Nearly one hundred years ago a group of American Jews hatched a plan to end the kibbutz. Today it looks like their plan might have worked| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Graduate Fellowship Applications for the Stroum Center’s 2025-2026 graduate fellowship are now open. This interdisciplinary fellowship program supports current M.A. and Ph.D. students from departments| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Jewish Questions Podcast: Antisemitism Jewish Questions is the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ podcast on issues that matter now in Jewish life, politics, history and| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Marking 50 years of impact on campus, in the community, and around the globe| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
On March 11, 2025, faculty, students, and members of the public gathered to celebrate 50 years of impact at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and to reflect on Jewish Studies in the current climate. The post Marking 50 years of impact on campus, in the community, and around the globe appeared first on UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Faculty member Ben Lee discusses the impact of AI on Holocaust studies and a recent symposium discussing the use of these technologies in Holocaust research. The post UW and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum host AI and Holocaust Symposium appeared first on UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Professor Liora Halperin summarizes Ari Joskowicz's UW lecture (and research) into the Roma experience during the Holocaust. This includes touching on the role of relational memory.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Sephardic Studies graduate student spotlight: Visiting researcher Maria Papavasilopoulou| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Cutting-edge research on Jewish life from ancient times to contemporary politics. View Digital Jewish Studies projects, blog posts, and public programs!| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Jack Zaraya and Wendy Sabin, longtime residents of New York City, have created an endowed fund to support Sephardic Studies and honor the memory of Danny and Lily Zaraya. The post Native New Yorkers Jack Zaraya and Wendy Sabin create new fund to support the Sephardic Studies Program at the UW appeared first on UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
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
Before eugenics became infamous, the movement to select and control human reproduction "to suppress defective classes" was popular among American liberals and progressives — including Jews. Graduate fellow Ari Forsyth explains. The post Liberal Jews and the American eugenics movement: A forgotten history appeared first on UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
An international art festival in Germany sparked a national controversy about antisemitism in 2022, but the conversation largely left out the voices of actual German Jews, writes graduate fellow Martin H. Schwartz. The post Documenta fifteen: Art and antisemitism in Germany today appeared first on UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Dr. Gilah Kletenik and Dr. Devin Naar discussed the past, present and future of Jewish Studies with Dr. Daniel Heller in "Today's Campus Conflicts and the Future of Jewish Studies," a conversation on March 11, 2025. The post Antisemitism, Jewish Studies, and university campus conflict appeared first on UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
The 2024-2025 cohort of graduate fellows study Jewish refugees during World War II, Sephardic Jews in Greece and the U.S., German antisemitism, and Israel/Palestine past and present.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Stroum Center Director Mika Ahuvia writes about the past year and the Stroum Center's public education mission.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Native New Yorkers Jack Zaraya and Wendy Sabin create new fund to support the Sephardic Studies Program at the UW| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Native New Yorkers Jack Zaraya and Wendy Sabin create new fund to support the Sephardic Studies Program at the UW| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
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Student Gabriela Payumo explains how faculty member Canan Bolel's collaboration with fantasy author Leigh Bardugo led her to new insights into the Ladino language.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Greek scholar Maria Papavasilopoulou is researching Sephardic Jewish memory, music and identity for her Fulbright project.| UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Muestras Konsejas ‘Our Tales’ International Sephardic Essay Competition 2023-2024 Presented in partnership with the Sephardic Brotherhood of America, the 2023-2024 “Muestras Konsejas” writing contest opened a new space for the telling of Sephardic stories. Writers were asked to share an original work of prose (fictional or memoiristic) that gives voice to the experiences of the Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jewish communities (whether from family lore, lived experience, community heritage...| 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