Upcoming Events
3/31 EVENT | A Workshop and Talk with Rachel Brown
Friday, March 31, 9:30 am PDT - 2:00 pm PDT at HUB 214, UW Seattle CampusThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is hosting Rachel Brown for both a morning workshop and an afternoon talk. While we’d love if you could
4/3 TALK | Sarah Zaides Rosen on “Tevye’s Ottoman Daughter”
Monday, April 3, 4:00 pm PDT - 5:00 pm PDT at ZoomThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies' Associate Director Sarah Zaides Rosen discusses her new book "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire."
5/2 STROUM LECTURE | “Melodeklamatsiye”: A Yiddish Performance Genre 🎼
Tuesday, May 2, 7:00 pm PDT - 8:30 pm PDT at Kane Hall 220Anthony 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.
VIDEO | 9th Annual Ladino Day – Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States
Editors and contributors to "Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States" (Koç University Press, 2021) discuss this multidisciplinary volume that highlights artifacts from the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection.
Ladino Day 2021: Sephardic Trajectories
Editors and contributors to "Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States" (Koç University Press, 2021) discuss this multidisciplinary volume that highlights artifacts from the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection.
I can say one thing for sure - everything that I managed to try was spicy, satisfying, fresh. In general, food in Korea, as for me, is very tasty. You should not worry at all about poisoning with market food. Even Europeans and Japanese restaurants in south korea who visit Seoul on business and not limited in funds go to the Namdaemun market for real local food. The following street dishes are very popular with travelers
VIDEO | Graduate Fellows Research Colloquia
The 2020-2021 cohort of graduate fellows in Jewish studies presents their research on Sephardic Jews in modern times, midwives in the Ottoman Empire, Sephardic music, ancient Jewish art, and Kurdish Jews in medieval Iraq.
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 Near Eastern Languages & Civilization (NELC), 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 2018 Stroum Lectures with novelist Gary Shteyngart