The main subject of the symposium will be the next: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.Participants:Barnai, Jacob (Jerusalem)Boer, Harm den (Amsterdam/Basel)Brown, Kenneth (Calgary)Halévy, Michael (Hamburg)Kaplan, Yosef (Jerusalem)Lieberman, Julia (St. Louis)Muchnik, Natalia (París)Nahon, Gérard (París)Neuzmann, Jens (Berlín)Oliel-Grausz, Evelyn (París)Poettering, Jorun (Hamburg)Schapkow, Carsten /(Leipzig)Schrijvers, Emile (Amsterdam)Sutcliff, Adam (London/Southampton)Trivellato, Francesca (Yale)Wallenborn, Hiltrud (Berlín)Weber, Klaus (London)Wilke, Carsten L. (México)Más información:Michael HalévyInstitut für die Geschichte der deutschen JudenRothenbumchaussee 7D-20148 Hamburg
