Jackson School of International Studies Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

Learn more about how the UW's Sephardic Studies Program and the department of linguistics are collaborating to keep Ladino alive. 

Oded Oron witnessed a massive protest of aslyum-seeking refugees in Tel Aviv. Then he wrote a PhD dissertation about it.

Sasha Senderovich, Humanities assistant professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, joins satirist Gary Shteyngart and KUOW host Bill Radke for a conversation.

Isaac Alhadeff, survivor of two WWII POW camps, became a generous donor to the UW Sephardic Studies Program.

Devin Naar, professor of Sephardic studies at the UW, explores the fate of Salonica’s Jews and offers insight into how he uncovered the lost sources necessary to write his new book.

The movie "Denial" is based on the true story of Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of Jewish Studies who taught her first classes at the UW. 

The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America, which first met in a Lower East Side café in 1915, strives to connect to the youth 100 years later.

Dr. Hannah Pressman, Communications Director for the UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies uncovers the journey of her great-grandmother from the island of Rhodes to Paris.

Ashley Bobman, who will graduate from the University of Washington this week, has helped to create the first-ever online exhibit of the new Sephardic Studies Digital Museum.

Actor Lea Michele traces her family with the help of Sephardic studies professor, Devin Naar on TLC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" 

During Winter Quarter 2016, the UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies will host three scholars who represent new approaches in the growing field of Israel Studies.

Tamar Benzikry, UW Class of 2005, returned to campus as the instructor for "Graphic Novels and Jewish Memory." Read more about Benzikry's passion for arts and education.

Rabbi Simon Benzaquen and Alex Hernandez call themselves Los Seranos, the watchmen, and they're safeguarding messages locked in Ladino song lyrics generations ago by rapping them.

Seattle is home to one of the most vibrant Sephardic Jewish communities in the country, and UW professor Devin Naar is working to keep its dying language, Ladino, alive.

In Seattle's large and vibrant Sephardic community, Spain's new law offering dual citizenship to descendants of Jews it kicked out in 1492 is prompting mixed emotions.