eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
A Reworking of the Paper presented on 9 July 2009 in Marrakesh, Morocco, for the conference The Heritage of Spanish Jewry in Morocco from the Expulsion to the Present Day (Mercaz Dahan, Bar-Ilan University)
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz is a researcher, writer, and performer described as “a kind of one-woman roving museum of her own” by The New York Times. Her research and publications focus on Sephardic women, music, popular culture, identity, transmission, and language. Her 2018 Ph.D. with félicitations du jury from Sorbonne’s CERMOM research group of the INALCO (Center for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies of the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilization), was nominated for the prize for the best dissertation of the year. A 2014-2016 Posen Fellow, a 2015-2018 Research Fellow of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, and a 2018 Broome and Allen Fellow from the American Sephardi Federation. In 2018 she was presented with an award for Vivre Ensemble from the Marocains Pluriels Association and honored for her cultural contributions to Morocco by the Hassan II Mosque’s Foundation.
