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Date(s) - 20 Apr 2016
5:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Location
Steitler Hall B26, University of Pennsylvania
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Remembering Sepharad: History, Memory, Politics
Professor Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University)
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 @ 5:15 p.m.
Stiteler Hall B26, 208 S. 37th Street, University of Pennsylvania
In June 2015, the Spanish government approved legislation granting citizenship to the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. This political development, described as, a “historic reparation,” is based on the assumption of Sephardic Jews’ continued cultural identification with their one-time homeland — and it has elicited interest from Jews of Iberian origin across the globe. Yet what is the nature of this historic relationship? This talk probes the complex interplay of citizenship and cultural identity in contemporary “legacy pathways to citizenship” through an exploration of Sephardic Jewry’s changing ties to Spain in the centuries following their expulsion.
This is the Annual Joseph Alexander Colloquium, sponsored by the Joseph Alexander Foundation & the Mackler Family. Co-sponsored with the Jewish Studies Program, and the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism.
Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.
For more information: E-Mail [email protected]
or Call 215-898-6654.
For more information: E-Mail [email protected]
or Call 215-898-6654.