SCJS-2026 Featured Speakers
The Stanley M. Hordes Distinguished Scholar Lecture
Roger Martinez, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs: Crypto-Judaism: The Southern Atlantic Jewish Experience
The Stratton-Petit Sosin Address to Advance Scholarship in the Crypto-Judaic Arts
- Marcia Fine: Crypto-Jews as Inspiration in Historical Fiction: Understanding How the Trauma of Duality Shaped Jewish Life
The Ben-Zvi Research Fellowship: Global Field Investigations into Crypto-Jewish Communities
- Malka Shabtay: The Ben-Zvi Research Fellowship: Supporting Emerging Scholarship on Crypto-Jewish Communities
- Rabbi David A. Kunin: From Kisar to Ambon: Converso Traditions and Emerging Jewish Identity in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands
- Gabriel Gualán Maldonado: Hidden Heritage in Southern Ecuador: The Crypto-Jewish Legacy of Loja
- Juliana de Albuquerque: Shifting perceptions of Jewish identity within groups of the Brazilian population with ties to the Jewish people
Sephardic and Crypto-Judaic Studies
- Hélène Jawhara Piñer: The Chocolate Diaspora: Sephardic Jews and the Journey of Cacao
- Diego Martínez Serrano: Baths and Synagogues: Material Evidence of Crypto-Jewish Life in Colonial Mexico City
- Mark A. Schneegurt: Pamphlets and Periodicals Published by A. C. Barros Basto for the Crypto-Jewish Communities of Northern Portugal
- César David Ciriano Vela and Magda Moreno Ciriano: The Philosephardic Movement and the Reconnection of the Sephardic and Hispanic Worlds: 1869–2026
- Leah Stein: Reading Between the Lines, Speaking into the Silences: Doctor John de Sequeyra and Being Jewish in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
- Isaac Amon: From Crypto-Jew to Jewish Pioneer: Dr. Samuel Nunes and the Founding of Jewish Savannah
- David Gonzalez Guajardo: The Invisible Return: Modern Anusim, Microaggressions, and the Barriers to American Jewish Integration
- Ricardo Villarreal De Silva: A Rooster’s Double Meaning: Symbolism, Persistence, and Converso Concealment (more on an artifact published in HaLapid)
- Dr. Cicero Adson de Souza Ferraz: Crypto-Jewish Presence in the Pajeú and Seridó Hinterlands: A Comparative Analysis of Incidence, Family Signatures, and Genetic Heritage with Emphasis on Floresta do Navio, Betânia, Itacuruba, Carnaubeira da Penha, Carqueja, and Airi
- Manashe Khaimov: Chala Jews: The Untold Story of the Jews of Bukhara Who Converted Publicly and Kept Judaism Alive at Home
- Joseph S. Berríos: Hidden in Plain Sight: Jíbaro Identity as Crypto-Jewish Concealment Strategy in Puerto Rico
