Abuelita’s Secret Matzahs
Reviewed by Arthur Benveniste The pages of HaLapid have presented reviews of many books dealing with the history and culture of crypto Jews, some of them quite scholarly, others written in a more popular style, some fiction and some histories. But, until now, the books have been directed towards an adult readership. What a pleasure [...]
Anousim Conference Meets
Just two weeks after SCJS held its annual conference in Miami Beach, a similar conference convened in El Paso, TX, August 19-21. Titled “The Sephardic Anousim Conference,” it was hosted by local Congregation B’nai Zion. El Paso is a city with a strong crypto-Jewish presence and Rabbi Stephen A. Leon of Congegation B’nai Zion has [...]
Linking the Sabbatean Spring Festival with the Hebrew Tekufoth
This article concerns the commonly shared ideology of those Sephardim who were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula as well as those who were forced to undergo conversion and remained there or immigrated to other countries. The messianic hope for religious and national restoration was for them a commonly held one that would bring an end [...]
Ladina Opens Tertulia Series in Porto
Captain Barros Basto, whom the noted historian Cecil Roth called “the apostle of the Marranos,” was the subject of the first of a series of tertulias, or salons, in September, sponsored by Ladina, a registered non-profit society in Porto, Portugal, which focuses on the history and culture of the Sephardic Jews of Portugal. The event, [...]
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