By Cynthia Flash Nearly three dozen people from multiple generations gathered in Seattle on May 19 for the launch of Los Muevos Ladineros (The New Ladineros), a group of individuals interested in studying and building community through the Ladino language. The original Seattle Ladineros started many years ago and primarily included native Ladino speakers who discussed the language and practiced using it. The beloved original members also participated in several International Ladino Day celeb...| Seattle Sephardic
The third and final installment of Devin E. Naar's series Sephardic Art and the First Modernist Sephardic Artists.| Ayin Press
In a panel on March 11, 2025, speakers discussed the history of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington as part of the Stroum Center's 50th anniversary celebration.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
As kibbutzim (Jewish collective farms) began to form in British Palestine in the early 1900s, American Jewish businessmen worked hard to promote an alternate model of private homeownership — one that has largely won out today, writes graduate fellow Jake Beckert.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Amid recurring violence, Israeli and Palestinian grassroots groups are bridging divides and engaging in "constructive resistance" against the status quo to work towards a more peaceful future, writes graduate fellow Kara Atkinson.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Winner, general category. A conscripted husband miraculously reunites with his pregnant wife after fighting in the Balkan Wars in the Ottoman army — the great-grandfather and great-grandmother of author Nuia Menda Malki.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Runner up, general category. Gloria DeVida Kirchheimer offers a hilarious tribute to her feisty, theatrical mom, who came from Alexandria, Egypt, to New York in the 1930s.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Winner, student category. Liza Cemel tells the story of her family's history, first across cities in Turkey, then across countries, bringing their validjas of memories and relationships with them.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Runner up, student category. Nesi Altaras recounts summers spent on the island of Buyukada, close to Istanbul, and the "traditional but extremely practical" feeling of being Sephardic in Turkey.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies