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New research reveals that Alfonso de Zamora remained true to his faith. «Alfonso was certain that whoever read his compositions would never be able to reveal his secrets…» (photo credit: POLYGLOT BIBLE/NATIONAL LIBRARY ISRAEL/ALFONSO DE ) For centuries Catholic historians opposed admitting that a prized converso (a Jew who had converted to …

The computerized database, containing 61,022 Jewish tombstones from across Turkey, is the largest academic tombstone database of its kind in the world. The fruit of the labor of numerous individuals and bodies, its primary goals are to preserve the remnants of the gradually-disappearing Jewish life in Turkey, aid scholars to …

Jewish youth on a sailboat in Salonika harbor, 1929, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gabriel Albocher I learned a lesson when conducting research for my recently published book, “Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.” I had discovered the story of a young Jewish man forgotten …

Thessaloniki’s Jewish cemetery as it was before it was destroyed in 1942, during the German occupation of Greece. The cemetery was established in ancient times and on the eve of the Second World War counted approximately 500,000 graves in an area of 350,000 square meters, making it probably the largest …

Feared Jewish pirate and second in command to the infamous Barbaross. He born late 15th-Early 16th Century in Turkey and his died date is unknown. Sinan, known as «The Great Jew,» was second in command to famed 16th Century pirate Barbarossa. He was such a remarkable navigator that many believed …

Moses Cohen Henriques was a Dutch pirate of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin, operating in the Caribbean. Henriques helped Dutch naval officer and folk hero Admiral Piet Pieterszoon Hein, of the Dutch West India Company, capture the Spanish treasure fleet in the battle of the Bay of Matanzas in Cuba, during …

Mazel tov to Bob Dylan on winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. Unlike the film or comic book industries, pop music has never been particularly Jewish. There have been Jewish managers and behind-the-scenes men like Brian Epstein or Leonard and Marshall Chess, but, on the whole, pop music since the …

Le Cercle de Généalogie Juive (CGJ), première association de généalogie juive en France, fondée en 1984, à l’initiative de Thierry Samama, a développé une section « tunisienne » dont le but est de perpétuer la mémoire d’une communauté, au travers de recherches généalogiques qui se fondent notamment sur la collecte …