The Sephardic Diaspora

Spring 2018 Lecture Series

Monday Nights @ 7:00 pm

Main Auditorium, Touro College, 1602 Avenue J Brooklyn NY 11230 (718) 535-9333

Free and Open to the Public

No hard questions, please.

Image: Eleanora of Toledo, student of Benvenida Abravanel

February 5: Who Was Benvenida Abravanel?

February 12 :Who Was Samuel Usque?

(No Class Feb 19 President’s Day)

February 26: Who was the Chida?

March 5: Who Was Sir Moses Montefiore?

Sponsored by Christopher and Ann Marie Bray

March 12: Who Was Daniel Mendoza?

Sponsored by LTC. Richard F. Moreno (US Army-Retired) in memory of his father Frank Moreno (1900-1994), born Pablo Igual Peiró in Sarrión, Spain and whose ancestors were Sephardim who converted to Catholicism as a result of the 14^th century persecutions, culminating in the 1492 Alhambra Decree.

March 19: Who Was Judah Touro?

(No classes March 26, April 2, April 9)

April 16: Sephardim and the Holocaust

Sponsored by LTC. Richard F. Moreno (US Army-Retired) in memory of his father Frank Moreno (1900-1994), born Pablo Igual Peiró in Sarrión, Spain and whose ancestors were Sephardim who converted to Catholicism as a result of the 14^th century persecutions, culminating in the 1492 Alhambra Decree.

April 23:Who Was Emma Lazarus?

May 7: Who Are the Crypto-Jews?

May 14: Who was Rabbi Ovadia Yosef?

Schedule subject to change: please follow us for updates!

Sponsor a lecture by donating $250 to our Touro College Scholarship Fund.