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, pianoThe Holocaust in Historical Perspective
by Yehuda BauerZakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
by Yosef Hayim YerushalmiJewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics
by Joseph DanThe Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language of Realism
by Robert AlterRecent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research
by William G. DeverJewish Identity in the Modern World
by Michael A. MeyerI. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
by Ruth R. WisseThe Kiss of God: Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism
by Michael FishbaneGender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women
by Paula E. HymanPortrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century
by Samuel C. HeilmanJudaism and Hellenism in Antiquity: Conflict or Confluence?
by Lee I. LevineImagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity
by Steven J. ZippersteinPopular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
by Alan MintzStudying the Jewish Future
by Calvin GoldscheiderAutobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning
by Michael StanislawskiThe Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times
by Ivan G. MarcusTitles without links are listed as out of print with the University of Washington Press.