Scholarly Families of Sephardic Origin in Early Renaissance Italy

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 second of 3 seminars and is titled, "The Halfan Family and Their Cultural Legacy" and was given at UCLA on May 20, 2014.

"The migration of the Halfan family�from Southern Italy to the Venetian area in the early 1500s illustrates the next stage of Sephardi movement and the many ways their thought affected Renaissance Jewish and non-Jewish culture."

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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