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New Mexico Jews in War and Peace

The 18th Annual Conference of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society, "New Mexico Jews in War and Peace," which is scheduled for November 11-13, 2005 at the Embassy Suites, 1000 Woodward Place NE, in Albuquerque, will highlight the diversity of the Jewish community in New Mexico, a topic considered significant enough to serve as the focal point for a conference. The event will also provide a forum for the inevitable creative tension whenever people of wide-ranging perspectives gather in one place.



Whether or not New Mexico Jews played a role in Cold War espionage is attracting considerable attention because of research findings to be presented by David H. Snow and Ellen Bradbury-Reid in their presentation, "The Drug Store: Soviet Safe Station or Red Herring"



The findings stem from research and interviews with former KGB senior officer Sudo Platov who suggested that a courier line and safe station operated out of a pharmacy located on Santa Fe's Plaza during the 1930s; he claims the assassination of Trotsky was planned from this location. The pharmacy was owned by members of New Mexico's Jewish community.



The NMJHS conference headliners include Mark Rudd (an Albuquerque resident and math teacher at TVI) who served as a leader of Students for a Democratic Society and was featured in the documentary, The Weather Underground.



Mark Kurlansky, author of 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, will present "A Sixties Perspective on Jews Today" and put Jewish activism into an international perspective. Retired Admiral Robert Wertheim, who grew up in Carlsbad, NM, will address the conference on "The Experiences of a Navy Nuclear Cold Warrior."



Discover what it was like for Abe Chanin of Albuquerque when as a U.S. soldier, he arrived at Dachau the day it was liberated. Panel member David Pollak of Santa Fe will discuss being a sergeant and paratrooper in the Israeli army during the Yom Kippur War on the Syrian front. Dr. Stanley Hordes will address the topic of Crypto-Jews in colonial times.



The program is open to the public. Participants may register at the NMJHS web site: www.nmjewishhistory.org

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