The Converso diaspora extended far beyond Europe and the New World. The journey of Conversos extended to the Far East. Lúcio de Sousa’s doctoral dissertation is available on Academia. edu.
The dissertation is titled The Jewish Diaspora and the Perez Family Case in China, Japan, the Philippines, and the Americas (16th Century).
Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano-Gutierrez is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas where he earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. He studied at the Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Cleveland and received a Master of Arts Degree with Distinction in Judaic Studies.
He completed his doctoral studies at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago in 2015. His doctoral dissertation is titled “Complex Identities: Christian and Jewish Attitudes Towards Conversos” and was accepted in September 2015.
He also studied at the American Seminary for Contemporary Judaism and received rabbinic ordination in 2011 from Yeshivat Mesilat Yesharim.
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