New Sources Available to Trace Converso and Crypto-Jewish Lineages
March 15 @ 10:30 am
Sunday Salon & The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami (JGSGM) proudly present
March 15, 10:30 AM in the
Adult Reading Room – The Hub Library
Address: 5950 SW 88th St, Pinecrest, FL 33156
New Sources Available to Trace Converso and Crypto-Jewish Lineages
Guest Speaker: Genie Milgrom
Please RSVP or request additional information to Etta Gold, egold@tbam.org
Internationally known researcher and author Genie Milgrom, a leading figure in the study of Converso and Crypto-Jewish genealogy, will share newly emerging tools and archival materials that enable families to reconnect with ancestors whose identities were hidden for centuries.
Genie Milgrom was born in Havana, Cuba into a Roman Catholic Family of Spanish Ancestry. In an unparalleled work of genealogy, she was able to fully document her unbroken maternal lineage 22 generations going back as far as 1405 to Pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal.
Historical Note – Why March 15 Matters
March 15 carries significance in Crypto-Jewish history. On this date in 1481, the Spanish Inquisition carried out the first public sentencing and burning of individuals in Seville accused of being secret Jews
(Conversos/Crypto-Jews). This tragedy marked an early and defining moment in centuries of persecution that followed, including the 1492 Alhambra Decree. Many families later preserved their Jewish identity in secret or fled to the New World—lineages Genie Milgrom’s work helps uncover today.
ADULT READING ROOM REMINDER
Reminder to visit our own libraries here on campus where you can enjoy award-winning books and so much more. ~ We welcome you all to our extraordinary library collection, which is now divided into three locations, all enhance the mission of the Temple Beth Am Congregational Library – “to provide materials of education, entertainment and enrichment for congregation and community.” Our Fiction books are in Meeting Room 2, where you can find detailed instructions for borrowing whatever you like. On that same floor, in the Clergy Satellite Library, are the religious study books, i.e. Torah, Talmud, observance, education, and languages. Our Hub location, the Adult Reading Room, contains an enormous variety of literature, community, history, geography, all Judaic.
We look forward to greeting you there.