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FALL CLASSES START SEPTEMBER 2 — Registration & drop/add available through September 15

The Awakening: Jews From The Spanish Inquisition (G490)

G – History

Wilmington (Arsht Hall) | September 2, 2025-December 2, 2025

Tuesday: 9:00 AM-10:15 AM

This is a hybrid course. One section meets on site at the location listed; and one section meets online only.

Embark on a journey through an amazing modern-day historical phenomenon — the awakening of the Converso, direct descendants of the Jews of the brutal Spanish Inquisition (1480-1850). Also called Crypto-Jews, Anusim, Marranos, or Chuetas, Converso are Jews faced with expulsion, torture and/or death, converted to Roman Catholicism in Spain and or Portugal in the 14th and 15th centuries. Today they are rediscovering their “lost” Jewish heritage.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Susan Warner

WARNER, SUSAN — M.F.A., Temple University. For more than 20 years, Susan has researched, taught, written and spoken about ideas related to Judeo/Christian history. Her OLLI courses include: Antisemitism after 1945, History and Theology of Christian Antisemitism, Explosive Middle East, Israel/Palestine conflict. (G490)

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