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ARTICLES FROM HALAPID

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Issue of HaLapid

Dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the birth of Doña Gracia

• The End of Jewry in Sepharad by Matthew Warshawsky, PhD  (A background to history of Crypto Judaism)
• 22 Primos in Search of Sacred Memories: Portuguese Jewish Heritage Conference by Dolores Sloan
• 1449. Toledo, Spain, Doña Robledo by Isabelle Medina-Sandoval
• 1497: The Forced conversion of the Jews of Portugal by Arthur Benveniste
• A Matter of Conjecture, Crypto-Jews in Early California  by Bob Hattem
• Abraham Zacuto by Harry Ezratti
• Amatus Lusitanus discovered valves in veins and arteries by David Hashavit
• Anusim and Hmung by Adam Sevran
• A Story of the Lemba and Me by Rufina Bernardetti Silva Mausenbaum
• A Tribute to Cary Herz by Mona Hernandez
• A Walking Tour of Jewish San Diego by Stan and Laurel Schwartz
• Activism  Rather Than Prayer and Payoff: Doña Gracia and Joseph Nasi by Dolores J. Sloan
• Another Look at Pablo de Santa Maria by Arye Hazary
• Art As An Expression of Sephardic and Crypto-Jewish Identity: Looking at Ex Libris by Abraham Lavender
• The Atlantic Monthly Exposé by Max Valerio
• Anousim Conference Meets In El Paso by Arthur Benveniste
• Belmonte: A Reporter Revisits an Anusim Community by Kitty Teltsch
• Belmonte: Community Needs Trained Leaders by Yaacov Gladstone
• Belmonte Museum Records History of Anusim by Sérgio Castro Pinheiro
• Card Playing to Hide Jewish Identity by Arthur Benveniste Catholics, Jews, Conversos
• Collaborated_in_Bishopric_of_Plasencia By Roger Louis Martinez
• Cervantes, Don Quijote and the Hebrew Scriptures by Kevin Larson
• City Preserves Its Jewish Traditions by Andrea de Lima translated by Michele Greene
• Clearing Up Ladino, Judeo-Spanish, Sephardic Music by Judith Cohen
• Comparing DNA Patterns of Sephardi, Ashkenazi & Kurdish Jews by Abraham D. Lavender PhD
• Converso as Metaphor Conference by Gloria Trujillo
• Crypto Connections: The Battle of Lepanto, The Duke of Naxos and Don Quixote by Arthur Benveniste
• Crypto-Jews From Tras-os-montes, Portugal: Inês Nogueiro, Leonor Gusmão, António Amorim
• Crypto Jews in Portugal by Eduardo Mayone Dias Crypto Jews in Puerto Rico by by Harry Ezratty
• Crypto Jews of Brazil by Arthur Benveniste
• Daniel Levi De Barrios: Marrano Poet Laureate by Harry A Ezratty
• Did King Ferdinand Have Jewish Ancestors?
• DNA and The Sephardic Diaspora: Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Europe by Abraham D. Lavender
• Doña Gracia … With the Warts by Arye Hazary
• Dr. Hector Nuñes, Portuguese Physician and Crypto-Jew in Elizabethan England  by Charles Meyers
• El Santo Niño de La Guardia, A Blood Libel That Persists to Today by Arthur Benveniste
• England and Bevis Marks Synagogue - 1701-2003 by Randall C. Belinfante
• ETHICS AND CRYPTO JEWISH STUDIES – Three Views
  • Ethical Framework For SCJS by Seth Kunin
  • Identity and DNA Testing by Abraham D. Lavender
  • Alleles Have No Religion by Seth Ward
• Fennel – A Food Rich In Sephardic Cooking Lore by Victoria Roza
• Ferrara: Spiritual Haven for Conversos in the Early Renaissance by Dolores J. Sloan
• Form and Meaning in the Sephardic Poetry of New Spain By Michelle M. Hamilton
• Fragile Masks by Diana Sotelo Zertuche
• From Spanish Jews To French Huguenots by Abraham D. Lavender, Ph.D.
• Halapid's Policy Towards Use of the Term “Marrano”
• Herz Photos Document Presence of Hidden Jews in New Mexico by Kathleen Teltsch
• How Did the Dreidle Become Part of Crypto-Jewish Culture of Southwest? By David Kunin
• The Inquisition and Crypto Judaism in the Canaries The Inquisition Trial of Andrés González, 1486 By Vanessa Paloma
• INVITED ARTISTS
  M. Miriam Herrera - Poet of the East Texas Border country
  • Isabel Medina-Sandoval - 1449. Toledo, Spain, Doña Robledo a poem
• In Memoriam - John Paul Abranches by Anne Treseder
• Jewish Philosophy Influenced Crypto-Jewish Practice of Medicine by Norman Simms
• John Paul Abranches Highlights Denver Conference
• John Paul Abranches - In Memoriam by Anne Treseder
• Journeys Through Space and Time by Alan M. Tigay
• The Key to a 500 Year Old Door by Judy Frankel
• Ladina Opens Tertulia Series in Porto, by Manuel A. Lopes Acevedo
• Linking the Sabbatean Spring Festival with the Hebrew Tekufoth by Gad Nassi
• Maimonides The Physician by Arthur Benveniste
• Marrano Women In The Inquisition: by Fernanda Guimaraes and M. Lopes Azevedo.
• A Messianic Epiphany: The Conversion of the Dönme Sabbateans by Lillooet Nördlinger McDonnell
• Mestizo Jews: The Hidden Treasure of the World by Magnolia Albalat
• Mexican Inquisition in Nuevo Leon, 1550-1851 by Carlos Larralde, PhD and Gregory Cuellar
• The Mishna and the Masa of the Corn Tortilla by Gregory Cuellar
• Mourning Rabbi Soloveichik, by Schulamith Halevy
• Our Secret Heritage Crypto-Jews of South Texas by Alberto Omero Lopez y Cadena
• Pablo de Santa M aria by Judith Kreiger
• Pirke Avot, Haggadah and Bible, Ladino Translations of Crypto Jews in Italy by Ora Schwarzwald, Phd
• The Poetry of Leonor de Carvajal and the Crypto Jewish Tradition in New Spain by Arthur Benveniste
• Porto Synagogue, Comes Alive by Manuel Lopes Azevedo
• Porto, Portugal Synagogue—A Lively Scene for Morranos by Manuel Lopes Azevedo
• The Portuguese Crypto Jews Of Nantes In The Sixteenth Century by Richard Ayoun
• PROBLEMS IN STUDYING HIDDEN PEOPLE Four perspectives on crypto-Judaic research:
  • Seth D. Kunin, Anthropological Aspects
  • Stanley M. Hordes , Historical Challenges in Research
  • Abraham D. Lavender , Considerations in Sociology
  • Michelle Hamilton , Crypto Jewish Literature
• Rodrigo Cota by Elaine Worthheimer
• Santangel 98: Reflections on Atonement by Dolores J. Sloan
• SCJS Member Honors Colombus Scholar by Kathleen E. LeMieux
• Society Member Gladstone Raises Funds for Belmonte by Yaakov Gladstone
• Some Communication Codes Between Crypto-Jews in the Secret Prinsons of the Inquisition in New Spain by Silvia Hamui Sutton
• Spanish Textbook view of the expulsion of the Jews by Arthur Benveniste
• The Story of Dönmes Second Comversion by Salim T Nefes
• St. Vicente Ferrer and the Anti-Semitism of Fifteenth Century Spain by Ronald J. Duncan
• Texas Mexican Secret Spanish Jews Today Tomas Sanchez, founder of Laredo by Carlos M. Larralde, PhD
• Turmoil: The Abject Life of a Portuguese Alien in Elizabethan England by Charles Meyers
• The Visigoth Code
• UNAM Instituet Supports Project to DocumentCrypto-Judaism in Spanish Caribbean Islands by Stanley Hordes
• Unto the Ancient Mothers by Massimo Mandolini, PhD 
• Visiting Anusim in the Dominican Republic by Harry Ezratti
• Welcoming Back the Anusim by David Kunin
• Were Crypto Jews in New France by David Dugas
• Who are Crypto Jews and What is Their Origin?
• Women, Ritual and Secrecy, The Creation of Crypto-Jewish Culture by Janet  Liebman Jacobs
• World Politics, Illegal Jews, and the Inquisition of Cartagena  by Ron Duncan-Hart