femininity in the Ancient Synagogue
DESCRIPTION:“Lady Lilth” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti\, 1873. \n**The University of Washington Seattle campus has suspended operations Tuesday\, due to continued icy conditions around the region. We are therefore unable to host “Dancing with the Angel of Death” with Laura Lieber. Keep an eye on our e-journal for articles on this topic. \nWhat makes a woman powerful… and dangerous? Can what makes her “good” also be a potential “evil”? \nIn this talk\, Laura Lieber (Duke University) will consider a striking presentation of demonic femininity in the early synagogue era (ca. 6th century CE)\, centering around a dramatic poem depicting a nefarious woman accused of adultery (a “Sotah“) and the magic ritual for determining her guilt or innocence (Numbers 5:12-31). \nHow does this synagogue performance expand on traditions as preserved in rabbinic sources\, and resonate with magical texts and traditions of the time? How does the portrayal of the accused woman relate to universal human fears\, and the recurring fear around women’s power to arouse male desire in particular? \nRead the poems Dr. Lieber will be discussing here. \nAbout the speaker\nLaura S. Lieber is Professor of Religious Studies and Classics at Duke University\, where she directs the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Late Ancient Studies. \n  \n  \n  \nThis talk is supported by a Royalty Research Fund grant given to Stroum Center faculty member Mika Ahuvia for the 2018-19 academic year.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/laura-leiber-demonic-femininity-ancient-synagogue/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: Reading Group for "The Best Place on Earth"
DESCRIPTION:In 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. \nA complimentary copy of the book will be provided in advance to students who RSVP. \nVegetarian dinner provided. \nPlease RSVP for location and to reserve a copy of the book. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nAyelet Tsabari\, who now lives and teaches Creative Writing in Toronto\, was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. Her first book\, “The Best Place on Earth\,” won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and was longlisted to the Frank O’Connor International Short StoryAward.\n\n\nNote that Tsabari will also be speaking at the UW on February 28\, 2019. Tickets are free and all are welcome.\n  \n\nTo request disability accommodation\, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice)\, 206-543-6452 (TTY)\, 206-685-7264 (fax)\, or dso@uw.edu. The University of Washington makes every effort to honor disability accommodation requests. Requests can be responded to most effectively if received as far in advance of the event as possible\, preferably at least 10 days.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-reading-group/
LOCATION:RSVP for location
CATEGORIES:Student
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: How Frontier Jews Made American Judaism
DESCRIPTION:**The University of Washington Seattle campus has suspended operations Tuesday\, due to continued snow accumulation. We are therefore unable to host this event. Keep an eye on our e-journal for articles on this topic. \nThe first mass migration in American Jewish history took place in the nineteenth century\, during the era of westward expansion and “manifest destiny.” \nShari Rabin\,  author of the new book “Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in the Nineteenth Century” (NYU Press) and assistant professor of Jewish studies at the College of Charleston\, will discuss how far-flung Jewish migrants in this era shaped the religious idioms\, institutions\, and ideologies of American Judaism\, paving the way for the unique realities of American Jewish life today. \nGet ready: \n\nPodcast interview with Shari Rabin on “Jews on the Frontier” by Jewish History Matters\n\nAbout the speaker\nShari Rabin received a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale University in 2015 and is currently assistant professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. A historian of American religions and modern Judaism\, she is the author of “Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America” (New York University Press\, 2017)\, which won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies and was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. \nRegister for the event
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/frontier-jews-american-judaism-shari-rabin/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: The Rabbis on Love
DESCRIPTION:Painting: “The Bride and Groom at the Eiffel Tower” by Marc Chagall\, 1939. \nThis Valentine’s Day\, join Mika Ahuvia\, assistant professor of Jewish studies and comparative religion at the Jackson School of International Studies\, for insights on love and relationships\, courtesy the influential rabbis of the classic era\, when Rabbis Hillel and Shammai lived and worked. \nLearn about and discuss rabbis’ perspectives on love\, desire\, and relationships\, and benefit from the collective wisdom of deep thinkers from centuries past. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students! \nCoffee and pastries provided. RSVP to Lauren Kurland for location (a coffee shop on the Ave). \nTo request disability accommodation\, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice)\, 206-543-6452 (TTY)\, 206-685-7264 (fax)\, or dso@uw.edu. The University of Washington makes every effort to honor disability accommodation requests. Requests can be responded to most effectively if received as far in advance of the event as possible\, preferably at least 10 days.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-event-love-sex-in-rabbinic-times/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Student
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SUMMARY:Can Patients Refuse Lifesaving Treatment? A Comparative Review of Secular\, Jewish & Israeli Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Scenarios where patients refuse lifesaving care raise difficult ethical and legal questions. Physicians are faced with the decision of whether to forgo beneficial therapy\, or alternatively force treatment on an unwilling patient. In these undesirable situations\, the ethical principle of respecting the patient’s autonomy is in direct conflict with the ethical principle of beneficence. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz will examine whether it is morally and legally permissible for healthcare professionals to treat patients without consent in order to save their lives. To answer this question\, Khazzam-Horovitz will review two different approaches: secular ones as well as Jewish-rabbinic discourses. She will also discuss the Israeli legal system’s attempt to find a compromise that incorporates both the secular and the Jewish perspectives. \nAbout the speaker\n \nDr. Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz is a lecturer of bioethics and Modern Hebrew at Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School ofInternational Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Washington School of Law. She was a member of the Human Subjects Division committee (IRB) at University of Washington. Previously\, she was an Israeli attorney specializing in insurance litigation.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/khazzam-horovitz-can-patients-refuse-lifesaving-treatment/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT: Learning from the Holocaust in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:How can history help us to make sense of the Trump era\, when the president and other politicians regularly stoke fears about immigrants\, minorities\, and people from other countries for their own political benefit? \nJoin Richard Block\, associate professor of Germanics and Jewish Studies\, for a discussion of Nazi Germany and how its history of weaponized fear against “the other” can inform our present-day understanding of hate against immigrants and minorities in the United States and elsewhere\, especially after the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in 2018. \nNo prior knowledge required! Attendees will learn from Professor Block\, engage with a short reading\, and participate in an informal discussion of the issues. Coffee and pastries will be provided. \nAll undergraduate and graduate students are welcome. \nPlease RSVP to kurlandl@uw.edu for location (a cafe on the Ave). \nRichard Block will be teaching a related class in the spring\, “German/Jewish Writers: The Immigrant Experience” (GERMAN / JEW ST 295). \nTo request disability accommodation\, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice)\, 206-543-6452 (TTY)\, 206-685-7264 (fax)\, or dso@uw.edu. The University of Washington makes every effort to honor disability accommodation requests. Requests can be responded to most effectively if received as far in advance of the event as possible\, preferably at least 10 days.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/student-event-the-holocaust-in-the-age-of-trump/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Student
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SUMMARY:STUDENT/FACULTY EVENT: Writing Displacement: A Seminar on Memoir with Author Ayelet Tsabari
DESCRIPTION:At this lunchtime seminar for UW graduate students\, faculty\, and advanced undergraduates\, the writer Ayelet Tsabari will speak about her new memoir\, “The Art of Leaving\,” and lead a discussion of a short excerpt from the book that will be made available to the participants ahead of time. Tsabari will also discuss the process of writing and publishing a memoir. \n“The Art of Leaving” traces Tsabari’s journey from her childhood home on the outskirts of Tel Aviv to Vancouver and Toronto — and from her native Hebrew to her adopted English — alongside the story of her grandparents’ migration from Yemen to the land of Israel in the 1930s. An astute observer of lives of Mizrahi Jews (Jews of Arab lands) in Israel and beyond in her award-winning short story collection “The Best Place on Earth” (2016)\, in “The Art of Leaving” Tsabari delivers a powerful coming-of-age story that reflects on identity and belonging and explores themes of family and home — both inherited and chosen. \nPlease RSVP to jewishst@uw.edu by February 27 for location and a PDF copy of the reading; a vegetarian lunch will be provided. \nAre you an undergraduate student? Ayelet Tsabari will discuss the book and her writing process with undergrads over coffee on Friday\, March 1\, from 10:00am – 11:30am. Learn more and RSVP for this undergrad discussion group here. \nThis event is organized by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. Ayelet Tsabari’s visit to UW is further supported by the Israel Studies Program\, the Sephardic Studies and Canadian Studies Programs\, the Middle East Center\, the departments of English; Comparative Literature\, Cinema & Media; Near Eastern Languages & Civilization; and Gender\, Women & Sexuality Studies. \nAbout the speaker\nAyelet Tsabari lives and teaches Creative Writing in Toronto and was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. Her first book\, “The Best Place on Earth\,” won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and was longlisted to the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Learn more on her website. \nTo request disability accommodation\, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice)\, 206-543-6452 (TTY)\, 206-685-7264 (fax)\, or dso@uw.edu. The University of Washington makes every effort to honor disability accommodation requests. Requests can be responded to most effectively if received as far in advance of the event as possible\, preferably at least 10 days.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/writing-a-memoir-of-displacement-tsabari/
LOCATION:RSVP for venue
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies,Student
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SUMMARY:"The Art of Leaving" with Author Ayelet Tsabari: Language\, Longing\, and Belonging
DESCRIPTION:Author Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her new memoir\, “The Art of Leaving\,” with Professor Sasha Senderovich (Slavic & Jewish Studies) in this evening of conversation and selected readings from the book. \n“The Art of Leaving” traces Tsabari’s journey from her childhood home on the outskirts of Tel Aviv to Vancouver and Toronto — and from her native Hebrew to her adopted English — alongside the story of her grandparents’ migration from Yemen to the land of Israel in the 1930s. \nAn astute observer of lives of Mizrahi Jews (Jews of Arab lands) in Israel and beyond in her award-winning short story collection “The Best Place on Earth” (2016)\, in “The Art of Leaving” Tsabari delivers a powerful coming-of-age story that reflects on identity and belonging and explores themes of family and home — both inherited and chosen. \nPlease RSVP for this event at the bottom of the page. \nAbout the Author\nAyelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. Her first book\, “The Best Place on Earth\,” won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and was longlisted to the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. \n“The Best Place on Earth” was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection and a Kirkus Review best book of 2016\, and has been published internationally. Excerpts from her memoir\, “The Art of Leaving\,” have won a National Magazine Award\, a Western Magazine Award\, and The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler award. In 2014\, Tsabari was awarded a Chalmers Arts Fellowship. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA Program at Guelph and teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto. \nAbout “The Art of Leaving” & “The Best Place on Earth”\nAuthor Ayelet Tsabari begins her new memoir\, “The Art of Leaving” (2019)\, with the story of her father’s promise on her tenth birthday to publish her childhood writings as her first book. A lawyer who had published one poem as a young man and who spent a lifetime assiduously writing verse and prose on sheets of paper kept in his bedside drawer\, he bequeathed to his daughter an insatiable desire for wordsmithing and storytelling. Tsabari’s father fell ill within days of making this promise and died shortly thereafter. It would take Ayelet Tsabari another two and a half decades to see her first book published—not in her home country of Israel or in her native Hebrew\, but in Canada\, her adopted homeland\, and in English\, her adopted tongue. \nIn that first book\, “The Best Place on Earth” (2013)\, Tsabari made her debut as an intricate teller of stories about a kind of protagonist she did not see in the Israeli literature she avidly read during her childhood: Mizrahi Jews. Jews who trace their families’ lineage to North Africa and the Middle East— Tsabari’s family had come from Yemen — had been largely invisible in the Ashkenazi-centric literary culture of Israel. Mizrahi voices had also been absent in English-language Jewish literatures in Canada and the United States. Tsabari’s first book — a collection of astutely observed stories about women\, lovers\, children\, soldiers\, poets — had opened up this theretofore underexamined experience; it won the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in 2015. \nIn “The Art of Leaving\,” which will be published a week before her visit to Seattle\, Tsabari weaves together stories of her own migration from the outskirts of Tel Aviv to Vancouver and Toronto\, by way of much global peregrination\, with the stories of her grandparents’ travel\, on foot\, to the Land of Israel through the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. In essays on heartbreak and loss of beloved people and native language\, drug-fueled wanderlust and the discovery of dark family secrets\, betrayal and abandonment\, motherhood\, and the ever-unquenched thirst for writing\, Tsabari explores how the past haunts and shapes the stories that define us and that we tell ourselves. \nAyelet Tsabari’s visit\, scheduled for February 28 – March 1\, 2019\, is sponsored by the Israel Studies Program at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and is co-sponsored by the Sephardic Studies Program\, the Canadian Studies Center\, and the Middle East Center\, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; and the Departments of English; Comparative Literature\, Cinema & Media; Near Eastern Languages & Civilization; and Gender\, Women & Sexuality Studies; as well as the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ayelet-tsabari-art-of-leaving/
LOCATION:Ethnic Cultural Theater\, 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98105
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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