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These papers originally appeared in HaLapid, the publication of the SCJS or were papers presented at SCJS conferences
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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
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 in Portugal by Eduardo Mayone Dias Crypto Jews in Puerto Rico by by Harry Ezratty
Crypto Jews of Brazil by Arthur Benveniste
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
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
Jewish Philosophy Influenced Crypto-Jewish Practice of Medicine by Norman Simms
John Paul Abranches Highlights Denver Conference
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
A Messianic Epiphany: The Conversion of the Dönme Sabbateans by Lillooet Nördlinger McDonnell NEW
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
Orale Israel by Mercedes Gail Gutierrez
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:
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