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This Week

• Lives, History, Memory: The Spanish Civil War 70 Years After
  Tue Nov 10, 2009 - Thu Nov 12, 2009
• Herzl Ner-Tamid Torahthon
  Wed Nov 4, 2009 - Wed Nov 18, 2009

All Events

November 2009

Tuesday November 10, 2009 to Thursday November 12, 2009

See specific event listings for times, locations and presenters

Sponsored by the Department of History, the Division of Spanish & Portuguese, Comparative History of Ideas (CHID), the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Center for West European Studies, and the Stroum Jewish Studies Program

More info at www.lectures.org

A Linked Film and Lecture Series, 2009-10
Free and Open to the Public

2009 Events:
*November 10, 2009: 7 pm, 301 Gowen. Screening of Abe Osheroff’s award-winning 1974 personal documentary, Dreams and Nightmares, about the ideals and experiences of the volunteers who joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to defend the Spanish Republic. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Anthony Geist (Spanish & Portuguese, UW), Mark Jenkins (Drama, UW), and Peter Carroll (Chair of the Board of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives). Free and open to the Public.

*November 12, 2009: 7 pm, 301 Gowen. Peter Carroll will speak on the complex relationship between Hemingway and the American volunteers, both during and after the war. Carroll’s 1994 classic, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, established him as the leading authority on the topic. Free and open to the public.

November 11, 7:30 pm, in Kane Hall 220, a related event! As part of the Seattle Arts and Lectures Wednesday University series, "Art, Dissent and Social Change, " Drama Professor, Mark Jenkins will discuss and present scenes from his new play, "From Seasons Such As These" about a UW student who volunteered, fought, and died in the Spanish Civil War. ($20 at the door).

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Wednesday November 4, 2009 to Wednesday November 18, 2009
7-9:30 p.m.
Herzl Ner-Tamid Synagogue

Several Jewish Studies Faculty will be presenting

http://www.h-nt.org/torahthon09.htm

The Third Annual Herzl-Ner Tamid Torahthon …..Enrich Your Brain and Delight Your Senses
Wednesdays, November 4, 11 and 18 from 7 to 9:30 PM
 

Enjoy lectures by Jewish Studies Faculty members Prof. Gad Barzilai (JSP Chair), Prof. Paul Burstein and Prof. Michael Rosenthal.

Join Herzl-Ner Tamid and Co-Sponsors Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, Congregation Beth Shalom, The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle and The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle for three evenings of Jewish learning with an array of class choices taught by 33 fabulous teachers from all denominations of our community and from as far away as Kehillat Moreshet Abraham (KMA) in Israel. All classes will be held at Herzl-Ner Tamid Synagogue on Mercer Island. For more details and online registration, go to http://www.h-nt.org/torahthon09.htm.

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Thursday November 19, 2009
3:30-5:00 p.m.
317 Thomson Hall, UW Seattle Campus

David Ehrlich, Schusterman Writer-In-Residence, Portland State University

For more information: 206-543-0138; jewishst@uw.edu

How do famous authors such as Amos Oz, David Grossman and Yehuda Amichai understand and describe the Israeli soul and spirit? What are the themes that interest Israeli writers?

From his experience as the owner of Jerusalem's literary café, Tmol-Shilshom, David Ehrlich, writer and journalist, tells personal anecdotes about these great authors and others, all of whom he’s hosted and befriended. He also discusses current issues in Israel through the lens of Israeli literature.

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December 2009

Thursday December 3, 2009
3:00-4:30 p.m.
202 Communications, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW

Dr. Asya Vaisman, 2009-10 Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies

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