François Azar brings folktales and the French Sephardic revival to Seattle Ladino Day
François Azar, a leader of the French Sephardic revival, on writing his own Ladino folktales, censorship, and why he is confident about the future.
Shem Tov de Carrión: How a Jewish poet from medieval Spain speaks to us today
Shem Tov de Carrión's "moral proverbs" about human nature and right rulership are surprisingly relevant today, Graduate Fellow Vivian Mills writes.
Exploring Ladino’s past, present, and future at the ucLADINO Symposium
The Ladino language is a fusion of old and new. Graduate Fellow Molly FitzMorris reports back on a UCLA conference that explored just this idea.
What makes music sound Jewish
Graduate Fellow Sarah Riskind, a composer, noticed a unique pattern in both the Sephardic and Ashkenazi music she works with.
How the Turkish “City of Peace” remembers its Sephardic veterans
Grad Fellow Özgür Özkan walks through a new exhibit that remembers Çanakkale’s Sephardic veterans—and reaffirms its pluralistic identity.
What the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula can teach us about political power & minority status
Graduate Fellow Vivian Mills shows how all-too-familiar patterns of discrimination and exclusion affected Sephardic Jews in the Middle Ages.
2/28 EVENT | “Muestros Artistas” [Our Artists]
Tuesday, February 28, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. PT
Location: Kane Hall 210, UW Seattle Campus
“Another year, another piece of wisdom”: The Sephardic Studies Program 2017 recap
Three Years of the Sephardic Studies Program at a glance.