Upcoming Events
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."
4/19 | Coffee Chats with Mika and Brendan
Wednesday, April 19, 11:00 am PDT - 1:00 pm PDT at Microsoft CafeCurious about Jewish Studies? Stop by the Microsoft Cafe on campus to learn more about the Stroum Center and meet with our engaging leaders: Director Mika Ahuvia, and Interim Associate Director Brendan Goldman.
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.
5/4 STROUM LECTURE | “Between Me and the Other World”, an Immersive Music Experience
Thursday, May 4, 7:00 pm PDT - 8:30 pm PDT at Walker-Ames room in Kane HallIn 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.
Annual Programs
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 SCJS Events
- The Stroum Center brings world-class speakers and performers to the UW
- Nearly all Stroum Center events are offered to students and the public free of charge!
- Our programming partners on campus include the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the UW School of Drama, the Department of Philosophy, the Ethnomusicology Program, and the Henry Art Gallery.
- Our annual marquee event, the Stroum Lectures, began in the 1970s and is still going strong
- The Stroum Center frequently partners to support events happening in the community, such as the Seattle Jewish Film Festival and Torathon.
- Examples of recent innovative program series: Judaism Confronts Human Injustice (Winter 2012) and New Voices in World Jewish Music (Winter 2013)