In the frame of safeguarding and the transmission of the Sephardic memory, the European Sephardic Institute has as aprimary vocation to collect, centralise, analyse and put at the disposal of everybody, the written, sound and visual documents that can witness the huge richness of the different Sephardic communities that have participated in a large way to the culture of the different ...

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The Babylonian ( Iraqi ) Jewry Heritage Center is both a research center and museum. It publishes research and newsletters and holds conferences. It maintains strong ties with jews from Iraq in the Diaspora. Join us on an exciting and memorable tour of the center's wide range of activities and read our latest newsletter.

The Jews of Cuba, those few who remained after Castro took power, are able to worship openly again after almost three decades of religious restriction.

SAUDADES Portuguese Sephardic History A feeling of joy descends slowly Finding its resting place within me The images of the past now an inspiration Listening to the memories fills me with tenderness I have survived, I am here, I am alive Connected always to my past with love and saudade For those who went before, so I open my heart like a shrine Unblemished by bitterness or hate Filled with ...

The Last Jews of Libya This Web site is by, for, and of the entire community of Jews of Libya. I thank everyone who made this project possible, especially the narrators, who contributed their time, stories, and photographs to ensure that the life and memories of the Jews of Libya will not vanish. I am grateful to the Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC), for support and ...

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Congregation Ezra Bessaroth is a Sephardic Orthodox Synagogue in Seattle, Washington. Our web site has detailed information about keeping kosher in Seattle.

ARTHUR BENVENISTE'S HOME PAGE On this page you will find articles I have written dealing with the history of Sephardic Jews, with a special interest in Crypto Jews. THE 2002 CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR CRYPTO JUDAIC STUDIES CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FORM See the Pictures of my son's Wedding INDEX THE BENVENISTE NAME IN HISTORY THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME 'BENVENISTE' GRANDPARENTS ...

THE LADINO LANGUAGE You're speaking just like Cervantes, he said. I was in a cantina in Madrid in 1957. I met a man there, he was a reporter. We were conversing over a few drinks. I understood his puzzlement and had to explain. I was speaking the Spanish dialect I had learned at home. The dialect, or maybe it is a separate language, is commonly called, Ladino. More properly it should be referred ...

Wandering Thoughts on the Sephardim and Their Language, Ladino SOL LEVENSON SINCE childhood my concept of a Jew had been limited by my 3 family origins in Eastern Europe. The only Jews I knew were Yiddish speakers, some of whom also spoke either Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, or Russian and, in my mother's family, uncles, aunts, and cousins who spoke Yiddish and Rumanian. Not all of them spoke ...

Jewish World Review Oct. 20, 1998 / 1 Mar-Cheshvan, 5759 Dr. Jay Levinson Ladino --- a language destined to be lost THE RACE IS ON to save the treasures of Ladino. This is the way Avner Peretz, Director of the Institute of Ladino in the Jerusalem suburb of Maale Adumim described his efforts to record the the Sephardic equivalent of Yiddish before much of it vanishes. In this spirit Peretz, a ...

Jewish Studies Internet Resources Jewish Studies Email: mideast @libraries.cul.columbia.edu Jewish Studies Internet Resources home WWW Virtual Library Department home Sephardic Jewish Communities 500 Years/Spanish Jews in Turkey A film and photography exhibition by Laurence Salzmann) Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews Bibiografia BSZNet: Gateway to Sephardic Resources Cattle, Cotton and Torah (C.

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Jewish and Israeli Lists sefarad The Sephardic Electronic Archive (SEA) List owner: Yitzchak Kerem mskerem@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Subscription address: listserv@shamash.nysernet.org Purpose: SEA is a means of sharing information and communicating around the world with those interested in Sephardic studies and affairs. SEA is intended to fill that gap, by promoting the exchange of information, ...

Song of Songs Chant Sephardic Tradition This is a sample of how the Song of Songs is sung in the Sephardic tradition. The sample is Song of Songs 1:1-4, as sung by cantor Solomon Amzallay (of Morocco). Click on a line of text to hear a sound file in Sun audio (.au) format. Or, click on the RealAudio icon to hear the whole text in RealAudio format. Sights and Sounds of Song of Songs Last ...