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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 …

Kotlianski’s story begins a few days before Passover, on Shabbat HaGadol, the Shabbat immediately preceding Passover. “It was a long, dark and frightening night.” Readers may mistake these words as coming from the pen of Elie Wiesel, but they are actually from the testimony of Joseph Kotlianski, a Jew from …

A new book gives voice to some of the million or so Sephardi Jews who once lived harmoniously in the Mideast and North Africa, but who left everything behind when an explosion of antisemitism after Israel’s birth made it impossible to stay In the lands of Arabia, where Jews used …

Three-time NBCC finalist Hemon (The Lazarus Project) returns with a potent story of love, war, and displacement in the early 20th century. Rafael Pinto, a Bosnian Jew, returns from schooling in Vienna and takes over his recently deceased father’s apothecary in Sarajevo. After Pinto witnesses Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, he’s drafted …

Sephardic High Holidays 2021 – 5782 The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America Anyada Buena i Dulse from the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America LEER AQUI>>

The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present Hidden Voices—Ladino Songs from over 100 years ago: Hadass Pal-Yarden, a special concert presenting material contained in the new release, Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912). The event features Hadass Pal-Yarden, one of Israel's leading vocalists in …

American Sephardi Federation presents a new show that combines chef and scholar Hélène Jawhara-Piñer’s fascination with food studies and flair for creating delicious cuisine. Jawhara-Piñer, a Ph.D in History, Medieval History, and the History of Food from the University of Tours, France, is a member of the IEHCA (Institute of …

Judezmo Language and Culture in the Modern Era