viernes, 29 de marzo de 2019

Call for Papers: Transatlantic Sefarad

Jerusalem, June 21-25
Four Sephardic Synagogues
Keynote Speaker: Margalit Bejarano, Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén  

Zamora, July 1-2 
La Alhóndiga Palace
Keynote Speaker: Ruth Behar, Universidad de Michigan en Ann Arbor 

Travelers from Madrid book Here 

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 Transatlantic Sefarad.

This is an interdisciplinary event welcoming professors, students, and independent scholars researching in the area of Sephardic Studies in connection with the Western Hemisphere. 
Proposals may include but not limited to the following topics:
 
  • Periodization of Jewish presence in the Americas; terminologies and definitions
  • First Jewish communities in the Caribbean, South, Central and North America
  • Amsterdam, Recife, New York: Judaism and Freedom of Conscience
  • Life and functioning of Crypto Jewish communities in the Americas
  • Jewish networks between Europe and the Americas: politics, commerce and culture
  • The Inquisition in the Americas
  • Crypto Jewish Resistance: Martyrs, and relevant personalities
  • Converso families in Spanish American viceroyalties 
  • Traces of Montaigne and Spinoza in the Americas Thought 
  • Jews in the Americas' Independence Wars
  • Transatlantic Jews: Paul Lafargue, Camile Pisarro, and others
  • Modern Sephardic Communities: 20th century immigration from North Africa, and Middle East countries
  • Sephardic Journeys: historical narratives 
  • Sephardic writers and artists in or from the Western Hemisphere
  • Sephardic Jews today in the Western Hemisphere
  • Emerging Jewish Communities in the Western Hemisphere
250 words abstracts should include: author, institution or independent scholar affiliation, which location for presentation, email, and specify if requiring technological support (computer, projector)

Submit proposals to centrocampanton@gmail.com Deadline: June 1, 2019. Online Enrollment until June 10 Here or in person at the conference.

                       This is an event sponsored by
                                  Ayuntamiento de Zamora 
Jerusalem Sephardic Council  
Friends of Sephardic Culture Asspciation, Zamora
The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum
  Center Sefarad - Israel
  Center Isaac Campantón
+ 12 Private Individuals

martes, 26 de marzo de 2019

Activities pre-congress 2019




Program in Israel

Jerusalem 

Friday, June 21 

Visit to Majane Yehuda market & Ohel Moshe neighborhood
Visit to Mishkenot, Shaanamin & Yemin Moshe neighborhoods

Shabbat Service at Yemin Moshe Synagogue
Dinner- optional

Saturday, June 22

Visit to neighborhoods in the Old City

Sunday, June 23

Visit to Yad Vashem – Holocaust Museum

Visit to Zion Mount, the Four Sephardic Synagogues, The Western Wall, The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum

Optional- The Western Wall Tunnel Tour
Concert at David Tower at night

Monday, June 24

Visit to the Museum of Israel, Mamila Center and modern downtown in Jerusalem
Concert at Yad Ben-Zvi Auditorium, 19:30 hrs.

June 25,
7th international congress session at Four Sephardic Synagogues, 10-14, 16-19hrs


Contact info for program in Israel:
Abraham Haim
Telf. +972 050 848 0783

                              


Program in Spain
Madrid, June 27

Centro Sefarad - Israel, 19 hrs, Book presentation of the novel Abraham’s Island (2018) by Jaime Eistein, speaker: Pilar Diez

Zamora, June 1

Visit to the Museum of the Three Cultures in Puente Castro, and to the Historic Jewish Quarter in city of León
Departure from La Hostería Real de Zamora at 8hrs

Concert by Mara Aranda entitled Sefarad en el corazón de Turquía (CD 2019), Etnographic
Museum of Castile and Leon, time TBA

July 2, La Alhóndiga

7th Congress Sessions, 9-14, 16-19 hrs

Contact info for program in Spain 
Jesús Jambrina
Telf. + 34 609 740 116 
+ 1 319 512 8277
These events are sponsored by

Ayuntamiento de Zamora
Council of the Sephardic Community of Jerusalem
             Association Friends of the Sephardic Culture
The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum
Center Sefarad – Israel
Center Isaac Campanton