Senior Dawn Yang shares her enthusiasm for Jewish Studies
UW senior Dawn (Hui) Yang is a Jewish Studies major and is helping other Chinese students find out about the academic opportunities offered by the Stroum Center.
Hebrew on Your Mind? The Role of the Root in Reading and Understanding Hebrew
How does the brain store and access Hebrew vocabulary? UW doctoral student Marina Oganyan discusses the role of Hebrew roots.
What I Learned at Ladino Day
UW junior Lainie Ferguson reflects on the experience of attending International Ladino Day at the UW.
Space, Society, and Solar Panels in Israel
How do energy resources affect Middle Eastern communities? Grad Fellow Esra Bakkalbasioglu offers her thoughts.
Rethinking the American Jewish Immigration Narrative
Sandra Barnes reflects on how her family's history differs from popular and scholarly representations of Jewish immigration to America.
From the American Midwest to the Jewish-Soviet Crossroads
How Graduate Fellow Cyrus Rodgers found his way from a Midwest childhood to the complex work of Jewish-Soviet writers like Isaac Babel.
Finding Golems and Traces of Jewish Life in Prague
Sarah Zdancewicz won a Jewish Studies travel grant to explore European Jewish culture last summer.
Found in translation: Ladino poem about Spanish exile
This fascinating historical poem is one of many Ladino works by Sephardic cultural activist Albert D. Levy (1896-1963).