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 14th 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 14th 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.
