Jewish Questions is the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies' podcast on issues that matter now in Jewish life, politics, history and culture — from a scholarly perspective. This season, hosts Laurie Marhoefer and Noam Pianko look at anti-Semitism: what it is, its long history, and how we can push back against it today. The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is a part of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
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Interview with author Leigh Bardugo on "The Familiar" - Ladino Day 2024
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Bestselling fantasy author Leigh Bardugo discusses her new novel, “The Familiar,” with University of Washington faculty member Canan Bolel.In the novel, Bardugo follows the struggles of a “converso” heroine — from a family forced to convert to Christianity and keep its Jewish heritage secret in 16th-century Spain — who draws magic from her family’s…
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Spanish & Portuguese Citizenship Oral Histories: Colette Capriles by UW Stroum Center for Jewish StudiesUW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies tarafından oluşturuldu
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Episode 5: Before Zionism
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Present-day discussions of anti-Semitism often involve Israel and the Zionist movement... but before the 20th century, Jews' and Jewish scholars' understandings of anti-Semitism were completely connected with Europe and Christianity.In the final episode of the season, guest Liora R. Halperin looks at how 19th-century Jewish settlers to Palestine we…
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Episode 4: Jewish Anti-Semitism?
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Can Jews be anti-Semitic against other Jews? In this episode, guest Devin E. Naar looks at the history of Jewish prejudice against other Jews in the United States, from the very first American Jewish settlers in the 1600s to twentieth-century efforts to exclude Jews from the Muslim world from Jewish institutions — as the American Jewish community s…
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Episode 3: Being Jewish in Medieval Spain
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Has anti-Semitism always been the same, or have ideas about Jewishness, and suspicion towards Jews, changed over time? In this episode, guest Ana Gómez-Bravo explores these questions by looking at the lives of Jews and "conversos" (Jewish converts to Christianity) in medieval Spain, explaining how Catholic authorities tried to define and restrict t…
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Episode 2: The Rise of Nazi Germany
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We generally connect Germany with anti-Semitism, but in the early twentieth century, Germany was actually considered one of the best places in the world to be Jewish. How and why did the progressive Weimar Republic give way to the genocidal Nazi regime... and could it happen here?In this episode, guest Laurie Marhoefer explains the rise of the Nazi…
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Episode 1: Anti-Semitism in the United States
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The United States was the country where Jews came to finally be free from anti-Semitism... or was it? Historians of the modern era tend to think of the U.S. as an exceptional place for Jews — a place where Jewish people have been able to exist in relative freedom from violence and prejudice.But is this common understanding of the United States as "…
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