tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37321265389882609232023-12-18T09:34:38.257-08:00Centro Isaac CampantónFounded in 2013. Studying, Preserving, and Communicating the Jewish Legacy of City and Province of Zamora, SpainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-40614947265507035062023-12-18T09:34:00.000-08:002023-12-18T09:34:07.795-08:00Zvi Zohar on Campanton<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Against the backdrop of the decline of Torah in the
last century of Jewish existence in Spain, a figure of great brilliance stood
out--Rabbi Yitzhak Canpanton (1360-1463). Canpanton's hermeneutic was based on
the insight that a close inner affinity existed between medieval semantics and
Talmudic reasoning and argumentation. Thus, it was possible to achieve a
synthesis of the two and formulate a rigorous methodology of Talmudic study
both 'fit' with the Talmudic suggiyot themselves--and completely justifiable on
the basis of general semantic theory. His revolutionary approach restored to
the study of Talmud a sense of intellectual novelty, profoundness, and
challenge, unmatched perhaps since the heyday of Tosafist innovation in
twelfth-century France. His four major disciples formed a vanguard that
'conquered' the world of Sephardic Talmudic study [the MahaRITaTS, the
Maharashdam, Moses Almosnino, the Beth Yoseph ; their own disciples were the
great scholars of the sixteenth-century Sephardic dispersion."</span></span></p>
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Zvi Zohar, <i>Sephardic & Mizrahi Jewry</i>, New York University Press, NY, 2005, Chapter 9, 167 <br /></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The great rabbi R. Isaac Campanton, known as the Gaon of Castile (including Leon), of Spain, son of the great rabbi R. Jacob, and R. Israel Ashkenazi
received the traditions from their fathers and our rabbis of previous
generations in about 5120 (1360). R. Isaac Campanton spread Torah widely and
had many students. He lived a long life, dying in the year 5223 (1463). He had
a regal appearance. R. Isaac de Leon, one of his students, was knowledgeable in
miracles, and died at the age of seventy. R. Isaac Aboab (refereeing to the
second), a great sage and one of his students, died in Portugal in the year
5253 (1493), about seven months after the exile from Spain. He was sixty years
old at his death, and was one of the students of the above-named R. Isaac
Campanton (...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Gedaliah Ibn Yahya (1515-1587)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">“The chain of tradition”, included in David Raphael, <i>The Expulsión 1492 Chronicles</i>, Carmi
House Press, 1992, pp. 178-79. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Picture of a drawing by Manuel Castellano (1846-1880). Title: Attire. It is specified in the note on the upper right hand that it refers to Jewish clothing in the 14th century. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-73459107869486820212022-11-10T08:50:00.000-08:002022-11-20T12:10:58.438-08:00Auschwitz, by León Felipe (Tábara, Zamora, 1884 – Mexico City, 1968)<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<i><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To all Jews in the world, my friends, my brethren</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Those infernal poets,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dante, Blake, Rimbaud…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">keep it quiet…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">don’t play so loud…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shut up!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Any inhabitant of Earth today<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">knows more about Hell<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">than those three poets together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I am sure Dante plays his violin very well<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh, what a virtuoso!...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But he shouldn’t pretend now,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with his wonderful tercets, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and his perfect hendecasyllables,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to scare that Jewish boy who has been ripped<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from his parents;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">he is alone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Alone!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">waiting for his turn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in the crematories of Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dante… you descended deep into the Inferno<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">guided by Virgil’s hand <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(Virgil, “Gran Cicerone”),<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">your <i>Divine Comedy </i>was a funny adventure<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of music and tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is different… something else.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How should I explain it? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">if you don’t have imagination!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "times";">You</span></i><span style="font-family: "times";">… don’t have any imagination,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">remember, in your <i>Inferno</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">there is not a single boy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and the one you see there…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">is alone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">He is alone! With no Cicerone…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">waiting for the gates of Hell to open, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a hell that you, poor Florentine,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">could not have even imagined it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is different, let me explain. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Look! This is a place where nobody<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">can play a violin;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">all the violin strings in the world will break here. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Do you understand that, Infernal Poets?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Virgil, Dante, Blake, Rimbaud…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">keep it quite!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Don’t play so loud... Shh!...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shut up!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I am also a great violinist<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and I have played in Hell many times…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But now, here<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I break my violin… and remain silent. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: large;">Listen to the poem read in Spanish by León Felipe <a href="https://www.palabravirtual.com/index.php?ir=ver_voz.php&wid=1854&t=Auschwitz&p=Le%F3n+Felipe&o=Le%F3n+Felipe" target="_blank">(click here)</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: large;">Translation into English: Jesús Jambrina</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Touchstone, Art & Literature Magazine</i>, Vol. 82</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: large;">Viterbo University, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: large;">León Felipe (Zamora, 1884 – Mexico City, 1968) is considered one of the major poets of the Spanish language in the twentieth century. He was also a playwright, and translator of American writers Walt Whitman and Waldo Frank. He graduated from Pharmacy, which brought him a nomadic life by working in different cities and towns. In 1920 León Felipe published his first poetry book in Madrid, titled <i>The Walker’s Verses and Prayers</i>. Soon after, he traveled to Equatorial Guinea to work at a hospital, and in 1922 he went for the first time to Mexico from where he visited the United States, and Panama. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1936, León Felipe returned to Spain to fight in favor of the Spanish Republic against Francisco Franco’s fascist insurrection. In 1939, after a brief visit to France and Cuba, he returned to Mexico where he lived in exile until his death in 1968. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: large;">León Felipe’s literary style was strongly prophetic with Biblical and Whitmanian influences, meaning a strong humanistic orientation. His writings delve deep into historical thinking as a call for a hopeful and socially just world. Since the arrival of democracy to Spain in 1975, León Felipe’s poetry has been valued as a testimony of the exiles during the Spanish Civil War; many of his poems have been musicalized, and are greatly appreciated in both sides of the Atlantic as part of the Spanish American literary tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: large;"> In 2002, the Zamora City Council in Spain acquired León Felipe’s original manuscripts, including many unpublished works, as the foundation for a future center of studies that will have his name. In 2010 the prestigious Spanish press Visor put in circulation the–so far–most complete collection of his poems. “Auschwitz” is included in the book <i>Oh! This Old and Broken Violin</i>(1965). </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-25691503395926172472022-11-02T09:11:00.000-07:002022-11-20T12:12:00.902-08:00Relevant entries on Zamora in the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906 edition)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Understanding medieval Spain and Portugal (Sefarad in
the context of Jewish History) requires familiarity with geography, maps
and timeline. The map above helps to locate referred populations
and historical figures in the two entries of the Jewish Encyclopedia of
1906, which are relevant to Zamora. In the second entry Castile includes
León since these two kingdoms were historically connected since the
early 11th century </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"In the former <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9756-leon" target="_blank">Kingdom of León</a> (the presence of Jews) was much larger, among the most prominent communities being those of Zamora, Valladolid, Mayorga, Medina del Campo, Salamanca, Ponferrada, Bobadilla and Ciudad Rodrigo"<br /><br />Section "The Spread of the Jews in Spain" under <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13940-spain" target="_blank">Spain</a> entry</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"The last Rabinnical authority of Castile (and León), likewise its last Gaon, was Isaac Campanton, among whose pupils were Isaac de León, Isaac Aboab (referring to the II) and Samuel Al Valensi. The last preachers of renown were the religious philosopher Joseph ibn Shem-Tob, Joseph Albo, and Isaac Arama".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Section "The Karaites in Spain" under <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13940-spain" target="_blank">Spain</a> entry (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">The number of immigrants amounted to
nearly 100,000. From Castile alone more than 3,000 persons embarked at
Benevento for Bragança; at Zamora, more than 30,000 for Miranda; from
Ciudad-Rodrigo for Villar, more than 35,000; from Alcantara for Marvão, more than
15,000; and from Badajoz for Elvas, more than 10,000—in all more than 93,000
persons (Bernaldez, in A. de Castro, "Historia de los Judios en
España," p. 143).</span></span><br />
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Portugal Entry.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Notas</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">1- It is not clear why the Encyplopedia authors decided adding this information in this section. Campanton and its pupils were known for applying Torah, Talmud and Kabbalah to interpretations of the Scriptures. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-88414971819715026102022-08-17T08:46:00.000-07:002022-08-17T08:46:06.119-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tomado de Radio Sefarad</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxBSB9ZHH-SOoEqVuCW23WRMkwt3KyfDcj3-Laac6eKGu9hRRtSWJC8C4XcHO4_-ur6Ikj4m4xg2AA1eCUXDkMPXG_-dBEm4zlvJOfw-Cq9Dw4ET1NSGj1RfEX13dR7L4KQQoOJO2Z9N7axIfmNTm0_3BojQXzHTFs-yjCpyaVq0jKrT6So7ki-8K/s1584/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-17%20at%2010.25.12%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1584" data-original-width="1290" height="499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxBSB9ZHH-SOoEqVuCW23WRMkwt3KyfDcj3-Laac6eKGu9hRRtSWJC8C4XcHO4_-ur6Ikj4m4xg2AA1eCUXDkMPXG_-dBEm4zlvJOfw-Cq9Dw4ET1NSGj1RfEX13dR7L4KQQoOJO2Z9N7axIfmNTm0_3BojQXzHTFs-yjCpyaVq0jKrT6So7ki-8K/w407-h499/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-17%20at%2010.25.12%20AM.png" width="407" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SkU6B1f51eYeggjLhu7_Erv5ewh-OD6t/view?usp=sharing">Audio</a><br /> </span><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-55165578026363228132022-08-12T17:19:00.000-07:002022-08-17T08:38:33.276-07:00Zamora in the map of Sefarad. Conference Proceedings, 2013-2021, PDF or ePub version<div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-size: large;">First edition (Spanish)</span><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DpCujVCI6f1IHTS4IjMtR6k-xHj0d-Kthmgn5Yg2pjlXpdMQ9XchhzRK4Pw6ZAc1nScd7hOLDrXY--Yi1E3t82ELFZXGL7Hkjz8ol1O5PvcUU8nhB1tXgoyiy5pzjfcG5Ebv5oKMBnaaFTeIIgnhbpcB4PmsJnaqQAWSCIgiSVLMZKAW17sImava/s382/Portada.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="293" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DpCujVCI6f1IHTS4IjMtR6k-xHj0d-Kthmgn5Yg2pjlXpdMQ9XchhzRK4Pw6ZAc1nScd7hOLDrXY--Yi1E3t82ELFZXGL7Hkjz8ol1O5PvcUU8nhB1tXgoyiy5pzjfcG5Ebv5oKMBnaaFTeIIgnhbpcB4PmsJnaqQAWSCIgiSVLMZKAW17sImava/w347-h454/Portada.jpeg" width="347" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Purchase a PDF or ePub edition, which will be delivered </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">by email</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_xclick" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="centrocampanton@gmail.com" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="US" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Zamora en el mapa de Sefarad. Actas de los congresos internacionales, 2013-2021" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="12.00" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input name="button_subtype" type="hidden" value="services" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="0" /> <input name="bn" type="hidden" value="PP-BuyNowBF:btn_buynowCC_LG.gif:NonHostedGuest" /> <input alt="PayPal, la forma más segura y rápida de pagar en línea." border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/es_XC/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" type="image" /> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/es_XC/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /> </form><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"> </form><div style="text-align: left;"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Índice
</span><span lang="ES-TRAD"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"><br />Introducción: Zamora
en el mapa de Sefarad </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Zamora:
el centro más importante de estudios judíos en el siglo XV español<br />
<i>Abraham Gross </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Isaac
Campantón (1360-1463), rabino de Zamora y gaon de Casti- lla y León, autor de
<i>Los caminos del Talmud<br />
Jesús Jambrina </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">La
interpretación sefardí de Campantón en el aprendizaje en la Yeshivá<br />
<i>Yitzchak Kerem </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></i></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Contexto
histórico de la polémica anti-judía de Alfonso de Zamora<br />
<i>Ahuva Ho </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">La
educación judía en Castilla: las Taqqanot de 1432<br />
<i>Virginia Labrador Martín </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">La
traducción de la Biblia hecha por el Rabí Moisés Arragel: comentarios<br />
<i>Leandro Rodríguez </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Cruzando
fronteras y recuperando identidades: la odisea de los cristianos nuevos
portugueses después de 1496<br />
<i>Jane S. Gerber </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Sobre
tornadiços, conversos y cristianos nuevos en la ciudad de Zamora: la Raya,
lugar de tránsito y asentamiento<br />
<i>María Antonia Muriel Sastre</i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Identidades
conversas: espacios intermedios e indeterminados </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span lang="ES-TRAD">Elizabeth
Koza </span></i></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Los
judaizantes en los sambenitos de la Catedral de Tui: disidencia religiosa y
tensión social en la frontera del Miño<br />
<i>Suso Vila </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Huellas
judías y leonesas en el <i>Quijote<br />
Santiago Trancón Pérez</i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Del
Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición al presente: una búsqueda de
raíces judías<br />
<i>Genie Milgrom </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Viviendas
de judíos y conversos en la raya de Castilla y León </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span lang="ES-TRAD">Emilio
Fonseca Moretón</span></i></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Os
cristãos-novos do Sabugal<br />
<i>Jorge Martins</i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Carção
y su memoria judía<br />
<i>José Manuel Laureiro y Anun Barriuso</i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Ecos de
las tradiciones musicales de los criptojudíos en la Raya<br />
<i>Judith Cohen</i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Los
Díaz Pimienta, una familia de origen sefardí en La Habana de los siglos XVI
al XVIII<br />
<i>Jesús Jambrina </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Rabinos
de la Habana. Publicaciones entre 1920 y 1959<br />
<i>Adriana Hernández Gómez de Molina</i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">La
presencia del árbol de la vida en dos logos museísticos </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span lang="ES-TRAD">Blanca
Flor Herrero Morán </span></i></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">La
historia de los prisioneros españoles en los campos de concentración alemanes
entre 1940 y 1945<br />
<i>Gloria Mound<br /><br />Poemas<br /> </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Zamora<br />
<i>Margalit Matitiahu </i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">El
último Perera<br />
<i>Ruth Behar </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-da0c3F3mTv_XM3VSv3aSZ-eZ17lUJJEfm9ZQjWD1mJhC4ANdatZH4nM31drr0PGIIMbgQ_DHohy96h6p1_2Ev9wGc4GuO9b2u_MsYEq5PqbXuZBGd5bRA97uCXvfI-uUNR5vnfQAeR0shGUe9sTepLkNhGsLUVmdIcX-6CwLBKExzLmq8L4QxwBp/s992/1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="640" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-da0c3F3mTv_XM3VSv3aSZ-eZ17lUJJEfm9ZQjWD1mJhC4ANdatZH4nM31drr0PGIIMbgQ_DHohy96h6p1_2Ev9wGc4GuO9b2u_MsYEq5PqbXuZBGd5bRA97uCXvfI-uUNR5vnfQAeR0shGUe9sTepLkNhGsLUVmdIcX-6CwLBKExzLmq8L4QxwBp/w294-h457/1.png" width="294" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ilustraciones de Emilio Beneitez</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></form></div></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-6996422262653066602022-03-09T20:45:00.009-08:002022-03-24T20:46:27.455-07:00Ten years of International Jewish Sephardic Congresses in Zamora, Spain, July 4-6, 2022<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here is our preliminary Schedule for this year´s congress, which will take place online, time zone Spain. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Monday, July 4</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />10 – Welcome</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:15 – 11:30, "The imaginary Jew in Spanish Literature”, Marciano
Martín Manuel, historian <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tuesday, July 5
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<br />
10 – 11, “My Sefarad, 40 years of relations with Spain and Iberoamerica”,
by Abraham Haim, historian</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12 – 14, Book presentation <i><br /><br />Tía Fortuna's New Home:A Jewish Cuban Journey</i> (2022), by Ruth Behar <br /></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wednesday, July 6</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10 – 11:30, “Zamoran Rabies: family
discoveries” by Genie Milgrom, genealogist. </span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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12-14, Books presentation: <br />
<i><br />
Zamora in the map of Sefarad</i>. <i>Congress Proceedings, 2013-2020</i> (Essays, 2022),
editors Jesús Jambrina & Alfredo Alonso<br />
<br />
<i>Those we missed</i> (Novel, 2022), by Jaime Einstein (1947-2015), editor
Pilar Diez <br />
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13:15 - 14, Closings followed by Open Annual Board Meeting </span></p>
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from the 11<sup>th</sup> to the 18th centuries, some are from inquisitorial
cases in Portugal, mainly Tras Os Montes, but with residency in
Zamora. <br /><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Spelling from the original source has been maintained, most are easily transcribable to modern orthography. When the last
name is not a direct reference to the city of Zamora, location is included
in parenthesis, as well as any other data or information to clarify context on the last name.<br /> <br />
After the alphabetical list, there is a copy of Jewish and <i>converso</i> last names after 1492, drawn from a recent academic published article. For questions, comments or suggestions, please, email at <i>centrocampanton@gmail.com</i><span><i> </i> <br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
A - Abadías, Abad de Aula, Abelaben, Abemiver, Abenamar, Abenahypón
(Benavente)Abenjamil (Toro), Aben Baça (Baz, Vaz, Abençali), Abenbazar
(Fuentesaúco), Abenamías, Aben Farax, Abenrrós, Aben Rubí, Abenzón, Abna,
Abohaf (o Aboab), Ámbar, Alashkar, Alba (o Alvo), Albino (Bragança), Abolfazcan
(Castroverde de Campos), Alfón, Alonso, Alvarez, Alua, Arama, Aven Sento <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
B - Bellamín (Villapando), Beny, Berroy (Fermoselle), Bida, Bueno <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
C - Cabeça (Villalpando), Cañizal, Campantón (también Canpanton, Qanpanton,
Kanpanton), Cardero, Carvajal (Bermillo de Sayago y Benavente), Catalán,
Castro, Colodre (Toro), Cominete, Comineto (Benavente), Conde, Chamorro,
Cedillo, Corcos, Cordero, Çaragoça, Çalama, David (Toro), <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
D - De la Fuente (Fuentesaúco) <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
E - Estuñiga<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
F - Fernández <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
G - Galochero (Villalpando), Gambuayo, Garçia, Gazapo, Gómez (Toro), Gonçalez, <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
H - Habib, Ha-Leví (Toro) <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
J - Jambrina (1994 record from the Jewish Cementery in Madrid), toponym of a
town 10 miles Southeast of Zamora. <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
L - Lopes (Trancoso), Luna<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
M- Manrique, Marcos (Villalpando), Maldonado, Medina, Méndez (Coimbra), Meir,
Milano, Monzón (Alcañices), Musa <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
N - Naci, Melamed, Nuño de Fito <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
O- Oeb, Orabuena (Fermoselle), Ortuño (Bragança) <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
P- Paz, Peres, Pordomingo (Sayago), Portuguesa <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
R - Rico (Fuentesaúco), Rodríguez, Romi <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
S - Saba, Salón, San Román, Santa Ana <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
V - Valçina, Valencia, Valensí, Venialuo, Vida, Villalobos (Villalpando) <br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
T- Tornero, Torralvo, </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Z - Zamora (besides the city, also
present in Villalpando)<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">The following
last names along with their Christian ones after 1492 were copied from: </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Martialay,Teresa, <span> </span>“Conversos y
atribución de identidades conversas en tiempos de la expulsión de los judíos de
la diócesis de Zamora” en Amrán, Rica & Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Eds,
<i>Minorías en la España medieval y moderna, siglos XVI - XVII</i>, eHumanista, 2017,
33-46<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
Abraham de Valencia (Fernando de Valencia)<br />
Abraham aben Rubí (Maestre Fadrique)<br />
Jaco de Medina (Fernand Pérez)<br />
Mosé Obadías (Fernando de Miranda)<br />
Rabí Salomón (Tomás)<br />
Ysaque aben Farax (Pedro Osorio)<br />
Yuçe Melamed (Luis Núñez Coronel)<br />
Reyna Corcos (Isabel Osorio)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <br />Abraham aben Baça (Juan de la Peña)</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">According to Martialay, the following names appear on the documents only as <i>conversos</i>
without their Jewish names or last names <br />
<br />
Clara (wife of Tomás)<br />
Isabel Fernández (widow of Simuel of Ámbar) and her daughters<br />
Martín Alonso (two persons with the same name)<br />
Fernand Gómez, his wife and children<br />
Manuel Pérez<br />
Isabel Fernández (widow of <span> </span>Simuel Gambuayo)
y her children<br />
Alonso de Zamora <br />
Juan de Zamora<br />
Juan de Valencia<br />
Maese Pedro</span></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1- We are a group of community Scholars studying Jewish legacy in the region of Zamora, Spain, where Jews lived for more than a millennium. Lines of research include: <br />· Documented Jewish presence from the 10th to the 15th centuries <br />· Jews from Zamora in the diaspora<br />· Crypto Jewish communities from 1492 to the present <br />· B´nei Anusim memories and stories <br />· Homage to twenty-two antifascist fighters from Zamora incarcerated in Mauthausen <br />· Help families building their Jewish genealogies </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2- Centro Campanton has organized nine international congresses (2013-2021) along with annual cultural events & activities related to Jewish life </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">3- Collaboration with local organizations, government and academic institutions to recuperate Jewish historic landmarks in the city and in the region</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">4- Centro Campanton have sponsored books publications, peer reviewed papers, and presentations at conference and events. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">5- Current projects we are trying to advance:<br />· A Jewish Museum in Zamora, to also house the Center <br />· Publication of congresses proceedings</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">6- This website documents our major programs, activities, and if you need more information you can reach us via email at centrocampanton@gmail.com<br />We also have two more webpages in Spanish: www.zamorasefardi.com & www.zamorasefardi.es </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Yitzchak Kerem, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In the context of Jewish yeshiva learning in Christian Spain during the 13<sup>th</sup> to 15<sup>th</sup> centuries, Rabbi Isaac Campanton (1360-1463) in Zamora devised a school of yeshiva learning which concentrated on the “Pshat”, the simple meaning, which also was quite unique and has been the base for Sephardi learning. <br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The approach focuses also on precisely interpreting the word to its fullest linguistic and historical context. Juxtaposed to the Ashkenazi “pilpul” argumentative and riddled style, the “Iyyun” approach promotes further innovative interpretation, expertise, and unraveling and simplifying perplexity, but it is reflective of a Sephardic humanistic approach which almost always looks at the local regional influences including Aristotelian medieval Spanish thought and Christian ecclesiastical doctrine not as a polemical obstacle, but as tools in interpreting the text. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The system adopted Aristotelian logic for interpreting Talmudic text. Opposed to the Ashkenazi yeshiva tradition, the Sephardi approach does not confine itself to Talmudic interpretation, but also to Biblical study, Kabbala, and “hiddushim”; new incites in Jewish religious thought. As Boyarin has illustrated, the Campanton system has a very wide base of analysis based on Rashi’s commentaries and language. According to Boyarin, Campanton’s method spread to Safed and Jerusalem, Constantinople to Salonika, and Cairo to Fez. Its luminaries included the Rabbis Birav, Caro, Levi Ben Haviv, and David ben Zimra; however it has not been recognized adequately. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="m_6731743295067321915__ftnref1"></a><br /><br />Campanton was called the Gaon (luminary) from Castille, who trained his students to research the principles and essence of the Talmud, put in order the Tanaim and Amoraim according to their time and evolution of their absorption according to their rabbis (teachers). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Campanton school of “Iyyun” was the standard in the Sephardic diaspora after the 1492 Spanish expulsion, and continued for the next 250 years from Salonika, Istanbul, to Safed, Egypt, and North Africa through front-row disciples like the Aboavs, David Ben-Zimra, the Ibn Havivs, Joseph Taitazak, Yaakov Berav, Abraham Saba, and the Valencis. The system waned in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa with modernization and alternative trends in thought, but has been revived in Tunisia and later Eretz-Israel/Israel by Rabbis Matzliah Mazuz of Djerba (murdered in Tunis in 1971) and his son Meir Mazuz, who established the prestigious Kise Rachamim Yeshiva in B’nai Brak, Israel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Mazuz laid out 5 principles of the Iyyun Tunisai (Tunisian Analysis) which is an outgrowth of the Campanton Sephardic Iyyun (Analysis) initially exemplified by the latter in his work Darkhei haTalmud (The Ways of the Talmud). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">According to Mazuz, he calls his method primarily an approach of <i>iyyun ha-yashar</i>, the straight analysis, a term that serves as a polemical tool against other methods that muddle the text instead of elucidating it in a step-by-step process. Mazuz contends that over the centuries a methodology emerged with the necessary exactness to determine the law. Mazuz rejects inexactness in law just like Campanton used a methodology with Aristotelian assumptions, which analyzed any idea or interpretation as provable or disprovable on rational analysis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Mazuz elaborated his concise, but thorough and straightforward method based on rabbinic tradition:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The foundation of the foundations of Iyyun is that there is nothing missing [from] or added onto the language of the Gemara, Rashi, and Tosafot. There is nothing missing – because the text has not come to shut out [information] but to explain and take heed to limit [le-tsamtsem] his language and to derive [concepts from] it in a way that there will not be an extra word., for [under consideration] are missing from the Talmudic discussion [Aramic sugya] and its commentaries, for they [the rabbis] have not come to test us with riddles … And there is nothing added – because our rabbis have always tried to write with brevity and exactness, [with] the small carrying the abundant [i.e. with a small number of words carrying great depth]. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Campanton’s method below is echoed in the above passage of Mazuz:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And always attempt to impute necessity for all of the words of a commentator or an author in all of his language: why did he say it and what did he intend with that language, whether to explain [an issue] or to derive [a concept] from another explanation or to resolve a difficulty or a problem. And take heed to limit [le-tsamtsem] his language and to derive [concepts from] it in a way that there will not be an extra word, for if it were possible to express his intent, for example, in three words, why did he express [himself using] four [words]? And so you should do with the language of the Mishna and Gemara, that is, you should check their language so that there not be an extra word, and when it appears to you to be extra go back and analyze well, for they did not expand their words unnecessarily, for it is not a small matter, and the splendor of sages is to minimize words so that many concepts are included in small [numbers of] words, and to make their words few in quantity but great [lit. “many”] in quality, and there should not be within their words an extra word, even [if it consists] of one letter, as they [the Sages] have said ([B.T. Hullin 63b). “A person should always teach his students in a concise way,” as you see in our Holy Torah, which was given from the Mouth of the Mighty One, which speaks with a concise language but includes many things …</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The second characteristic of Mazuz’s Iyyun Tunisai is syntax; the importance of understanding each word and its implications, and proper stopping points of basic expressions. A student needs to know the meanings of basic expressions, which can change depending on context. Syntax is important and one needs to understand where the sentence ends or where the idea ends if the commentator did not properly end the sentence. The third facet of Mazuz’s iyyun is to ask, in every place, what was Rashi, Tosafot, or Maharsha bothered by, and from which error they were protected from in that word and sentence. <br /><br />The student should ask why a classical commentary would add an extra word, or would use a seemingly odd phrase; necessities for understanding the text under discussion. The classical Sephardic perspective, also advanced by Campanton, is analyzing also “me’ayyenim k’sevara mi-bachutz”; the logical construction whose origin is outside the text or which has been added in subsequent generations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Mazuz’s fourth element of the Iyyun Tunisai reates to the logical flow in the text of the Tosafot, who were known for posing many questions and answers in a row. Mazuz suggested stopping after each question-and-answer pair to analyze how each question was answered and how the next question relates to the previous question-and-answer. In this manner, the student can identify in what way the main issue discussed is resolved. The resolution is known as “the center of the resolution”, or merkaz ha-<i>teruts</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The assumption that every element in a rabbinic text relates to the previous one or the next one is elaborated on specifically by Campanton at the beginning of Chapter Ten in his <i>Darkchei Ha-Talmud</i>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Always, for every statement and for every concept that is situated next to another, whether in Talmud or in Scripture (ba-Katuv), carefully observe the relationship and connection between those concepts situated next to each other, including what order the speaker is leafing (molikh) with his words. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The fifth element of Iyyun Tunisei according to Mazuz is “the importance of writing and revising one’s studies”. The student should test to see whether he has understood it properly. If the student’s own words seem to match the commentator’s, but are simply more expansive, the student has understood; if not, the student should review the commentary and revise his statement. Aside from the clarity of understanding the student gains, frequent writing and revision allows the student to express his ideas clearly’. The rabbis of Djerba used this pedagogical method; training their students to write their own <i>novellae</i> in a clear and organized manner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AIPAC, Monday, March 25, 2019</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Video of this panel is available at Ashely Perry's and Genie Milgrom's Facebook pages. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Panelists: Dr. Ofir Haivry, <a href="https://ofirhaivry.org/" target="_blank">Herzl Institute </a>(Israel), Genie Milgrom,
<a href="https://www.geniemilgrom.info/" target="_blank">Genealogist & Author</a> (U.S.A), Ashely Perry, President of <a href="http://reconectar.co/?a=about" target="_blank">Reconnectar</a>
(Israel), and Michael Freud (moderator), President of <a href="https://shavei.org/about-us/shavei-israel-staff/" target="_blank">Shavei Israel</a> (Israel)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1- Numbers of Hispanic and/or Latinos with Jewish ancestry</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ashley: Based on academic research from more than 60 experts 1 in 4 people
in Latin America have Jewish ancestry to which it should be added Latinos in
the U.S., and people from Spain & Portugal, which studies state that 1 in 3,
1 in 5 also have Jewish ancestry. That puts the number at 100 million. Not all
of these people want to return to Judaism though, based in a survey Reconnectar
did, 14% of them would like to identify as Jews with the Jewish people, 30% are
aware of their Jewish ancestry and they want to know more. Other numbers from
the survey are: 51% want to know more about the state of Israel, 50% want to
visit Israel, 46% would like to advocate for Israel. These are game changing
numbers.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. Haivry: There are many levels to this numbers. Most are interested in
learning about Israel, Judaism and even Hebrew language. There are also a
significant number that organize in groups in different places (e.i. Brasil),
they are very proud of their Jewish ancestry, and in many cases advocate for
Israel more than in the (traditional) Jewish community where people might be
afraid of over exposure, and to prevent attacks to their synagogues. There are
also organized Jewish communities that want to become officially renown. Some
want to convert, some wish to be recognized, and a small % want to come to
Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We should clarify that the numbers vary depending of the areas, for
example, Chile has smaller numbers than Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. I would
say that it is a grassroots movement at this time, and there is not a central
command or israeli effort. 99% of what's going on is from people who want to
reconnect. We need to find ways to approach this grassroot movement.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Genie: The ultimate question here is how all of this reconnection relates to
Israel. I come from a catholic family from Cuba, however, I always felt Jewish,
and converted to Judaism many years ago. After my conversation I had
this need to go further in my feelings, which I did when my grandmother died
leaving me some jewelry of Jewish motifs that she had inherited from her mother
and grandmother. Because of this, I did my genealogy, and was able to track my
Jewish maternal linage back to 1405 Pre Inquisition Spain. This is also the story of many people in this grassroot movement that Dr. Haivry mentioned. Not
everyone though has the tenacity and resources to find the documents in the
archives, and officially return as I did. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The difference with families like
mine and other diaspora Jews is that even when this documentation affects the
entire family so far it has been only me that is interested. This is a one on
one journey which makes the situation different from, for example, Russians
Jews emigrating to Israel by the thousands. We - in the Hispanic and Latino world- return
one by one. One here, and another there, it is when adding all this up that
it sums up to millions, but it is not that we all return together. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When someone
says to you "I feel Jewish" it is not because they want to please
you, it is a serious statement that needs to be taken into consideration. It is
a phenomenon in the last 20 or 30 years. Before converting, Israel was for me, part
of a sacred history book, but afterwards, Israel become something larger than
life.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael: The scope of the phenomenon is vast, we see it from Barcelona to
Brazil, from Peru to Palma de Mallorca, also we see it across socioecomic
status, from peasants in northen Brazil to professors in northen Portugal. When
people hear the numbers of those with Jewish ancestry it can be intimidating,
and frightening at times. What we see in the field is the reluctance of many
organized Jewish communities to welcome such people into their nest, and that is
the next question</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2- a) Why does this concern about the numbers?, b) How do you think Jewish
communities should advocate about this?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. Haivry: The actual number of people, who want to convert is small, in
part due to the difficulties in getting it done. On the other hand, morally I
don't feel we should close the door to people who, in many cases, where taken
by force out of the Jewish people (reference to Spanish, Portuguese, and later Latin American conversos). Also, because of
antisemitism, Jewish laws for many generations have been very strict, the
moment someone left Judaism they would dissapear, children of those who
converted to christianity wouldn't even know that they were Jewish, also there
was a lot of intermarrige, therefore I think that this New Diaspora (of
Latinos) is a wonderful thing, we can have a core of Jewish people plus all
people who identify as Jewish being part of the Jewish World. My personal
position is that we should welcome them, and bring them closer.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Genie: These numbers are from DNA studies certified by demographers like
Dr. Sergio Della Pergola. As Dr. Haivry said most of these people don't want to
convert, however as Jews we should ask ourselves how limited are our
friendships around the world, and how important it is to engage those who
identify with the Jewish people, even when they continue going to church every
Sunday, but proudly say "I have Jewish ancestors", imagine what it
would mean to the Jewish people, and the State of Israel, to have millions of new
friends.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ashley: Whenever I meet with descendants, conversos, Anunsim, Crypto Jews
or whatever you want to call them, I always tell them that the difference
between them and me is locked in time. I can trace my last name Perez to a man
in Portugal. Those who were not forcely converted in Spain & Portugal fled to
other places, including Great Britain, where they founded a community, which is
the same case for other countries, for example, the first Jews in the United
States were Sephardic Jews running away from the inquisition in Brazil, same for Latin
America. I am a Jew today because my ancestors had a better luck escaping.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many of the Jews in this room today are also B'nei Anusim, first because
regarless of Ashkenazi, Sephardi or Mizrahi, you probably had an ancestor in
the Iberian Peninsula. Jews in the Iberian Peninsula were forcely converted
three times: by the visigoths, by the muslims, and then by the catholic
monarchs; same had happened with Hungarian, German, Russian, Yemenite, Persian
Jewry, and others. All of us, almost all of us, have ancestors who were
forcely converted at some point in history, what does this mean? It means that
they also returned therefore, since antiquity, Rabbis have had to write a
halacha (Jewish law) deciding what these people represent; are they Jews or
not? Some say they are not formal Jews others had other opinions, and the
question is what to do today, in the 21st century, when there are no massive forced conversions. What
is our responsability?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don't like to compare, but the inquisition means for Jews from Spain &
Portugal what the holocaust means for ashkenazi today to the point that in Yom
Kippur in the Kol Nidre we include "our brethren imprisoned by the
inquisition", so why are we still doing this? It is my firm belief that it
is because there are so many people mentally in prision, although physically
the dungeons are open -there are no more Autos da Fe, there are no more burning
at the stake, etc, etc- but there are tens of millions of people out there
still living in the imprisioment of the inquisition. We are not missionaries,
we are not going out to convert people or tell them what to do, but when their
hands are out- stretched, it is our moral and ethical obligation to meet them.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael: For clarification, Ashley mentioned the term B´nei Anusim which is
a Hebrew word referring to those who were coerced to christian conversation, the generation that was
forcely converted is named by historians by the derogatory term Marranos. We prefer B´nei Anusim today. <br /><br />Since we are at AIPAC, and the state of Israel is at the
center of it, I would like to take this conversation a step further on how this
might translate into support for Israel. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the Pew Research Institute
there are around 58 millions Hispanics Latinos in the U.S. making them 18% of the
American population, according to the Census Bureau this number will double by
the year 2050. This is clearly a community that is growing not only
quantitatively but also in its economic impact, social and political power and
at the same time, our surveys found that half of American Hispanics have no
views on Israel either positive or negative, as they are basically a blank
slate, they are coming from Central and South America where Israel is not in
the news like the way it is here. Giving these facts, we must focus on the role
that Hispanics will place in coming generations in America</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3- What can Israel, and the American Jewry do to involve this community in
our cause?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. Haivry: My expertise is not the American Jewry. For some reason that I don't
know, Israel places a central part in the return of Hispanic - Latino Jews, but
Israel is very cautious on accepting Jewish communities regardless of their
origin; I think that there should be some kind of understanding among Jewish
institutions, and communities about how to address this issue more seriously.
Before an effort can be made - and I think that it should be made - there
should be a clarification between Israel and the Jewish leadership on how to go
about this.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Genie: In the Americas, for example, in Honduras and Guatemala, countries
that have moved their embassies to Jerusalem, people can began to comprehend
Israel. In the U.S. with the Jewish Federations in larger cities they could
invite the Hispanic community to their celebrations, I am Cuban, but now in
Miami there are huge amounts of Venezuelans that could draw closer. Federations,
and the Synagogues, can start by inviting the Hispanic communities to their
celebrations and building those ties toward Israel.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ashley: I have worked for 10 years in the government in Israel with many
Jewish organizations, and I know how much time, money and resources are spend
reaching out, I think that we should base the relation with the Hispanic Latino
community in our shared ancestry and history; the vast majority of Jews wherever
they are today have roots in the Iberian Peninsula, and in the Hispanic culture,
if you play ladino music to a Hispanic person they instinctive recognize it,
they feel it. I have done it with Latino celebrities in Israel when they visit,
and they love it, and want to hear more, there are so many connecting points.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have tested this in our website with thousands of people registering to
know more about their Jewish roots, when we ask them about the
state of Israel they want to know more; we should speak to them as brothers and
sisters, as part of a wider Hispanic family, we can talk different languages,
for example, not only mention those who speak Yiddish, but also people that
speak Judeo Spanish, that way we can find a point of conversation.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have asked Hispanics, who used to share anti-Israel bias, what made them changed,
and what brought them to understand Israel better, and I have noticed that it
was their patriotism to their own countries what also brought them closer to their
Jewish ancestry. The point is that the more you discover your own family history
the more you discover your Jewish ancestry, and that gets you closer to the
land of Israel; this is another part of the journey.</span></span></div>
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</style>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-50984590274540522712021-08-08T13:39:00.009-07:002023-01-13T13:49:51.796-08:00Was One of Catholic Spain’s Prominent Religious Scholars Secretly Jewish? New research suggests that Alfonso de Zamora may have remained true to his faith<p> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blog.nli.org.il/en/author/ahuva_ho/">Dr. Ahuva Ho </a>for <a href="https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-zamora/" target="_blank">The Librarian, National Library of Israel</a></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 08.02.2021</span></p><div class="post-add"><div><br /></div></div><div class="post-img"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="357" src="https://blog.nli.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Zamora-715-537-blog.jpg" width="475" /></div><div class="post-img-title" style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Alfonso
was certain that whoever read his compositions would never be able to
reveal his secrets..." (Source images: The Polyglot Bible, 1514,
National Library of Israel & Alfonso de Zamora's translation of
Mikhlol, 1527, National Library of France)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"One of the Spanish “New Christians” most
cherished by the Catholic authorities was Alfonso de Zamora
(1474–1545/6). A graduate of the famous Campanton Yeshiva in Zamora, he
first escaped to Portugal in 1492, but for unknown reasons returned to
Spain around 1497 as a <i>converso</i>.
</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In a few years we find him in
Salamanca as a teacher and a scribe until 1512 when he was transferred
to the University of Alcala de Henares. His involvement in the editing
of the first Polyglot Bible, his books, scribal and teaching positions
raised his esteem and importance at the dawn of the Renaissance". <br /><br />Continue reading <a href="https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-zamora/" target="_blank">HERE</a></span><br /></p> </div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-81893933800526421082021-05-09T20:08:00.002-07:002021-05-25T21:22:03.482-07:00Call for Papers, 9th International Congress on the Jewish Legacy of Zamora, Spain<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">Isaac Campanton (1360-1463), his works, his time, and his disciples</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;"> Campanton was considered the
Gaon of the 9<sup>th</sup> era of the Sephardic Rabbanin, which is counted since the Academia from Pumdebita moved to Cordoba around 948 c.e. This zamoran
sage was the most important figure among the Iberian ones from the late 14<sup>th</sup>
century to the mid 15<sup>th</sup> one. He learned with his father, Jacob, and
wrote, as far as we know today, only book – <i>The methodology of Talmud</i>. He
is also known because of his disciples, among them Isaac Aboab II,
Isaac de León, Yosef Hayyún, Simón Memi, Jacob Habid, Shem Tob ben Shem Tob,
Samuel Valensi, and Abraham Saba; some of them were the head of several Jewish
communities in Spain at the moment of the expulsion.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUo1uQeBY62ylku8ebgOwVvsvnzR3eJtMu9Msu-b9DrhU1wXF3NAySx4TtNl5t3Zs2zJAg6DNId5FwV3c1Q85FpJC-UmNqM4WVwAs5gQcBv25pAFwzxkJN08YlG_1fvRDE9VAz6bLBt4/s400/Rabino%252Bs.%252BXIV.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="273" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUo1uQeBY62ylku8ebgOwVvsvnzR3eJtMu9Msu-b9DrhU1wXF3NAySx4TtNl5t3Zs2zJAg6DNId5FwV3c1Q85FpJC-UmNqM4WVwAs5gQcBv25pAFwzxkJN08YlG_1fvRDE9VAz6bLBt4/w272-h400/Rabino%252Bs.%252BXIV.jpg" width="272" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Depiction of a Jewish sage, 14th century in Spain, <br />National Library Collection</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">The teachings of Campanton fled Iberia with his
disciples, and with them it became one of the center pieces of the pedagogical and ethical practices
in the Sephardic diaspora, from Oporto to Safed and from Fez to Amsterdam.
Sages like Levi Habid, Jacob Berah and Samuel Medina applied Campanton’s
methodology to their own schools in Jerusalem, Safed and Salonica, among other
places. Still, in 1748, Campanton is mentioned as one of the most important Spanish
Torah teaching references in the commentary to Proverbs by the Gavison family from
Seville. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;"><br />Proposals are encouraged, but not limited to, on the following topics: <br />
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Role of <i>The Methodology of the Talmud</i> in Jewish education post 1492 period</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">
Legacy of Campanton’s disciples </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">
Who were the Campanton? Where did they come from? Where did they go after 1492,
if they left? If they stayed, which last name they adopted? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">
Rebirth of the Jewish community in Spain in the mid 15<sup>th</sup> century,
myth or reality?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">
Identity debates: are Jews the conservos judaizers prosecuted by the
inquisition?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-large;">
Jewish migrations from Spain previous to 1492</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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to <a href="mailto:centrocampanton@gmail.com">centrocampanton@gmail.com</a> until June 21. Due to the current public health situation, congress will take place in
an online format. Proposal will be read as they arrived, and they can receive
comments for their improvement if needed in order to be accepted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">DUE TO THE CURRENT GLOBAL PANDEMIC WE HAVE DECIDED TO CANCEL OUR FACE TO FACE ANNUAL CONGRESS, AND ORGANIZE ONE ONLINE SECTION ON THE SAME DATE OF JULY 1 & 2, 8:30 PM, Madrid Time. COME BACK TO THIS PAGE FOR MORE INFO. <br />THIS EVENT TOOK PLACE ONLINE HAS PLANNED, VISIT OUR SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR PICTURES AND VIDEOS. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">City of Zamora, Spain</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;">Call for Participation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;">Our 2020 annual
meeting wants to explore different Jewish branches of the Zamora last name,
transliteration included, for example, Zamiro, Zamory, Zamir, Zmiro, Zamero, Zamorano*, in Spain and
abroad.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;">Genealogy, and
the stories around it, allow us to explore itineraries across time and space;
our goal is to present live connections among people researching their Jewish
ancestry. <span> </span><span> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/zamora" target="_blank">Zamora</a> had
an important Jewish population in the Middle Ages, specially between the 11<sup>th</sup>
and the 15<sup>th</sup> centuries. The first Zamora last name is registered for
philosopher, and Kabbalist <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/595-abraham-ben-solomon-of-zamora" target="_blank">Abraham ben Solomon of Zamora</a> (13<sup>th</sup> century), well known to his
peers during his time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;">Before and
after 1492, this toponymic last name was used by <i>judeocoversos</i>, including Gabriel
of Zamora, trialled by the inquisition in Seville 1481 <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8122-inquisition" target="_blank">(First seizure of marranos)</a>, and <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1206-alfonso-de-zamora" target="_blank">Alfonso of Zamora</a>,
founder of the Hebrew Language Studies at University of Salamanca (</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 32px;">16th century)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;">, and later
professor at Alcala de Henares. At the end of his life, he called himself “the
last sage of Sefarad” (<a href="https://perurealfonso.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/quintaesencia-espectral/" target="_blank">reference in Spanish</a>). </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">We invite you
to share this Call for Participation with all persons interested in this topic.
Enrollment is open to the public and, like every year, it covers several related
events and activities like visit to historic Jewish Quarters, book
presentations, Sephardic culinary demonstration, concerts and more. </span><br />
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For updates in the coming months you should visit this page or if you have
questions, you can email us at </span><a href="mailto:centrocampanton@gmail.com" style="font-size: 24pt;">centrocampanton@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size: 24pt;">
or send a WhatsApp to +34 609 740 116 </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">*Transliterations are changes in the word with the same linguistic root (Zam), for example: Zambrano, Zamatto, Zamero, Zamerro, Zamie, Zamlug, Zamra, Zamor, Zamorani, etc. In Portuguese language, Z usually changes to S. Here reference for Zamora last name at The Museum of the Jewish People <a href="https://dbs.bh.org.il/familyname/zamora" target="_blank">(click here)</a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 24pt;">
To know more about our previous events, see the pages with summaries: </span><a href="https://www.zamorasefardi.com/2013/07/extradordinario-congreso-celebrado-en.html" style="font-size: 24pt;">I</a><span style="font-size: 24pt;">,
</span><a href="https://www.zamorasefardi.com/2014/07/la-provincia-en-el-mapa-de-sefarad.html" style="font-size: 24pt;">II</a><span style="font-size: 24pt;">,
</span><a href="https://www.zamorasefardi.com/2015/07/zamora-romanica-semanasantera-y-sefardi.html" style="font-size: 24pt;" target="_blank">III</a><span style="font-size: 24pt;">, </span><a href="https://www.zamorasefardi.com/2016/07/breve-reportaje-fotografico-de-las.html" style="font-size: 24pt;" target="_blank">IV</a><span style="font-size: 24pt;">, </span><a href="https://www.zamorasefardi.com/2017/08/zamora-en-la-memoria-sefardi.html" style="font-size: 24pt;" target="_blank">V</a><span style="font-size: 24pt;">, </span><a href="https://www.zamorasefardi.com/2018/07/reportaje-fotografico-del-6to-congreso.html" style="font-size: 24pt;" target="_blank">VI</a><span style="font-size: 24pt;">, </span><a href="https://www.zamorasefardi.com/2019/07/reportaje-fotografico-7mo-congreso.html" style="font-size: 24pt;" target="_blank">VII</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">By Karen Sherman, La Crosse, Wisconsin</span></span></span></h2>
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institutions to be able to share benefits of international research.
Jesús Jambrina, one of my former Viterbo University’s World Languages
and Cultures Department colleagues’s research of the Jews of Zamora,
Spain led to being awarded the Medal of the Four Synagogues 3 years ago,
and Dr. Abraham Haim, President of the Council of Jewish Sephardi
Community of Jerusalem returned recently with a Diploma of Recognition
for the inclusion of the topic of Sephardic Jews in courses, research
and campus activities at Viterbo.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">During Dr. Haim’s weeklong visit he gave
numerous presentations throughout our area regarding the Sephardi (
Spanish Jews) and their Ladino language. The Thursday of his visit he
had a meeting breakfast followed by a road trip to talk on Decorah’s
Luther College campus before speaking to our La Crosse Congregation Sons
of Abraham that evening, where he received a warm welcome and dinner. </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">During that visit Dr. Haim gave a brief talk
of Ladino history accompanied with examples of Ladino music. He sang
some songs <i>a cappela</i>, and others accompanied on guitar by spiritual leader
Brian Serle along with some group singing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The following morning courtesy of our public
library, I attended a more extensive overview of the Sefardi, Spanish
and Portuguese Jews who in 1496-7 had to go into exile with their
culture of music, foods and Ladino language. <br /><br />Using the basic "W" question Dr. Haim answered the them regarding the Sephardi, the Jewish Spaniards: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Where</b> did they live? They
lived on the Iberian peninsula but not limited to the Andalucia
geographical location although it was the center of Jewish life in the
Middle Ages close to Granada, the sea, in the capitals, towns and
cities, Majorca, the Canary Isles, etc.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>When</b> did the Sephardi exist?
Differing opinions as to whether it 586 BCE after the destruction of
the first temple or the same date the 9th of Av in 70 AD after the
destruction of the second Temple.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Who</b> were the Sephardi? After
the 15th century these Spanish Jews were numerous proud, cultural and
creative ~600,000 of the world’s 1.5 million world Jews integrated
Spain. They were culturally moderate without losing their identity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">During the muslim 7 centuries of rule after
invading and conquering Spain (except for Asturias in the north)
Muslims, Jews and Christians coexisted. The Jews’s position was affected but treated better than living under the visigoths and even
North African Jews also immigrated to the Iberian peninsula like Western
European Jews who would eventually move where they could practice their
Judaism in Iberia.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Between the 10th and the 12th centuries -the Golden Age- the Sephardi were accepted in society and flourished religiously, culturally, and economically. It wasn’t until the end of the era in the mid 12th century,
and new Berber rule that Jewish persecution, and a massacre occurred in
Granada, and both Muslims and Jews fled to Toledo which had been
reconquered by Christian forces (~1086) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> After the reconquest (of Toledo and other northern christian cities), the Jews translated Arabic texts into the Romance Languages and “also contributed to botany,
geography, medicine, mathematics, poetry and philosophy.” Several synagogues
were built in Toledo. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“The anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the
Alhambra Decree of 1492, as a result of which the majority of Jews in
Spain (around 300,000) converted to Catholicism and those who continued
to practice Judaism (between 40,000 and 80,000) were forced into exile,
although many thousands including Moroccan Jews returned in the years
following the expulsion.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ferdinand and Isabel united with nobility for
the 1492 Inquisition forced the Jews to either convert to Catholicism,
be killed (buried alive)/ be expelled. 1/3 of the Jewish population left
Spain. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />Jews had been previously expelled also from France
and Germany in the 13rd and 14th centuries. In 1492 Spain Jews lost their property,
careers, but their culture was left in tact. The same thing happened
in Portugal 5 years later. <br /><br />The Ottoman Empire controlled most of
southeastern Europe from the 15th- early 20th Century… The Jews
continued to begin new lives elsewhere. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>What</b> language did they
speak? They spoke dialects of Iberian languages (Castilian, Catalan, Gallego, Leones...) but moved so much that their
ladino language which is a mixture of Spanish and Yiddish served as a
common thread. Language changes include j-ch, the change of the r and d
sounds, u vs o. Those who speak Spanish can understand it due to its
Spanish roots.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Some converts returned to Judaism in the 16th and following centuries all across Europe and the Americas. Other
Sephardi who survived the inquisition, immigrated to Israel at the end of the 19th
Century. Many people of Spanish descent are still discovering their
Sephardi roots today. <br /><br />In 2014, the descendants of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi_Jews">Sephardi Jews</a>, who
were exiled in 1492, were offered Spanish citizenship, without being
required to move to Spain and/or renounce any other citizenship, which
they currently may have.” </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Like yiddish, the future of the ladino
language is in danger of disappearing. Dr. Haim reminded us the written
word will live on forever…</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thank you for returning to La Crosse Dr. Haim and sharing your Sephardic heritage.</span></span></div>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wO9kJnWTwPE" width="460"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-44123559444865561642019-08-26T10:45:00.000-07:002019-09-05T15:46:14.685-07:00Pictures from 2019 Congress in Jerusalem & Zamora<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cartel del evento, realizado por el Ayto de Zamora, por primera vez desplegados en vallas en el centro y casco histórico</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sesión Jerusalén, 21- 25 de Junio</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Para el primer tour nos reunimos en el hotel Agripas de donde salimos a visitar algunos de los barrios sefardíes como Ohel Moshe y otros</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">La visita estuvo animada por miembros de la comunidad hablante de judeoespañol. Aquí, en el centro, Aharon Palti, quien nos relató historias de su vida en Jerusalén </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Visita a Yad Vashem, Museo del Holocausto, nuestra guía fue la especialista mexicana Hilda Fainsilber</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sesión de apertura en las Cuatro Sinagogas Sefardíes a cargo de Abraham Haim, presidente del Consejo de la Comunidad Sefardí de Jerusalén</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">La prof. Margalit Bejarano, Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, presenta la conferencia inaugural </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">La poeta sefardí Margalit Matitiahu leyó varios de sus poemas dedicados a ciudades españolas donde existieron importantes juderías en la edad media, entre ellas León, Zamora, Cuenca y Madrid. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Abraham García, genealogista en Jerusalén, especializado en árboles de familias conversas, compartió sus experiencias ayudando a descendientes de judíos españoles y portugueses a encontrar sus antepasados judíos como parte de la solicitud de nacionalidad para sefardíes. Curiodisdad: según García, basado en sus búsquedas en los archivos, a su llegada a las Américas entre los siglos XVI y XVIII muchos conversos usaron apellidos vascos para despistar a la inquisición. También, como promedio, sólo en la generación 15 o más se pueden encontrar indicios o de procesados por la inquisición o de antepasados que se fueron de España con el de decreto de 1492 </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joshua Mendes, director de <i>S&P Central</i>, habló sobre las comuninades sefardíes occidentales, sobre todo las que se establecieron en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos a partir de los siglos XVII y XVIII </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eugenio A. Alonso presenta sobre casos inquisitoriales de <i>Judaizantes</i> en La Habana entre los siglos XVI y XVIII a partir del Archivo Historico de Madrid referente a Cartagena de Indias Dato poco conocido: María Nuñez, una mulata cubana que fue procesada <i>y </i>absuelta<i> </i>en México entre 1649 y 1655, toda su familia fue igualmente acusada. María era una mujer de negocios, lo cual era muy avanzado para esa época. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">En Jerusalén contamos con un reducido, pero altalmente comprometido público integrado por académicos, escritores y miembros de la comunidad de hablantes de judeoespañol.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Panel en el Centro Sefarad - Israel, Madrid, 27 de Junio</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Presentación del libro <i>La isla de Abraham</i> (2018) de Jaime Einstein (1947-2015), María de Miguel, Centro Sefarad-Israel da la bienvenida a los asistentes y ponentes Pilar Diez, albacea literaria del autor, y Jesús Jambrina, Viterbo University, quien comentó la novela.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nuestro grupo de Zamora Sefardí aprovechó la oportunidad para una foto colectiva en el Centro Sefarad-Israel</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Concierto "Sefarad en el corazón de Turquía" de Mara Aranda, Museo Etnográfico de Castilla y León, Zamora</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">El
docmental <i>Adio Kerida</i> (2002) de Ruth Behar, Universidad de Michigan -
Ann Arbor, se presentó tanto en la sesión de Jerusalén como en Zamora,
seguido por un conversatorio con su directora quien estuvo presente en
la puesta en España. La película cuenta la historia de los judíos cubanos desde comienzos del siglo XX hasta inicios del siglo XXI, a través de historias autobiográficas de su autora en ciudades como La Habana, Nueva York y Miami. <a href="https://www.radiosefarad.com/cubas-jews-with-ruth-behar/" target="_blank">Interview with Ruth in English</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Como cada año la mayoría de nuestro público es zamorano y también personas llegadas de otros países y regiones de España y Portugal</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Entre las nuevas actividades de este año estuvo el Filandón Sefardí en la Plaza de la Leña en Zamora, que estuvo animado por Alicia Valmaseada, Marifé Andrés y Judith Cohen. El tema fue Los romances de Doña Urraca, que también son cantados en la diáspora sefardí. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">El historiador Suso Vila, presentó sobre las conexiones con Perú de una familia conversa de Tuy, Galicia </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alicia Valmaseda reflexionó sobre las relaciones linguísticas entre los idiomás leonés y judeoespañol</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Panel de judíos hispanoamericanos que se han mudado a España (Sefarad) en los últimos años: Sandras Chakjin (Uruguay), Selbastián Elka (Uruguay) y Luisa Morely Bendahan (Tánger-Venezuela). Moderó Judith Cohen. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Conversatorio de Ruth Behar, Universidad de Michigan - Ann Arbor acerca de sus libros que estuvieron disponibles en la librería Jambrina, en Zamora. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Resume de cobertura de prensa</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Unidos más allá del Atlántico </span><a href="https://www.laopiniondezamora.es/zamora/2019/07/03/espana-preocupado-conocer-cultura-judia/1175555.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(Leer)</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Tradición e historia judía en Zamora <a href="https://www.laopiniondezamora.es/zamora/2019/07/02/tradicion-e-historia-judia-zamora/1175283.html" target="_blank">(Leer)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">La presentación de dos libros de Ruth Behar pone broche final al VI Congreso Sefardí <a href="https://www.laopiniondezamora.es/zamora/2019/07/04/presentacion-libros-ruth-behar-pone/1175811.html" target="_blank">(Leer)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Mara Aranda: "La música conecta a los sefardíes con una patria por la que sienten nostalgia" <a href="https://www.laopiniondezamora.es/zamora/2019/07/01/musica-conecta-sefardies-patria-sienten/1175051.html" target="_blank">(Leer) </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"Aunque queda mucho de la mentalidad inquisitorial en la sociedad actual" <a href="https://www.laopiniondezamora.es/zamora/2019/07/03/queda-mentalidad-inquisitorial-sociedad-actual/1175554.html" target="_blank">(Leer)</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3732126538988260923.post-35558947550876488102019-08-17T09:40:00.000-07:002019-10-19T07:57:57.349-07:00A Jewish Path in Zamora<span style="font-size: large;">by Jesús Jambrina*, Special for <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/A-Jewish-path-in-Zamora-448975" target="_blank">The Jerusalem Post, March 23, 2016</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">On March 6 I gave a presentation titled “Uncovering Jewish Zamora” at
the La Crosse Synagogue in Wisconsin. When in 2010 I began to look into
the subject of a Jewish presence in this Spanish city of the rocky northwest,
crossed by the Duero River an close to the border with Portugal, I never
dreamed of the results that my curiosity would lead to. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">My first Google search on the subject of the Jewish legacy of Zamora,
turned up only two results. The first was a reference to the well-known
Concilio de Zamora of 1313, in which many of the prohibitions regarding the
Jews that had been stipulated at the Council of Elvira at the beginning
of the fourth century were repeated. The second search result was related to
the case of the “Niño de la Guardia,” a 1491 blood libel set in Toledo, in
which a Zamoran Jew named Abenamías had allegedly participated. This accusation
was disproved over half a century ago by Yitzak Baer, and shown to be one of
many anti-Semitic fictions created by members of the infamous “Santa
Inquisition” of the 15th century. [The 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia states that
the entire episode is “one of the most notable and disastrous lies of
history.”]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Apart from these two references which are to be found in most medieval
history books which mention the subject of the Jews, there was not much more
available at first glance on the Internet. This lack of information surprised
me, as I personally already knew of at least one essay – dated 1992 – signed by
the then-director of the Provincial Archive of Zamora, Florián Ferrero, in
which bibliographies related to the Jews of Zamora are mentioned.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">A few weeks later I read two books which I now consider to be classics
on the subject: <i>Juderías de Castilla y León</i> (1988) (“Jewish Quarters in Castilla
and Leon”), by Guadalupe Ramos de Castro, which has a section dedicated to the
city, and <i>El pasado judío de Zamora</i>, (1992) (“Zamora’s Jewish Past”), by Prof.
María Fuencisla García Casar, which offers a historical chronicle of the Jewish
presence in the provincial capital. It was through these works – which from my
present vantage point I consider to be in need of editing to update the
information and perspectives on the subject – that a picture began to
emerge.</span></span></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Djep7q7_eL54cTVVSlWNfTnKW-Stg8q-kSYPAV9HGQMRioGIYeG_jUusVbcn_qy61BeA6laqA_kwEG3PSF8UffYTb3Bf5RNqArvM7jBhUQbflxWz6CSXOSIaqUGg19-tqMbuPo_4VO4/s1600/Portada.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Djep7q7_eL54cTVVSlWNfTnKW-Stg8q-kSYPAV9HGQMRioGIYeG_jUusVbcn_qy61BeA6laqA_kwEG3PSF8UffYTb3Bf5RNqArvM7jBhUQbflxWz6CSXOSIaqUGg19-tqMbuPo_4VO4/s1600/Portada.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">There are other authors which also lent substance to my research: the
studies of the late Prof. Carlos Carrete Parrondo of Salamanca University, and
of Julio Valdeón Baruque of Valladolid University. In his book, <i>Judíos y
Conversos en la Castilla Medieval</i>, (“Jews and Converts in medieval Castille”)
Valdeón Baruque presents an excellent study of Castilian and Leonese
Jews. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">To this Spanish bibliography one would also have to add medievalist
Manuel Fernández Ladero, who has published several notable articles about
Zamora and the subject of Conversos, as well Prof. Yolanda Moreno Koch and
Prof. Ricardo Izquierdo Benito who have compiled several conference proceedings
on the subject of Jews of Spain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">A wider bibliograhy would be incomplete without authors like the late
Benzion Netanyahu (father of the present prime minister), the late Haim
Beinart, and Professor Abraham Gross of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
whose book on Abraham Saba is indispensable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">When I visited the city for the first time in 2010, I was shocked by the
absence of references to anything Jewish. Since I have always been interested
in Jewish literature and culture from Spain, and by then knew of something of
Zamora’s prestigious position during medieval times, I was curious as to why
this was the case. I asked a couple of colleagues and friends in the city,
including a relative of mine, and some information immediately surfaced, along
with various books and articles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Following a fruitful conversation with Ferrero Ferrero I decided to
write a paper on the subject. When I returned to the United States I started to
research further and realized that I had stumbled upon something more complex
and that I wanted to devote more time to delve into it. Additionally, the
project was a good reason for me to return to Zamora, the birthplace of my
paternal grandparents.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">On that first trip I also met with Mario Saban, president of Tarbut
Sefarad, in Barcelona, as well as the organization’s representatives in Madrid,
José Manuel Laureiro and Anun Barriuso (descendants of Crypto Jews), who
encouraged me to continue with the project and offered their help. I have to
say that these three friends were originally somewhat skeptical about Zamora
having a significant Jewish history. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Located at the heart of Old Castile, this is a city known for its strong
Catholic culture. Celebrations around saints’ days and the Virgin Mary are very
common and dominate popular festivities all year long. More importantly, its 24
Romanesque churches (the largest number of any city in Europe) drive national and
international tourism. So “Good luck with anything Jewish”, I can imagine my
friends and local family members thinking back then. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">However, in 2013, together with colleagues Genie Milgrom (author of My
15 Grandmothers) I organized the first international congress on “Zamora Jewish
Life: History and Re-encounters” which was covered by The Jerusalem Post and
local media, and caused ripples in Zamoran society. The result of the congress
was a promise by then-mayor Rosa Valdeón, to signpost several areas of Jewish
interest in the city. This promise was kept at the end of the 2014 congress.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Five locations, crucial to the Jewish history of a city (which until
2013 barely appeared to have any at all) are now marked by metal pillars
erected by the Zamora Municipality as a direct result of the interest evidenced
through the presence of these congresses in Zamora. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">I never imagined, when I began my research six years ago, that my
efforts would bear fruit to the point of bringing together increased
numbers of local and international students of and experts in Sephardi culture
and history every year since.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Among the esteemed colleagues who have taken part in our congresses are
the aforementioned Gross, New York University Prof. Jane Gerber, University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor Prof. Ruth Behar and Universidad de Lisboa Prof. Jorge
Martins, as well as many other experts on the subject of Jews and Sephardim
from Spain, Portugal, the United States and Israel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Looking towards our fourth annual event this summer, I am pleased to
note that writer Gregorio G. Olmos, author of the book Yucé, el sefardí, 2016 –
winner of the XXXIV Novela Felipe Trigo prize – has agreed to be our key note
speaker. We also hope to see the author of the prologues of Olmos’ book: author
José Jiménez Lozano – who received the renowned Cervantes Prize in 2002 – at
this year’s congress.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Towards the end of 2013, and riding on the success of the first
congress, the Isaac Campantón Center was created as a Jewish research center
for Zamora, named after the sage Isaac Campantón (1360-1463), known as “the
gaon of Castille.” The name was chosen because Campantón, as author of Darche
ha-Gemara, or Darche ha-Talmud (“A Methodology of the Talmud”) he represents
the flowering of the Zamoran Jewish Community in which he carried out his
educational labor during the last century before the exile of the Jews from
Spain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Campantón’s book was published in Constantinople (ca. 1520), Venice
(1565), Mantua (1593), Amsterdam (1706, 1711 and 1754) Vienna (1891) and
Jerusalem (1981). And yet, the present residents of Zamora had never heard
about him until our first congress, so far-reaching was the ethnic cleansing
that occurred in Spain following 1492.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Throughout the 15th century, Zamora had attracted the most brilliant
thinkers in Spain and Portugal, with Campantón being the guide of a generation
and clearly responsible for the later transmission of Jewish tradition to the
Sephardi Diaspora.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">Among his students were Samuel Valensí, Issac Abroab II, Isaac de León,
Jacob Habid and his son Leví, Moshe Alaskhar, Isaac Arama, Joseph Hayyum,
Abraham Saba and the well-known converso hebraista Alfonso de Zamora, among
others. No other Castilian or Leonese city can count such a battery of sages
among its rosta of Jewish personalities, whose influenced can be found from
Amsterdam to Safed and Istambul, and from Portugal to as far away as the
Americas. A large number of the visits we get on the Campanton Center webpage
are from Lithuania and parts of Russia, where the work of the Zamoran sage is
well-known.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">All of these subjects are discussed at our congresses, which have now
become real “Sephardi days” because in addition to academic presentations we
have offer concerts, exhibitions and guided tours of the Jewish quarters, along
with Shabbat dinners that are open to all the participants in the congress, as well
as to residents of Zamora who are interested in knowing more about this
celebration – so central to Judaism.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">These meals, as well as others, which organized to introduce various
Jewish holidays, are directed by Abraham Haim, president of the Sephardi and
Oriental Communities of Jerusalem, a regular visitor to Zamora during the year.</span></span></div>
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Judith Cohen, who has given various concerts in Zamora. She studies the
Sephardi musical tradtion in the Mediterranean Basin, including the
Zamoran-Portuguese region of Tras Os Montes, especiallly the area of La Raya
(“the line”), as the border with Portugal is known. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">The second congress, in 2014, was dedicated to this region in
particular, where Crypto-Judaism is second nature in various rural communities,
among them Carçao, Vimioso and Braganza (in Portugal), where thousands of
Castilian and Leonese Jews took refuge in 1492.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">This year, in addition to the July congress, this time titled “The North
of Sepharad: Perspectives and Definitions” which will take place in Zamora
city, we will once again have a panel meeting at Centro Sefarad-Israel, in
Madrid, on June 27 at 7 p.m. in which experts who will speak at the Congress
will preview of their subjects and answer questions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">On June 29, there will be a guided tour of the Tierra del Vino
(Land of Wine) area, where, according to historic documents, the Zamoran Jews
had their vineyards, and which today produces Protected Designation of Origin
quality wines.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">On June 30 there will be the usual tour of the Old and New Jewish
quarters: Another annual activity which attracts many locals.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">The congress itself will be held July 1. This year’s preliminary
events will conclude with a Shabbat dinner at the Trefacio Hotel, where, as in
earlier years, we hope to reaffirm the commitment to continue working for the
recovery and value of the Jewish legacy of the city of Zamora.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">The Isaac Campantón Center, which organizes international presentations
and is a repository of all my investigation thus
far can be found online at <a href="http://www.campanton.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.campanton.com/</span></a> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times";">*The writer, a Cuban American whose grandparents hail from Gema del Vino, a village in
the province of Zamora, is a professor at Viterbo University, Wisconsin. In
2014 he was presented with Medal of the Four Sephardi Synagogues by the board
of the Sephardi and Oriental Communities of Jerusalem for researching and
publicizing Zamora’s Jewish past. His book The Jews of Zamora. An Annotated Chronology is scheduled to be published this year by Editorial Verbum in Madrid as part of the Hebrew Letters Collection. Jambrina can be contacted at <a href="mailto:centrocampanton@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">centrocampanton@gmail.com</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Jerusalem, June 21-25 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Four Sephardic Synagogues<br />Keynote Speaker: Margalit Bejarano, <a href="https://en.ilas.huji.ac.il/people/margalit-bejarano" target="_blank">Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Center Isaac Campantón, in collaboration with the Council of the Sephardic Communities of Jerusalem, invites proposals for its 7th international congress, this year with the title of <i>Transatlantic Sefarad</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">This is an interdisciplinary event welcoming professors, students, and independent scholars researching in the area of Sephardic Studies in connection with the Western Hemisphere. <br />Proposals may include but not limited to the following topics:</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;"> </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Periodization of Jewish presence in the Americas; terminologies and definitions</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">First Jewish communities in the Caribbean, South, Central and North America </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Amsterdam, Recife, New York: Judaism and Freedom of Conscience</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Life and functioning of Crypto Jewish communities in the Americas </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Jewish networks between Europe and the Americas: politics, commerce and culture </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">The Inquisition in the Americas</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Crypto Jewish Resistance: Martyrs, and relevant personalities </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><i>Converso</i> families in Spanish American viceroyalties </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Traces of </span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Montaigne and</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;"> Spinoza in the Americas Thought </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Jews in the Americas' Independence Wars </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Transatlantic Jews: Paul Lafargue, Camile Pisarro, and others </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Modern Sephardic Communities: 20th century immigration from North Africa, and Middle East countries </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Sephardic Journeys: historical narratives </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Sephardic writers and artists in or from the Western Hemisphere </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Sephardic Jews today in the Western Hemisphere </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Emerging Jewish Communities in the Western Hemisphere </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">250 words abstracts should include: author, institution or independent scholar affiliation, which location for presentation, email, and specify if requiring technological support (computer, projector) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Submit proposals to centrocampanton@gmail.com Deadline: June 1, 2019. Online Enrollment until June 10 <a href="https://www.regonline.com.es/sefaradtransatlantic">Here</a> or in person at the conference.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times"; mso-ansi-language: ES;"> This is an event sponsored by</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman";"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Ayuntamiento de Zamora</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Friends of Sephardic Culture Asspciation, Zamora</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman";">The Isaac Kaplan
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Center Sefarad - Israel</span><br />
<span lang="ES" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Center Isaac Campantón<br />+ 12 Private Individuals</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visit to Majane Yehuda market & Ohel Moshe neighborhood <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dinner- optional</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sunday, June 23</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visit to Yad Vashem – Holocaust Museum</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Concert at David Tower at night</span></span><br />
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Jerusalem</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Concert at Yad Ben-Zvi Auditorium, 19:30 hrs.</span></span></div>
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7th international congress session at Four Sephardic Synagogues, 10-14,
16-19hrs</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contact info for program in Israel:<br />
Abraham Haim <br />
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Island</i> (2018) by Jaime Eistein, speaker: Pilar Diez</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zamora, June 1</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visit to the Museum of the Three Cultures in Puente Castro, and to the Historic
Jewish Quarter in city of León</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Departure from La Hostería Real de Zamora at 8hrs</span></span><br />
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2019), Etnographic</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Museum of Castile and Leon, time TBA</span></span><br />
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program in Spain</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dr. Avraham Gross </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ben Gurion University</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Spanish translation available</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.zamorasefardi.com/2013/07/zamora-el-centro-mas-importante-de.html" target="_blank">here</a></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">It
is quite common in archeology to unearth a small piece of pottery in an
unexpected digging site and after a painstaking work of finding, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">cleaning<b>,</b></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> and piecing together
more fragments to assemble a beautifully crafted and ornamented vessel - a
stunning masterpiece of antiquity. Sometimes, the finding of a very small piece
is indeed dramatic, and it ends up as </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">a missing link which enables</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> a full-blown
reconstruction on a big scale of an unknown or a re-discovery of a
long-forgotten city or center of great importance. This is the archaeologist’s
dream.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">12th century Menorah in a block of stone at San Idefonso Church, Zamora </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Such
an occurrence is quite rare in the discipline of historiography. This is
certainly true in the study of cultural, intellectual, and learning centers.
Normally, writings such as correspondence, books and tracts - the fruits of the
intellectual efforts - are the building-blocks for the historian’s workshop.
These are, by-and-large, readily available and at our disposal. However, it was
one single piece of new information, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">the</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> missing link, that allowed us the reconstruction we will
propose below.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">I
must admit that phrasing the topic of our presentation which </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">puts</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> Zamora </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">unequivocally</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> at the summit of Jewish intellectual
activity in </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">fifteenth
century</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
Spain is dramatic and that it was intended to be so! Take a look in standard
historiographical works on the history of the Jews in Spain and you’ll find
virtually nothing that will point to the theses embedded in our topic. This is
true not only of the historiography which was interested more in the last
hundred years of conversion and destruction of Spanish Jewry and </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">which</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> concentrated its
efforts on analyzing the impossible existence of the triangle Jews-New
Christians-Old Christians, Crypto-Judaism (= Marranism) and Inquisition. Even </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">within the field of</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> Jewish intellectual
history you will not find a definition of Zamora in the fashion suggested in
our topic. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Come
to think of it, the reason is quite simple. Often enough we judge intellectual
achievements by bulk. Specifically, by quantity of publications. Without
gliding into cynical comparisons to, and comments on the main element that
shapes our academic careers, one must admit that quantitative evaluation is not
unimportant, historically speaking, especially when we want to evaluate one’s
influence. However, when we deal with religious education and learning this is
not necessarily so. This is particularly true when we study the history of
Jewish talmudic/rabbinic academies (Hebrew = </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Yeshivot</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">***</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Learning
in Jewish tradition is one of the greatest, most important religious
requirements. The Torah already says that one should study it “day and night”
and rabbinic literature - from the </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Mishnah</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
and until the present - is full of dictums and </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">exempla</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> of scholars who did just that to the extreme. One might say
that learning is the main trait of rabbinic Judaism to this very day. It is
learning for the sake of learning even if it has no practical relevance to it.
Learning is an end unto itself. Teaching and educating many students is an
imperative, as put very clearly by the </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Mishnah</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">.
</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">And
so, on the one hand, rabbinic literature has been written continuously,
especially the halakhic genres (= that is, legal literature), in the shape of
codexes and </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">responsa</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">),
and there were schools that invested much energy in writing </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">novelae</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
(= new commentaries and insights into talmudic halakhic discussions). On the
other hand not every great scholar saw in writing the ultimate in learning. It
is therefore incorrect methodologically for us to define one’s rabbinic and
intellectual stature by the sheer quantity of his literary production. Having
said all this in a way of introduction, let me turn now to 15th c. Castile, in
general, and then to Zamora, in particular.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The
unprecedented mass-conversions, death and physical destruction of the Jewish
communities in Castile during 1391, the following waves of anti-Jewish
legislation and conversion campaign orchestrated by Vicente Ferrer, and
finally, the mass conversions in the wake of the Disputation in Tortosa
1412-1414 seemed to have brought to its knees a Jewry which was so proud of its
achievements in virtually every field of Jewish and secular learning, and in
the political realm as well. One of the Jewish writers </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">in the end of the fourteenth century</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
expresses it in lamenting the present, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">describing</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> the communities of Castile and Aragon
“which were among [other communities of] our nation as the main organs of the
body in comparison to the secondary ones.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">After
the above-mentioned string of catastrophes, we read the following internal
criticism of Jewish Torah learning in Spain:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">"And
the scholars eat bread of poverty, and even the little they get as payment they
must go around and beg for. And this is the reason why the Torah is downgraded
among them (= the Jews) and is destined to be forgotten […] because when the
people see the shame of the scholars and their poverty they choose to send
their sons to learn the worst of professions rather than see them suffer as
rabbis".</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">He goes on and compares this situation with the good
living condition on the Christian clergy.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> This is written
around 1416.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Now
when we read about the status of Torah learning - both quality and quantity -
in the decades prior to the Expulsion, we get the feeling that within half a
century nothing short of a revolution took place in Jewish learning in Spain.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Let
me quote shortly a few writers. Joseph Ya’avez, writing right after the
Expulsion: “[…] For since antiquity Spain was not as full of </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Yeshivot</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
and students as it was at the time of the Expulsion.” An anonymous chronicler,
a refugee from Spain, writes: “And there were then </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">[i.e. before the Expulsion]</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
many </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">yeshivot</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
in Spain,” and he goes on to list ten of the largest. Judah Khalaz, who
migrated to Tlemencen, in North Africa, a few years before the Expulsion
writes: “Castile, the land of </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">yeshivot</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
and Torah students.” In one post-Expulsion elegy the poet mourns the external
richness of the academies and their rich libraries which have been destroyed.
We have information about large personal libraries of the Jews in this period,
and it stands to reason that the ones in the academies were also sizable.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">It
is true that, generally speaking, we can observe a phenomenon of rejuvenation
of Torah learning and Academies after great material disasters, since the
Destruction of the Second Temple and until our own days [i.e. post-Holocaust].
Yet, this does not absolve us from our historiographical duty to locate and
identify the fountain[s] of vitality which gave rise to what can be termed as
an almost intellectual resurrection. The answer in our case is hidden in the
almost mysterious personality of Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Q</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">anpanton.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Ways of Talmud, by Isaac Campantón, Mantua cover edition, 1593</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">This
becomes apparent when we survey short references to Qanpanton’s stature and to
assessments of his achievements as found in post-Expulsion Sefardic writings.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">One of the most famous Hispano-Jewish scholars of
that period was</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> Abraham Zacuto, the celebrated
mathematician and astronomer from Salamanca. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Zacuto</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> was also a head of a </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">yeshiva</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
in Salamanca and an important talmudist. Alongside his scientific excellence,
he was also a qabbalist. He is particularly known for his astronomical
calculations and contribution to nautical navigation, and his personal guidance
to Vasco da Gama prior to his voyage to India in 1497. Zacuto was then in
Portugal after leaving Spain in the 1492 Expulsion. His odyssey led him through
North Africa to Jerusalem, where he died.<s>).</s> In his </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Book
of Genealogies</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">, generally dedicated to the chronology
of Jewish Oral Law, Zacuto writes:</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And the great rabbi, the rabbi of [all]
the people of Israel, the rabbi of the three above-mentioned scholars, the
pious, humble man, who was inspired by the Holy Divine Spirit, the great light,
rabbi Isaac Qanpanton […] who was called a <i>Gaon</i> in Castile (A prestigious term
reserved for the Heads of the famous talmudic academies in Baghdad during the
7th-12th c.). And I saw him! And anyone who saw him experienced something
similar to encountering the Divine Providence. And I was about six or seven
years old when I saw him. And he passed away in Peñafiel in 1463.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">There
is no need for over-dramatization in the reading of this paragraph to feel the
awe-inspiring image that Qanpanton commanded.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Qanpanton</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> died at old age and
according to one source he died at 103. From official Castilian documents we
know that he participated in 1450 in a committee which was charged with the
duty to divide taxes among the Castilian Jewish communities [His name is
spelled there: Çag Canpanton]. At an age of about 90, his contribution was
surely not in his mathematical abilities but rather in lending the decisions of
the committee moral weight, authority, and respectability.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">All
references to him by post-Expulsion chroniclers describe him as the central
intellectual figure of 15th c. Castile;. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Thus we read:</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> “[…] the Light of the Exile (again
using a term reserved for an 11th c, Ashkenazic rabbinic authority) […] he
raised again the crown [of Torah] and raised many students<span lang="HI">”</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The
emphasis on the number of students that swelled under his leadership is
especially conspicuous.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Representation of a 14th Spanish Jew, carbon copy by Manuel Castellanos, 19th century </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">A
survey of his students who assumes rabbinic and talmudic leadership during the
last generation in Spain prior to the Expulsion, and </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">in</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> the first generation of the Sefardic
Diaspora throughout the Mediterranean Basin<s>)</s> shows that almost all
Sefardic talmudic learning can be traced to Qanpanton. Let me mention a few of
the more famous names:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Direct
students: Isaac Aboab (Guadalajara and Buitrago. Joseph Caro, the greatest
halakhist since Maimonides and until today, relates a mystical revelation he
had where he was promised that his </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Yeshiva</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
will be even greater and more famous than Aboab’s.), Isaac Deleon (Toledo),
Samuel Valenci (who succeeded Qanpanton as the head of the </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">yeshiva</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
in Zamora), Joseph Hayyun (Lisbon).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Two influential figures in the field of biblical
exegesis and preaching came out of Zamora. Isaac Arama wrote </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Aqedat Yitz’haq</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> [Binding of Isaac], a voluminous book of philosophical sermons on the
Pentateuch. This important work has been published many times and its influence
extended much beyond the Sefardic world. In his introduction he refers
nostalgically to his hometown as “Zamora in the far north,” using an expression
referring to the glory of Jerusalem in Psalms 48:3. Abraham Saba is known
primarily for his </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Tzeror
haMor</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> [Bundle
of Myrrh] homiletical commentary on the Pentateuch which incorporates
qabbalistic passages from the Zohar. This work was published Italy and Poland
in the sixteenth century, and again in few editions very recently. We know much
about his wanderings after the Expulsion from Spain through Portugal and North
Africa and about his personal tragedies and loss of his family which was
forcibly baptized in Lisbon.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Some
leading second generation rabbis: Abraham Zacuto, Jacob Ibn Habib, Jacob Berav,
Moses Alashqar.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWnEg4tSmb7q2Rd9xAlGMMFLEKtWkwNx5qIlbQRv6vX4zXypjijW81LcYkW2ZjIlmpQ1ZeLY6P7prTjgt8kaHbOFqSvBEDGmW5_jr0uc16jSnb7RDoitn2dxAEgDkQ5KXH5AWEfJ9UOb8/s1600/Ketubah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWnEg4tSmb7q2Rd9xAlGMMFLEKtWkwNx5qIlbQRv6vX4zXypjijW81LcYkW2ZjIlmpQ1ZeLY6P7prTjgt8kaHbOFqSvBEDGmW5_jr0uc16jSnb7RDoitn2dxAEgDkQ5KXH5AWEfJ9UOb8/s400/Ketubah.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Saba's family Ketubah from 1447, now at Israel National Library</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The
geographical map of the talmudic learning centers in </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">fifteenth century<b> </b></span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Castile
known to us, shows that if we take Avila as the pivot point we can say that all
of them were in a radius of about 200 km. </span><span lang="ES" style="line-height: 150%;">(Locations: Leon, Fromista, Valladolid, Medina del Campo,
Salamanca, Segovia, Buitrago, Avila, Guadalajara, Plasencia, Toledo). </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">The
fact that most of the places</span><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">, </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">not noteworthy in terms of size, are not known to us
as Jewish centers from previous centuries,</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> <u>and that they are
relatively small towns</u> goes well with the observation that Jewish life in
post-1391 Castile moved away from the major cities.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">All
the above would have been very interesting, but not particularly for </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">the present paper</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">, if not for a small
fact discovered about 40 years ago (and to that I referred in my analogy to
archaeology in my introduction): Qanpanton’s </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">yeshiva</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
was located in Zamora. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">That
this town had a 15th c. thriving Jewish community, in terms of Castilian
shrunken Jewish communities, is evident from the additional northern </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">juderia
nueva</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> (Ladero-Quesada, pp. 34-40). Also we know that the share of
the tax levied from it for the war against </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">G</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">ranada
was sizable. An incidental compliment to the Jewish community of Zamora comes
from the pen of the </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">converso</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">
poet Juan Alfonso de Baena who writes as early as the 1440s’ sarcastically
against a certain Gonsalo de Quadros whose true faith is not clear, that
although he lived in various countries “it is notorious that you live in Zamora
/ and others tell me that you believe in the Torah.”. And so, we learn that
Zamora was notorious for its Jewish community!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">And
so, with the decline or complete disappearance (like in the case of Barcelona)
of past centers, Zamora becomes </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">the</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> magnet for students. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Now,
throughout the ages, Jewish students wandered from their hometowns to academies
far away seeking a certain academy mostly because of its specific character or,
specifically, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">because
of<b> </b></span><span style="line-height: 150%;">the rabbi who was at its head. This is true to this day.
Moreover, it was true also for medieval universities, and, indeed, <s>to</s> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">for</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> universities to this very day, that
graduate students seek to get accepted to a </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">specific</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> university </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">because
of</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
an outstanding expert </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">who teaches there</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">.
A central intellectual or spiritual figure is the crucial factor in the
development of a center. <s>(</s>One can see it, for example, in Spain since
the Moslem period in 10th c. Cordoba </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">(Moses ben Hanokh)</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">, 11th c. Granada </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">(Samuel haNaggid)</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">, 12th c. Lucena </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">(Isaac Alfassi)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Now
what was it that Qanpanton had to offer those students? Qanpanton himself wrote
one very thin didactic tract called </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Darkei
ha-Talmud</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> (</span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">The Ways of the Talmud</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">).
The essence of it is that one should approach the study of the Talmud with
technical tools of </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Logic</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">,
because literature of great <s>people</s> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">individuals</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> must be dealt with the utmost respect,
and the Talmud certainly qualifies as such. Practically, he is saying; there
must be an explanation for every single written word because redundancy is not
an option! In language there are no two words which have the exact identical
meaning, and therefore there are no </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">real</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> synonyms! In other words, one must put a finger,</span><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">
</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">so to speak<b>,</b></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> over each word and
check whether the sentence could have been written without it. If this is the
case, then one must find the reason why the extra word has been included<s>.</s></span><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">:</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">
What was it that the author tried to warn us from, what possible pitfall
(misunderstanding, a potential wrong interpretation etc.) did he try to save us
from. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Qanpanton
details his method over some 20-30 pages,and extends it also to the analysis of
some of the great medieval talmudic commentators, namely, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac (known in his abbreviation
as</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
Rashi</span><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">)</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">,
the great French scholar from the 11th c., and Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides) of
</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">thirteenth century</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> Gerona. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">This
is a very demanding and challenging method of learning and of hermeneutics. It
is also intellectually very rewarding. It is certainly directed to the
intellectual elite. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Now
we are in position to assess Qanpanton’s restoration plan of Torah learning. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">In</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> 1432 </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">representatives of the Castilian Jewish communities convened and came up
with the</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
Valladolid Ordinances, where one chapter </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">is devoted</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> to the reconstruction of Jewish Torah
education. Abraham Benvenist, the </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Rab de
la Corte</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> was involved in formulating the document, and knowing his
financial abilities (He loaned money to the Crown), and testimonies about his
charitable nature, we can assume that he was involved personally in the
financial aspects of restoration. Qanpanton, complemented him by being involved
in the educational process. How does all this connect to his new methodology?
The answer lies in the centuries long Sefardic haunting issue, indeed struggle,
between Philosophy and Religion or Faith and Reason, symbolized best by Maimonides’
effort in his </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Guide for the Perplexed</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">In
order to understand Qanpanton’s attitude, we should contrast it with that of
Asher ben Yehiel, (</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">abbreviation</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">:
ROSH), a german rabbi who arrived in Toledo in the beginning of the 14th c.. To
the </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">charge</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> that he does not
know arabic and philosophy, he answered that Torah and philosophy are
inherently contradictory and that there is no possibility for a compromise
between them. This </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">represented</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
a head-on collision between Ashkenazi fundamentalistic religiosity and Sefardi
complex spirituality. This attitude could not appeal to young men who have been
exposed to, and enchanted by “Greek wisdom” of the Aristotelian tradition. This
is where Qanpanton came with a </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">different
attitude.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">He</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
did not reject [non-Jewish] wisdom (after all he was </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">raised</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> by a father who
wrote books in mathematics and astronomy<s>),</s> - but offered Jewish youth a
method by which the Talmud status is raised by showing that philosophical
thinking is a “maid-servant” (to use a Maimonides term), a pre-requisite for a
proper understanding of profound Jewish legal thinking and wisdom. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">T</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">his understanding of Qanpanton’s
strategy is expressed already by chroniclers in early 16th c..</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">If
we survey the spiritual portrait of the rabbis associated with this school,
we’ll discover that most of them were knowledgable of philosophy but with
positive tendency to Qabbalah. This is what we know also about Qanpanton
himself. And so, one reaches the conclusion that he bears also some
responsibility for the spiritual leanings of Sefardic leadership in the
following two generations. Not everyone
was happy, and one can find some criticism of the educational methods in the
academies prior to the Expulsion<s>,</s></span><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">.</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Thus we read the better words of Joseph Ya’avez about the young students
who enter the yeshivot, “ of the great rabbis, sharpen their minds like razor
blades,” and then turn to the study of philosophy.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Yet,</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> it seems that this Jewry emerged out
of its struggle for survival during the 15th c. as a strengthened community
which eventually followed its spiritual leaders in large numbers into Exile.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Influence
of the method</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">When
we survey learning and rabbinic writings in the wake of Qanpanton’s revolution,
we see very profound traces of his system.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Briefly:
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">1.
We have a number of super-commentaries on Rashi’s famous commentary on the
Torah using the method advocated by Qanpanton.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">2.
After the Expulsion the occupation in methodology of Talmud study yields a
genre of short tracts, following the example of </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Darkei
haTalmud</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">3.
Joseph Hayyun, the major rabbinic figure in Lisbon, wrote commentaries on the </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Bible</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> based clearly of the
premise that there are no synonyms, even in biblical poetry such as Psalms.
(Qanpanton does not discuss the Torah but, of course, if one needs to interpret
every word of the Talmud and </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">even</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
some of medieval commentators, this should certainly be the case with God’s own
given books.) This exegesis, I would stress, goes against the grain of medieval
Sephardic assumption (</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Abraham</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
Ibn Ezra, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">David</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
Qimhi etc.) that the Bible does repeat the same idea in different words and
there is no need to explain such cases.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Finally</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">, the fact that the
15th c. is very poor in talmudic writings might be partially due to the example
set by Qanpanton who served as the role-model for his students. (Of his
students, only, Isaac Aboab, wrote extensively.)</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Conclusion</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">In
the 17th c. there survived the following Ladino saying: “</span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Ley
de Castilla; Hizun y Sephrud de Portugal</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">.” <span lang="HI">[</span></span><i>From
Castile shall the Law come forth and liturgical singing and caligraphy from
Portugal</i>.] </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It was a nostalgic memory from pre-Expulsion Iberia, probably formulated in the
end of the 15th c. It is “Castile,”<b>
</b>which had been so rich with Torah learning, in general. But we now know that the major spiritual and
intellectual word which shaped the intellectual image of Spanish Jewry in the
second half of 15th c. sprang out of a source located in
Zamora, which became a significant milestone on the glorious historical route
of Sephardic cultural</span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewromanps-boldmt" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> history. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanps-boldmt" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">* Keynote address at the I International Congress on the Jewish Sephardic Legacy of Zamora, Spain </span></span><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.geniemilgrom.com/" target="_blank">Genie Milgrom</a> was born in Havana, Cuba, into a practicing Roman Catholic family</b> of Spanish ancestry. From a young age, she felt unusually attracted to Judaism. After going through a formal conversion, <b>she</b> <b>began to research her family’s history</b>
and was able to document her unbroken maternal lineage going back six
centuries to pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal, proving that <b>she is, in fact, a descendent of forced converts</b>. Her research led her to write the <b>books</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-15-Grandmothers-Genie-Milgrom/dp/1478297077/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1478297077&pd_rd_r=788d1161-0c87-11e9-9c11-8d51749b796d&pd_rd_w=XfFcF&pd_rd_wg=aQcIL&pf_rd_p=6725dbd6-9917-451d-beba-16af7874e407&pf_rd_r=HXGHN4Q1Y9SZZ4PKD957&psc=1&refRID=HXGHN4Q1Y9SZZ4PKD957" target="_blank"><i><b>My 15 Grandmothers</b></i></a>, and <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Found-Grandmothers-Como-Encontre-Abuelas/dp/1497467330/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1497467330&pd_rd_r=d78875e8-0c8c-11e9-a213-afd08bde3d9e&pd_rd_w=8WlWp&pd_rd_wg=EmXy7&pf_rd_p=6725dbd6-9917-451d-beba-16af7874e407&pf_rd_r=WCY3KWYYGQKVV2YEYM6R&psc=1&refRID=WCY3KWYYGQKVV2YEYM6R" target="_blank"><i>How I found My 15 Grandmothers, A Step By Step Guide</i>.</a> The books were both winners of the 2015 Latino Author Book Awards.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Genie has travelled extensively to
Fermoselle, the village of her ancestors in the Zamora region of Spain,
while doing field research on the town’s Jewish past. <b>Her new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pyre-Fire-Genie-Milgrom/dp/1976594510/ref=pd_sbs_14_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1976594510&pd_rd_r=fd1cabc0-0c8c-11e9-a4a0-976c58c08714&pd_rd_w=fN7S7&pd_rd_wg=b1b68&pf_rd_p=7d5d9c3c-5e01-44ac-97fd-261afd40b865&pf_rd_r=YVCB1KHMBEE7WX9F9Q4H&psc=1&refRID=YVCB1KHMBEE7WX9F9Q4H" target="_blank"><i>Pyre to Fire,</i></a>
is a captivating historical novel that juxtaposes the story of a Jewish
family living in Fermoselle at the time of the Inquisition and her own
fascinating autobiography.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Listen <a href="http://www.radiosefarad.com/genie-milgrom-pyre-to-fire/">HERE</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Dr. Jesús Jambrina is an Associate Professor of Spanish and History at <a href="http://www.viterbo.edu/db-reinhart-institute-ethics-leadership/jesus-jambrina">Viterbo University</a> in Wisconsin. Dr. Jambrina has done extensive research into the Jewish history of Zamora. In part 1 of this series we spoke with him about his <a href="https://www.marcialpons.es/libros/los-judios-de-zamora/9788490744178/" target="_blank"><strong>book</strong></a>,
which is an annotated chronology of Jewish-related events that took
place there, and also about Isaac ben Jacob Campanton, Rabbi of Zamora
in the 14th to 15th centuries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Dr. Jambrina was responsible for the establishment of the<strong> <a href="http://www.campanton.com/" target="_blank">Centro Isaac Campantón</a></strong> in Zamora and also for the organization of six annual international conferences
about Jewish history and presence in that region. In this program he is
speaking with us about the history of the Jews in Zamora, and the
Centro Campantón.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Listen <a href="http://www.radiosefarad.com/jewish-zamora-with-jesus-jambrina-23-history-and-centro-isaac-campanton/">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Earlier this month in Zamora, Spain, Miami resident Genie Milgrom –
genealogist, author and lecturer – received The Medal of the Four
Sephardic Synagogues of Jerusalem for her indefatigable labors in the
promotion of the Iberian Peninsula’s Jewish legacy. </span><br />
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Prof. Abraham Haim, president of the Council of Sephardi and Oriental
Communities in Jerusalem, presented the award in the framework of the
sixth International Sephardi Congress in Zamora, at which Milgrom was
keynote speaker. The now-annual July congress was inaugurated in 2013 by
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-prof-gets-Jerusalem-medal-for-Jewish-historical-research-in-Spains-Zamora-381236">Prof. Jesus Jambrina of Viterbo University, WI,</a> who was honored with
the medal in 2014. </span><br />
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The award recognizes the decade-plus Milgrom spent recovering the Jewish
roots of her Cuban Catholic family, and her continued efforts to assist
the descendants of anusim – Jews who were forced to abandon Judaism
against their will – in their search for their roots. </span><br />
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Milgrom was able to retrace the footsteps of 22 generations in her
family, back beyond 1492, to the village of Fermoselle in the hills of
Zamora, and later to the cells of the Inquisition in Portugal. She
recovered this genealogy using methods she describes in her book, <i>How I
Found My 15 Grandmothers</i>, and uncovered the Jewish history not only of
her own ancestral village, but also of many others along the Duero River
that separates Spain from Portugal, deciphering the connections of the
heretofore lost crypto-Jews of the region.</span><br />
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Milgrom is past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of
Greater Miami, as well as the Society for Crypto Judaic Studies. Two of
her books, <i>My 15 Grandmothers</i> and <i>Pyre to Fire</i> have won the Latino
Author Book Awards. </span><br />
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She has written numerous articles on the subject and lectures
internationally, encouraging and assisting others to retrace their
ancestors’ footsteps. </span><br />
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As director of the Converso Genealogy Project, Milgrom now manages
the momentous assignment of digitizing all the Inquisition files around
the world, flying to meetings with officials in various countries to
convince them of the importance of making their dusty, untouched
archives available. </span><br />
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The project has the seal of approval of the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy in Israel. </span><br />
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Milgrom told The Jerusalem Post, “I have been working for so many
years on recovering an era that was lost to Jewish history, yet I was
completely surprised at receiving this very important and meaningful
medal of recognition from Israel. I didn’t realize that others were
watching and following my work to that extent. It is a true honor.”
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