Upcoming Events
3/27 EVENT | A Spark of King David: The Musical Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara Then and Now
Wednesday, March 27, 7:00 pm PDT - 8:30 pm PDT at Kane Hall 220Edwin Seroussi of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will discuss the pizmonim (musical religious poems) of 16th-century rabbi Israel Najara.
3/28 LECTURE | Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Ladino Folksongs Today
Thursday, March 28, 7:00 pm PDT - 8:30 pm PDT at Kane Hall 220Edwin Seroussi of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will discuss Judeo-Spanish folk songs in modern times.
4/11 LECTURE | Contemporary Ethiopian Artists in Israel and the Question of Hyphenated Identity
Thursday, April 11, 7:00 pm PDT - 8:30 pm PDT at Thomson Hall 101Artist and researcher Efrat Yerday will present on how Ethiopian artists in Israel navigate challenges to their work and their identities.
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell: Words, Music, Yiddish, and Culture
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, a classically trained and internationally acclaimed vocalist, composer and arranger specializing in music in the Yiddish language, performs with accompanist Dmitri Gaskin.
VIDEO | Stroum Lectures 2023 Pt. 2 — Between Me and the Other World: A Tikkun
In a multi-faceted performance, Anthony Russell and accordionist Dmitri Gaskin explore W.E.B. DuBois' provocative question, "How does it feel to be a problem?" refracted through the texts and musical idioms of the African American South and Jewish Eastern Europe.
VIDEO | Stroum Lectures 2023 Pt. 1 — “Melodeklamatsiye”: A Yiddish Performance Genre 🎼
Anthony Russell and accompanist Dmitri Gaskin perform a combination of oration and art music that investigates disparate elements—Black religiosity, the music of Chopin, queerness, the ambiguities of diaspora—through the mediums of Jewishness and sound.
About Our Events
- All events are offered to students and the public free of charge
- Our annual marquee events, the Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, began in the 1970s and are still going strong!
- Our frequent programming partners on campus include the Departments of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC), History, Spanish & Portuguese Studies and Linguistics
- The Stroum Center partners to support Seattle-area events featuring our faculty or related academic topics. Past partners include the Seattle Public Library and Seattle Jewish Film Festival
- Examples of recent innovative programs: Lessons (Not) Learned from the Holocaust Lecture Series and the inaugural ‘Muestros Artistas’ [Our Artists] Sephardic Arts Symposium of 2023