Lectures look at Jewish life in West, Spain and Africa

Jews of Spain and North Africa, the Canadian Jewish experience, and Jews in the American West are among the many lectures slated for the Western Jewish Studies Association’s fifth annual conference.

The conference will be held March 14-16 in the HUB of the University of Washington Seattle campus.

Highlights include a screening of Nothing to Be Written Here, followed by a discussion with the producer, Wendy Oberlander.

Key talks are “The Experience of Sephardic Jews: Identity and Discontinuity,” by Lucette Valensi (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) Sunday, March 14 at 4 p.m.; and “Medieval Jewish Studies and the Historians,” William Jordan (Princeton), Robert Stacey (UW) and David Berger, (CUNY) Monday, March 15, 3:30 p.m.

To register and for more information about volunteering, call (425) 450-0894; or e-mail kscheyer@u.washington.edu.

The conference is sponsored by the UW’s Jewish Studies Program, Divisional Dean for Arts and Humanities, Divisional Dean for Social Sciences, Middle East Center, History, Near East, Canadian Studies Program, and Humanities Center, as well as the American Jewish Studies Association and Western Jewish Studies Association. ¶