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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Sephardi Women in the United States
by Jane S. Gerber Sephardic Jews constitute only a small proportion of American Jewry. Although they comprised the majority of American Jewry during the colonial period, that majority never exceeded twenty-five hundred prior to the American Revolution. The Sephardim of Holland, the Caribbean, and England may have formed the vanguard …
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The Judeo-Spanish theater traces its origins to Turkey and the lands of the Balkans, where women participated as actors, directors, and playwrights. In the Old Country, female Ladino playwrights were sometimes prolific, though uncommon. Spanish scholar Elena Romero has identified three of these dramatists active in the late nineteenth and …
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