Tag Archives: Adriana Brodsky

Adriana M. Brodsky: Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine

ADRIANA M. BRODSKY Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine Community and National Identity, 1880-1960 INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS 2016 How do immigrant populations navigate between ancestral ties and connections to their new homes? How do their plural histories create layered identities, and how do those identities change over time? Adriana M. Brodsky, Professor of History …

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New book: «Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine» by Adriana Brodsky

Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine: Community and National Identity by Adriana M. Brodsky (Author) At the turn of the 20th century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos («Turks»), and they were seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, not even identified as Jews. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history …

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Argentina: Sephardic Women

Version en español The Sephardic communities that settled in Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries came from various areas in the Sephardi world. The largest community was Arab-speaking, mostly originating in the cities of Aleppo and Damascus. The next in size was the Ladino-speaking community from Turkey …

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