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Meza de Ladino – Ladino Table
Our new Meza de Ladino is off to a great start! Over 20 undergraduates, graduate students, and community members joined us for our first Ladino Table workshop with Dr. Devin Naar. Students were able to echar lashon (chat) in Ladino, learn some of the basic history of the language, and taste some delicious Sephardic treats. This is the first in a series of workshops planned for this Spring by the Sephardic Studies Program.
Interested in joining? Sign up today for our next Meza de Ladino in the Spring Quarter! Limited seating available and priority given to UW Undergraduate and Graduate Students.
New Programs & Upcoming Events
Meza de Ladino – Ladino Table
Join the Sephardic Studies Program for a exciting new Ladino roundtable where undergraduates, graduates, and community members can come learn the basic of Ladino, echar lashon (chat) in the language, and enjoy some delicious Sephardic treats!
A Diaspora Within a Diaspora – Sephardic Jews in America
Join the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation and the Rachel & Nissim Altabet Fund for Part II of our special Sephardic Lecture Series with Dr. Devin Naar Sunday, April 7 at 4:00pm
«More Mexican than Nopal» – Sephardic Jews Across the US-Mexican Border
Join the Sephardic Studies Program and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies for a special lecture from Dr. Devi Mays (University of Michigan) – From Ottoman Jew to Mexican Diplomat in Vichy France, or the Story of Mauricio Fresco. Co-sponsored by the UW Department of History and Latin American Studies Program.
Sephardic Studies in the News
Redesecration and Solidarity in Greece
Read up on a recent article from Dr. Devin Naar, the Isaac Alhadeff Chair of Sephardic Studies, as he reflects in the Jewish Review of Books on the recent desecration of the Holocaust Monument commemorating the Jewish Cemetery of Thessaloniki, Greece and its wider implications.
2019 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
In the 2019 Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, Dr. Marina Rustow of Princeton University will consider the place ancient Jewish manuscripts hold in our digital age. Focusing on documents from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of more than 300,000 pages preserved in an Egyptian synagogue that came to light in the late 19th century, Rustow will discuss the enduring relevance of these texts in an online era.
Meet the Newest Sephardic Studies Staff:
Makena Mezistrano
Sephardic Studies Researcher
Makena Mezistrano grew up in Seattle and spent six years in New York at Yeshiva University where she earned her undergraduate degree in English Literature and a master’s in Jewish Studies from the Graduate Program for Women in Advanced Talmudic Studies. As an undergraduate, she served as the editor of two student publications, and in graduate school Makena taught at the Ramaz Upper School and the Harvard Hillel. Since college, Makena has been involved with UW Sephardic Studies: she has been a speaker at Ladino Day, and her independent research project with Prof. Naar won an award at Yeshiva University. Her family is from Salonika, Greece.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SEPHARDIC STUDIES PROGRAM STAFF
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