Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jun 7 2009 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Price: 

Free

Where: 

Workmen's Circle
1525 S Robertson Blvd
Los Angeles
310.552.2007

Dolores Sloan will speak about her new book, The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Books will be available for signing.Book Cover

Before 1492, the Sephardic Jews on the Iberian Peninsula flourished for hundreds of years while making significant scientific, artistic, and governmental advancements. Their presence on the peninsula was marked by fluctuating periods of coexistence and persecution alongside Muslims and Christians. Sloan's new book examines the history of the Sephardic Jews from their golden age to their diaspora following Christopher Columbus. Sloan draws our attention to various achievements in science, medicine, philosophy, arts, economy and government.

Dolores Sloan is editor of the upcoming Journal of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Crypto Jews, a member of the English and Sociology faculties and Mount Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles, and a public speaker.