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6/1 COLLOQUIUM | Regional and Global Dimensions to Israeli Foreign Policy: Shifting Relationships with the Palestinian Territories, Ghana, and Taiwan
6/1 COLLOQUIUM | Regional and Global Dimensions to Israeli Foreign Policy: Shifting Relationships with the Palestinian Territories, Ghana, and Taiwan
Grad fellows Bret Windhauser, Francis Abugbilla and Eryk Waligora offer perspectives on Israeli foreign policy.
VIDEO | Sasha Senderovich — Against Nostalgia: The Old Country in the Jewish American Imagination
VIDEO | Sasha Senderovich — Against Nostalgia: The Old Country in the Jewish American Imagination
Dr. Sasha Senderovich reads and offers thoughts on the dark poetry of modernist Yiddish poet Moyshe Leyb Halpern.
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VIDEO | Chagall, Modigliani, & Jewish Painters from the Russian “Pale of Settlement”
VIDEO | Chagall, Modigliani, & Jewish Painters from the Russian “Pale of Settlement”
Galya Diment explains how modernist painters Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani related to Jewishness in their lives and art, looking at their time in Paris in the early twentieth century.
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6/3 COLLOQUIUM | Violence, Victimhood & the “Natural Order” in the Armenian Genocide & Holocaust
6/3 COLLOQUIUM | Violence, Victimhood & the “Natural Order” in the Armenian Genocide & Holocaust
Graduate fellows Oya Rose Aktas and Derek Wiebke discuss victim / perpetrator relationships in history and literature.
VIDEO | Richard Block —The 2015 Hungarian Drama “Son of Saul” and a New Chapter in Films About the Holocaust
VIDEO | Richard Block —The 2015 Hungarian Drama “Son of Saul” and a New Chapter in Films About the Holocaust
Dr. Richard Block discusses the 2015 Hungarian film "The Son of Saul" and how it marks a shift in films about the Holocaust.
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VIDEO | The History of a Page: Reflecting on the Talmud as a Physical Book (and What I’ve Learned Since My Stroum Lecture 23 Years Ago)
VIDEO | The History of a Page: Reflecting on the Talmud as a Physical Book (and What I’ve Learned Since My Stroum Lecture 23 Years Ago)
David Stern (Harvard University) explains how the Talmud evolved over the ages in this update to his 1997 Stroum Lecture in Jewish Studies.
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6/5 COLLOQUIUM | Tracing Unruly Edges: Jewish Embodiment from Babylonia to the Mediterranean
6/5 COLLOQUIUM | Tracing Unruly Edges: Jewish Embodiment from Babylonia to the Mediterranean
Graduate fellows Canan Bolel, Jennifer Hunter and Erin Gilbert talk about bodily integrity and displacement in the ancient world and the 19th century.
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Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight | The Final Hour
A new documentary follows a young Sephardic woman who has just come to the realization that her ancestral language, Ladino, is on the verge of extinction.