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A Sea of Ladino: From Spain to Israel – Where Next? - Thursday's Events

In collaboration with the National Council for Ladino Culture

Academic Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Refael, Head of the Salti Center for Ladino Studies at Bar Ilan University

Content Manager: Yaron Enosh

Dates: Thursday-Friday, December 24-25, 2015

Gilbert de Bottom Auditorium, Konrad Adenauer Conference Center

Thursday, 24.12

11:00 Registration

11:30 Opening Session: The Birth of Ladino Culture – Between East and West

            Welcome

            –Kol Haderech – Screening of a film about the fifth President of Israel, Yitzhak Navon, produced for the publication of his autobiography, Spain which Was in Jerusalem

Prof. Alisa Ginio-Meyuhas (Emeritus), Department for General History, Tel Aviv University, discussing her new book: Between Sepharad and Jerusalem: History, Identity and Memory of the Sephardim

Opening Session – Part II: The Return to Spain – Between East and West

12:15 “Going Back to Toledo?” En Route to Spanish Citizenship – Including questions from the audience

José Benarroch, President of the World Sephardic Union

13:00 Lunch Break

 

14:00 Second Session: Jaquetía – The Ladino of Moroccan Jews

Panel Discussion with Audience Participation

Facilitator: Prof. Tamar Alexander, Chairperson of the National Council for Ladino Culture

Participants: Prof. Jacob Bentolila, Jaquetía Scholar, Hebrew Language Department, Ben Gurion University, winner of the Nissim Gaon Award for the Study of North-African Jewry

Dr. Nina Pinto-Abecasis, Folklore Scholar, Salti Center for Ladino Studies, Bar Ilan University, winner of the Ben-Zvi Award for the Study of Jewish Communities

Dr. Susana Weich-Shahak, Ethnomusicologist, Jewish Music Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winner of the 13th European Folklore Agapito Marazuela Award

Session accompanied by recordings of Jaquetía songs

15:30 Coffee Break

 16:00 Third Session: From the Spanish Expulsion to Auschwitz

  • The Partisan Haggadah: The Story of a Community in the Holocaust. The Jews of Bosnia-Herzegovina during World War II

Dr. Eliezer Papo, Deputy Director, Moshe Gaon Center for Ladino Culture, Ben Gurion University

  • What’s the deal with Rabbi Kurtz? The Unsolved Story of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kurtz of Salonika in World War II
  • “Nine Portions of Suffering” – The Fate of Sephardic Jews in the Holocaust

Prof. Gideon Greif, Chief Historian, the Shem Olam Institute for Education, Documentation and Research on Faith and the Holocaust, Chief Historian at the Holocaust Research Foundation, Miami, Florida and Professor of History at University of Texas at Austin, Texas

17:30 Intermission

18:00 Fourth Session: Ladino – A Taste for More

  • Ladino-Speakers’ Cuisine As a Unifying/Divisive Cultural Element

Edna Asis, Scholar and Food Historian

  • Israeli Prose with a Ladino Flavor
  • The Judith Montefiore Cookbook

 

19:00 Intermission

20:30 “Stories About Yitzhak Navon” – An Evening of Personal Stories and Songs

            Participants:

Miri Shafir Navon, widow of the late Yitzhak Navon

Naama Navon-Peretz, daughter of the late Yitzhak Navon

Erez Navon, son of the late Yitzhak Navon

Moshe Shaul, friend of the late Yitzhak Navon and former Deputy Chairman of the National Council for Ladino Culture

Haim Cohen, friend and Chairman of the Worldwide North Africa Jewish Heritage Center

Galit Giat, vocals

Kobi Zarko, vocals

Gila Hasid, vocals, piano

Yoav Finkelman, percussion

Moshe Ben Ami, accordion

Yaron Enosh, host

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