Soletreo lessons from my great-grandfather
Hannah S. Pressman describes her journey learning soletreo, and how it can help scholars and family historians alike access their Sephardic pasts.
UW sophomore Lauren Zarlingo applies digital text encoding tools to Ladino newspapers
With the tools learned in a textual studies course, Lauren Zarlingo encoded two English sections from La Vara, New York's longest running Ladino newspaper.
UW graduate students present at international conferences, win research awards for Sephardic studies projects
A roundup of speaking engagement and recent awards earned by graduate students whose research lies at the intersection of Ottoman, European, Jewish, Mizrahi, and Sephardic studies.
Crowdsourced photos capture Purim costumes inspired by Ottoman fashion
Archival photos capture Purim costumes worn by Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire and its offshoots.
Building a Sephardic Seattle community archive: Using many types of materials to preserve community history
Graduate fellow Lili Brown explains how community archives — community-centered archives that preserve all kinds of documents and materials — help researchers to construct richer pictures of the past, and how this approach is helping to preserve Seattle Sephardic history.
“Tía Fortuna’s New Home,” by Ruth Behar: A glowing memento of Cuban-Jewish Miami and Sephardic history
In her foray into children's literature, award-winning author and anthropologist Ruth Behar creates a poignant tribute to Sephardic families past and present.
Seattle Sephardic community members, University of Washington students and alumni reflect on Hazzan Isaac Azose
To inaugurate the Azose Fund for Community Engagement, students, scholars, and community members reflect on Hazzan Isaac Azose's contributions to the preservation of Sephardic culture and the Ladino language in Seattle and beyond.
Ladino Day 2021: Sephardic Trajectories
Editors and contributors to "Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States" (Koç University Press, 2021) discuss this multidisciplinary volume that highlights artifacts from the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection.
I can say one thing for sure - everything that I managed to try was spicy, satisfying, fresh. In general, food in Korea, as for me, is very tasty. You should not worry at all about poisoning with market food. Even Europeans and Japanese restaurants in south korea who visit Seoul on business and not limited in funds go to the Namdaemun market for real local food. The following street dishes are very popular with travelers