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SUMMARY:12/1 EVENT | Israeli Elections Panel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n \n\nOn the heels of the fifth Israeli election in four years\, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ Israel Studies Program invites you to attend a panel of experts as they debrief the results and talk about what the outcome means—both for the future of Israel\, and the world at large. Zoom webinar format. With  Noam Pianko—the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies—moderating\, the speakers on the panel include: \n\nJoel Migdal— emeritus professor of Jewish Studies\nLiora Halperin— Chair in Israel Studies and professor of Jewish Studies\nAlan Dowty— associate faculty of Jewish Studies\nHayim Katsman— Ph.D. and Jackson School alumni\nAndrea Gevurtz Arai— associate faculty of Jewish Studies\n\nRegister Now >\n \nJoel Migdal is an emeritus faculty member and the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Migdal was formerly associate professor of Government at Harvard University and senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University. His research has been on two tracks–theories of comparative politics\, specifically state-society relations\, and Middle East politics\, with an emphasis on Israel and Palestinians. Joel has published various books and is enjoying his retirement in Eretz Israel.\nLiora Halperin is Chair of the Israel Studies Program and a scholar of Jewish cultural and social history\, with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory\, language ideology and policy\, and Jewish-Arab relations both in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and in the early years after Israeli statehood. Her first book\, “Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine” (Yale University Press\, 2015) was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She has published academic articles in The Journal of Social History\, Jewish Social Studies\, Middle Eastern Studies\, and The Jewish Quarterly Review\, among other venues. She recently published “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” (Stanford University Press\, 2021)\, which tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (mashavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011.\nAlan Dowty is an affiliate faculty member at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies\, and is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. From 1963-1975\, he was on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, during which time he served as Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and Chair of the Department of International Relations. From 2003-2006\, he was the first holder of the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli Studies at the University of Calgary\, and from 2005-2007 he was President of the Association for Israel Studies. Among his publications are basic texts on Israeli society and politics (“The Jewish State: A Century Later“) and on the Arab-Israel conflict (“Israel/Palestine\,” 4th edition 2017)\, as well as over 130 scholarly and popular articles. In 2017 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Israel Studies by the Israel Institute and the Association for Israel Studies.\nHayim Katsman received his Ph.D. in international studies from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies in 2021. He has researched the Religious-Zionist communities of Israel/Palestine extensively\, and written about current trends in Religious-Zionism and its relationship to radicalism. He received his B.A. in philosophy from the Open University of Israel and completed his M.A. thesis on the theology of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University\, where he also served as deputy chair of the Academic Junior-Staff Union from 2015-2017. Follow him on Twitter or on Facebook.\nAndrea Gevurtz Arai teaches anthropology and society courses in the Jackson School of International Studies\, University of Washington. Arai is currently researching the Israeli social movement “Standing Together” (“Omdim B’yachad”- עומדים ביחד)\, which advocates for equal justice for Jewish and Arab Israelis and for the reallocation of tax dollars from the military to under-funded areas of social welfare\, in particular health care\, education and housing. This research will be included in Arai’s in-process edited volume\, “Spaces of Creative Resistance in East Asia\,” which looks at the local\, cross-regional and international particularities of organizations of creative resistance\, which advocate for social infrastructures\, imagining and creating new forms of social and environmental sustainability.\nAbout the facilitator\n\n\nNoam Pianko is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies\, the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies\, and Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies. Pianko also directs the Samuel and Althea Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and serves as the Herbert and Lucy Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies. Pianko’s research interests include modern Jewish history\, Zionism\, and American Judaism.
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SUMMARY:12/4 EVENT | Ladino Day 2022: The Future of Ladino
DESCRIPTION:Watch the program now:\n \nScholars\, writers\, and language activists working to preserve and revitalize Ladino join UW’s Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies\, in conversation regarding the future of the traditional language of Sephardi Jews. \nOn the tenth anniversary of Ladino Day\, UW’s Sephardic Studies Program presents four experts from different generations\, all working to revitalize Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)\, the traditional language of Sephardic Jews. \nThe program will feature\, in conversation with Devin E. Naar\, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies: \n\nKaren Gerson Şarhon — editor-in-chief of the Ladino language publication El Amaneser\nNesi Altaras — editor of Avlaremoz\, a Turkish-Jewish online magazine\nRachel Amado Bortnick — founder of the Ladinokomunita online community\nEliezer Papo – Ladino scholar featured in the documentary “The Last Sephardic Jew”\n\nView the recording here. \nAbout the speakers\n\nBorn in Istanbul\, Karen Gerson Şarhon leads all of the projects at the Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center. In addition to founding that organization\, she also earned the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française in 2011 for her contribution to the world culture and her efforts in the preservation of Judeo-Spanish. After earning a BA in English Philology\, an MA in Social Psychology and an MA in Applied Linguistics\, Karen wrote both her MA theses on the Judeo-Spanish language! Now\, you can find her teaching Ladino on social media\, proudly serving as editor-in-chief of el amaneser [the only monthly newspaper in the world entirely in Ladino] and of the Judeo-Spanish page(s) of the Şalom newspaper [the only newspaper of the Turkish Jewish community]\, and singing in the authentic Turkish Sephardic music group she founded: Los Pasharos Sefaradis.\n Nesi Altaras is an Istanbuli Jew and editor of Avlaremoz\, a Jewish news platform in Turkish. He holds an MA in political science\, and his writing in English\, Turkish\, and Ladino has been published in various outlets. Nesi lives in Montreal where he works as the Digital Engagement Officer for the Institute for Reasearch on Public Policy.\n  \nBorn and raised in Izmir\, Rachel Amado Bortnick came to the United States in 1958 on a scholarship to Lindenwood College (now University) in St. Charles\, Missouri\, from which she earned a B.A. in Chemistry. She and American-born architect Bernard Bortnick went back to Izmir to get married and subsequently lived in Holland\, in Israel\, and several cities in the United States before settling in Dallas\, Texas in 1988. Rachel is now retired after teaching ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for 35 years. She has always actively promoted the preservation of Judeo-Spanish language and culture; in 1985\, while living in the San Francisco Bay area\, she founded and led the Ladino-speaking club Los Amigos Sefaradis\, and subsequently she was featured in the documentary film\, Trees Cry for Rain: a Sephardic Journey. In 1999 she founded Ladinokomunita\, the Ladino correspondence group on the Internet\, which now has over 1500 members worldwide.\n\nBorn and raised in Sarajevo\, Eliezer Papo‘s research centers on Hebrew/Jewish oral literatures\, with specialization in the field of Sephardic literatures (oral and written\, rabbinic and secular). His book And Thou Shall Jest with Your Son: Judeo-Spanish Parodies on the Passover Haggadah\, received the prestigious Ben-Tzvi award. Dr. Papo published around 50 articles\, in 10 different languages\, about different aspects of Sephardic culture and literature\, as well as four works of fiction — one in Ladino and three in Serbo-Croatian. \nAbout the facilitator\n\n\nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. As chair\, Naar has spearheaded a project to collect\, preserve and disseminate the rich Sephardic and Ladino historical\, literary and cultural heritage. After serving as a Fulbright fellow to Greece\, his first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. As a fellow in the Society of Scholars at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington in 2013-2014\, Dr. Naar began his second book project\, Reimagining the Sephardic Diaspora. He conducts research in Judeo-Spanish\, Greek\, Hebrew and French. \nSupported by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies \nCosponsored by the Departments of History\, Linguistics\, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington\, as well as Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, Sephardic Heritage International (SHIN) DC\, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington (TACAWA). \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2022-past-present-future/
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