April 28–30, 2013
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Laurette Cohen (front row, far right) poses for a class portrait with with her students at an Alliance Israélite Universelle school in Morocco, 1935. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mathilde Tagger
Co-organized through the Sephardic Studies Initiative of the University of Washington’s Samuel & Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program and the Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, this symposium explores the unique history of Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust.
Although extensive research has been conducted on the Holocaust in recent decades, the experience of Sephardic Jews on the periphery of occupied Europe, along the Mediterranean, and in Vichy-controlled colonies in North Africa has remained relatively unexplored. Understanding the Sephardic experience during the Holocaust forces us to refine our assumptions about its scope and the qualitative differences in the persecution, destruction, resistance, and survival of varied Jewish communities under occupation.
A family of Greek Jews gather at the Parthenon in Athens, ca. 1930-31. Symposium Location
University of Washington
Allen Library
Petersen Room, #485
4000 15th Avenue Northeast
Seattle, Washington
Keynote Address
Dr. Aron Rodrigue
Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture
Director and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center
Stanford University
Keynote Time and Location
Sunday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
University of Washington
Kane Hall, Room 220
1410 Northeast Campus Parkway
Seattle, Washington
For a full schedule or to RSVP for this program, visit http://stroumjewishstudies.org/HolocaustSymposium/.
This symposium has been generously funded by Jack M. Karako in memory of Rosina Karako-Smeraldi and by the Hanauer Outreach Fund of the Department of History, University of Washington.
Housed in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program is the most comprehensive institution in the Pacific Northwest for the academic study of Jewish life in its cultural, intellectual, religious, and international contexts. Partnering with local Sephardic community leaders, the Sephardic Studies Initiative of the Stroum Jewish Studies Program aims to establish a world-renowned center for the study, teaching, and perpetuation of Sephardic history, culture, and the Ladino language.
