Tag Archives: Gallipoli

El puerto de la costa de la Península de Anatolia en el cual los sefardíes en la guerra del´14 vivieron una situación dantesca. ____________________________________________________________________ El andariego Benjamín de Tudela, en el S XII d.e.c., en su pionera guía comercial con los judíos del mundo, ya contaba que en el Estrecho …

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 …

In 2008, two couples, Ilan and Miriam Guy, and David and Ruth Elazar, visited Gallipoli’s old Jewish neighborhood, where Miriam’s father and David’s grandmother were born and lived. The houses and buildings of this Turkish town, including the synagogue, were crumbling as a result of years of neglect. But what …