Dolores Sloan
From Europe to the American Southwest
The  dramatic story of Sephardic and Crypto Jews.

April 1, 2012 at 2:00 PM
JCC auditorium

Free to 2012 JHM Members ~$5.00 admission

In 1996, Sloan trav­eled through Spain and Por­tu­gal for five weeks, by train, bus and by foot, always look­ing for the foot­prints left by the remark­able Jews who had cre­ated a golden age of learn­ing and dis­cov­ery in the Mid­dle Ages and Early Mod­ern Period. When she returned from her trip, hun­gry to learn more, she searched library and book­store shelves for works for the gen­eral reader. There were his­tor­i­cal overviews, but no details on the stel­lar nota­bles Sloan had learned of or on the every­day lives of the Sephardim—how the fam­i­lies edu­cated their chil­dren and the place of the syn­a­gogue in their lives; how they main­tained them­selves eco­nom­i­cally; what travel was like and the role of poetry and the arts; how they cared for the sick and buried the dying, pro­vided for the impov­er­ished widow and assured the poor girl’s dowry.

The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Por­tu­gal: Sur­vival of an Imper­iled Cul­ture in the Fif­teenth and Six­teenth Cen­turies is the result of research in Spain, Por­tu­gal, Mex­ico and the United States to fill this infor­ma­tion gap.

Celebrating Arizona
The Centennial Exhibit

February 10th through March 31th 2012
Jewish History Museum
564 S. Stone Avenue

The exhibit celebrates the rich history of the state and the contribution the Jewish community has made to that history.  Of special interest is a 48 star flag flown over a Jewish owned business here in Tucson on statehood day, February 14, 1912 and the story of the owners, the Gold family. This exhibit is part of the city wide Centennial Arizona festivities.

Shalom Pardner is the Jewish History Museum’s Arizona Centennial logo - watch for it on caps, totes and coffee cups, available in the JHM gift shop in 2012.

October 24, 2010: Opening the Time Capsule