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Spanish (Spain) Educational Events in New York, NY

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Dr. Ronnie Perelis: Crisis and Creativity
Dr. Ronnie Perelis: Crisis and Creativity
Jews thrived within the multicultural society of medieval Spain, creating a rich and dynamic culture of Torah scholarship, poetic and artistic creativity and cutting-edge science and philosophy. But the vital, if uneasy, relationship with their Christian and Muslim neighbors suffered a devastating blow in the summer of 1391, when anti-Jewish riots raged across the peninsula and left thousands of forced converts in their aftermath. The tensions between the newly converted Jews, the conversos, and their Christian neighbors led to the rise of the Inquisition and the eventual expulsion of all Jews in 1492. This lecture will explore how the vibrant Jewish community faced the challenges of religious violence, inquisitorial persecution and expulsion. Ronnie Perelis’s research explores connections between the Jewish and wider Iberian communities with an emphasis on the dynamics of religious transformation within the context of crypto-Jewish life. Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies and director of the International Affairs Program at Yeshiva University, he is author of Blood and Faith.

Tuesday, 19, 19.00 - Tuesday, 19, 20.15 New York, NY _$25

Dr. Jerrilynn D. Dodds: Beyond Tolerance
Dr. Jerrilynn D. Dodds: Beyond Tolerance
Medieval Spain has long been seen through warring lenses: as an idyllic, tolerant society where Christians, Jews and Muslims coexisted in harmony — or as a world of unceasing antagonism based on religious animosity. Recently, however, scholars have limned a more complex picture that reflects the diverse political and social contexts in which Jews lived and interacted with Christians and Muslims over seven centuries. That complexity is revealed in the art of and about Spanish Jews. This evening we will explore how it is manifested in the decorative carpet pages of Hebrew Bibles, remarkable Haggadot — some with figural paintings, in the grand synagogues of Toledo and Cordoba, as well as in newly discovered and excavated synagogue buildings. Jerrilynn D. Dodds is a scholar focused on how religious groups form their identities through art and architecture. Former dean and chief academic officer of Sarah Lawrence College, she now teaches art history there and has curated exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Alhambra.

Tuesday, 14, 19.00 - Tuesday, 14, 20.15 New York, NY _$25

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Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein: Family Papers
Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein: Family Papers
After their expulsion from Spain, thousands of Sephardic families made their way to the bustling port of Salonica, then part of the Ottoman Empire, becoming the majority of the city’s residents by the early 16th century. Among them was the sprawling Levy clan and, over the centuries, as leading publishers and editors, the family chronicled modern Sephardic life across the empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew borders and transformed the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. Relatives soon emigrated, stretching the familial diaspora from Greece to Western Europe, Israel, Brazil and India. In time, the Holocaust nearly eviscerated the family, as it did close to 90 percent of the Jewish population of Salonica. This session, based on Stein’s award-winning Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, will trace an emblematic Sephardi journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s Family Papers was named a Best Book of 2019 by The Economist and an Editor’s Choice by The New York Times Book Review. Professor of History and Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA, she is author of nine other books and has won both a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Jewish Book Awards.

Tuesday, 17, 19.00 - Tuesday, 17, 20.15 New York, NY _$25

Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz: Echoes of Our Ancestors
Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz: Echoes of Our Ancestors
Like language, food and history, sound is a key catalyst of cultural transmission: “sontinuity,” as Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz calls it. In this talk, she will explore how sound has helped maintain the political, economic and social histories of Sephardi communities from the 15th-century expulsion into the modern era. A renowned performer and scholar, she will use voices, music and instruments to demonstrate sound’s power to pass along culture and will discuss how 16th-century printed songbooks, orally transmitted musical memories, print media and early recordings helped establish the sonic archive of Sephardi selfhood. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz explores how tradition has been transmitted in the Sephardic diaspora. An internationally renowned performer of Sephardi repertoires, she is Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and founder/director of KHOYA: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive.

Tuesday, 17, 19.00 - Tuesday, 17, 20.15 New York, NY _$25

Dr. Jonathan S. Ray: The Golden Age of the Jews of Spain
Dr. Jonathan S. Ray: The Golden Age of the Jews of Spain
Medieval Spanish Jewry, whose ranks included celebrated courtiers, doctors, poets and philosophers, represents one of the most fabled societies in the annals of the Jewish people. Yet the Spanish Inquisition and subsequent expulsion remain among the most devastating events in our history. To shed light on those extremes, this lecture will explore the realities of daily life for medieval Jews, which was often far different, and perhaps far more familiar, than centuries of nostalgia, pride, hope and guilt would suggest. An expert on Jewish life in medieval Spain, especially on the coexistence of Jewish, Christian and Muslim societies and the expulsion, Jonathan S. Ray holds a chair in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University and is author of three books.

Tuesday, 20, 19.00 - Tuesday, 20, 20.15 New York, NY _$25

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Dr. Ronnie Perelis: Crisis and Creativity
Dr. Ronnie Perelis: Crisis and Creativity
Jews thrived within the multicultural society of medieval Spain, creating a rich and dynamic culture of Torah scholarship, poetic and artistic creativity and cutting-edge science and philosophy. But the vital, if uneasy, relationship with their Christian and Muslim neighbors suffered a devastating blow in the summer of 1391, when anti-Jewish riots raged across the peninsula and left thousands of forced converts in their aftermath. The tensions between the newly converted Jews, the conversos, and their Christian neighbors led to the rise of the Inquisition and the eventual expulsion of all Jews in 1492. This lecture will explore how the vibrant Jewish community faced the challenges of religious violence, inquisitorial persecution and expulsion. Ronnie Perelis’s research explores connections between the Jewish and wider Iberian communities with an emphasis on the dynamics of religious transformation within the context of crypto-Jewish life. Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies and director of the International Affairs Program at Yeshiva University, he is author of Blood and Faith.

Tuesday, 20, 19.00 - Tuesday, 20, 20.15 New York, NY 0.00

Dr. Jerrilynn D. Dodds: Beyond Tolerance
Dr. Jerrilynn D. Dodds: Beyond Tolerance
Medieval Spain has long been seen through warring lenses: as an idyllic, tolerant society where Christians, Jews and Muslims coexisted in harmony — or as a world of unceasing antagonism based on religious animosity. Recently, however, scholars have limned a more complex picture that reflects the diverse political and social contexts in which Jews lived and interacted with Christians and Muslims over seven centuries. That complexity is revealed in the art of and about Spanish Jews. This evening we will explore how it is manifested in the decorative carpet pages of Hebrew Bibles, remarkable Haggadot — some with figural paintings, in the grand synagogues of Toledo and Cordoba, as well as in newly discovered and excavated synagogue buildings. Jerrilynn D. Dodds is a scholar focused on how religious groups form their identities through art and architecture. Former dean and chief academic officer of Sarah Lawrence College, she now teaches art history there and has curated exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Alhambra.

Tuesday, 20, 19.00 - Tuesday, 20, 20.15 New York, NY 0.00

Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein: Family Papers
Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein: Family Papers
After their expulsion from Spain, thousands of Sephardic families made their way to the bustling port of Salonica, then part of the Ottoman Empire, becoming the majority of the city’s residents by the early 16th century. Among them was the sprawling Levy clan and, over the centuries, as leading publishers and editors, the family chronicled modern Sephardic life across the empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew borders and transformed the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. Relatives soon emigrated, stretching the familial diaspora from Greece to Western Europe, Israel, Brazil and India. In time, the Holocaust nearly eviscerated the family, as it did close to 90 percent of the Jewish population of Salonica. This session, based on Stein’s award-winning Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, will trace an emblematic Sephardi journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s Family Papers was named a Best Book of 2019 by The Economist and an Editor’s Choice by The New York Times Book Review. Professor of History and Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA, she is author of nine other books and has won both a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Jewish Book Awards.

Tuesday, 20, 19.00 - Tuesday, 20, 20.15 New York, NY 0.00

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