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Launching the Converso Genealogy Project: Tracking the Diaspora of the New Christians

Filed Under Crypto-Jews, España, Indexing Projects, Mediterranean, Portugal, Uncategorized, Western Sephardim By Genie Milgrom on August 20, 2016

I was born into a Roman Catholic family in Havana, Cuba, but from a young age, I felt Jewish and inexplicably was drawn to all things Jewish. After converting to Orthodox Judaism at age 34, I found clues along my […]

Announcing “A Nação Hebrea: A Relational Prosopographic Database of the Portuguese Jewish Nation 1500-1800

Filed Under Academia, Crypto-Jews, España, Mediterranean, Portugal, Western Sephardim By Michael Waas on August 18, 2016

In today’s world, interest in Sephardic Jewry is greater than ever before, particularly with the recent laws in Portugal and Spain enacting the right for descendants of Iberian Jews to reclaim nationality that had been revoked by the Expulsion. The […]

Crypto-Jewish Conference Enjoys Record Attendance

Filed Under Conferences, Crypto-Jews, Mexico, United States By Corinne Joy Brown on September 10, 2015

Rave reviews continue to pour in from speakers and attendees of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies (SCJS) held in Miami, Florida in July 2105. The Society was formed over 25 years ago to help facilitate […]

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