Posts by Laura Arnold Leibman
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Check out this great opportunity http://www.spanish-portuguese.northwestern.edu/about/open-positions/PostDocCopy.htmlNorthwestern University invites applications for The Sava Ranisavljevic Postdoctoral Fellowship in Judeo-Spanish Studies beginning September 1, 2018. The fellow will spend two years at the university and will be required to teach two courses per year and offer an annual public lectu...
Has anyone tried cooking the recipes in this cookbook (either the modern adaptations or the originals)? Maybe Ton Tielen or Dennis Bueno de Mesquita? If so recommendations for where to start? If not I may start working my way through the adaptations and post recipes for the ones that seem most successful/worth eating. Also can someone Dutch explain the significance of a "salon pastij" which goo...
For those who don't follow academia.edu, I thought I would point out that the awesome scholar Michael Studemund Halévy has uploaded a lot of his articles on Sephardim over the past week: https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/michaelhalevy
Check out the seminar on "Genealogies of Sepharad" in Zaragoza, Spain as part of the jornadas of ALCESXXI July 3-7, 2017.For more information about the seminar program, presenters and ALCESXXI see the following links: Genealogías de Sefarad: http://alcesxxi.edublogs.org/tag/genealogias-de-sefarad/ Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles siglo XXI (ALCES XXI): https://alcesxxi.ed...
Have Sephardic family from the Caribbean? Check out this awesome resource: THE DUTCH IN THE CARIBBEAN WORLD, C. 1670-C. 1870This project offers a research tool in two parts: a) a guide to archival sources on the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean World and b) a summary of the relevant laws and regulations of the period
For those who will be in Mexico city this summer, there are many fine Sephardic studies scholars presenting at the LAJSA conference in July
Greetings Hive Mind! I am looking for help creating a more accurate genealogy for the Brandon family in the 17th- early 19th centuries. Key places they lived include Barbados, Jamaica, Curacao, London, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Portugal. I am an academic who works on Sephardim in early America, and the Brandons play an important role in the book I am currently writing. Unfortunately the genealog...
Thanks to Adam Mendelsohn for pointing out that Princeton University Library has made available newly digitized copies of manuscripts written by Luis de Carvajal. http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/s7526g29j Luis de Carvajal the Younger (ca. 1567-1596), was the nephew of Luis de Carvajal y de Ia Cueva, the governor of Leon, Mexico. The Carvajals are the best known conversos in colonial Mexic...
Suriname Question: I remember long ago someone posted online a list of the common Jewish last names in Suriname. Does anyone remember the URL for that document or have a copy? I am going through the census and am having no problems figuring out who is Sephardic (as I am familiar with all the families that lived there), but am having a hard time telling the difference between Ashkenazi names on t...
Spent an interesting day at the [British] National Archives at the Kew, and I have some information to share with anyone who has ancestors from SURINAME. As people with ancestors who lived there early in the 19th century probably know, there was a 1811 census of Suriname on which many Jewish families appear. Lists of the families can be found at https://deniekasan.wordpress.com/familieberichten-...
We had a great conversation about Western Sephardic recipes this past Shabbat while at lunch at Bevis Marks, and I thought I would share one of my favorites, taken from the incredible <Recipes From The Jewish Kitchens Of Curacao> (quite possibly one of the best sisterhood cookbooks ever made). The photos are from when I made the soup for my class at the University of Urecht a few years back. One...
I thought I would start a series of posts in which we pick a topic or place and people chime in with their favorite resources for tracing family history. In honor of Sally Bruckheimer's recent post and because I am headed to England soon to do research, I thought I would start with London and my top 9 resources (with an emphasis on prior to 1850 as that is what I work on). Please feel free to chi...
For those who haven't heard, the Barbados Synagogue Restoration Project (BSRP) is now online! http://dloc.com/ibsrp Huge shout out to Amalia Levy for all her work on this!The Barbados Synagogue Restoration Project (BSRP) Collection contains records related to the activities and functions of BSRP, a charity established in 1984 in Bridgetown, Barbados. Since its establishment, BSRP has spearheaded ...
Join me in NY for my talk at AJHS Sept. 20th!
This may interest people. Please note that there is no residency requirement and people outside the U.S. are welcome to apply.===================================The HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) is now accepting proposals for the 2016 cycle of Research Awards to support interdisciplinary research on topics concerning Jewish gender studies. Scholars, activists, filmmakers, writers, and artist...
People who have Jewish ancestors from Suriname, Curacao, or St. Eustatius should know that American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati has just catalogued and organized their numerous (20+) boxes of their "Jews of the West Indies" materials that were collected by Marcus on his trip to the Caribbean in the 1950s. These include copies of rare documents from Suriname, Curacao, and St. Eustatius that ofte...
Are you a graduate student working in Sephardic American studies? Please consider submitting your work to the Henry L. Feingold Graduate Student Essay Prize. This prize is awarded biennially for the best paper submitted by a graduate-level researcher and includes a $500 award. At the discretion of the editors, the prize essay may also be considered for publication in the Society's scholarly journ...
In case it interests people:CFP: International Institute for Jewish Genealogy grants 2016by Ami ElyasafThe International Institute for Jewish Genealogy in Jerusalem (IIJG) has issued its annual “Call for Research Proposals” for original research in the field of Jewish Genealogy, to be carried out in the academic year of 2016-17. Successful applicants will be awarded grants of up to $10,000. Propos...
Registration is now open for the 2016 American Jewish Historical Society Biennial Scholars' Conference, June 19-21 in New York City! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2016-biennial-scholars-conference-on-american-jewish-history-tickets-21783185093 Early Bird Registration ends May 1, 2016. You can find a copy of the conference schedule and information about housing online: http://ajhsacademiccounci...
This may interest people. Tirtsah is the award-winning author of Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
The call for papers for the 36th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy is out! http://www.iajgs2016.org/2015/10/call-for-proposals-for-36th-iajgs-conference-in-seattle/ . For those who don't know Seattle, it has a thriving Sephardic community (see www.ezrabessaroth.net/ and www.sbhseattle.org/). There is also easy to be had kosher food for those who care, and the awesome Devin Naar i...
Hi all, for those of you who are academics/independent in other countries and are looking for a way to get PAID access to U.S. archives, I highly recommend this fellowship. Providence has a thriving Jewish community and is a very short drive from Newport which has the historic Touro Synagogue. Those who are living in the U.S. would also be eligible for the long-term JCB Fellowship. The John Car...
Call For Volunteers for Jamaican Jewish Cemeteries Documentation ProjectJAMAICAN JEWISH CEMETERY DOCUMENTATIONJamaica, West Indies January 17 - 23, 2016Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions will continue its ongoing inventory of Jamaica’s historic Jewish cemeteries. Our documentation constitutes the core collection of the emergent Jamaican Jewish Archive, a digitized humanities web site being created i...
Check out my review of this awesome book! (Or order the book from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Caribbean-Littman-Library-Jewish-Civilization/dp/190676414X)