Recent Events:
2021: 30th Annual Conference – October 3rd & 4th 2021: A two-day event that featured panels, keynotes, a special David M. Gitliz Memorial Panel, and oannaul Martin Sosin and Stanley Hodres lectures. See below for access to recording of events.
SESSION 1: Sunday, October 3rd at 12pm EDT
Welcome – Cynthia Seton-Rogers, President, SCJS
Opening Greetings and David M. Gitlitz Emerging Scholar Award Presentation
Debbie Wohl-Isard, Past President, SCJS
Special Panel: Remembering David Gitlitz
Chair: Debbie Wohl-Isard
Panel Participants:
Isaac Amon
Doreen Carvajal
Joe Lovett
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Silvia Hamui Sutton
Click here to view the recording of Session 1
SESSION 2: Sunday, October 3rd at 2pm EDT
Annual Stanley M. Hordes Distinguished Scholar Lecture
Chair: Seth Ward
Prof. Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Chair in Sephardic Studies,
Yeshiva University
“Singing the Lord’s Song in the Lands of Captivity: New Insights from the recovered Carvajal Manuscripts”
Click here to view the recording of Session 2
SESSION 3: Sunday, October 3rd at 4pm EDT
Trends in the Genealogy of Crypto-Judaic Studies
Chair: Corinne Brown
Panel Participants:
Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Genie Milgrom
Adam Brown
Click here to view the recording of Session 3
SESSION 4: Monday, October 4th at 12pm EDT
Martin Sosin Address to Advance Scholarship in the Crypto-Judaic Arts
Chair: Cynthia Seton-Rogers
Panel Participants:
Dr. Enric Madriguera, Russell Cleveland Professor of Guitar Studies,
The University of Texas at Dallas:
“Echoes of Sefarad: Music as a Vehicle of Memory, and Anchor of Identity”
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SESSION 5: Monday, October 4th at 2pm EDT
Crypto-Jewish Literature
Panel Chair: Doreen Carvajal
Panel Participants:
Kathleen Alcalá, “From Samizdat to Cookbooks: A Fleeting Overview of Crypto-Judaic Publishing”
Corinne Brown, Author, Editor and Speaker about Crypto-Jews Ron Hart“Ethnohistory and Crypto-Jews”
Claudia Hagadus Long, “Writing about Crypto-Jews”
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SESSION 6: Monday, October 4th at 4pm EDT
Annual Membership Meeting
Cynthia Seton-Rogers, SCJS President
