Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies

 

Since 2000, the Stroum lectures have been recorded and can be viewed at any time on streaming video. Click on a link to watch a specific series; then click on one of the  lectures in that series.

2012

Professor Steven M. Cohen, Hebrew Union College
"The Emerging Identities of Younger American Jews"
April 23 & 25, 2012

 

April 23: "Devotion, Distancing and Disloyalty: The Diversity and Complexity of American Jews’ Relationships with Israel Today"

April 25: "Jews in the Borderland: The Complicated, Fluid, and Episodic Nature of Jewish Identity Today"

 

2011

Professor Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University
"Revivals and Awakenings in American Judaism"
May 9 & 11, 2011
 

May 9: "The Shaping of American Judaism"- includes a special tribute to Althea Stroum

May 11: "The Reshaping of American Judaism"

 

2010

Professor Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
"Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers: the Song of Songs in Israeli Culture"
April 25 & 27, 2010

 

These lectures are available as audio recordings 

April 25: "'Upon the Handles of the Lock': Agnon, Balak and the Israeli Bible"

April 27: "Agnon's Ethnographies of Love and the Quest for the Ultimate Song"

 

2009

Professor Yael Zerubavel, Rutgers University
"Encounters with the Past: Remembering the 'Bygone' in Israeli Culture"

May 17, 19, 21, 2009

 

May 17th: "Part 1, Bridges to Antiquity"

May 19th: "Part 2, Mirrors of Galut (Exile) in the Homeland"

May 21st: "Part 3, When the New Becomes Old"

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2008
Professor Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
"Biblical Politics"

 

Part 1: "Where Were the Elders?"

Part 2: "Prophecy and Criticism"

 Part 3: "The Meaning of Kingship"

 

2006, Fall

Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University
“Creation, Revelation & Redemption: The Religion of the Dead Sea Scrolls”

 

Part 1: "God, Humanity and the Universe in the Dead Sea Scrolls"

Part 2: "Scripture, Law and Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls"

Part 3: "Apocalyptics, Messiahs and the End of Days"

 

2006, Spring
Professor Anita Norich, University of Michigan
“Speaking in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century”

 

Part 1: "How Tevye Learned to Fiddle"

Part 2: "Remembering the Past in Yiddish"

Part 3: "Becoming American: Yiddish in the Golden Land"

 

2005
Professor Aron Rodrigue, Stanford University
“Sephardi Jewries and the Holocaust”

 

Part 1: "The Holocaust and the End of Judeo-Spanish Culture in the Balkans"

Part 2: "Rhodes: The Island of Memory"

Part 3: "North African Jewry and the Trauma of WWII"

 

2004
Professor Susan Handelman, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv
“Find Yourself a Teacher: The Mentor/Disciple Relation in Classical Jewish Thought and Contemporary Practice”

 

Part 1: "Teacher-Student Reciprocity"

Part 2: "Teachers and Study Partners"

Part 3: "Becoming a Living Book"


2003
Professor Chava Weissler, Lehigh University
“Jewish Renewal in the American Spiritual Marketplace”

 

Part 1: "Jewish Renewal in America"

Part 2: "Four Worlds and Kabbalah"

Part 3: "Gender and Jewish Renewal"


2002
Professor Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University
“In the Culture of the Rabbis”

 

Part 1: "Asher of Reichshofen and Glikl of Hameln"

Part 2: "Two Russian Jews: Moshe Leib Lilienblum and Osip Mandelstam"

Part 3: "Autobiography as Farewell: Stephan Zweig and Sarah Kofman"


2001
Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“Cultural Disjunctions and Modern Jewish Identity”

 

Part 1: Cultural Disjunctions and Modern Jewish Identity

Part 2: Jewish Cultural Memory: Its Multiple Configurations

Part 3: Jewish Learning, Jewish Hope

 

2000
Professor Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University
“Studying the Jewish Future”

 

Part 1: Centrality of Jewish Values in Shaping the Jewish Future

Part 2: The Future of Contemporary Jewish Communities: Israel, America and Europe

Part 3: Secularism, Religion, Ethnicity and Assimilation


 

The Samuel & Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program
University of Washington
Thomson Hall, Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195
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