Topic: Sephardic History

Sephardic history, Sephardic Voices

My review of Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora. The title is an intimidating mouthful, but the voices of 16th century Sephardim, found in Inquisition records and rabbinical responsa (legal opinions and rulings), are fresh and alive.
“I thought that Jesus Christ was the same person as Moses, son of Queen Esther,” one woman [...]

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Sephardic history, articles and talks

Last Century of a Sephardic Community: The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943, is an original history based on new research into archives in Europe, North America, and Israel.

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