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Kantika Elizabeth Graver (Metropolitan Books) The Marriage Box Corie Adjmi (She Works Press) When I think about the English-language Jewish literary landscape, I also notice what’s missing: the stories of Sephardi Jews. Few people are aware that the very first Jews to come to North America were of Western Sephardic …

The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history. Item above: Rome’o i Zhuliyet (רומיאו אי ז’ולייטה) William Shakespeare (Salonika, 1922) Ladino …

When was the last time that a book teaching children how to read and write Ladino was published? Probably never. A new book, Nono’s Kisses for Sephardic Children, has filled that gap. Written and illustrated by Flori Senor Rosenthal(photo), the book is self-published and “contributes to the goal of reviving the usage of Ladino,“ she said …

Spanish Attitudes Toward Judaism Strains of Anti-Semitism from the Inquisition to Franco and the Holocaust Adolfo Kuznitzky Translated by Abramo Ottolenghi and Joan Ottolenghi Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-7662-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-1651-3 glossary, notes, bibliography, index softcover (6 x 9) 2014 Not Yet Published, Available Spring/Summer 2014 About the Book Analyzing the history of the Jews of Spain from the …

We have exciting news to share! The 2013 National Jewish Book Awards have been announced, and two former UW Hazel D. Cole post-doctoral fellows in Jewish Studies have been included in this prestigious group. Maureen Jackson, the Cole Fellow in 2008-2009, won the award in Sephardic Culture for her new …

This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with «secular» Ottoman court music. Through memoirs, personal interviews, and …

En el Jewish News de esta semana,el Rabino Raymond Apple tenia un artikolo sovre la Imigrasion Judia mostrada a la rovez. En lugar ke se vaigan a Ingletierra los Imigrantes Judios, salian de Ingletierra i se ivan a otros paises. Lloyd Gartner, un professor de la Istoria Moderna en la …

One of the most valuable collections of Ladino books and documents in Israel is turning 20 this year. With about 1,400 volumes, the collection, the second-largest in Israel, is housed at Instituto Maale Adumim para la documentación de lengua española (ladino) y su cultura, (Maale Adumim Institute for the Documentation …

Eli Shaul (1916-2004) was a Turkish Jew. After spending his childhood in the colorful Balat neighborhood, he received a superb education at the prestigious Istanbul Erkek Lisesi (Istanbul Men’s High School), the University of Istanbul, and the Reserve Officers Training School in Ankara. While still in high school, he began …

     Isaac Benatar tells the story of the Jews of Rhodes, two of which were his grandparents who died at Aucshwitz, through the story of a young Jewish boy that he meet at a conference in Rhodes. The entire Jewish population of Rhodes was almost annihilated. Only one thousand …

Groundbreaking essays on Sephardic Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire and Western Sephardic communities This collection of essays examines an important and under-studied topic in early modern Jewish social history—the family life of Sephardi Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire. At the height of its power in the sixteenth and …

Aviva Ben-Ur es profesora asociada del Departamento de estudios judaicos y Cercano Oriente de la Universidad de Massachusetts y adjunto a los programas de español y portugués del Departamento de Historia. Obtuvo su Ph.D. de la Brandeis University (1998) y sus graduaciones M.A. y M.Phil. en la Universidad de Columbia …