The Institute for the History of the German Jews is organizing the first international symposium on the HISTORY OF THE PORTUGUESE-SPANISH JEWS IN HAMBURG, which will take place in Hamburg from the 18th to the 20th of September 2005, in the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg.

The main subject of the symposium will be

Coming and Going.
The Role of Hamburg in the Religious, Social, Economic and Cultural Sefardic Network.

The sessions will be devoted to the history of the Portuguese-Spanish Jewish communities in Hamburg, Altona, Emden and Glückstadt in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, with particular emphasis on the sefardic network:

• the Reencounter of the former Marranos with Judaism
• Hamburgs’ Sefardic Jews as reflected in the Archives of the Iberian and Venitian Inquisition
• the Atlantic Trade and the Sefardim Merchants
• the Relationships between Hamburg and the Sefardic Communities of Amsterdam, London, Livorno, Bordeaux and the New World
• the Contributions of Hamburgs’ Sefardic Jews to Jewish and Non-Jewish Culture
• Financing Poor Relief in the Portuguese Communities in the 17th and 19th Century
• A New Heaven? Hamburgs’ Sefardic Jews in the Caribbean and Brazil

Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Stefanie.Schueler@uni-hamburg.de

Michael Studemund-Halévy, docteur ès-lettres
mihalevy@aol.com

Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden
Rothenbaumchaussee 7
20148 Hamburg