Sunday, July 12, 7:30 p.m., Los Alamos Little Theater, 1670 Nectar, Los Alamos, free concert reading of Robert Benjamin's play "Parted Waters" and post-show discussion. This play, about a New Mexico Hispanic family and how it deals with its crypto-Jewish roots, premiered at the Arizona Jewish Theater Company in March 2009. This is the first full-text (full play but not full production) presentation in New Mexico. For more information see pages 3 and 4 of the December 2008 issue of Legacy, which is on the Newsletter page of this site.
Friday, July 17, 5 - 6 p.m., Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, talk by Dolores Sloan, former editor of HaLapid and current editor of the Journal of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian Crypto-Jews. Ms. Sloan will talk about the ancestors of many present-day New Mexicans, entertain discussion from the audience, and sign her recently published book The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Light refreshments.
Sunday, July 26, 10 - 11:30 a.m., Jewish Community Center, 5520 Wyoming Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, Dolores Sloan, repeat lecture, discussion, and book signing, The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal. Bagels, juice, and coffee.
Sunday, July 26, 2 p.m., at the newly opened New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe, 113 Lincoln Avenue, lecture and book signing by anthropologist Seth D. Kunin, professor at University of Durham in England, Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity among the Crypto-Jews.
Tuesday, July 28, 7 p.m., Jewish Community Center in Albuquerque, 5520 Wyoming Blvd. NE, Seth D. Kunin, repeat lecture and book signing, Juggling Identities.
August 2-4, Denver, Annual Conference of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. For more information go to www.cryptojews.com.
Labor Day Weekend, September 5-6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., NMJHS 8th Annual Book & Etc. Sale at the Wild Oats Community Room, Cordova Road between St. Francis Drive and Cerrillos Road, in Santa Fe.
October 23-25, Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NMJHS Annual Conference, “New Mexico Jews and the Great Depression.”
November 8-15, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, “¡Celebrate! The Jewish Experience in Latin American Countries,” lectures, films, and musical events [times and places to be announced].
Sunday, November 22, 1-4 p.m., genealogy workshop, Temple Beth Shalom, 205 East Barcelona Road, Santa Fe.
Sunday, December 6 at the New Mexico History Museum, seminar on
genetics of crypto-Jews. [time to be announced].
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