Who Was a Jew in Middle Ages? Conversos, Jews and Question of Religious Identity, March 27

The 17th Annual Lazaroff Lecture, “Who was a Jew in the Middle Ages? Conversos, Jews and the Question of Religious Identity,” features Dr. Jonathan Ray of Georgetown University on Thursday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Baker Center Ballroom A.

A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.

Ray is the Samuel Eig Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. His publications include The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia (2006) and After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry (2013).

The lecture is presented by the Department of History in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University.