Sephardim

Ladino Advertisements from Old Istanbul

For kosher salami and pastrami, naturally.

Izak Baron
Sept. 3 2019 12:01AM

How Spain’s Assault on Its Jews Made Them Rethink the Relationship between Religion and Peoplehood

Mass conversion, purity of blood, and good Jewish families.

David Graizbord
Aug. 27 2019 12:01AM

The Failure of Spain’s Offer of Citizenship to Sephardi Jews

Expensive and burdensome red tape has discouraged applicants.

Soeren Kern
Aug. 21 2019 12:01AM

A Scholar of Jewish History Recounts Spending Tisha b’Av in Spain, the Scene of Centuries of Jewish Hopes and Catastrophes

Tisha b’Av in Catalonia, and a torrent of emotion.

Frank Talmage
Aug. 9 2019 12:01AM

How the Jews of Barbados Rescued the Western Hemisphere’s Oldest Synagogue

Nidḥey Israel.

Noah Lederman
June 26 2019 12:01AM

The Sephardi Role in the Flowering of Zionism

Rabbi Judah Solomon Alkalai, the Herzl of Sarajevo.

Ashley Perry
May 30 2019 12:01AM

The Great Jewish Cartographers of the 14th Century

Abraham and Jehuda Cresques.

Ushi Derman
April 10 2019 12:01AM

Did Abraham Lincoln Tell American Rabbis That He Was of Jewish Ancestry? And If So, Why?

Reportedly, he also had a “Jewish countenance.”

Stuart Schoffman
Feb. 14 2019 12:01AM

The Golden Age of Egyptian Jewish Journalism

L’Aurore.

Ovadia Yerushalmi
Jan. 24 2019 12:01AM

A New Film Tells the Story of a Jewish Revival in Portugal

A Marrano Dreyfus.

Rich Tenorio
Jan. 21 2019 12:01AM

The Accidental Fire That Destroyed Jewish Thessaloniki

Roasting eggplants proved more dangerous than wars.

Ro Oranim
Nov. 15 2018 12:01AM

Preserving the Remnants of Jewish Life off the Coast of West Africa

The Jewish graveyards of Cape Verde.

Rosanne Skirble
Nov. 14 2018 12:01AM

Ankara’s Abandoned Jewish Quarter

Once home to a large, if overlooked, community.

Jeyan Idil Aslan
Nov. 7 2018 12:01AM

A Notable Jewish Spanish-Language Poet of the Middle Ages

Shem Tov of Carrión.

Vivian Mills
Aug. 2 2018 12:01AM
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