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JGSGB Specialist Talk - 16 May 2021 2pm – Dr Cecil Reid – “Breaking with the Past: The Jews of Spain before the Expulsion”

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a specialist talk on a Sephardic theme by Zoom.

• Date: Sunday 16 May 2021
• Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem
• Title: Breaking with the Past: The Jews of Spain before the Expulsion
• Speaker: Dr Cecil Reid
• Description: Spain was a crucible of social change in the 14th and 15th centuries. This was the case no more so than for the Jews: their remarkable millennium of cultural coexistence with their Christian and Muslim neighbours would end with their expulsion in 1492. But even before this final act, the communities came under an ever-increasing threat that was both physical and cultural. In this talk Dr. Reid considers the highs and the lows of Jewish life in these last two fraught centuries of the Middle Ages. The changes that affected the communities provide a colourful but also a tragic backdrop to a unique chapter of European Jewish history, one that had repercussions not only for them but also for Christian Spain itself.

About Cecil Reid
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After a long career as a clinical haematologist and medical researcher at Northwick Park hospital in Harrow, Cecil decided to take up a study of Jewish medieval history in his retirement. A Master’s degree at UCL was followed by a PhD at Queen Mary University of London. His thesis, ‘A Society in Transition’, was completed in 2018 and his book Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile: Breaking with the Past has just been published by Routledge.

After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A on the talk.

The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself!

If you have problems joining please email chairman@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts. In particular, if you get stuck in a registration loop, you may want to upgrade the version of Zoom on your PC, but please email me and I can help you through this …

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Leigh Dworkin is inviting you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: JGSGB D&S SIG: Breaking with the past: Jews in Spain before the Expulsion by Dr. Cecil Reid
When: May 16, 2021 02:00 PM London

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtf-2srjMsEtFlQsJAJMMsH6EU3DIdrRVJ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Stay safe and keep well!

Leigh Dworkin
Chairman, JGSGB
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