Posts by Schelly Talalay Dardashti
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If you couldn't get to Seattle for International Ladino Day, here's the video!
Inyetesting paper by David Bunis on Judezmo. The entire issue of the journal is fascinsting (the Table of Contents is included)
The ketubah to be auctioned is for the marriage of David ben Abraham Nunes Henriques and Amy bat Alfred Delgado in Kingston on Wednesday night, 23 Menahem Av 5644 — or Aug. 14, 1884. The bride’s grandfather, Moses Delgado, was a major figure in the history of Jewish Jamaica."
The Society for Crypto Judaic Studies’ annual conference is set for June 30-July 2, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. The program includes music, art, genealogy, history, lectures and much more. Whether you will attend (we hope you do!) or wish to present, the Call For Papers below will be of interest. Visit us on Facebook or at cryptojews.com
The Society for Crypto Judaic Studies’ annual conference is set for June 30-July 2, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. The program includes music, art, genealogy, history, lectures and much more. Whether you will attend (we hope you do!) or wish to present, the Call For Papers below will be of interest. Visit us on Facebook or at cryptojews.com
The Society for Crypto Judaic Studies will hold its conference from June 30-July 2, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. The Call for Papers is below. The program includes international speakers, music, art, a genealogy workshop, DNA, history, literature, film and much more.
The Society for Crypto Judaic Studies will hold its conference from June 30-July 2, 2019 in Denver. The Call for Papers is below. The program includes international speakers, music, art, a genealogy workshop, DNA, history, literature, film and much more.
If you are in New Mexico, come join us in Albuquerque for the first (annual) DNA WORKSHOP, on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at Congregation Albert. Our featured speaker is the amazing genetic genealogist Kitty Munson Cooper of California on a variety of topics (analysis tools, DNA for adoption and more), Dr. Reuben Last on privacy and ethics, Schelly Talalay Dardashti on Jewish ethnicity and DNA, incl...
If you are in Albuquerque NM or environs, an all-day DNA Workshop is set for Sunday, October 14, at Congregation Albert. It is sponsored by Casa Sefarad@Nahalat Shalom in conjunction with the JGS of New Mexico. Our main speaker is the amazing Kitty Munson Cooper of California, along with Reuben Last on privacy and ethics, and myself on Jewish ethnicity and DNA. Other topics will be DNA for adoptio...
Interesting job posting. It is about time!
FamilySearch has added 29 million vital records from the Netherlands, including birth, marriage, death, etc. They claim the records in this collection go back to 1564.
Announcement for the one-day conference in St. Augustine, Florida: St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society (SAJHS) and the Society for Crypto-Judaic StudiesSCJS-SAJHS One-day Conference, December 9, 2018St. Augustine Jewish Historical SocietyRabbi Merrill Shapiro, President, 804-914-4460, rabbi32164@gmail.comscjs.sajhs.conference@gmail.comFlorida Mini-ConferenceThe SCJS-SAJHS one-day conference wi...
Part II of Domnique's program on Jewish Barcelona!
Are you in New Mexico, Colorado or nearby? The 2018 Festival Djudeo Espanyol - the 8th annual festival of music, poetry and learning - will be held Friday-Sunday, April 13-15, at Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque. This year's theme is "Juggling Identities," and covers Sephardic and crypto-Judaic issues. Music, art, poetry, talks, sharing, including two lunches are part of the weekend, as well as an ar...
Here is the program for the 2017 conference of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, November 5-7 in Philadelphia. Please join us!
Are you within reach of Philadelphia? We look forward to having you join us at the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies conference, November 5-7, 2017. For conference and hotel registration, visit cryptojews.com.Here are the events by day.
The 27th Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies conference is set for 5-7 November 2017 in Philadelphia. Here is a peek at the planned events, featured speakers and panels. More details will be rolled out in the days ahead. Come join us! Conference and Hotel registration: cryptojews.com. Register now as seating and rooms are limited. Click on each image below to enlarge.
Some may be interested in this newsclip from KOAT-TV in Albuquerque. Hispanic women of Jewish ancestry (most of the old families who arrived n 1598) have a very heavy incidence of BRCA cancer. Dr. Paul Duncan, now retired, noticed this quite a number of years ago and conducted major studies as did UNM. These women carry the SAME mutation as Ashkenazi women. Thus it is not Ashkenazi, as is often st...
UPDATE: The 27th Conference of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies will take place 5-7 November 2017, in Philadelphia, PA, at the National Museum of American Jewish History and at Mikveh Israel - the Synagogue of the American Revolution (established 1740).The theme is "Crypto-Judaism in the Americas."Headline speakers are Dr. Ronnie Perelis and Dr. David Gitlitz, PhD.Perelis is Alcalay chair and...
The 27th Conference of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies will take place 5-7 November 2017, in Philadelphia, PA, at the New American Museum of Jewish HIstory and at Mikve Israel - the Synagogue of the American Revolution, established 1740.The theme is "Crypto-Judaism in the Americas."Headline speakers are Dr. Ronnie Perelis and Dr. David Gitlitz, PhD.Perelis is Alcalay chair and associate prof...
Again, from Maria Jose Surribas, these are the names of the Jews of Mallorca, from notarial documents in which both their former Jewish names and new Christian names are recorded."Since I have photocopies of Appendix 5, I send you pictures of this one too (photos 4 to 7). This is a list of Jews of Mallorca that comes from J. Quadrado's "La juderia de Mallorca." The list is properly described as pr...