Sefarad vehaMizrah on the occasion of its 30th year anniversary is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting on Wednesday, July 28 beginning at 19:30 p.m. Israel time.
Topic: Global zoom of some 27 Sephardi and Mizrahi presentations going from east to west every 20-30 minutes beginning in Israel and continuing throughout Europe and the Americas until the same evening on the west coast of the USA Pacific time.
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Presentations (ca. 20 minutes each):
1) Ambassador Dan Oryan, Israeli ambassador to North Macedonia and initiator of Bitola/Monastir cemetery restoration project, “The Jewish Cemetery in Bitola (Monastir) from the Perspective of the Israeli Ambassador” 19:50
2) Dr. Vlatko Janev, University of Skopje (from Tiblisi, Georgia), “The Jewish community in Skopje during the last century of Ottoman rule (1800-1912)”. 20:10 (21:10 in Tiblisi)
3) Prof. Zvi Zohar, Bar Ilan University, “Are Israeli Mizrahi Rabbis still Sephardic? Reporting on a newly -begun research project”.20:30
4) Yagel Harush, paytan of Moroccan Jewry, Yerucham College Sephardi/Mizrahi studies program. 20:50
4a) Dr. Aviva Franke, Univ. of Koln/Jerusalem. “The Twenty-four Wards of the Priests in the Holy Temple as they appear in archeological inscriptions in Yemen”. 21:05.
5) Prof. Dov (Claude) Stuczynski Bar-Ilan University, “New Christian `Men of the nation’: Judeo-Christian Identities”. 21:25
6) Dr. Margalit Bejarano, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “FESELA” (”La Federación Sefaradí Latinoamericana”) 21:55
7) Yossi Ohana, Kehilot Sharot Piyyut Project, Jerusalem. 22:15
8) Dr. Avraham Huli, “Greek Jewish Rescuers in the Holocaust, and growing up at Greek Jewish moshav Tzur Moshe”.22:35
9) Dr. Rami Kimhi, Ariel University, Sephardic filmmaker, film scholar, and film critic, ”Material Culture of the Land of Israel; In New Palestinian and Israeli Cinema”. 22:50
Musical interlude, Sarah Aroeste “Mi Monastir”. 23:05
10) Dr. Paul Isaac Hagoel, Thessaloniki (Salonika), “The Holocaust in Salonika”.23:10 (Israel), 22:10 Thessaloniki
11) Ken Blady, Berkeley, California, “From the Land of Frankincense and Myrrh: The Jews of Yemen”.23:30 Israel, 13:30 Pacific time, California
12) Nardo Bonomi, Florence, Italy, “The History of Sephardim in Italy”.23:50 (Israel), 22:50 Florence, Italy time.
13) Sydney Corcos, Jerusalem (from Essoueira, Mogador, Morocco), “The New Jewish Museum in Essoueira (Mogador) and the Corcos family”. 24:20 (Israel), 22:20 Morocco time.
14) Prof. Jose Tavim, University of Lisbon, “Portuguese Jews in Morocco and Cochin, XVI century”.24:40 (Israel), 22:40 Portugal time.
15) Prof. Shalva Weil, Hebrew University (broadcasted from Univ. of Cambridge, England) “The Jews of Goa”. 1 a.m, Israel time, 11:00 p.m./23:00 p.m. Cambridge, England time
16) Yosi Stepanski, archeologist, Safed, Israel, “Newly Discovered Sepharadi Epitaphs from the Tsfat (Safed) Cemetery”. 1:30 a.m. Israel time.
17) Dr. Shoshana (Susana) Weich-Shachak, Tel Aviv, “The Treasure of Sephardic Childhood Repertoire”. 2 a.m. Israel time.
18) Dr.Judith Roumani, Editor Sephardic Horizons, “"The online journal Sephardic Horizons in the contact of electronic publication; and an update on Libyan Jewish studies", Wash. D.C. 2:30 a.m. Israel time, 7:30 p.m./19:30 p.m. Wash DC, EST)
19) Dr. Annette Fromm, Miami, anthropologist and museum curator, “We are a minority among a minority, the romantization of the Romaniotes”. 8:00 p.m./20:00 p.m. Miami, FL. EST
20) Dr. Judith Cohen, Toronto, musicologist and Judeo-Spanish singer “Around the worlds of Sephardic music in 20 minutes”, 8:30 p.m./20:30 p.m. Toronto, Canada
21) Dr. Hernan Rodriguez, author, Santiago, Chile, “Kultura Sefardi Biva”. 9:00 p.m./21:00 p.m. Santiago/Chile. Equivalent to EST.
22) Prof. Henry Green, Univ. of Miami, “Sephardi Voices: the Untold Story”.9:30 p.m./21:30 p.m. Miami, Florida EST
23) Prof. Victor Friedman, University of Chicago, “Judezmo in Macedonia”.
9:00 p.m./21:00 p.m. (Central time).
24) Arthur Benveniste, Los Angeles, CA, Editor “Halapid” (Crypto-Jewish studies), “The History of the Sephardim in Los Angeles”. 7:30 p.m./19:30 p.m. Los Angles, CA, Pacific time. (20:30 Mountain time)
25) Dr. Seth Ward, Univ. of Wyoming, Denver, Colorado, “Anusim Descendants in Contemporary Colorado and New Mexico, USA: a talk celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Sephardic Newsletter”. 9 p.m./21:00 p.m. Mountain time, Denver, Colorado.
26) Prof. Ethan Katz, University of California, Berkeley. Historian on North African Jews in France, and Operation Torch in North Africa during WWII. 8:30 p.m./20:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Berkeley, California.
Conclusion: Prof. Yitzchak Kerem, 7:00 a.m. (Jerusalem), 21:00 PST, 22:00 Mountain time, 23:00 Central Time, 24:00 EST.
Foundation for Jewish Diversity, Los Angeles
The Heritage House for the Sephardic and Eastern Communities (Beit Maksim), Jerusalem