Semi Annual Journal of the Society for Crypto Judaic Studies
Crypto Jews from Honduras
Translated from Spanish by: Channah M. Bejarano Gutierrez I was born in Honduras. In 1996, I moved from the interior of the country to Tegucigalpa, the capital city, where I began my university studies. Up until that point, I had no knowledge of my Jewish background. One day, my history teacher commented that my surname [...]
The Poetry of Lisa Alvarado
BASHERT I am the catch in your throat; the wordless cry, unexplainable. I am the cloud that follows you; raining at the slightest provocation. I am the scar that has become a flower. I am the pilgrim you brought home; the Jew you hid from the fire. I am your dark sleep. I am your [...]
Member Profile: Seth Ward
Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Vice-President for Programing, Professor Seth Ward, brings a wealth of education and experience to his position. Serving as Program Chair for the 21st Annual Conference, to take place in San Diego this August 7-9, Professor Ward has been on the faculty of the University of Wyoming (UW) since January 2003, where [...]
In Memory of Flavio Montoya
I was speaking to a new member of my havurah. I happened to mention my interest in crypto Jews. He said, “My landlord is a crypt Jew.” I said that I would like to meet him. A few days later the three of us met for breakfast at a waterfront café in Redondo Beach. And [...]
An historical tour through the Jewish Caribbean
Since 1995 I have led Jewish heritage cruises throughout the Caribbean. Participants most often come with the traditions of Eastern and Central European Jewry. We sail past some of the thirty plus inhabited islands of the Caribbean forming a graceful and lush archipelago (together with others sparsely inhabited) beginning with Cuba ninety miles south of [...]
How I discovered the synagogue of Coria
Originally published in Spanish “Cómo descubrí la sinagoga de Coria,” in Tarbut Sefarad, asociación cultural. March 2011 www.tarbutsefarad.com/index.php/es/articulos0/4291-como-descubri-la-sinagoga-de-coria-.html I am a businessman, with a doctorate in business ethics. I teach courses in various universities and I have published academic as well as literary works. However, I am not an archeologist, an historian, or a medium. [...]
The Position and Self-Image of Women in Sefardi Sources
First Annual International Conference Society for Sefardic Studies, Jerusalem, January 9-11, 2011 The first annual international conference of Sefarad, the Society for Sefardic Studies was held this past January 9-11, 2011 in Jerusalem. Founded in 2009 by Yom Tov Assis, its current chairman, Sefarad is affiliated with the Ben-Zvi Institute and is administered through the [...]
Portrait of an Artist
Some years ago I was working on a series of paintings rooted in the more recent history of urban life in New Mexico. I used calaveras (skulls) as a metaphor for times past as I drew on stories from friends and relatives about places and situations, the stuff of familial legend (see insert). At that [...]
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