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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 Wolfe Institute The Ethyle R.Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, in cooperation with the Departments of Judaic Studies, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures, English, Sociology, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, BC Hillel, CUNY Diversity Program Development Fund Grant, Office of the President, Office of Diversity …

The great medieval Jewish poets of Spain are part and parcel of our Jewish heritage; names like Dunash ibn Labrat, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Moses ibn Ezra, Samuel Hanagid and Yehuda Halevi immediately come to mind. However, it comes as no surprise that all of them were men. What is surprising …

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 …

Version en español The Sephardic communities that settled in Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries came from various areas in the Sephardi world. The largest community was Arab-speaking, mostly originating in the cities of Aleppo and Damascus. The next in size was the Ladino-speaking community from Turkey …

ASF is pleased to join with The Catalan Center at NYU for the first of two lectures on the Jews of Catalonia.  We welcome Sílvia Planas, Director of the Institut d’Estudis Nahmànides and the Museum of Jewish History of Girona.    This lecture is made possible, in part, through the …