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In 1999, photographer Vincent Giordano made an unplanned visit to the small Kehila Kedosha Janina (KKJ) synagogue on New York’s Lower East Side. He knew little about Judaism or synagogues, and even less about the Romaniote Jewish tradition of which KKJ, built in 1927, is the lone North American representative. …

L- R Photographer Emmanuel Santos, President of the Greek Community of WA, Savvas Papasavvas, Filmmaker Carol Freeman Gordon and Rabbi and Adi Cohen. Photos: Richard Sowada Last week up to 200 guests attended the opening of The Jews of Greece: Then and Now exhibition at the Hellenic Community in Northbridge. The Hellenic …

A inauguração da exposição “Heranças e Vivências Judaicas em Portugal” está marcada para a próxima segunda-feira, dia 20 de março, na Torre do Tombo, em Lisboa, e vai contar com a presença do Presidente da República, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, do presidente da Rede de Judiarias de Portugal, António Pinto …

El Museo Sefardí de Toledo conmemora el Día oficial para la Memoria del Holocausto con una exposición documental que muestra la respuesta de la sociedad civil búlgara a la política antisemita de los nazis, que impidió que ninguno de los 48.000 judíos búlgaros fuera deportado a campos de concentración. La …

Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews opened its new exhibition “Battle of Gallipoli, World War I and the Ottoman Jews”. At the opening ceremony that was held at TBMM Mustafa Necati Culture Center, the news of the recent Ankara bombing was a hot topic. Turkish Parliamentary Deputy Speaker Ahmet Aydin …

Una serie de fotos-retratos de sefarditas griegos que sobrevivieron de los campos de concentración nazis. Estas personas que son parte de la historia de la II Guerra Mundial, revelan sus recuerdos delante de la cámara fotográfica. Desde 2012, la artista Ártemis Alcalay, investiga, viaja por Grecia y el extranjero y …

The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Exhibited February 12,2015 – June 9, 2015 in the Penn Libraries’ Goldstein Family Gallery http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/kaplanexhibit/ During the 16th century and continuing over four centuries, Jews and their descendants forged extensive networks of kinship, commerce, and culture around the Atlantic coasts …

By KEN JOHNSON     Trick question: What world-changing event happened in 1492 involving Queen Isabella of Spain? If you answered, “The Jews were expelled from Spain by edict of the queen and her husband, Ferdinand II,” you probably have an uncommonly high history I.Q. You probably also know that …

Greece, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Macedonia, Turkey-most of us have little familiarity with the rich Jewish life that thrived in these lands prior to the Holocaust. The panels of Images of a Lost World present family memories and photographs that celebrating both what remains and what has been lost from this world. …