Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

142. Sephardic Identity as Seen through Literature, Language, and Culture

10:15–11:30 a.m., Congress C, Loews

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Sephardic Studies

Presiding: Yitzchak Kerem, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem

1. “The Sephardic Identity as a Metaphor of the Spanish Alienated Self in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Sefarad,” Mar M. Gongora, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.

2. “Marcel Cohen in Judeo-Spanish and French,” Alan Astro, Trinity Univ.

3. “Rabbi Menahem Shemuel Halevy (1884–1940),” Nechama Kramer-Hellinx, York Coll., City Univ. of New York

4. “Exile and Memory: Sephardic Jews from Salonica,” Herlinda Dabbah Mustri, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

For copies of abstracts, write to ykerem@actcom.co.il after 26 Dec.

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