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.commailto:corinn...@aol.com,
303-753-6353tel:303-753-6353
Genie Milgrom hatu...@aol.commailto: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/miami2015http://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 • 305-260-8935tel: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=POGhttp://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
