The Samuel and Althea Stroum
Lectures in Jewish Studies
Samuel Stroum, businessman, community leader, and philanthropist, by a
major gift to the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, established the
Samuel and Althea Stroum Philanthropic Fund.
In recognition of Mr. and Mrs. Stroum's deep interest in Jewish history
and culture, the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater
Seattle, in cooperation with the Jewish Studies Program of the Henry M.
Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington,
established an annual lectureship at the University of Washington known as
the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectureship in Jewish Studies. This
lectureship makes it possible to bring to the area outstanding scholars
and interpreters of Jewish thought, thus promoting a deeper understanding
of Jewish history, religion, and culture. Such understanding can lead to
an enhanced appreciation of the Jewish contributions to the historical and
cultural traditions that have shaped the American nation.
The terms of the gift also provide for the publication from time to time
of the lectures or other appropriate materials resulting from or related
to the lectures.
The Yiddish Art Song, Performed by Leon Lishner, basso, and Lazar Weiner,
piano
The Holocaust in Historical Perspective, by Yehuda Bauer
Zakhor: Jewish History and
Jewish Memory, by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics, by Joseph Dan
The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language of
Realism, by Robert Alter
Recent Archaeological
Discoveries and Biblical Research, by William G. Dever
Jewish Identity in the Modern World, by Michael A. Meyer
I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture, by Ruth R. Wisse
The Kiss of God: Spiritual and
Mystical Death in Judaism, by Michael Fishbane
Gender and Assimilation in
Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women,
by Paula E. Hyman
Portrait of American Jews: The
Last Half of the Twentieth Century, by Samuel C. Heilman
Judaism and Hellenism in
Antiquity: Conflict or Confluence?, by Lee I. Levine
Imagining Russian Jewry:
Memory, History, Identity, by Steven J. Zipperstein
Popular Culture and the
Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America, by Alan Mintz
Titles without links are listed as out of print with the University of
Washington Press.
