Reshaping 16th Century Sephardi Identities

Fabrizio Lelli (University of Lecce) visits UCLA to give 3 seminars on the "Scholarly Families of Sephardic Origin in Early Renaissance Italy." This is the third of 3 seminars and is titled, "Reshaping 16th Century Sephardi Identities after the Iberian and Southern Italian Gerushim (expulsions)" and was given at UCLA on May 21, 2014.

The final seminar will consider the Kabbalah doctrine popular in 16TH century Northern Italy, by focusing on a member of the Halfan family who followed different interpretations of the traditional mystical lore than his Italian predecessors.

Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies

Cosponsored by the
UCLA Department of Italian
UCLA Department of History
UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles

For more information on the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, visit: http://www.cjs.ucla.edu

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