La Comunidad Judía De Coro 1824 1900

Isidoro Aizenberg

La COMUNIDAD JUDIA de CORO
1824-1900

Una Historia
CARACAS
1983

ISIDORO AIZENBERG

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Scholar-in-Residence/Curator, Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Archives,
Queensborough Community College/City University of New York, 2005-to present
Projects include:
*Research, writing and production of Holocaust related exhibits and catalogues
Rabbi Emeritus,Conservative Synagogue of Jamaica Estates, NY – 1974-2004
*Initiated and led Jewish Museum of New York educational tours to Brazil and
Argentina as the scholar-in-residence
*Founding member, Advisory Committee, Queens College Black-Jewish People to
People Project
*Directed the Jewish Laymen’s Institute, an annual study retreat for fourteen
congregations in Queens
*Conceived and organized aninter-congregational adult education project on
Judaism, the Jewish family and Jewish liturgy
*Directed and created resource materials for a yearly congregational study weekend
at Camp Isabella Freedman, the UJA Retreat Center
*Designed and delivered adult education programs in innovative formats (for
example, Genesis using the Bill Moyers TV series), and SOS-“Save Our Scrolls,” and
educational and fundraising campaign
*Developed “Got Guilt,” and award winning High Holidays outreach to the
unaffiliated
*Mentored and taught senior rabbinical students at the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America
*Designed award-winning congregational bulletin emphasizing educational contents
*Pioneered pastoral visits to Havana, Cuba Jewish community, teaching and
counseling in Spanish
Director, B’nai B’rith Center andHillel Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela, 1967-1974
Projects included:
*Founded and led the first Hillel Foundation, the Jewish college youth
organization, in Latin America
*Generated educational programs for lodges, including lecture series and exhibits
*Executive Secretary, Judeo-Catholic Relations Committee, Human Rights
Council, Caracas
*Served as educational consultant and lecturer toleadership of B’nai B’rith
Caribbean District 23, visiting Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Colombia, Puerto Rico,
and Curacao.
*Initiated anti-defamation and interfaith activities and pro-Israel programs with
Venezuelan leaders

*Spearheaded restoration of historic Jewish cemeteries in Coro, Venezuela and
Bridgeport, Barbados

Program Director and Division Head, Camp Ramah, Ontario, Canada, and Glen Spey,
NewYork, 1963-1967
Teacher and youth leader, Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, 1964-1967
Director, Cuban Young Adult Activities, Canarsie Jewish Center, 1962-1963
EDUCATION
Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY – Doctor of Divinity (honorary), 1992;
Rabbi, 1967; Master of Hebrew Letters, 1965
*Senior class prize in homiletics
New York University, M.A. 1967
Columbia University, B.S. 1964
OTHERACTIVITIES
*Advisor to the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
on behalf of The Jewish Theological Seminary and the Rabbinical Assembly
*Advisor on Argentina’s Jewish Community for the UJA Task Force on Argentine
Jewry
*Rabbinic advisor to the Board of Education Committee, Solomon Schechter School
of Queens
*Bilingual crisis intervention advisor, American Red Cross
*Member,Education Committee, Ramaz Upper School
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Book
The Jewish Community of Coro 1824 to 1900 in Spanish, Caracas, 1983 second ed.,
1994. Winner of the 1985 Fernando Jeno Prize of the Mexican Jewish community for
excellence in Jewish scholarship

Articles
Amor y mujer esponsales y dotes judías, Coro siglo XIX, written with Blanca De
Lima, Montalban, Universidad Catolica Andres Bello,N. 42, 2008, p. 83 to108
Bodas judías en el Coro del siglo XIX, written with Blanca De Lima, Tierra Firme,
Vol. XXV, N. 100, Oct., 2007
Los judíos de Coro, pioneros de la modernidad en Venezuela, Maguen 95, 1995, p. 8 to
14
The 1855 Expulsion of the Curacoan Jews from Coro, American Jewish History, 72.4,
1983, p. 495 to 507
Die or Leave, An Anti Jewish Riot in Nineteenth Century Coro, American...