Louisa May Alcott was often told as a child that her dark hair and dark eyes came from her Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Her mother, Abigail May Alcott, who had similar coloring, had learned this from her father, Joseph May, a late 18th-century Boston businessman whose Portuguese Jewish ancestors immigrated to …
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Adopting Forebears’ Faith and Leaving Peru for Israel
El presente artículo es una edición ampliada y en inglés del publicado por «Nuevo Mundo Israelita» y difundido por eSefarad en julio de 2009. IQUITOS, Peru — If Ronald Reátegui Levy someday finds that he is the last Jew of Iquitos, it may well be of his own doing. His …
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