eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
4er Dia Internasional del Ladino
A Week Celebrating
Judeo-Sapnish Culture
Program
Week-long Celebration of Judeo-Spanish Culture: January 20-27, 2017
Beginning with Rachel Amado Bortnick’s scintillating talk at Shearith Israel on «Four Sephardic Graces: Three Outstanding Women and a Blessing (Doña Gracia Nasi, Grace Aguilar, Grasia Albuhayre, and the Ladino grace after meals),” the week of celebrating Judeo-Spanish culture welcomed Prof. Maya Soifer Irish, of Rice University, who lectured on “Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile: Tradition, Coexistence, and Change,” where we learned that, through money-lending and philanthropy, Castilian Jews financed churches, monasteries, palaces, and many other civic works to maintain their privileges in the Christian realm.
Toward the end of the week, Prof. David R. Blumenthal, of Emory University, lectured on “The Aliyah Series of Salvador Dali: Perspectives of a Spanish Artist on the Jewish State” and curated the exhibit which was displayed at Temple Emanu El of Dallas. The final event was a screening of Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition, which featured Dallas’ own Rachel Amado Bortnick as one of Frankel’s Ladino mentors. We are already planning for next year’s celebration!
