Exhibit Inauguration: “The Golden Age of the Jews of Alandalus” | “La Edad de Oro de los judíos de Alandalús”
The Embassy of Spain to the United States, Centro Sefarad-Israel, Instituto Cervantes, the World Jewish Congress – North America and the American Sephardi Federation present:
Exhibit Inauguration: “The Golden Age of the Jews of Alandalus” | “La Edad de Oro de los judíos de Alandalús”
Join us to celebrate the Golden Age of the Jewish community of Al-Andalus with:
Ángeles Moreno Bau, Ambassador of Spain to the United States
Jaime Moreno Bau, General Director of the Centro Sefarad-Israel
David Dangoor, President of the ASF
Dr. Vanessa Paloma Duncan-Elbaz, ASF Broome & Allen Fellow, Research Associate at Cambridge University, and award-winning scholar and singer
Rabbi Yamin Levy, Founder of the Maimonides Heritage Center and author of The Founding Fathers of Sephardic Jewry and The Mysticism of Andalusia
Matt Gatton, Sephardic scholar and author of The Shadows of Socrates
Dr. Hélene Jawhara Piñer, ASF Broome & Allen Scholar, award-winning author of Sephardi: cooking the history & Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage
Dvir Avnon-Klein, ASF Sephardi House Fellow and talented multi-instrumentalist
Thursday, 11 April at 6:30PM ET
Program will be followed by a reception
In-Person @ the ASF – Center for Jewish History
Tickets: $36
The exhibition has been organized by Centro Sefarad-Israel, with the collaboration of Casa del Mediterráneo, the Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, and The George Feldenkers Program in Judaic Studies of the University of Miami, the Red de Juderías de España, the World Jewish Congress, Fundación Hispano Judía, and the American Sephardi Federation.
It also has the support of Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs – European Union and Cooperation, the Community of Madrid, the Madrid City Council, ElAl, Instituto Cervantes, the University of Cambridge, the University of Granada, Trinity College Dublin, and the European Research Council.