<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Friends,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This year at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, we are producing a podcast on Sephardic Jewish history. It may be of interest to you or your students. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>In the latest episode, I discuss the Jewish convert Abner of Burgos and the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 entitled "He is Still Israel? Conversion and Sephardic Identity before and after 1391.”<div class=""><div class=""><div class="">It can be found here <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic/news-events/all-news/search-news/new-frankely-judaic-podcast-episode-featuring-ryan-szpiech.html" class="">https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic/news-events/all-news/search-news/new-frankely-judaic-podcast-episode-featuring-ryan-szpiech.html</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Other podcasts include S.J. Pearce (NYU) on “In the Taifa Kingdoms: The Medieval Poetics of Modern Nationalism” and Ross Brann (Cornell) on “Andalusi and Sephardi Exceptionalism.” </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More podcasts will follow this year. One can access all links and subscribe to the whole podcast here: <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic/resources/frankely-judaic-podcasts.html" class="">https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic/resources/frankely-judaic-podcasts.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class="">Ryan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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