The history of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula often focuses on the history of the Jewish communities of Castile and Aragon. Part of this is due to size of these communities.
In this lecture, hosted by Rabbi Dr. Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez of the Crypto Jewish Outreach Center, Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Pereira, the author of Jewish Voices from Portugal provides a fascinating overview of Portuguese Jewish history and the several rabbis of note whose voices are now being rediscovered.
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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