Sponsored by:
The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
The UCLA Department of History
The UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese
The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
KEYNOTE
Rahma Toledano and the Reinvention of Sepharad at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Yaëlle Azagury | Independent Scholar
PANEL 1
Performing Judeo-Spanish
Moderated by Kyle Rosen
Line Amselem | Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
Contact between ḥaketía speakers and the outside world in Esther Aflalo's theater (1975-1999)
Sarit Cofman-Simhon | Emunah Academic College
Nostalgia in Contemporary Ladino Theatre in Turkey and Israel
Adam Mahler | Harvard University
Editing the Jew: Textual Criticism and the Aljamiado Text
Sanja Trifunovic | University of Vienna
Judeo-Spanish Encounters in the Ottoman Shadow Theater Karagöz: The Case of Jewish Songs
PANEL 2
Encounters in Latin America
Moderated by Max Daniel
Micaela Amateau Amato | Professor Emerita of Studio Art and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Avlar Kero
Javier Leibiusky | INALCO France
Judeo-spanish immigration from the Ottoman Empire to Buenos Aires - a story of an invisible community (1876-1930)
Gabriela Orozco | Columbia/JTS
Ora Mas Bien Para Las Cadenas": Comparative Criminalities in El Amigo de la Familia's “Christopher Columbus: The Discovery of the Americas” and Devi Mays' Forging Ties, Forging Passports
PERFORMANCE
Jacques Loria's Dreyfus: Scenes Performed by Members of the LAdineros
LAdineros | Arthur Benveniste, Linda Berghoff, Judith Cohen, Ruby Hanan, Cynthia Hasday, Rachel Kaufman, and Eli Levy
PANEL 3
Gendering Judeo-Spanish
Moderated by Rachel Kaufman
Fazila Derya Agis | Independent Scholar
Laura Orvieto teaches children about feminism and ecology as an Italian Jewish woman alongside Judeo-Spanish idioms and proverbs on women
Sofía Fernández González | Yale University
Resilience and Artistry: Unveiling the Linguistic Tapestry of Judeo-Spanish in the twentieth century
Rachel Kann | Poet, Fulbright Scholar
“…Y hebrea tengo que morir”: The Veneration of La Heroína Sol
Naomi Mendez | Naomi Mendez, PhD student,
The Medieval Zohar: Love Tropes, Multiple Masculinities and Gender Fluidity in Zoharic Literature
PANEL 4
Politics of Language
Moderated by Jacob Daniels
Nesi Altaras | Stanford University
Naming the Sephardic Language
Marcel Israel | Independent Scholar
A Specific Ladino Vocabulary used by the Sephardic Jews in the Balkan countries
Julia Peck & Nesi Altaras | University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University
Avlaremos en Kaza! Towards an At-Home Language Nesting Tool for Ladino
CLOSING REMARKS
Judezmo and Haketia as Bridges in the MENA and Beyond
Carlos Yebra López | University College London