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#EstaSemanaEnLaHistoriaSefaradi: Esta semana marca el Meldado, el memorial anual del fallecimiento del rabino Yaakov Huli (1689-1732), uno de los más grandes estudiosos de la Torá sefardí del siglo XVIII. Descendiente de generaciones de rabinos sefardíes que se remontan a España, el rabino Huli fue el autor del revolucionario comentario de …

#EstaSemanaEnLaHistoriaSefaradi: El 24 de julio de 1944, los nazis deportaron a casi 2.000 judíos de las islas de Rodas y Cos. La Comunidad Judía fue arrestada y deportada al campo de concentración de Auschwitz, donde fueron masacrados 1.522. En lo que se conoció como “el viaje más largo”, los judíos …

#EstaSemanaEnLaHistoriaSefaradi: Hoy se cumplen 81 años del Sábado Negro, donde 9.000 hombres judíos en #Salonika fueron obligados a reunirse en una plaza pública y fueron humillados bajo el sol abrasador y públicamente deshumanizados en 1942. Unos 2.000 hombres judíos fueron arrestados ese día y fueron enviados a campos de trabajos …

Kantika Elizabeth Graver (Metropolitan Books) The Marriage Box Corie Adjmi (She Works Press) When I think about the English-language Jewish literary landscape, I also notice what’s missing: the stories of Sephardi Jews. Few people are aware that the very first Jews to come to North America were of Western Sephardic …

The Belzberg Program in Israel Studies at the University of Calgary and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. With the collaboration of the American Sefardi Federation, Centro Sefarad Israel, and the International Network for Jewish Thought present: Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series, 2023 Join us as we explore …

ONE LESSON WE CAN LEARN FROM OUR ENEMIES Today is Yom haShoa. The day in which we remember the brutal extermination of 6 million Jews at the hands of the Nazi murderers and their collaborators. Last night I gave a class about the effect the Shoah had on the Sephardic …

Jacques-Emile-Édouard Brandon, who was also known as Jacob Émile Édouard Péreira Brandon, was born to a wealthy Sephardic Jewish family. Like his German contemporary Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Brandon reached the highest level of academic training and was able to undertake an extended trip to Italy, both of which eased his …

Edouard Brandon’s rare 19th-century depiction of a Jewish man reading is even more absorbing today By Sebastian Smee BOSTON — Ever since curators at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts pulled this painting of a Jewish man out of storage just over a year ago, I have returned to it repeatedly. …

Applicants had to prove connections with Spain going back centuries A deadline for Jews living outside Spain to request Spanish nationality has expired with 127,000 applications, most of them from Latin America. Jews living in Mexico top the list, with about 20,000 requests, followed by Jews in Venezuela and Colombia. …

Ayer 11 Septiembre se emitió en Reino Unido, en el programa “Who do you think you are?”, de la BBC, el origen judeoconverso de Mark Wright, personaje televisivo muy conocido en ese país. En dicho programa se evidencia que Wright es descendiente de Antonio de Mendoza, natural de Jaén. Más …

Esta semana la historia de la familia Mendoza en Jaén, una familia judeoconversa de origen portugués (s. XVII), es tema de un programa de genealogía en la televisión de la BBC (Who Do You Think You Are?). El programa investiga la ascendencia de Mark Wright, una celebridad en el Reino …

Jonathan Cohen, third from left, is seen with other members of the Netflix series “Family Business.” (Netflix) (JTA) — One fan’s recent description on Twitter of the new Netflix series “Family Business” isn’t too far off: a “French Breaking Bad but with weed.” The French series, which debuted last week, is a wacky …