La antigua sinagoga de Chmielnik, Polonia. (Wojciech Domagała/Wikimedia Commons) Antes del Holocausto, la población de la ciudad de Chmielnik, Polonia, era alrededor del 80% judía. Los judíos sefardíes, expulsados de España durante la Inquisición, se establecieron en Chmielnik y finalmente construyeron una sinagoga en 1638. Después de la guerra, sólo quedaron …
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The former synagogue in Chmielnik, Poland. (Wojciech Domagała/Wikimedia Commons) Before the Holocaust, the population of the town of Chmielnik, Poland, was around 80% Jewish. Sephardic Jews, having been expelled from Spain during the Inquisition, settled in Chmielnik and eventually built a synagogue in 1638. After the war, only four Jews …
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Orla Synagogue Concert – Medieval Sepharad The Gerard Edery Ensemble & Kaja Mianowana Online Retransmission – 12.12.2020 Free online concert, «Medieval Sepharad» at the historic Orla Synagogue. Please follow this link for all details and program. https://www.gerardedery.com/orla-concert-medieval-sepharad. Where: Facebook and YouTube When: 2020.12.12 at 7pm CET (1pm New York) The …
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All practising Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s. Sephardim found safe haven in more religiously-tolerant lands like the Ottoman Empire, Italy, and the Netherlands. Those whose families had nominally converted to Catholicism sometimes managed to escape from the lands of the Inquisition in the 1500s-1600s and …
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More than 300 Houses of Life have been discovered in Italy and another 200 in France, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Denmark and Greece Professor Alessandra Staderini (right), daughter of Fausto and Bice who sheltered their Jewish friends’ children Bianca Campagnano (left) and her brother in their home in Rome …
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These Sifrei Torah made it through hard times in Poland, Iraq, Portugal, Russia and elsewhere, before being reborn in new communities. At the heart of almost every Jewish community is a synagogue. At the heart of a synagogue – the holy ark. And deep inside the ark, draped in …
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