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UPCOMING SEMINAR
Sponsored by YIVO in partnership with the American Sephardi Federation |
RUTH GAY SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES
Uncommon Voices, Everyday Lives:
Jewish Experiences in Salonika through the YIVO Archives
SUNDAY 12 JULY 2009
Meet the faculty at 3PM; Seminar at 3:30PM
Chair: Isaac Benmayor
Introductory Remarks: Steven Bowman
Presenter: Devin Naar
RSVP REQUIRED: 212-294-6143 / fmohrer@yivo.cjh.org
Devin Naar, a doctoral candidate in the department of History at Stanford University, was
Project Historian of the Salonika Project at YIVO. Under the project, the Records of the
Jewish Community of Salonika housed in the YIVO Archives were arranged, microfilmed,
and digitized, and a finding aid was completed. The project received support from the
Maurice Amado Foundation and from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Naar is writing his dissertation on the Jewish Community of Salonika during the 19th and
20th centuries. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece where he
organized a segment of the Salonika archives housed at the Jewish Museum of Salonika
and curated the exhibition "With Their Own Words: Glimpses of Jewish Life in Thessaloniki before the Holocaust." He has delivered conference papers or lectured at numerous
locations in New York and New Jersey, as well as St. Louis, Georgetown, New Haven,
Jerusalem, Moscow, and Paris.
Isaac Benmayor holds a Ph.D. in Modern Greek Linguistics from Oxford University. Born
and raised in Thessaloniki, Benmayor is a past president of the American Friends of the
Jewish Museum of Greece, and has worked on a number of publications on the Holocaust
in Greece, including The Holocaust in Salonica: Eyewitness Accounts.
Steven Bowman is Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati and has
written extensively on Greek Jewry. His books include Jews in Byzantium, 1204-1453,
Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece, The Holocaust in Salonica: Eyewitness Accounts and The Agony of Greek Jewry during World War II (in press). Bowman is Editor in Chief of
the "The Sephardi and Greek Holocaust Library."
The Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies is given at YIVO several times a year by scholars
who have done research in the YIVO Archives and who wish to share their research with
the public. The seminar series is named in honor of the noted American Jewish scholar
and historian Ruth Gay (1922-2006), and was made possible thanks to a generous gift from
the family of Ruth Gay.
RSVP REQUIRED: 212-294-6143 / fmohrer@yivo.cjh.org
All events take place at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street New York | NY | 10011
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The truth is known from
fools and children
Del loco y del niño sabe la verdad |
Traces of Sepharad: Huellas de Sefarad
Currently on view
The new exhibition and book, Traces of Sepharad, by Marc Shanker, features more than 40 interpretive etchings of Judeo-Spanish proverbs, offering a unique window into Sephardic culture and thinking. The sheer breadth of lovely etchings of these timeless Ladino proverbs are easily recognized, understood and shared by a broad audience. They evoke the Judeo-Spanish culture which was maintained for over 500 years by Sephardic Jewish communities in the Diaspora. They bring our attention back to the thriving Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula at a time when Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together in relative peace.
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To see the prints and read excerpts from the book visit: www.gravityfreepress.net
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