Tag Archives: Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

  We invite you to the University of Washington Sephardic Studies Program’s 11th Annual Ladino Day program featuring novelist Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika, A Sephardic Novel. The program will take place via Zoom on Sunday, December 3 at10 am PT/ 1 pm ET/ 8 pm Israel/ 9 pm Turkey. We will have the pleasure …

Join us for an online conversation between Professor David Bunis, internationally renowned expert on the Ladino language and chair of Ladino Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Devin E. Naar, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and chair of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of …

Join us for the next Sephardic Studies Program event Tuesday, February 4, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Join the Sephardic Studies Program at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Seattle Public Library for a conversation with Dr. Devin E. Naar and Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein about her new book, Family Papers: …

International Ladino DayThursday, December 5, 2019 | 7 PMUW HUB LyceumFree and open to the public.Kosher Sephardic reception following the program. Event Program:Introductions by Joel Benoliel Chair, UW Board of RegentsMultimedia lecture by Dr. Devin E. NaarSephardic Studies Program ChairLadino life cycle songs by The LadinerosRegina Amira, Vic Amira, Sylvia …

Attendees brought family artifacts to the June 2nd, 2019 Seattle Sephardic Legacies event, such as this scroll of the Book of Esther (megila).   By Makena Mezistrano “There are ever so many manuscripts, books and documents, lying hidden among people’s possessions, or buried in the communities’ archives…Let them call to …

By Makena Mezistrano As the Sephardic Studies Program looks forward to our Seattle Sephardic Legacies event on June 2nd, we have been gathering statistics about our digital library. Since its inception in 2012, the program has digitized over 400 published Ladino books. The program has also scanned many handwritten letters that create a valuable record of Soletreo, the …

Image adapted from the Bensussen family ketuba (ST00103), courtesy of Rabbi Solomon Maimon. By Devin E. Naar When the Stroum Center, via its e-newsletter, announced an award my book received by invoking the expression mashallah!, a concerned reader replied: “I find it odd that Jewish Studies chose to applaud one of its professors …

Explore a special Mediterranean language blending Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Italian, & French all into one! Sign up for our first Meza de Ladino – Ladino Table beginning Wednesday March 6 – 12-1:30pm @ Smith 320. Featuring delicious Sephardic lunch and special guest speakers from all different backgrounds. …

By Molly FitzMorris Aki estamos. We are here. I hadn’t really thought much about the name of the French Sephardic cultural organization hosting the fourth Universita d’enverano de djudyo (Judeo-Spanish summer “university”) in Paris this summer.  But as I looked around the room during president Jenny Laneurie-Fresco’s welcome address, I estimated that there were probably …

Eliezer Ben Yehuda (left) and Manekji Limji Hataria (right) By Sara Molaie In my graduate studies in Comparative Religion, I studied the language of Hebrew alongside Persian (Farsi) in courses like Prayer and Poetry in the Judeo-Muslim Tradition, taught by Professor Naomi Sokoloff and Professor Samad Alavi. When I learned that Modern Hebrew …

Upcoming Events: THIS WEEK: Thurs., May 31, 12:30 pm, UW Campus, Thomson Hall 317:  Eyal Ginio, Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University and Director of the Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East in Jerusalem, will present: «The Last Ottoman Decade: The Perspectives of …

How the Turkish “City of Peace” remembers its Sephardic veterans