[Steppes] Free SMU lecture - 14-15th cent. plus

[Elaine Crittenden]

Thought some of you might like to know about this 
free lecture to help round out your personas'
info about life in those times
(if they are 1300, 1400 and later):
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Bridwell Library (at SMU)
in cooperation with
The Dallas Chapter of The American Jewish Committee
and
The Beyt Midrash of North Texas

presents

The Sephardic Legacy in New Mexico:
A History of the Crypto-Jews

SUNDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2005, 2:00PM

(picture)
A common toy among Mexican children to this day
is one that bears a striking similarity to a Dreidl.

This presentation is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
For more information, call 214-768-3483

Stanley M. Hordes, Adjunct Research Professor,
Latin American and Iberian
Institute, University of New Mexico

Professor Hordes will outline the history of
the crypto-Jews of New Mexico,from their origins
in the forced conversions of Spain and Portugal
in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
down to the recent past. Hordes is the Director of
the Sephardic Legacy Project and the author of a
forthcoming book (Columbia University Press, 2005),
To the End of the Earth: A History
of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico

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