The Jews of China Weekly, Wed, Mar 03 – Wed, Mar 24 Number of Sessions 4 12:30 PM – 01:30 PM This is a virtual course. Zoom link will be sent prior to class. Lecturer Andrée Aelion Brooks Jews have been traveling back and forth across Asia, and forming communities …
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El origen de los judíos sefardíes que desembarcan en Nueva Ámsterdam se encuentra en el colectivo que debido al decreto de expulsión firmado por los Reyes católicos abandona la Corona de Castilla y encuentra refugio temporal en los dominios de la Corona de Portugal. Portugal terminará expulsando a su …
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BUY THIS BOOK SERIES: STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE MARCH 2020 272 PAGES. FROM $26.00 Cloth ISBN: 9781503608283 Paper ISBN: 9781503610910 Digital ISBN: 9781503610927 By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish …
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Stephen Burgen traces the Jewish past of the catalan capital (Image: Getty Images) For 600 years, the main street in Barcelona’s former Jewish quarter was named Sant Domènech to “celebrate” the massacre of 300 Jews there on his saint’s day in 1391. But last year Barcelona city council renamed the …
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Seattle Sephardic Network Enriching Jewish Life Through Sephardic Education and Inclusion Facebook: SeattleSephardicNetwork www.seattlesephardicnetwork.org Join Ezra Bessaroth for a special evening with Ruben Shimonov who will give a talk about Bukharian Jews, Thursday, January 16th at 6:30pm at Ezra Bessaroth. The program will feature Ruben Shimonov, Seattle-raised and New York-based …
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The exhibition «Jewish Clothes in the Ottoman Empire,» featuring the clothes that Jews wore when they lived within Ottoman borders, will open at the Portuguese Synagogue in İzmir province on Nov. 4, 2019. The «Jewish Clothes in the Ottoman Empire» exhibition is about the clothes worn by Sephardic Jews during …
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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 …
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Edwin Seroussi, Katz Center & Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dünya Ensemble Burcu Güleç | voice Robert Labaree | çeng, voice George Lernis | percussion Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol | ud, ney, voice, musical director With Guest Joseph Alpar | santur, voice
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HERMANA The Untold History of Ankara’s Jewish Community Director : Enver Arcak Camera : Larissa Araz & Zeynep Şişman Editing : Sami Öztürk Music : Aydın Akın The origins of one of the earliest known Jewish communities in Anatolia, which was located in Ankara, date back to the 2nd …
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Cada año, al celebrar el día de Acción de Gracias, los Estados Unidos recuerda la extraordinaria historia de cómo “los Padres Peregrinos puritanos” le dieron gracias al Eterno en el año 1621 después de sobrevivir durísimos obstáculos cuando llegaron a Plymouth «huyendo de la quema»: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padres_peregrinos Mientras que los eventos son …
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in ZICHRONNOTE, newsletter of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, volume 38, number 1/2 (February/May 2018) on pages 5-6 Descendants of Sephardim settled within the borders of Byelorussia, now known as Belarus. It was part of the Russian Empire in the late 18th through early 20th centuries and …
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The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) commemorates with great sadness the 70th anniversary of Bulgaria’s mass deportation of virtually all of Macedonia’s Jewish community to its death during World War II. UMD calls on the Bulgarian government to recognize publicly that, as a direct result of Bulgaria’s fascist government’s collaboration with …
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