eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
Date: February 21, 2016
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Bowers Museum
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706
United States
714-567-3600
Website@bowers.org
www.bowers.org
Dr. Jacobo Sefami will present a lecture, bilingual poetry reading, and songs performed by Vanya Green. This program is generously sponsored by The Latino Arts Council.
The grandson of Sephardic Jews who emigrated to Mexico City from Turkey and Syria, Jacobo Sefamí received his Licenciatura en Lengua y Literatura Hispánicas from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and his Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of Texas at Austin. He taught at New York University, and is currently Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the Director of Middlebury College’s Summer Spanish School. He directed the University of California’s education abroad program in Madrid, Spain (2003-2005), and was the Editor of the academic journal Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos. He publishes articles, interviews, notes, and book reviews for various literary journals in Mexico, Spain, Venezuela, Chile, and the U.S. His books concentrate on Latin American poetry. He has also taught, lectured, and published on various Jewish Latin American writers. His novel Los dolientes (translated and published in English as Mourning for Papá, A Story of a Syrian-Jewish Family in Mexico, 2010) explores the rituals of mourning in the context of Syrian Jews in Mexico City, and his book-in-progress will deal with the effects of migration on his own identity as a Sephardic Jew. He co-edited with Myriam Moscona Por mi boka (By My Mouth, 2013), a selection of texts in Judeo-Spanish.
Location: Fluor Gallery
Price: Member $9 | General $12 or $7 with paid museum admission
PURCHASE TICKETS
TICKETS: Online or onsite. Questions? E-mail programs@bowers.org or call 714.567.3677. Proceeds benefit Bowers Museum Education Programs.Tickets are non-refundable.
