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The Jewish Diaspora of the Caribbean: An International Conference Kingston, Jamaica, January 12–14 2010 “The Jewish Diaspora of the Caribbean” is an international conference to be held at Kingston, Jamaica’s Pegasus Hotel, Tuesday, January 12–Thursday, January 14, 2010. The conference is co-chaired by Jane S. Gerber (professor of Jewish history at the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Ainsley Henriques (Director of the United Congregation of Israelites of Kingston). Our conference coordinator, Stan Mirvis, can be contacted by visiting our website: http://www.ucija.org/conferenceaa.htm. We encourage anyone with an interest in the Jewish Caribbean, Sephardic genealogy, general Caribbean/Atlantic history, or just looking for creative vacation opportunities to attend. Advanced registration is now available on our website http://www.ucija.org/conferenceaa.htm. Special activities in addition to the conference proceedings are being arranged for those in attendance including “breakfasts with the experts” and Jamaican Jewish heritage tours of Kingston’s beautiful Sha’are Shalom Synagogue and Hunt’s Bay cemetery with author and local historian Ed Kritzler. The United Congregation of Israelites of Jamaica is organizing additional activities to explore historic and contemporary Jewish Jamaica for those who will be staying in Kingston over the weekend. Conference Program Sephardic Trade Networks in the Colonial Caribbean Chair: Jane S. Gerber Miriam Bodian (University of Texas) Gérard Nahon (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) Jonathan I. Israel (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton) Holly Snyder (Brown University) Material and Visual Culture of Caribbean Jewry Chair: Judah Cohen Rachel Frankel (Architect) Sharman Kadish (Director, Jewish Heritage, UK; University of Manchester) Jackie Ranston (Independent Scholar) Caribbean Jewish Identity and Heritage: From Conversos to Modern Jews Chair: Miriam Bodian Mordechai Arbell (Independent Scholar) Ronnie Perelis (Yeshiva University) Hilit Surowitz (University of Florida) Judah Cohen (University of Indiana) Blacks and Jews in the English Caribbean Chair: Eli Faber James Robertson (University of the West Indies, Mona) Stan Mirvis (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Swithin Wilmot (University of the West Indies, Mona) Reassessing the Geographic and Ethnic Definitions of Caribbean Jewry Chair: Jane S. Gerber Eli Faber (John Jay College, CUNY) Matt Goldish (Ohio State University Dale Rosengarten and Barry Steifel (The College of Charleston) Joanna Newman (The University of Southampton; The British Library) The Art of Sephardic Genealogy Workshop John DeMercado (Independent Scholar), Ainsley Henriquis (Director, United Congregation of Israelites, Kingston), David Kleiman (President, Heritage Muse inc.)
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