BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.2//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, April 29 - May 20\; 7 - 8:30pm (ET) 4 Sessions on Z oomRegister: https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/BostonWorkmensCircle/Ad ultEdSephardicJewryandRacism.htmlBlending pre-recorded lectures and live d iscussion facilitated by Sephardic scholars and community members\, we wil l delve into questions about racialized experiences of Sephardic Jewry in the Unites States\, the activism and achievement that emerged\, and\n w hat implication this has for our future. Prof. Devin Naar and the other gu est lecturers will explore questions such as\, are Sephardic Jews "white"? How do Sephardic Jews and a historically ambiguous status fit into the st ory of race and racism in the United States? The class will also explore\n the largely erased role that Sephardim played in seeking to transform systemic racism through: labor organizing\, leadership in the communist an d socialist parties\, and in the promotion of civil rights. All of Devin N aar's original lectures were sponsored and first aired by the Sephardic Je wish Brotherhood of America as part of their Sephardic Digital Academy\n series\, a national partnership project. \;Sequence of Classes:  \;1. Confrontation: Prof. Devin Naar's pre-recorded first lecture will lay out the ways in which Sephardim encountered the U.S. immigration and natu ralization systems\, restrictions\, and exclusions\; racial\n and "civi lizational" hierarchies\; public perceptions about the Levant\, the Ottoma n Empire\, Jews\, Spanish-speakers\; and how all these perceptions - and i nstitutionalized policies - were shaped by widely popular (and since discr edited) ideas about eugenics\n and "race science." The group discussion will be facilitated by Fortuna Calvo-Roth\, who brings an expertise on Se phardic identity in Latin American countries and will offer a brief presen tation. \;2. Navigation: \; Devin Naar's pre-recorded second lectu re will be followed by a live discussion led by BWC member Leah Varsano. I n the prerecorded lecture\, Prof. Naar will share the many ways in which\n Sephardim sought to navigate the unjust and racist systems in place in the United States - and operative within the American jewish community - by creating their own mutual aid organizations like the Sephardic Jewish B rotherhood of America and by\n insisting that they call themselves\, an d be called\, Sephardic or Spanish\, rather than "Levantine" or "Oriental" or "Turkish."3. Transformation: Devin Naar's pre-recorded lecture will hi ghlight the largely erased role that Sephardim played in seeking to transf orm those very systems: through labor organizing with Latinx workers\n in Harlem\; engagement with and leading roles in the social and communist parties\; participation in anti-imperialist movements\; promoting desegreg ation in the healthcare field\; the promotion of civil rights\, and how th ey met with bomb threats and racial\n epithets.The post lecture discuss ion will be facilitated by Prof. Emerita and novelist Jane Mushabac\, an e xpert in Ladino and Sephardic traditions\, who will also offer a brief pre sentation.4. Between Privilege and Peril - Jews and Structural Racism in t he United States: Devin Naar joins us live for a lecture and to lead a dis cussion about his current book project which investigates the multifaceted \n experiences of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews with American conception s of race. \;Dates: Thursdays\, April 29 - May 20\, 2021 (4 sessions)T ime: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)Location: On ZoomRegistration: BW C Members: $60 - $100 sliding scale | $80 - $120 sliding scale(Cost should never be a barrier to accessing our programs. Our sliding scale covers th e cost of our \; teachers and overhead\, in addition to keeping our co urses accessible to participants of all income levels. However\, please do not let cost prevent you from participating and\, if this range is outsid e of your means\, pay what you are able.)Guest Lecturers:Dr. Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professo r of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. A former Fulbright\n scholar with a PhD in History from Stanford Univers ity\, Dr. Naar is the chair of UW's internationally recognized Sephardic Studies Program. His first book\,\n Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottom an Empire and Modern Greece\, won a 2016 National Jewish Book Award and th e 2017 prize for the best book awarded by the Modern\n Greek Studies As sociation. His current book project investigates the multifaceted experien ces of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews with American conceptions of race.Fort una Calvo-Roth. Born in Paris to Turkish-born Sephardic parents\, Fortuna Calvo-Roth was raised in Lima\, Peru\, went to college in Missouri\, and h as lived in New York City since 1956\, where she had a career in journalis m\, academia\, business and theater. With son Stephen she owns Coral Commu nications Group\, producers of the award-winning Nueva Onda Audiobooks. Sh e worked for the Mission of Israel to the United Nations during the Sinai War\, was NY correspondent of the Brazilian weekly \n Visao\, editor-in-ch ief of Vision\n magazine\, and editorial director of Vision\, Inc.\, wher e she jumpstarted Vision Europe\n .\nLater\, she became a parter of Vista Magazine and Latinoamericana/Channel 2 in Peru\, taught politics at Hofstr a and NYU and was a board member of the Graduate Center/CUNY Foundation. S he is the author of What\, No Yiddish? in\n the anthology "Taking Root. The Lives of Jewish Women in Latin America." (Marjorie Agosin\, ed.) A me mber of the Stella Adler Repertory Company\, she produced a number of play s at different venues\, among them at NY City Center Studios. In 2018\, Ca lvo\n Roth had a lead role in Wait at the Hudson Guild in NYC. She was a member of The Jury Project\, a task force that recommended reforms in th e jury system of the state of New York. A former president of New York Wom en in Communications\, she\n won a Medal of Honor from the University o f Missouri School of Journalism in 2018\, was selected as a Woman of Disti nction by the NY State Senate in 2014\, and recognized among the "50 Outst anding Latinas in the US" by El-Diario-La Prense in 2002. \;Jane Musha bac. Writer Jane Mushabac's many awards include fellowships from the Natio nal Endwoment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. Her work has b een performed on National Public Radio\, at Jazz at Lincoln Center and in cities\n here and abroad\; her writing has appeared in Jewish Currents\ , The Village Voice\, AJS Perspectives\, and Chautaqua\, and has been tran slated into Russian\, German\, Bulgarian\, Turkish and Ladino. Co-author o f A Short and Remarkable History of New York City\,\n she currently writes about Turkish Jews - her own family on both sides lived in Anatolian Turk ey for centuries\, and before that in Spain. She has written in Ladino\, h er work published in both its original and her English translation. Her ac claimed novel\, His Hundred Years\, A Tale\, introduces a Turkish Jew\, an everyman\, a peddler in Ottoman Turkey and later in New York. Her\n writing has been called "bold and ambitious" (Sewanee Review). Morris Di ckstein praised her novel's "crisp detail and dappled mosaic narrative\," Ari Goldman said the novel "calls to mind the work of Ohran Pamul - it's t hat good"\; Tovah\n Feldshuh called it rowdy and absorbing" and Glo ria Ascher: "sensitive and gripping." Since 2018\, Dr. Mushabac\, Professo r emerita of City University of New York\, has curated the popular annual New York Ladino Day at the Center for Jewish History\,\n this year on Zoom. janemushabac.comRegister: https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/ BostonWorkmensCircle/AdultEdSephardicJewryandRacism.htmlFor questions abou t the course\, please contact info@circleboston.org. DTEND;TZID=Eastern Standard Time:20210429T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T092007Z DTSTART;TZID=Eastern Standard Time:20210429T190000 LOCATION: RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;COUNT=4;BYDAY=TH SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:[Online Course] Sephardic Jewry & Racism in America UID:RFCALITEM638472144075670888 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Thursdays\, April 29 - May 20\; 7 - 8:30pm (ET)
4 Sessions on Zoom
Registe r: https://app.etapestry.co m/onlineforms/BostonWorkmensCircle/AdultEdSephardicJewryandRacism.html
Blending pre-recorded lectures and live discussion facilitated by Seph
ardic scholars and community members\, we will delve into questions about
racialized experiences of Sephardic Jewry in the Unites States\, the activ
ism and achievement that emerged\, and\n what implication this has for
our future.
Prof. Devin Naar and the other guest le
cturers will explore questions such as\, are Sephardic Jews "white"? How d
o Sephardic Jews and a historically ambiguous status fit into the story of
race and racism in the United States? The class will also explore\n th
e largely erased role that Sephardim played in seeking to transform system
ic racism through: labor organizing\, leadership in the communist and soci
alist parties\, and in the promotion of civil rights.
All of Devin Naar's original lectures were sponsored and first aired by the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America as part of t heir Sephardic Digital Academy\n series\, a national partnership projec t. \;
Sequence of Classes: \;
1. < span style="text-decoration:underline\;">Confrontation: Prof. Devin Naar's pre-recorded first lecture will lay out the ways in which Sephardi m encountered the U.S. immigration and naturalization systems\, restrictio ns\, and exclusions\; racial\n and "civilizational" hierarchies\; publi c perceptions about the Levant\, the Ottoman Empire\, Jews\, Spanish-speak ers\; and how all these perceptions - and institutionalized policies - wer e shaped by widely popular (and since discredited) ideas about eugenics\n and "race science."
The group discussion will be facil itated by Fortuna Calvo-Roth\, who brings an expertise on Sephardic identi ty in Latin American countries and will offer a brief presentation. \;
2. Navigation:<
/span> \; Devin Naar's pre-recorded second lecture will be followed by
a live discussion led by BWC member Leah Varsano. In the prerecorded lect
ure\, Prof. Naar will share the many ways in which\n Sephardim sought t
o navigate the unjust and racist systems in place in the United States - a
nd operative within the American jewish community - by creating their own
mutual aid organizations like the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America
and by\n insisting that they call themselves\, and be called\, Sephardi
c or Spanish\, rather than "Levantine" or "Oriental" or "Turkish." 3. Transformation
: Devin Naar's pre-recorded lecture will highlight the largely eras
ed role that Sephardim played in seeking to transform those very systems:
through labor organizing with Latinx workers\n in Harlem\; engagement w
ith and leading roles in the social and communist parties\; participation
in anti-imperialist movements\; promoting desegregation in the healthcare
field\; the promotion of civil rights\, and how they met with bomb threats
and racial\n epithets. The post lecture discussi
on will be facilitated by Prof. Emerita and novelist Jane Mushabac\, an ex
pert in Ladino and Sephardic traditions\, who will also offer a brief pres
entation. 4. Between Privilege and Peril - Jews and Structural Racism in the United
States: Devin Naar joins us live for a lecture and to lead a discus
sion about his current book project which investigates the multifaceted\n
experiences of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews with American conceptions o
f race. \; Dates: Thursdays\, April 29 - May 20\, 2021
(4 sessions) Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
p> Location: On Zoom Registration: BWC Members
: $60 - $100 sliding scale | $80 - $120 sliding scale (Cos
t should never be a barrier to accessing our programs. Our sliding scale c
overs the cost of our \; teachers and overhead\, in addition to keepin
g our courses accessible to participants of all income levels. However\, p
lease do not let cost prevent you from participating and\, if this range i
s outside of your means\, pay what you are able.) Dr. Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor
in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the
Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International S
tudies at the University of Washington. A former Fulbright\n scholar wi
th a PhD in History from Stanford University\, Dr. Naar is the chair of UW
's internationally recognized Sephardic Studies Program. His
first book\,\n Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Gr
eece\, won a 2016 National Jewish Book Award and the 2017 prize f
or the best book awarded by the Modern\n Greek Studies Association. His
current book project investigates the multifaceted experiences of Sephard
ic and Ashkenazi Jews with American conceptions of race. <
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et-color:auto\;">Fortuna Calvo-Roth. Born in Paris to Turkish-born Sephardic parents\, Fortuna Calvo-R
oth was raised in Lima\, Peru\, went to college in Missouri\, and has live
d in New York City since 1956\, where she had a career in journalism\, aca
demia\, business and theater. With son Stephen she owns Coral Communicatio
ns Group\, producers of the award-winning Nueva Onda Audiobooks. She worke
d for the Mission of Israel to the United Nations during the Sinai War\, w
as NY correspondent of the Brazilian weekly \n Visao\, editor-in
-chief of Vision\n magazine\, and editorial director of Vision\
, Inc.\, where she jumpstarted V
ision Europe\n .\n Later\, she became a parter of Vista Magazine and L
atinoamericana/Channel 2 in Peru\, taught politics at Hofstra and NYU
and was a board member of the Graduate Center/CUNY Foundation. She is the
author of What\, No Yiddish? in\n the anthology "Taking Root.
The Lives of Jewish Women in Latin America." (Marjorie Agosin\, ed.) A me
mber of the Stella Adler Repertory Company\, she produced a number of play
s at different venues\, among them at NY City Center Studios. In 2018\, Ca
lvo\n Roth had a lead role in Wait at the Hudson Guild in NYC.
She was a member of The Jury Project\, a task force that recommended refo
rms in the jury system of the state of New York. A former president of New
York Women in Communications\, she\n won a Medal of Honor from the Uni
versity of Missouri School of Journalism in 2018\, was selected as a Woman
of Distinction by the NY State Senate in 2014\, and recognized among the
"50 Outstanding Latinas in the US" by El-Diario-La Prense in 2002. \;<
/p> Jane Mushabac. Writer Jane Mushabac's man
y awards include fellowships from the National Endwoment for the Humanitie
s and the Mellon Foundation. Her work has been performed on National Publi
c Radio\, at Jazz at Lincoln Center and in cities\n here and abroad\; h
er writing has appeared in Jewish Currents\, The Village Voic
e\, AJS Perspectives\, and Chautaqua\, and has been
translated into Russian\, German\, Bulgarian\, Turkish and Ladino. Co-aut
hor of A Short and Remarkable History of New York City\,\n she cu
rrently writes about Turkish Jews - her own family on both sides lived in
Anatolian Turkey for centuries\, and before that in Spain. She has written in Ladino\, her work published in both its origina
l and her English translation. Her acclaimed novel\, His Hundred Years
\, A Tale\, introduces a Turkish Jew\, an everyman\, a peddler in Ott
oman Turkey and later in New York. Her\n writing has been called "b
old and ambitious" (Sewanee Review). Morris Dickstein praised her
novel's "crisp detail and dappled mosaic narrative\," Ari Goldman said th
e novel "calls to mind the work of Ohran Pamul - it's that good"\; Tovah\n
Feldshuh called it rowdy and absorbing" and Gloria Ascher: "sensit
ive and gripping." Since 2018\, Dr. Mushabac\, Professor emerita of City U
niversity of New York\, has curated the popular annual New York Ladino Day
at the Center for Jewish History\,\n this year on Zoom. janemushabac.com<
/a> Register: https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/BostonWorkmensCircle/AdultEdSepha
rdicJewryandRacism.html For
questions about the course\, please contact info@circleboston.org.
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