Learning Ladino to preserve Sephardic culture for future generations
Anna Jacoby as a baby with her great-grandmother, Beya "Betty" Policar Alhadeff (1912-2004). Betty and her family, including her parents Jacob and Esther Policar,
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.