-------- Original Message -------- Subject: A MESSAGE FROM THE SOCIETY OF CRYPTO JUDAIC STUDIES From: fjw6 <f...@comcast.net> Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2015, 6:50 PM To: francesje...@gmail.com CC:
Contact: Corinne Brown corinn...@aol.com<mailto:corinn...@aol.com>, 303-753-6353<tel:303-753-6353> Genie Milgrom hatu...@aol.com<mailto:hatu...@aol.com> Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies 25th Anniversary Conference 19-21 July 2015, Miami, Florida The SCJS: A secular venue for the descendants of crypto-Jews, scholars and other interested parties to network and discuss pertinent issues. The Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies (SCJS) celebrates its 25th year with a stellar assembly of speakers and artists, drawing from international and regional locales, in Miami, Florida. The event begins with the SCJS-sponsored Genealogy Workshop on Sunday, July 19, with Miami-based genealogist Genie Milgrom, author of My 15 Grandmothers and How I Found My 15 Grandmothers; Schelly Talalay Dardashti (New Mexico), founder of Tracing the Tribe, Sephardic genealogy expert and US Genealogy Advisor for MyHeritage.com; and Bennett Greenspan (Texas), founder/CEO of Family Tree DNA, a popular research center for DNA genetic genealogy testing. "The conference promises to be memorable," says conference chair Matthew Warshawsky, "thanks in part to the location. Miami, the gateway to Central and South America, is a great resource of crypto-Judaic history currently under exploration. Many speakers and participants with Spanish-language heritage will bring their cultural legacy with them.” Diverse panels feature SCJS members and academics sharing experiences, insights, and personal stories. Among the celebrated speakers is Ruth Behar. Born in Havana, she is the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Known for her writings in English and Spanish on the search for home in our global era, she explores the convergence of cultures. SCJS welcomes Ainsley Cohen Henriques as keynote speaker. A Jamaican genealogist, he has researched his own family tree and helped found the Jamaican Jewish Archives at the Kingston Jewish Heritage Centre, as well as the Jamaica Jewish Genealogical Society (1999); and a 25,000-name database. The Judy Frankel Memorial Concert on Monday evening spotlights an artist whose music has been influenced by his or her converso experience. This year, the artist is vocalist Susana Behar, whose Cuban/Turkish/Venezuelan heritage fuels her passion for her ancestral music, the Ladino language, and the echoes of exile of faded Sephardic songs. The public is invited. Tickets will be sold at the door. Meals and beverages are included with registration fees, beginning with the Sunday dinner event through lunch on Tuesday. Partial registration options are also available. REGISTER ONLINE: www.cryptojews.com/miami2015<http://www.cryptojews.com/miami2015> • $195 (full registration)HOTEL RESERVATIONS: Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport and Conference Center 711 NW 72nd Ave, Miami, Florida 33126 • 305-260-8935<tel:305-260-8935> • Special Room Rate - $109. Group Code SOC; or online at www.doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/M/MIAMADT-SOC-20150718/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG<http://www.doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/M/MIAMADT-SOC-20150718/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG> _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dr. David A. Wacks will be the Martin Sosin Address to Advance Scholarship in the Crypto-Judaic Arts speaker. He is Associate Professor of Spanish and Acting Head of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. His talk, "Crypto-Judaism and the Question of Human Agency in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Thought," addresses the experience of living as a Christian openly and as a Jew inwardly during the 16th century and how it left a profound impact on Jewish thought and how human action, not mere providence, drives the historical process. Special guest Jo Ann Arnowitz, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU will present, "The Immigration Story," a brief history of the Museum and an overview of more than 250 years of Jewish life in Florida. SUNDAY ARTISTS’ PANEL Visual artist Marilyn Lande (Denver, CO), an educator and cultural arts specialist, is also an accomplished sculptor and mixed-media artist. She hopes to broaden the view of what can be considered Jewish art. The Haggadah Transcending Time – The Story of Sephardic Jews is Lande's art book created to tell a story of Sephardic Jewish life in Spain and Portugal from the 10th century to today, reflecting where Jews and conversos lived, creating positive Jewish lives. She is also known for her "Jewish History in Miniatures," views into medieval Jewish life as well as Doña Gracia's home in the 1500s. Jonatas Chimen D. DaSilva-Benayon, painter, sculptor and performance artist, explores the Sephardic displacement of the 15th-century Iberian Peninsula and its contemporary consequences. He is a published writer with articles focusing on the crypto-Jewish experience, and is a contributing writer to the Journal of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian Crypto-Jews. "An Artist’s Representation of the Crypto-Jewish Narrative: Displacement, Memory, and Legacy - 1500s to 2015 & Far Beyond," provides a memoir-style chronicle of the crypto-Jewish legacy of migration, persecution, adaptation and return. Jonatas uses his own family as a starting point in the narrative, combining his family’s archives, memory, painting, sculpture, photos and performance art into one installation piece. MONDAY NOON CONCERT Performance artist, scholar and hazzan Neil Manel Frau-Cortes specializes in the Jews of Sepharad, their literature and music. His recital, "Lights and Shadows in the Songs of Sepharad" is a journey through the life of those who lived and loved, who were lost in time, and who struggled without losing their identity and connection to the Divine. Through the songs of these Jews, we walk the path of exile and discover our own life in their experience.
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