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THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM IS A BENEFICIARY OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE.
JEWISH STUDIES
at the University of Washington
NEWSLETTER
V O L U M E X V I N U M B E R I A U T U M N 2 0 0 5
COURTESY ALTHEA STROUM
T H E H E N R Y M . J A C K S O N S C H O O L O F I N T E R N AT I O N A L S T U D I E S
Althea Stroum
Stroum
Family
Legacy to
Transform
Jewish
Studies
Marsha and Jay Glazer
A dinner hosted on May 19
by Althea Stroum to honor
this year’s Stroum lecturer,
Prof. Aron Rodrigue of Stanford
University, and the 30th
anniversary of the Stroum
lectures, took a dramatic turn
when Marsha and Jay Glazer,
Althea’s daughter and sonin-law,
announced that they
were pledging $1 million
to endow a chair in Jewish
Studies to honor Althea and
her long-time devotion to the
UW Jewish Studies Program.
Jay spoke of the importance
of Jewish Studies; of
his own family’s support for
the Jewish Studies Program at
Indiana University (where he
has endowed chairs to honor
his father and his mother); of
strengthening the Stroum
legacy in Jewish Studies at
the UW; and of hoping that
with added resources, the
UW Jewish Studies Program
could enter the top rank of
Jewish Studies programs
nationally.
Now Althea herself has taken
a step that will transform
the Jewish Studies Program
and help it move toward the
top rank: committing herself
to a gift to the Program of $10
million. Two million dollars of
the gift will fund the Stroum
lecture series and publication
of the Stroum book series by
the UW Press, $3 million
will create new endowed
chairs in the Jewish Studies
Program, and $5 million will
support scholarships and fellowships
for undergraduate
and graduate students, and
Pruzans
Endow
Professorship
in Jewish
Studies —
and More
Herb & Lucy Pruzan
On January 5, 2005, David
Hodge, Dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences at the
UW, announced a major
development for the Jewish
Studies Program and the College:
the creation of the Lucia
S. and Herbert L. Pruzan
Endowed Professorship in
Jewish Studies, the first
major investment of private
funding in Jewish Studies
since the establishment of the
original Stroum endowment
in 1987. The $500,000 Pruzan
gift for the University’s Creating
Futures capital campaign
will receive matching funds
from the University, bringing
the total amount of the
endowment to $750,000. The
gift is intended to enhance
the College’s ability to attract
and retain distinguished faculty
to serve as Chair of the
Jewish Studies Program, and
to provide support for the
ongoing operating needs of
the Program.
“We are profoundly grateful
to Lucy and Herb Pruzan for
all that they do as volunteers
and ambassadors for the College, the University, and the larger
community, as well as for their remarkable generosity. We are truly
blessed by their deep appreciation for the UW and are delighted
to have the directorship of the College’s Jewish Studies Program
permanently associated with the Pruzans’ name,” said Hodge.
The Pruzans, both graduates of the UW, were motivated by the
quality of the Jewish Studies Program and its potential for serving
the community. “We have seen first hand the tremendous recognition
for the caliber of the [UW] Jewish Studies Program throughout
the country,” said Herb Pruzan. “We have been concerned that
there hasn’t been sufficient appreciation of the Program by the
local community and we wanted to provide additional ongoing
financial support for the director of the Program and its operating
needs, so that it can grow to be an increasingly vital part of the
education of our general community.”
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FROM THE CHAIR
The headline news for the Jewish Studies Program
(JSP) right now is the extraordinary gift from Althea
Stroum. What is the gift? The obvious answer: $10
million. The money will matter tremendously, but
that is not the real answer. The true meaning of
the gift is in why it is being given and how it will
be used.
Imagine the JSP had just received a check for $10
million from an anonymous donor. That would be
wonderful, but nothing like Althea Stroum’s gift,
which represents the culmination of decades of
support for Jewish Studies at the UW from Samuel
and Althea Stroum — not only financial, but moral
and social as well. They worked to build university
and community support for Jewish Studies and for
a JSP that would give back to the community.
The Stroums’ support made sense only if the JSP
used its resources well and if the community saw
its value and added its support. And that’s what
happened. The annual Stroum lectures, organized
by the JSP, and subsequent books have won a
worldwide reputation. JSP faculty have won UW
teaching awards and national awards for scholarship,
and made innumerable contributions to the
community. The Jewish Federation’s longstanding financial
support has paid off; last November’s visit to
the JSP by the Federation’s Planning and Allocation
Committee impressed its members with the depth
of the JSP contribution to the UW and the broader
community. The JSP Advisory Board of community
members has been inspired to take the initiative in
supporting Hebrew language instruction and scholarships
for students doing work in Jewish Studies,
and their enthusiasm for the JSP has wonderfully
enhanced its reputation in the community.
When Herb Pruzan volunteered to chair the
Advisory Board and devote endless hours to building
community support for Jewish Studies, and
Lucy and Herb endowed a professorship for the
JSP Chair, what mattered was not simply the contributions from
one of Seattle’s most generous couples. What mattered, too, was
how seriously they had analyzed the JSP and its prospects before
making any commitments; their vote of confidence in the JSP is
as important as their time and money. And when Althea Stroum’s
daughter and son-in-law, Marsha and Jay Glazer, endowed a chair
in Jewish Studies in Althea’s name, they were saying that though
they could honor her in many ways, the best way to do so was to
sustain the bond between Jewish Studies and the Stroums from
generation to generation.
CONTENTS
Stroum Legacy ................................................... 1
Pruzan Endowment ........................................... 1
From the Chair.................................................... 2
Advisory Board Scholarships ........................... 3
Advisory Board Links to the Community ........ 3
Jewish Studies Curriculum................................ 4
Jewish Studies Faculty 2005–2006 .................. 4
Jewish Studies Course Highlights.................... 5
Undergraduates, Alumni, Faculty Meeting .... 5
Jewish Studies and the American
Jewish Community ...................................... 5
MARY LEVIN, @ UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY
Professor Paul Burstein
The transformative gifts
we are receiving are
neither an end …
nor a beginning…
but rather part of a
long-term process
in which the relationship
between Jewish Studies
and the community
enables each to
strengthen the other.
Althea Stroum’s gift
provides the JSP with the
opportunity to enter the
top rank of Jewish Studies
programs in the U.S., and
the JSP and community
together with the
opportunity to build on a
very fruitful partnership.
The Stroum Lectureship:
Sephardi Jews and the Holocaust
Aron Rodrigue (2005).................................. 6
From Lectures to Books............................... 6
Speaking in Tongues
Anita Norich (2006) ..................................... 7
Pianko Inaugural Lecture.................................. 7
Samuel & Althea Stroum
Endowed Chair Award ................................. 7
Faculty Research ................................................ 8
Nextbook ............................................................ 8
And what of the future? Gifts to Jewish Studies
may be made partly out of sentiment, but no one
makes a major gift without believing that the JSP
has a vision of the future and the ability to turn it
into reality. We do have a vision: of a future in which
we reach more students, strengthen our offerings in
traditional areas of Jewish Studies scholarship, make
the JSP into an international center for the study of
the world’s two largest Jewish communities — the
American and the Israeli — and enhance our ability
to reach out to the community to tell the story of
the Jewish people.
Can we turn the vision into reality? Our first-class
faculty is committed to doing so. Unfortunately, it is
a faculty for whom Jewish Studies has always been
like a second job — with the sole exception of Prof.
Noam Pianko, the faculty are employed by other
departments and programs, and do their Jewish
Studies teaching and administrative work on the
side, to the extent their home units permit. Additional
resources will eventually make it possible to
hire full-time faculty and provide more support for
part-timers wishing to devote more time to Jewish
Studies. We hope to hire a lecturer in Hebrew, so that
every student who wants to take Hebrew (modern
and Biblical) will be able to do so. Critically-needed
staff support will make us more effective both within
the UW and in our relations with the community.
By taking our responsibilities seriously and
making optimal use of new resources to enhance
teaching, research, and contributions to the community,
we can indeed turn the vision into reality.
The transformative gifts we are receiving are neither
an end (providing everything we need) nor a beginning
(from being a program of part-timers to one of
full-timers), but rather part of a long-term process
in which the relationship between Jewish Studies
and the community enables each to strengthen the
other. Althea Stroum’s gift provides the JSP with the
opportunity to enter the top rank of Jewish Studies programs in the
U.S., and the JSP and community together with the opportunity
to build on a very fruitful partnership.
This has been a wonderful year for Jewish Studies. We will do
our utmost to keep moving ahead.
~ Professor Paul Burstein
Lucia & Herbert Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies
Chair, Jewish Studies
Students Return to Israel .................................. 8
Faculty & Staff in the Community .................... 9
ACCESS Students................................................ 9
Olson New Hazel D. Cole Fellow ..................... 10
Hazel D. Cole Fellowship
in Jewish Studies........................................ 10
Donation Form ................................................. 11
Aiding the Partnership ................................... 11
Donors............................................................... 11
Jewish Studies Courses 2005–2006 ............... 12
Coming Attractions ......................................... 12

JEWISH STUDIES ADVISORY BOARD
Advisory
Board
Links the
Jewish Studies
Program
and the
Community
Chair
Herb Pruzan
Members
Dorothy Becker
Phil Boguch
Rabbi Dan Bridge
Bob Center
Arlene Ehrlich
Sonny Gorasht
Linda Gould
Lucy Pruzan
Timmie Faghin
Al & Jean Maimon
Ann Nieder
Bernice Rind
Larry Roseman
Michele Rosen
Gil & Miriam Roth
Sam & Sue Tarica
Ina Willner
Created just four years ago, the Jewish Studies
Advisory Board (formerly the Visiting Committee)
has come to play an important role supporting the
JSP in the University and the community. The Advisory
Board has taken on three main tasks: providing
scholarships; helping the Jewish Studies Program
meet the demand for Hebrew language instruction;
and informing the community about the JSP.
SCHOLARSHIPS
For the past three years, the Advisory Board has
funded $2,500 scholarships — two the first year,
three more recently — for undergraduates and
graduate students doing research in Jewish Studies
(not necessarily Jewish Studies majors). Members of
the Advisory Board have been pleased to discover
how many students are doing first-rate research,
and have been gratified to hear from the scholarship
winners how much the scholarships helped them in
their work. For the past two years, Sonny Gorasht
has personally funded a scholarship, while other
AB members have donated money themselves, and
inspired friends and families to do so as well.
HEBREW
Hebrew is an issue of critical concern to the Advisory
Board. Hebrew is vital to Jewish Studies; it is the
key to Jewish texts from the Bible to contemporary
literature; is essential for a deep understanding of
Israeli society; two years of Hebrew are required
for a Jewish Studies major. Yet, demand for places
in Hebrew language courses exceeds supply; more
than twice as many students want to take introductory
Hebrew every year than can be accommodated.
Seeing the seriousness of the problem, the Advisory
Board last year decided to set its first major fund-
At the reception for Jewish Studies
Advisory Board Scholarship Winners
Standing l-r: Jean Maimon, Al Maimon, Bob Center,
Sonny Gorasht, Prof. Paul Burstein, Herb Pruzan,
Prof. Bob Stacey, Prof. Naomi Sokoloff, Bernice Rind
Seated: Gil Roth, Ina Willner,Dorothy Becker,
Miriam Roth, Ann Nieder, Linda Gould, Arlene Ehrlich
Floor: Jacob Brown, Or Rogovin, Maureen Jackson
Matan Barnea
& Rachel Orange
Or Rogovin
raising goal: to raise the
funds needed to endow
a lectureship in Hebrew.
A Hebrew language fund
has been created on the
basis of an initial five -
year commitment by Gil
and Miriam Roth. And,
to meet the need this
year, Michele Rosen and
the Rosen Family Foun-
Miriam
& Gil Roth
Michele
Rosen
dation have generously given a grant to finance an
additional section of Elementary Modern Hebrew,
taught by Aliza Sandalon.
LIAISON TO THE COMMUNITY
In addition to supporting students and the undergraduate
program, Advisory Board members have
been serving as “ambassadors” to the community,
spreading the word about the ACCESS program(see
article on page 9), lectures on and off campus, and
the many ways community members can benefit
from, and contribute to, the activities of the JSP.
The Jewish Studies AB meets formally three times
a year in addition to being honored with the other
UW visiting committees and advisory boards at a
luncheon hosted by UW President Mark Emmert. In
addition, members are often invited to attend special
meetings and events.
Advisory Board
Awards Three Scholarships
The Jewish Studies Advisory Board is pleased
to have awarded scholarships for the 2005–2006
academic year to three outstanding students.
Matan Barnea, a senior, who has been on the
dean’s list since his arrival at UW in the summer of
2003. With his personal interests in exploring his
Jewish heritage and culture, along with following
other academic pursuits, Matan plans to graduate
with majors in both Jewish Studies and Geography.
Greatly influenced by his Jewish Studies professors,
he hopes to continue his exploration of the Jewish
experience by studying in Prague or Israel.
Rachel Orange, a senior, has been on the dean’s
list since her freshman year. In the fall and
winter of 2004–2005, she studied at Hebrew
University in Israel. A Jewish Studies major,
she plans to continue her Jewish studies in
graduate school and pursue her goal of teaching
in the secular and Jewish communities.
Rachel realizes her Jewish education will not
end with graduation; it is a lifelong journey.
Or Rogovin, an Israeli grad student, came
to the UW to continue his studies in Comparative
Literature with a focus on Hebrew and Jewish Literature.
However, while working with Professors Naomi
Sokoloff and Noam Pianko, his academic pursuits have
expanded to include the study of Jewish life in its religious
and cultural contexts. Or plans to pursue a Ph.D.
after completing his MA in winter 2006.
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THE JEWISH STUDIES CURRICULUM — NEW &IMPROVED
The intellectual excitement generated by new Jewish Studies
faculty — Prof. Noam Pianko in modern Jewish thought, Prof.
Barbara Henry in Yiddish literature and drama, Richard Block
in German-Jewish culture, and Michael Rosenthal in Jewish
philosophy — has led to a major rethinking of the Jewish Studies
major, and to the appointment of the Program’s first Undergraduate
Program Coordinator.
Jewish Studies majors have always had to take “Introduction to
Judaism” (Religion 210) and “Jews in Western Civilization” (Jewish
Studies/History 250) (both open to non-majors as well). The latter
has been thoroughly rethought by Prof. Martin Jaffee, and will
now be taught as “Introduction to Jewish Cultural History.” The
course will introduce students to the many settings in which Jews
have marked out for themselves distinctive identities as a people, a
culture, and as a religious community, showing how Jewish culture
has undergone constant reinvention as the ongoing relationships
between Jews and non-Jews change over time. Students will learn
about Jewish cultures in the ancient Middle East and Mediterranean,
the development of Sephardic and Ashkenazi cultures, and
the dynamics of cultural change throughout the Jewish world in
modern times. The course will conclude by highlighting American
Jewish popular culture, focusing on Jews and American music.
The richness of the Jewish Studies curriculum (close to 50 courses
are currently being taught) has made it possible to organize the
major into two tracks. Track A, The Judaic Cultural Tradition,
continues the Program’s traditional strength in Classical and Pre-
JEWISH STUDIES FACULTY & STAFF 2005–2006
FACULTY
Paul Burstein, Chair, Ph.D., Harvard (1974);
Professor, Sociology; The American Jewish
Community.
burstein@u.washington.edu
Jere Bacharach, Ph.D., Michigan (1967);
Professor Emeritus, History. Islamic History.
jere@u.washington.edu
Richard Block, PhD. Northwestern
University (1998); Jewish-German Studies.
blockr@u.washington.edu
Joseph Butwin, Ph.D., Harvard (1971);
Associate Professor, English; Jews in the
literature of England, Jewish American
immigrant literature.
joeyb@u.washington.edu
Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg, Ph.D., University
of Washington (1996); Visiting Scholar;
American Jewish history.
eulenbrg@u.washington.edu
Kathie Friedman, Ph.D., State University
of New York at Binghamton (1991);
Associate Professor, Jackson School of
International Studies; Adjunct, Sociology
and Women Studies; comparative
immigration and ethnicity, contemporary
Jewish American identities; Jewish women
in contemporary America.
friedman@u.washington.edu
Susan A. Glenn, Ph.D., University of
California, Berkeley (1983);
Professor, History; Jews and Blacks.
glens@u.washington.edu
Barbara Henry, D. Phil., University of
Oxford (1998); Assistant Professor, Slavic;
20th Century Russian literature, theatre and
drama, Modern Yiddish literature and drama.
bjhenry@u.washington.edu
Martin S. Jaffee, Ph.D., Brown (1980);
Professor, Jackson School of International
Studies; Adjunct, Near Eastern Languages
and Civilization; Post-Biblical and
Rabbinic Judaism.
jaffee@u.washington.edu
Deborah Kerdeman, Ph.D., Stanford (1991);
Associate Professor, Education; philosophy
of education, Jewish education.
kerdeman@u.washington.edu
Levis A. Kochin, Ph.D., Chicago (1975);
Associate Professor, Economics;
Israeli economics.
lakochin@u.washington.edu
Joel S. Migdal, Ph.D., Harvard (1972);
Professor, Jackson School of International
Studies; Adjunct, Political Science; Arabs
and Jews in Israel and Palestine.
migdal@u.washington.edu
Scott Noegel, Ph.D., Cornell (1995);
Associate Professor, Department of
Near Eastern Languages and Civilization;
Adjunct History. Hebrew Bible,
Near Eastern languages and literature.
Noam Pianko, Ph.D., Yale (2004); Assistant
Professor, Jackson School of International
Studies; Modern Jewish thought.
npianko@u.washington.edu
Michael Rosenthal, Ph.D., University
of Chicago (1996); Associate Professor,
Philosophy; Spinoza and Jewish Philosophy.
rosentha@u.washington.edu
Naomi B. Sokoloff, Ph.D., Princeton
(1980); Professor, Near Eastern Languages
and Civilization; Adjunct, Women Studies;
Hebrew language and literature;
The Holocaust and Literature.
naosok@u.washington.edu
Modern Judaism, enhancing it
with recently-developed courses
such as Prof. Scott Noegel’s
offerings on Biblical history
and Prof. Jaffee’s new course
on “Rabbinic Oral-Traditional
Literature and Jewish Law.“
Finally, Prof. Rosenthal plans to
offer, within this track for the
very first time, an “Introduction
to Jewish Philosophy.”
Entirely new is Track B, The
Prof. Martin Jaffee
Jewish People in the Modern
World, which provides rich offerings in the American Jewish community,
Sephardic Jewry, and modern Israel. Among the courses
included are “American Jewish History Since 1885” (Prof. Noam
Pianko), “The Sephardic Diaspora” (Prof. Sarah Stein), “Israel:
Society and Politics” (Prof. Joel Migdal), “Antisemitism as a Cultural
System” (Prof. Jaffee), and “Modern Jewish Literature” (Prof.
Joseph Butwin).
To help students interested in majoring or minoring in Jewish
Studies, the Jewish Studies Program has created the position of
Undergraduate Program Coordinator, held by Prof. Noam Pianko.
Information on courses and curriculum is also available from the
Jackson School’s Office of Student Services.
Robert Stacey, Ph.D., Yale (1983); Professor,
History; Medieval Jewish history.
bstacey@u.washington.edu
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Ph.D., Stanford
(1999); Assistant Professor, Jackson School
of International Studies and History;
Modern Jewish History, Eastern European
Jewry; Sephardic Studies.
sstein@u.washington.edu
Joan Ullman, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr (1963);
Professor Emeritus; History;
Jews in the History of Spain.
VISITING FACULTY
Gad Barzilai, Ph.D., Hebrew University of
Jerusalem (1987); Professor, Political Science,
Political Science and Law; Politics,
Law, State and Society.
gbarzil@u.washington.edu
Hillel Gamoran, D.H.L., Spertus College
(1966); Visiting Lecturer; Rabbinic literature.
hillgam@u.washington.edu
Jess Olson, Hazel D. Cole Fellow 2005–2006,
Ph.D. candidate Stanford University, History.
jso@stanford.edu
STAFF
Loryn Paxton
Program Coordinator,
lpaxton@u.washington.edu
206-543-4243
Rochelle Groonis Roseman
Development & Outreach,
roseman@u.washington.edu
206-543-0138

Jewish Studies Course Highlights
“JEWS AND BLACKS”
Professor Susan Glenn (History and Jewish
Studies) reports that her course on "Jews and
Blacks" has been the most rewarding teaching
experience of her career. "In part because
the materials for this course are rich, complex,
and controversial," says Prof. Glenn, “and in
part because the course seems to attract
some of the brightest and most motivated
students from across the university, the level
of intellectual engagement in the classroom Prof. Susan Glenn
is especially high.” One student in her winter
2005 course, Shaun Scott, was so stimulated by the themes that
he worked with Prof. Glenn the next quarter on an independent
film project and produced a remarkable documentary called "Body
and Soul, " an exploration of Jews, Blacks, race, and music over the
course of the twentieth century. The documentary will preview on
campus in the fall of 2005.
Glenn's course on Jews and Blacks is closely related to her current
book project on how Jews have understood, represented, and
written about Jewishness and the meaning of Jewish identity in
20th and 21st century America. An article drawn from that project
("`The Vogue of Jewish Self-Hatred' in Post WWII America") is slated
for publication in Jewish Social Studies.
GERMANICS
The addition of Professor Richard Block to
the Department of Germanics in the fall of
2004 highlighted the increasing connections
between Germanics and Jewish Studies. Prof.
Block’s fall course on “Jewish-German Writers”
explored attempts by German Jews to
assimilate during the late eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, and the reasons those
attempts failed and eventually led to urgent
calls for a Jewish state. Higher-than-expect- Prof. Richard Block
ed enrollments suggested growing interest
in Jewish-German culture among undergraduates.
Prof. Block’s spring course, "Representing the Holocaust," was
intended to ensure that new generations of students learn about
Undergraduates,
Alumni, and Faculty Meet
The ad in the UW Daily promised
Jewish Studies majors,
minors, and potential majors
and minors, a chance to relax
and schmooze with faculty and
alumni of the Jewish Studies
Program, and the opportunity
to ask a question on the minds
of undergraduates: “What is
someone supposed to do with
a degree in Jewish Studies?”
On May 24, in the Seminar Room of the Bank of America Executive
Education Center, students got to find out, as the alumni were
kind enough to volunteer their time and share how their JS degree
had influenced their study and career choices.
Cindy Strauss, one of the first UW graduates to receive a BA in
LIZ KOPECEK
STEPHANIE WELCH
the Holocaust, and included a riveting lecture by Henry Friedman
of the Washington State Holocaust Education Research Center.
Several members of the Jewish Studies faculty have begun
working together to offer a series of courses concerned with the
Holocaust, reaching out to students majoring in History, Germanics,
Political Science, and other fields. During 2005–2006, Germanics
expects to work with Hillel at the UW to develop a series of public
lectures and forums highlighting the rich contributions of German
Jews to the European and American cultural traditions.
Jewish Studies and the American Jewish Community
Forty percent of the world’s Jews live in the United States.
The American Jewish community is vital and diverse, innovating
in Jewish music, drama, literature, and Talmudic
scholarship, developing new publications and websites,
enhancing day school and adult education, creating new
organizations to meet the needs of a changing population
removed from the immigrant experience but eager to revitalize
Jewish commitment in the 21st century. And yes, according
to some, it’s a community with a few problems as well.
The future of world Jewry outside Israel depends on
the American Jewish community. It’s therefore surprising
to discover how little attention it receives in Jewish Studies
Programs around the country. Most programs teach an
American Jewish history course or two, and a few others, with
no particular focus. Even the best programs may have only
one or two faculty specializing in the American Jewish community.
The number of faculty chairs and academic centers
dedicated to American Jewry is very small.
The UW is fortunate to have seven professors and visiting
scholars doing research and teaching about the American
Jewish community: Professors Paul Burstein on the sociology
of American Jewry, Joseph Butwin and Naomi Sokoloff on
American Jewish literature, Julia Eulenberg on Pacific Northwest
Jewish history, Kathie Friedman on Jewish American
identities and Jewish women in contemporary America, Susan
Glenn on Jews and blacks, and on Jewish identity, and Noam
Pianko on American Jewish thought.
It could be argued that for students interested in the American
Jewish community, the UW is one of the better places to
be. It’s even possible to imagine the UW becoming the best
program in the country for the study of American Jewry.
Jewish Studies, found studying
Jewish history and ethics helped
inspire her to attend law school;
today she is Vice President of Legal
Services at Swedish Medical
Center in Seattle.
Amee Sherer, a 1987 JS graduate,
went on to get a M. Ed. and
continues to work in the Jewish
community. She was program
(l-r) Matan Barnea (senior, JS Major), Tova Perlow (2005 JS grad), director of Hillel at the UW for
Daniel Klein, Cindy Strauss, Prof. Paul Burstein
three years and acting director
for one. Currently, she teaches
at the Seattle Jewish Community School where she has worked in
development and most recently was interim head of the school.
Dan Klein, a 2003 graduate with a double major in Jewish
Studies and Psychology, is attending law school at Willamette
University in Salem, Oregon. Like Cindy, he felt Jewish Studies
formed an excellent basis for studying law.
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THE 2005 SAMUEL & ALTHEA STROUM
LECTURESHIP IN JEWISH STUDIES
“Sephardi Jewries and the Holocaust”
Histories of the Holocaust nearly always focus on its impact on
Ashkenazi Jewry, according to Aron Rodrigue, the Eva Chernov
Lokey Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History at Stanford
University; its impact on Sephardi Jewries is seldom examined.
His lectures on Sephardi Jewries and the Holocaust, presented as
the 30th Annual Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies,
were intended to right the balance.
Prof. Rodrigue’s first lecture, “The Holocaust and the End of Judeo-Spanish
Culture in the Balkans,” introduced the audience to
the complex forces that shaped the Sephardi experience. Sephardic
Jewries defined themselves through their understanding of their
transplantation from Andalusian Iberia, and the multiple layers of
cultural, linguistic, and socio-political influence to which they were
subjected. The rich, transnational communities they formed in the
Balkans were essentially destroyed in the Holocaust.
Rodrigue’s second lecture, introduced by his former student,
UW Professor Sarah Stein, was entitled “Rhodes, the Island
of Memory,” and charted the fate of the Jews of Rhodes before
and during the Holocaust. The Jewish community there,
ruled by various Asian and European empires, and in the period
leading up to the Holocaust, by Italy under the fascists,
was exposed to modernity in ways very different from those
experienced by Jews in the heart of Europe. Yet they ultimately
experienced the same fate as Jews farther to the north and
west, subjected to the same efficiently organized Nazi genocide.
Rodrigue’s final lecture, “North African Jewry and the Trauma
of World War II,” took up the neglected story of the Jews of pres-
From Lectures
to Books
For almost 30 years
the University of Washington
Press has been
publishing books based
on the Stroum Lectures.
Many of the books have
won awards, been used
as textbooks, and won a wide readership among those interested
in the Jewish people. Some become classics; Zakhor: Jewish History
and Jewish Memory, by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, has been in print
since 1982. In 2004, the UW Press published three books based on
Stroum lectures.
Based on Calvin Goldscheider’s 2000 Stroum lectures, Studying
the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses
the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities
in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In an unconventional
and provocative argument, Goldscheider (Professor of Sociology
and Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies Emeritus at Brown
University) departs from the limiting vision of the demographic
projections that have shaped predictions about the health and
future of Jewish communities and asserts that "the quality of
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Althea Stroum, Prof. Aron Rodrigue, Prof. Paul Burstein
ent-day Algeria, Morocco, and Libya during the Holocaust. Prof.
Rodrigue showed how colonialism, nationalism, and the modern
machinery of the Holocaust intersected in North Africa to produce
a history largely eclipsed by the history of Ashkanazi Jewry, but
which was entirely parallel in its traumatic effect.
The three lectures were delivered to overflow crowds, whose
level of interest and many questions made it very difficult to bring
the question periods after each lecture to an end.
In addition to delivering the Stroum lectures, Prof. Rodrigue
traveled to Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation in Seward Park
to give an informal talk about Ladino literature. Hazzan Aryeh
Greenberg’s introduction emphasized how important Jewish
Studies scholarship has been to him as he has developed new approaches
to teaching young Sephardic Jews about their roots.
All three lectures are now available in streaming video and on UWTV.
For information, go towww.uwtv.org/programs/displayseries.asp?collid=527
Jewish life has become
the key to the future
of Jewish communi -
ties." In a review of the
book in Contemporary
Sociology, Y. Michal
Bodemann of the University
of Toronto writes
that Goldscheider “presents
us with a refreshing
alternative vision” of the
Jewish future, very different from the typical gloomy portrait; he
presents “an upbeat prognosis for Jewish life,” based on a creative
analysis of the Jewish family, community, and culture.
Michael Stanislawski’s 2002 Stroum lectures have been published
as Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning. The
book examines autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity
to the present, and considers the ways in which such writings can
legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. Stanislawski
analyzes autobiographies by Josephus, Osip Mandelstam, Stefan
Zweig, and others, seeing them as artifacts of individuals’ quests to
make sense of their lives, for themselves and for their readers. Prof.
Olga Litvak of Princeton University has called Autobiographical Jews
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2006 SAMUEL & ALTHEA STROUM ANNUAL
LECTURE SERIES ~ MAY 14, 16, 18
Professor Anita Norich Will Present
“Speaking in Tongues: Translating Yiddish
in the 20th Century“
Anita Norich, Associate Professor in the Department of English
at the University of Michigan, will deliver the 31st annual Samuel &
Althea Stroum Lectures in 2006. The series, “Speaking in Tongues:
Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century,” will include three lectures:
“How Tevye Learned to Fiddle,” “Remembering the Past in Yiddish,”
and “Becoming American: Yiddish in the Golden Land.”
Prof. Norich will describe the history of Jewish culture in America
and its changing uses and interpretations of Yiddish, discussing
Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye der Milkhiker and its film adaptations into
Yiddish, English (Fiddler on the Roof), Hebrew and Russian; poetry
Professor Noam Pianko Delivers Inaugural Lecture
Noam Pianko, the first Samuel & Althea
Stroum Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies,
delivered his inaugural lecture to UW Jewish
Studies faculty and friends at UW Hillel on
March 31, 2005.
David Hodge, Dean of the College of Arts
& Sciences, and JS Chair Prof. Paul Burstein
thanked Sam (z”l) and Althea Stroum for
endowing the new professorship, the first
Prof. Noam Pianko full-time faculty position in Jewish Studies
at the UW.
Prof. Pianko’s lecture, “Judaism as a Civilization: The Jewish
Attempt to Reconstruct American Identity,” focused on Rabbi
Mordecai Kaplan's attempt to construct a novel definition of Judaism
and Jewish Identity in his book, Judaism as a Civilization,
published in 1934 and still very influential in American Jewish
thought today.
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a remarkable example of historical acumen and intellectual passion,
a signal achievement of scholarly vision and literary imagination.”
Michael Stanislawski is the Nathan J. Miller Professor of History at
Columbia University.
Based on Ivan G. Marcus’s 1998 Stroum lectures, The Jewish Life
Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times examines how
and why rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have
evolved through the ages. The book traces the development of
rites associated with birth, circumcision, and schooling; bar and bat
mitzvah and confirmation; engagement, betrothal, and marriage;
and aging, dying, and remembering. In a comparative framework,
Marcus (Chair of Yale University’s Program of Judaic Studies and
Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History) illustrates how Jewish
culture has negotiated with majority cultures, from the ancient Near
East through modern times, to renew itself through innovation in
ritual. Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and author of How We Die, writes
that “if you have ever sought to take a fascinating journey into Jewish
history and folklore — then Ivan Marcus’s feat of scholarship
and literary pleasure is the next book you should read.”
by Yankev Glatshteyn, Anna Margolin, Kadya
Molodovsky and others, and stories by I. L.
Peretz and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Professor Norich received her Ph.D. in
English literature from Columbia University
in 1979; her primary interests are in Yiddish,
Jewish, and Holocaust literature.
Prof. Anita Norich
Her current book in progress is entitled
A Tme for Every Purpose: Jewish Culture in America During the Holocaust.
Other books include Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and
Yiddish Literatures (Harvard and JTS, 1992), which she co-edited with
Prof. Naomi Sokoloff and Anne Lapidus Lerner, and The Homeless
Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (Indiana University
Press, 1991).
The Stroum Lectures will be presented in Kane Hall 220 at 7:30 PM
Professor Robert Stacey awarded the Samuel &
Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Professor Naomi Sokoloff and Professor Robert Stacey
On January 1, 2006, Professor Robert Stacey will become
the next Samuel & Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in
Jewish Studies, succeeding Professor Naomi Sokoloff, who
is ending her three-year term. Long a key member of the
Jewish Studies Program, Prof. Stacey served as its chair from
1994–1997 and was extremely successful in fostering links between
Jewish Studies and the wider community. Prof. Stacey
has made key contributions to the study of medieval English
Jewry, and is working to complete a major book, The English
Jews in the Middle Ages, 1066–1290. A winner of the UW-wide
teaching award, Prof. Stacey drew hundreds of listeners to
the sold-out 2005 History Lectures Series on “The Crusades:
Allah, God, or Jehovah Will Know His Own.” He returns to
full-time teaching after serving as Divisional Dean for the
Social Sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Drawing on resources provided by the Stroum Chair (as
well as several UW programs), Prof. Sokoloff taught a new
course and organized a symposium in the spring of 2005 on
“American Jewish Writing Today.” The symposium was coordinated
with Nextbook and co-sponsored by the Simpson
Center for the Humanities and the Departments of English
and Comparative Literature. It culminated in a public lecture
delivered at the UW Hillel by Sara Horowitz, Professor of
Humanities and Jewish Studies at York University, on “Mind,
Body, and Spirit: New American Riffs on the Jewish Question.”
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A TASTE OF FACULTY RESEARCH
THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX AND THE INTERNET
In January 2000, the ultra-Orthodox Council of Torah Sages
condemned the internet, calling it the “world’s leading cause
of temptation” and a threat to the ultra-Orthodox way of life in
Israel — a threat to the rabbinical hierarchy, religious discipline,
and the isolation of the ultra-Orthodox community from the Israeli
mainstream.
What impact does the internet actually have on the ultra-Orthodox?
Professor Gad Barzilai of the Jewish Studies Program and
Prof. Karine Barzilai-Nahon of the UW Information School have
studied internet use among more than 14,000 ultra-Orthodox in
Israel. They discover that rabbinic prohibitions notwithstanding, the
ultra-Orthodox use the internet extensively for private and political
purposes. The Internet has enhanced their ability to become part of
the global economy, but has also enabled some to disobey and even
criticize religious authorities. The research has been widely debated,
and is published in The Information Society 25 (1) (2005): 25–40.
JEWS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN
COMMERCE IN NORTH AND SOUTH AFRICA
Jewish participation in the American clothing industry early in
the 20th century contributed to both the growth of the American
economy and Jews’ own economic advance. At the same time, in
a very different part of the world, Jews played an important role in
the development of trade in a commodity highly valued in highend
fashion: ostrich feathers. Yiddish-speaking, Lithuanian Jews
oversaw the export and sale of ostrich feathers from South Africa to
Europe and the United States, while Judeo-Arabic-speaking Jews
in North Africa were heavily involved in feather markets there.
Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s research asks why this was
so, and attempts to theorize how Jewishness abetted and shaped
the trade of this and other luxury goods in the modern period. Her
work pivots around a question that historians of modern Jewry
have by and large avoided, perhaps out of fear of reiterating anti-
Semitic stereotypes: what was Jews’ relationship to the expansion
of capitalist markets in modern colonial settings?
CITIZENSHIP AND EQUALITY IN ISRAEL
Can Israel be a Jewish state and also offer equal rights to all
its citizens, Jew and non-Jew alike? Before the 1967 Six-Day War,
Professor Joel Migdal has found, this question was rarely raised
Nextbook
Finds a Home
at the UW
The Jewish Studies Program welcomes
Nextbook Seattle to the Jackson School of
International Studies. Now in its third year,
Nextbook was established by Keren Keshet
— The Rainbow Foundation to be a gateway
for the public to Jewish literature, culture,
and ideas. It works together with the JSP and
the Seattle Public Library to create innovative public programs; it
also highlights a series of short books in which prominent authors
consider notable individuals, issues, or events in Jewish history.
Among the authors, poets, and playwrights Nextbook is bringing
to Seattle during 2005–2006 are Robert Pinsky, discussing his
new book, The Life of David; Susan Stamberg and friends reading
Hanukah Lights: Stories of the Season; Eva Hoffman talking about
“Between Words, Between Worlds: Some Thoughts on Exile”; Gila
Almagor, Alona Kimhi, and Nava Semel discussing new Israeli
writing; and Sander Gilman presenting “Extreme Makover: Jews
and the Invention of Cosmetic Surgery.”
Nextbook’s website (www.nextbook.org) features cultural news,
original features, recommended books, and information about the
year’s Seattle programs. Contact Michele Yanow, Nextbook Program
Fellow, at myanow@nextbook.org or 206-543-9031.
Prof. Gad Barzilai
Prof. Sarah Stein Prof. Joel Migdal Prof. Paul Burstein
in Israel. An idea of at least theoretically equal citizenship for the
entire population prevailed, even in the face of military administration
of the Arab population and clear Jewish stewardship over
state and society.
Since 1967, however, this idea has been increasingly challenged
by the parties of what is called “the national right” (led by the Likud
and the National Religious Party), some arguing that Arabs
may live in Israel but never have equal rights with Jews. On the
other side, demanding an Israeli state “of and for all its citizens,”
have been post-Zionist scholars and Arab political parties. Prof.
Migdal’s research on both Israel and the United States highlights
the significance of what he calls “graduated citizenship” (in which
multiple groups have had different rights in particular historical
periods), and analyzes the conflicts that lead to change in ideas
and laws defining equality, rights, and citizenship.
JEWISH ECONOMIC SUCCESS IN THE U.S.
Jews in the U.S. have almost double the income and triple the
wealth of non-Jews, per capita. What makes this possible? Education
and similar factors explain half the difference. As to the other
half, not only does no one know the answer, no one is trying to find
out — there is almost no research on Jewish economic success.
In a paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association
for Jewish Studies, Professor Paul Burstein speculates that
this is because Jewish researchers are concerned about possible
consequences of finding out: if Jews do well because they work
harder than other groups, the findings could be seen as denigrating
other groups; and if Jews do well because of factors that are
inherently Jewish (culturally or religiously), the findings could be
seen as claims of Jewish superiority. His paper will consider both
new explanations of Jewish economic success, and possible public
reactions to them.
UW Students Return to Israel
Until this spring, UW students had not been allowed to
study in Israel for four years, because of U.S. State Department
advisories against travel to Israel. When those advisories
changed, the Jewish Studies Program and the Jackson School
of International Studies moved very quickly to publicize the
new opportunities. In addition, the JSP applied for, and won, a
$6,000 grant from the Dorot Foundation to support student
travel to Israel, and moved to identify students with outstanding
plans for study there.
This summer six of our students won Dorot funds administered
by the JSP and studied in Israel. James Beebe attended
ulpan at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jacob Brown (one
of last year’s JSAB Scholarship winners) attended ulpan and
conducted research at Haifa University; Summer Loomis also
attended ulpan at Haifa University; Jenna Nace took part in
an archaeological dig; Mariana Shimonova participated in a
program in medical ethics and halakha through Shaare Zedek
medical center in Jerusalem; and Elisabet Wendt enrolled in
ulpan in Jerusalem.
MEREDITH WENGER

JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM
FACULTY AND STAFF IN THE COMMUNITY
Jewish Studies faculty and staff often volunteer their time and
expertise to the community outside the classroom. Following is a
sampling of their community activities during 2004–2005.
Prof. Martin Jaffee offered a weekly course on Pirkei Avot
through Limmud, gave a talk about anti-Semitism to a group
gathered at (JS Advisory Board member) Linda Gould’s home,
and regularly substitute-taught on a volunteer basis at the Seattle
Hebrew Academy. Prof. Noam Pianko taught a monthly class on
Martin Buber’s philosophy for a group of 20 community members,
and this past February and March he (along with his wife, Rabbi
Rachel Nussbaum) taught a Jconnect class at UW Hillel entitled
“My Big Fat Jewish Wedding: A Class for Engaged Couples” about
the traditions involved in a Jewish wedding.
Prof. Gad Barzilai spoke in January 2005 at the Sunset Club on
“The Middle East and Human Rights: Back in the Future,” and has
written for The Seattle Times — his article about the aftermath of
Yasir Arafat’s death can be found at: www.seattletimes.nwsource.co
m/html/opinion/2002088705. Prof. Joel Migdal has given numerous
talks to the Jewish and general community. Among them were:
“The Bush Administration and America’s Place in the World” at the
American Jewish Committee luncheon in November 2004; and
“American Foreign Policy and the Middle East” in January 2005.
Prof. Barbara Henry taught a mini-course, “A Taste of Yiddish,”
at the UW Hillel; Prof. Robert Stacey gave five lectures
for the UW Alumni Association on “The Crusades: Allah, God, or
Jehovah Will Know His Own;” Prof. Naomi Sokoloff presented
“The Holocaust, the Second Generation, and the ‘Children of the
Beast’ at the Seattle Children’s Festival in 2004. She also interviewed
Nextbook speaker Savyon Liebrecht in Benaroya Hall in
March 2005. Prof. Sarah Abreyava Stein presented “Yiddish and
Ladino Culture in Comparison,” for the Nextbook series, and also
facilitated the History Department Access Reading Group Session
at the UW. Adam Rovner, affiliate assistant professor, moderated
the public discussion with Israeli writer Amos Oz as part of his
Nextbook appearance and also taught two courses for Limmud
— one on Jewish humor and one on Philip Roth’s The Plot Against
America. Prof. Susan Glenn was a member of the Jewish Women’s
Archive Distinguished Speakers Bureau.
At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Prof. Joseph Butwin gave a lecture,
“Warsaw and Charleston in the 1920s,” based on a dual biography
of his parents, the Yiddish translators Frances and Julius Butwin,
in March 2005, and also taught at the Community High School
of Jewish Studies. Prof. Naomi Sokoloff presented “Poems and
Prayers” — a three-session adult education class in April, with proceeds
supporting the TDHS Judaica library, which is open to the
public; and gave talks at Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath Congregation.
Rabbi Hillel Gamoran taught a course on “Contracts
in the Talmud.” At Temple B’nai Torah, Prof. Joel Migdal spoke
on “Prospects after Arafat” in January 2005, Adam Rovner lectured
on images of Jews in popular culture during the Shavuot night
of learning, and Prof. Paul Burstein introduced TBT Scholar in
Residence, Deborah Dash Moore’s talk, “GI Jews,” at the Henry Art
Gallery Auditorium also in January and gave a talk to The Retired
Women’s Club at the Stroum JCC in April. He also presented, “Must
We Be So Pessimistic About the Jewish Future?” at Congregation
Beth Shalom, where Prof. Noam Pianko gave a D’var Torah in
February. Rabbi Hillel Gamoran has been conducting religious
services at The Summit on First Hill about once a month.
During the year at Herzl Ner-Tamid, Prof. Scott Noegel gave a
talk, Prof. Naomi Sokoloff presented “Hebrew Literature: Dialogue
and Discussion”; Prof. Martin Jaffee spoke on a panel concerning a
recent book by David Klinghofer; and in March 2005, Prof. Robert
Stacey presented “When Art Offends; Shylock as a Stereotype in
Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’.” He also gave a series of
four lectures that month on “Jewish Responses to Catastrophe” as
the scholar-in-residence at Temple Beth Am, where Prof. Paul
Burstein presented “The Dynamics of the American Jewish Community”
in November 2004.
In August 2005, the 30th annual CAJE (Coalition for the Advancement
of Jewish Learning) conference was held at the UW.
Over 1100 religious school teachers and Jewish educators attended
from around the US; Professors Paul Burstein, Martin Jaffee, Joel
Migdal, Noam Pianko and Rabbi Hillel Gamoran were among the
presenters. In addition, JS development & outreach co-coordinator
Rochelle Roseman worked with the Jewish Education Council of
the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle to create “An Evening of
Jewish Learning: Views From the U” for the Seattle lay community.
Professors Paul Burstein and Martin Jaffee also taught during
this special CAJE event.
ACCESS Students Share Stories
Standing l-r: Pola Doenyas,Corie Borish, Bob Borish, Lorelei Brodsky,
Prof. Paul Burstein, Stan Zeitz, Larry Roseman, Gerson Goldman;
Seated: Judy Osman, Marv Wolf, Chaya Amiad, Jerry Cone, Henry Butler
The Jewish Studies Program hosted a gathering for ACCESS
students to celebrate the end of Spring Quarter and to give
everyone a chance to share experiences and talk about their
favorite professors and classes. It was clear from everyone’s
enthusiasm how wonderful it has been to study topics they
never had time for when preparing for earlier careers.
Among the most popular courses: JS classes in religion and
history such as Prof. Noam Pianko’s “American Jewish History
since 1885,” Prof. Bob Stacey’s “Medieval Jewish History,”
and Prof. Martin Jaffee’s “Rabbinic Oral — Traditional Texts.”
Becoming an ACCESS student is easy. The UW welcomes
Washington residents sixty years or older to attend classes
as auditing students (meaning no class work or final exams).
Up to two courses may be taken per quarter. Registration
must be done in person at the Registration Office, room
225 Schmitz Hall beginning the third day of the quarter.
However, anyone enrolling as an ACCESS student may attend
class with the permission of the instructor beginning
the first class day if space is available. A $5.00 registration
fee plus a prorated technology fee is due on the tuition due
date, and registration ends at 5:00 PM on the fifth day of the
quarter. Classes are not guaranteed. For more information,
go to www.washington.edu/students/reg/access.html or
call 206-543-8580.
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JESS OLSON:
NEW HAZEL D. COLE FELLOW
The Jewish Studies Program
welcomes Jess Olson
as the 2005–2006 Hazel D.
Cole Fellow. Currently completing
his Ph.D. in History
at Stanford University, specializing
in modern Central
and East European Jewish
history, Mr. Olson plans to
complete his dissertation
in 2006.
His doctoral thesis, “From
Freethinker to Believer: The
Intellectual Development of
Nathan Birnbaum,” explores
the thought and impact of
an often overlooked, yet
influential figure in late 19th
and early 20th century European
Jewish politics.
Mr. Olson grew up in
the Northwest, graduating
from the University of Wash-
Jess Olson
The Hazel D. Cole
Fellowship was established
in 1992 by Althea
Stroum and her late
husband, Samuel,
to provide financial
assistance to deserving
doctoral or postdoctoral
fellows in Jewish Studies,
and to honor the memory
of Mrs. Stroum’s sister,
Hazel D. Cole.
ington in 1998 with a BA in
History and the Comparative
History of Ideas (CHID);
afterwards, he and his wife,
Kara, moved to Oxford,
England, where he re -
ceived a Graduate Diploma
in Jewish Studies from the
Oxford Centre for Hebrew
and Jewish Studies. Prior to
starting his graduate work
at Stanford, he spent time
in Jerusalem studying Hebrew.
Mr. Olson has been a
recipient of a number of fellowships
including a FLAS
fellowship and a dissertation
writing fellowship from
the National Foundation for
Jewish Culture. His wife and
their two year old son, Tuvia,
live in Seward Park.
THE HAZEL D. COLE FELLOWSHIP
IN JEWISH STUDIES
The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington is
welcoming applications for the Hazel D. Cole Fellowship in Jewish
Studies for the academic year 2006–2007. The Fellowship may be used
for post-doctoral research or to complete doctoral research in any
field of Jewish Studies. Candidates must agree to be in residence at
the University of Washington for the tenure of their fellowship. The
Hazel D. Cole Fellow will receive a stipend of approximately $30,000
for the academic year pending funding, will offer one undergraduate
seminar or lecture course, and will make a public presentation
while in Seattle.
Interviews are an important part of the process and it is hoped they
can be arranged at the annual Association of Jewish Studies (AJS)
meetings if possible. Telephone interviews may also be considered.
Information about the date and site of the annual meeting can be
found at www.brandeis.edu/ajs/
Applicants from all American and foreign universities are welcome.
Applications should consist of:
(1) A current curriculum vitae
(2) A description (not exceeding five pages)
of the proposed research.
(3) Three letters of recommendation
All applications (including letters of recommendation)
must be received no later than November 1, 2005.
Mail application materials to:
Hazel D. Cole Fellowship Search Committee
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington, Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195-3650
Applications by fax or e-mail will not be accepted.
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strategic program objectives. Althea described
her commitment as arising from her desire to
have “this wonderful program expand” and “to
build a lasting legacy of scholarship and achievement
for years to come.” In the near future, the
program will be renamed The Samuel and Althea
Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University
of Washington.
The commitment is the culmination of Samuel
and Althea Stroum’s generosity toward Jewish
Studies at the UW, and is very much in line with
their lifetimes of giving to Jewish and general
causes, both locally and nationally. “They always
planned to dedicate their estate to charitable
causes, just as they’ve dedicated their lives,” said
Marsha Glazer.
“The Stroums have always contributed to this
University from their hearts,” said David Hodge,
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “It’s
been a magnificent reflection of their basic belief
…the more you give away, the more you get
back.”
“Samuel and Althea Stroum’s gifts to the University
over the years have had a transformative
effect, and this latest expression of their generosity
will have a lasting impact on our Jewish Studies
Program,” said University of Washington President
Mark Emmert. “Sam also served as a Regent
of the University for thirteen years, contributing
his time and effort to advance the University’s mission.
We are very grateful to the Stroum family for
this wonderful gift.”
“The entire faculty is thrilled by Althea’s commitment,”
said Prof. Paul Burstein, Chair of the
Jewish Studies Program. “We are tremendously
excited by the opportunity the Stroum gift will
provide, and a bit awed by the responsibility that
will come with it. I am confident that we will have
the ability to match Althea’s vision, becoming
one of the nation’s top Jewish Studies programs
while strengthening our relationship with the
community.”
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“We were inspired,” he added, “by Sam and Althea
Stroum’s early support of the Jewish Studies
Program, and wish to play a role in maintaining its
excellence and continuity.”
Paul Burstein, Chair of the Jewish Studies
Program and the first Pruzan Professor, said “We
are profoundly grateful to Lucy and Herb Pruzan
for the endowment, which will provide criticallyneeded
support for the JSP. But we want everyone
to know how grateful we are for their many other
contributions as well. Both Lucy and Herb serve
on our Advisory Board. Herb agreed to become
its Chair when community support for the JSP was
very low, and has worked tirelessly to help us win
the support that is essential if we are to successfully
serve the UW, the broader community, and
the world of Jewish Studies scholarship. Being the
first Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies is a very
great honor.”

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Seattle Sephardic Sisterhood
Sephardic Bikur Holim
Virginia Shulman
Iantha Sidell
Art & Alice Siegal
James Smart
Elaine Springer
Prof. Bob Stacey
David & Joy Stiefel
Ernie & Doris Stiefel
Alan Stone
Sam & Sue Tarica
Temple Beth Am
Stan & Nancy Zeitz
Patricia Ann Zielinski
thank you!
The Jewish Studies Program (JSP) in the UW’s Henry M. Jackson
School of International Studies is the premier program in the
Northwest for the academic study of Jewish life. Drawn from ten
departments and programs, its faculty teach and do research about
Jews from Biblical times to the present day and from the furthest
Aiding the Jewish
Studies Partnership
with the Community
parts of the globe to Seattle’s
own neighborhoods.
The JSP wants to serve undergraduate
and graduate students
at the University of Washington,
the broader community, and
the cause of Jewish scholar-
ship around the world. The faculty want to attract more students,
augment the Program’s participation in community activities, and
provide lectures, courses, and special events that will attract evergreater
numbers of participants.
Unfortunately, Jewish Studies gets little direct funding from the
State of Washington. Faculty involvement is made possible through
the generosity of faculty members’ home departments (which allow
faculty to devote time to Jewish Studies); virtually all Program
activity requiring funds is made possible through the generosity of
the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and private donors. Over
the years, wonderful alumni and friends, organizations, foundations,
and businesses from around the Puget Sound have supported the
JSP; the Program would not exist without their support.
It might appear that this year’s major gifts end the need for financial
support from the community. But that’s not so. Most of the funds
will not be available for years, and critical needs remain unmet. The
JSP will not be able to meet demand for Hebrew language instruction
after this year. Key courses are oversubscribed, and popular faculty
cannot serve more students while maintaining quality, because they
lack funds to hire teaching assistants. Funds available for faculty research
are minimal. The JSP has no secretary; lack of staff limits its
ability to serve students and to reach out into the community.
So, please take the opportunity to contribute to the vitality of
Jewish Studies in the Northwest. If you are not already a “Friend of
Jewish Studies,” now is the time to lend us your support. If you are
already a friend, now is the time to solidify your commitment. Contributions
of any amount are welcome; a few dollars may enable the
UW Libraries to purchase needed books or journals; a few hundred
may help support a student scholarship or faculty research on a vital
topic; a few thousand could make it possible to temporarily support
the cost of teaching assistants in key courses; more could help meet
the demand for Hebrew language instruction.
It’s easy to help. Just send in your contribution in the attached
envelope. If you want to know more, please call Rochelle Roseman
at 206-543-0138.
Thank you very much for your support.

JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
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SEATTLE, WA 98195-3650
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The Jewish Studies Newsletter is published
once a year in cooperation with the
Jackson School of International Studies
at the University of Washington.
CHAIR: ProfessorPaul Burstein
EDITORS: Rochelle Roseman
Paul Burstein
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JEWISH STUDIES COURSES 2005–2006
AUTUMN 2005
ENGL 310 Biblical Literature Griffiths
SISJE 269/HIST 269
The Holocaust: History and Memory Stein
SISJE 490/HSTAA 490A
Jews and Blacks Glenn
HEBR 411 Elementary Modern Hebrew Sokoloff, Sandalon
HEBR 421 Intermediate Modern Hebrew Sokoloff
HEBR 457 Hebrew in Song Sokoloff
HSTEU 590 Topics in European Jewish History
(graduate seminar) Stein
WINTER 2006
ENGL 311 Modern Jewish Literature Butwin
HEBR 412 Elementary Modern Hebrew Sokoloff/ Sandalon
HEBR 422 Intermediate Modern Hebrew Sokoloff/ Rogovin
NEAR E 410/C LIT 410
Literature and the Holocaust Sokoloff
RELIG 210 Introduction to Judaism Pianko
RELIG 410 Law in Judaic Experience Jaffee
SISJE 490A/PHIL 401
Jewish Philosophy Rosenthal
SISJE 490B /GERMN 295/CHID 270A
Jewish German Writers Block
OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY ~ SAVE THE DATES!
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Professor Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University will present
History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving
Non-profit Org.
Wednesday, February 8
The Founders Annual Lecture in Comparative Religion
and Contemporary Life: Professor Martin Jaffee will present
Remember Amalek! Patterns of Judaic Memory and the Politics of Contemporary Judaism
May 14, 16, & 18, 2006
SAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM LECTURE SERIES
Professor Anita Norich of the University of Michigan will present
Speaking in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century
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SISJE 378/SOC 378
Contemporary Jewish American Identities Friedman
SIS 490C/LSJ 490C
Politics of Rights, Politics and Rights Barzilai
SIS 490 Readings in International Studies
(Diasporas, Ethnicity, and
Collective Memory) Friedman
SPRING 2006
ENGL 310 Biblical Literature LaPorte
ECON Economic History of Israel Kochin
HEBR 413 Elementary Modern Hebrew Sokoloff
HEBR 423 Intermediate Modern Hebrew Sokoloff
RELIG 415 Modern Jewish Thought Pianko
SISJE 250 Jews in Western Civilization Jaffee
SIS 460/LSJ 490
State, Society and Law Barzilai
SIS 498 Readings in International Studies Pianko
SISJE 377/SOC 377
American Jewish Community Burstein
SISJE 490/HEBR 453
Introduction to the Talmud Gamoran
This is a tentative course plan. For more detailed course
information, please consult the University of Washington's
online Time Schedule (www.washington.edu/students/timeschd)
and Course Catalog (www.washington.edu/students/crscat).