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SUMMARY:VIDEO | The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: Dina Danon in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
DESCRIPTION:Dina Danon (Binghamton University) will discuss her new book\, “The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History.” \nView the talk:\n\nAbout this talk\nAcross Europe at the turn of the twentieth century\, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir\, a Mediterranean port city\, invites a different approach: what happens when Jewish difference is totally unremarkable? What happens when there is no “Jewish Question?” \nDrawing extensively on a rich body of previously untapped Ladino archival material\, Danon will offer a new read on Jewish modernity. Through the voices of beggars on the street and mercantile elites\, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors\, rabbis and housewives\, this talk will underscore how it was new attitudes to poverty and social class\, not Judaism\, that most significantly framed this Sepharadi community’s encounter with the modern age. \nAbout the speakers\nDina Danon is associate professor of Judaic Studies at Binghamton University. She holds a doctorate in History from Stanford University. She was recently a fellow at the Katz Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, where she began work on new project on the marketplace of matchmaking\, marriage\, and divorce in the eastern Sepharadi diaspora. \n  \n  \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, 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. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University and has also served 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. \nPresented in partnership with Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Network\, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, and the Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington; the department of History\, and the Middle East Center.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-5-talk-jews-of-ottoman-izmir/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Sephardic Experiences of Modernity: Newspapers\, Migrants and Midwives
DESCRIPTION:Join 2020-2021 Stroum Center graduate fellows Ben Lee\, Büşra Demirkol\, and Oya Rose Aktaş\, as they present their research in Jewish studies: \n\nThe Ladino Press: Using Machine Learning to Excavate Visual Content in Historic Ladino Newspapers\nBen Lee\, Richard and Ina Willner Memorial Fellow \n\nThe Modernization of Education and Its Impact on Midwives: The Case of Jewish “Bloody Midwives”\nBüşra Demirkol\, Mickey & Leo Sreebny Memorial Fellow \n\nMapping Early Migration from ‘Turkey’ to Seattle: A Social History of Seattle’s First Ottomans\nOya Rose Aktaş\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Institute Fellow \n\nColloquium Respondent: Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano\, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania \n\n\nLearn more about each presenter and their research: \n\n \nBen Lee\, Richard and Ina Willner Memorial Fellow\n“The Ladino Press: Using Machine Learning to Excavate Visual Content in Historic Ladino Newspapers” \nBen is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction\, with application to cultural heritage and the digital humanities. Ben graduated from Harvard College in 2017 and has served as the inaugural Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, as well as a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s History Department. He is currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. For his fellowship research this year\, Ben will be applying his project Newspaper Navigator to historic Ladino newspapers in order to extract and study the content using machine learning. Read about Ben’s research: \n\n“Ladino newspapers are the new wave in ‘uncharted waters’ of digital history” (2021)\n\n\n\n \nBüşra Demirkol\, Mickey & Leo Sreebny Memorial Fellow\n“The Modernization of Education and Its Impact on Midwives: The Case of Jewish ‘Bloody Midwives'” \nBüşra Demirkol is a Ph.D. student the Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. She received her B.A. degree in sociology at Galatasaray University and her M.A. degree in Turkish studies at Sabanci University. Her master’s thesis focused on modernization in the legal field during the late Ottoman era and its impact on women on the margins. Based on penal codes\, codification discussions and court records\, she traces how marginal women were redefined and constructed within the boundaries of the public sphere in Ottoman legal culture\, and were subjected to the state intervention according to a modern understanding of crime and punishment. Prior to graduate school\, she also worked as a social worker with African\, Afghan and Syrian refugees in Istanbul and conducted research about the official and unofficial schooling of Syrian children. \n\n\n \nOya Rose Aktaş\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Institute Fellow\n“Mapping Early Migration from ‘Turkey’ to Seattle: A Social History of Seattle’s First Ottomans” \nOya Rose Aktaş is a Ph.D. student in the University of Washington’s Department of History studying non-Muslim communities in the transition from imperial subject to liberal citizen in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. Her current research focuses on how state violence targeted at Christians affected the position of Jews in Istanbul\, and her project for the Stroum Center graduate fellowship will include work on the Sephardic diaspora in Seattle\, Washington. Prior to graduate school\, Oya worked on U.S. foreign relations and economic policy at Washington DC think tanks. Read about Oya’s research: \n\n“How Jewish residents of Seattle remembered the Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire” (2021)\n\n\n\nColloquium Respondent\n \nOscar Aguirre-Mandujano\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of Pennsylvania\nOscar Aguirre-Mandujano studies early modern Ottoman intellectual history\, and its connections to literature\, poetry\, and bureaucracy. Aguirre-Mandujano recently co-edited the book “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States” and is currently working on another book project\, “Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court.” Oscar is a former graduate fellow of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/video-2021-graduate-fellows-colloquia-sephardic-modernity-cultural-history/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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SUMMARY:GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Tradition and Continuity: Jewish Cultural History Through Art\, Music and Travelogue
DESCRIPTION:Join 2020-2021 Stroum Center graduate fellows Ke Guo\, Abby Massarano\, and Jeffrey Haines as they present their research in Jewish studies: \n\nFrom Home to Zoom: Sustainable Futures for Sephardic Music\nKe Guo\, Robinovitch Family Fellow \n\nThe Binding of Isaac in Late Antique Synagogues: The Function of Biblical Art in Performing Jewish Identity\nAbby Massarano\, Robert and Pamela Center Fellow \n\nTracing Jews in Medieval Kurdistan: Syriac and Muslim Sources as a Window into Jewish History\nJeff Haines\, I. Mervin and Georgiana Gorasht Fellow \n\nColloquium Respondent: Hamza M. Zafer\, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization \n\n\nLearn more about each presenter and their research: \n\n \nKe Guo\, Robinovitch Family Fellow\n“From Home to Zoom: Sustainable Futures for Sephardic Music” \nKe Guo is a Ph.D. student in music education with a focus in ethnomusicology at the University of Washington’s School of Music. She was born in Wuhan\, China\, and studied applied mathematics at UCLA for her B.S. degree. She then obtained an M.S. in management science and engineering from Stanford University and an M.M. in music education from San José State University. Her research in world music education and ethnomusicology has covered topics in both Chinese music and Sephardic music. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist\, she is also active as a concert performer\, and has offered individual concerts as well as collaborative concerts in America and Europe. Focusing on the topic of the worldwide transmission and reception of Sephardic music both within and outside of the Sephardic community\, she is excited to conduct future field research in the Iberian Peninsula\, Turkey\, and other countries around the Mediterranean. Read about Ke’s research: \n\n“Rediscovering ‘El bukieto de romansas’: A century of Sephardic folk songs” (2021)\n\n\n\n \nAbby Massarano\, Robert and Pamela Center Fellow\n“The Binding of Isaac in Late Antique Synagogues: The Function of Biblical Art in Performing Jewish Identity” \nAbby Massarano is a graduate student in the School of Art\, Art History\, and Design at the University of Washington\, where she is pursuing her M.A. in art history. Her research is focused on the interplay of image and biblical text in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Abrahamic art in Late Antiquity. She received her B.A in psychology with a minor in art history from Mills College in Oakland\, CA. After moving to Seattle\, she worked in art conservation and preservation before deciding to return to academia. For her fellowship project\, Abby is researching the interplay of text and image in late antique Abrahamic art of the Near East and the Mediterranean through scenes of the Akedah (The Binding of Isaac) in synagogues and other worship spaces. In addition to the Stroum Center graduate fellowship\, Abby is also a recipient of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Hebrew. Read about Abby’s research: \n\n“Mosaics of the Abraham & Isaac story show how Jews in late antiquity used art to connect with religion and community” (2021)\n\n\n\n \nJeffrey Haines\, I. Mervin and Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\n“Tracing Jews in Medieval Kurdistan: Syriac and Muslim Sources as a Window into Jewish History” \nJeffrey Haines is a fifth year doctoral candidate in the University of Washington’s Department of History\, having previously completed a double B.A. in history and classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.A. in early Christian studies at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation\, “Mosul’s Hinterland: Village and Monastery in Early Islamic Mesopotamia\,” examines the history of the rural\, multi-religious communities that flourished on the northern edge of the Islamic caliphate through the lens of Syriac monastic histories. As a graduate fellow in Jewish Studies\, he will focus on the folklore and culture of the Jewish villages that have existed side by side with Christians\, Muslims\, Yezidis\, and Zoroastrians in this region for centuries. Read about Jeff’s research: \n\n“‘The yoke of the Gentiles is not upon them’: Benjamin of Tudela’s geography of Jews in medieval Iraq and Kurdistan” (2021)\n\n\n\nColloquium Respondent\n \nHamza M. Zafer\, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization\, University of Washington\nHamza Zafer’s research focuses on the Quran’s engagements with Jewish communities in Arabia\, and the portrayal of these communities in the earliest Muslim historical and exegetical writings\, up to the 9th century. His first book\, “Ecumenical Community: Language and Politics of the Ummah in the Qurʾan\,” was published in November 2020.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/video-2021-graduate-fellows-colloquia-sephardic-modernity-cultural-history/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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