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Sefer Me-am Lo'ez: deklaro del Arba'a ve-Esrim en Ladino: Sefer Bereshit
Praise for the custom of preparing one's memorial shroud (kortar mortaja) in Sefer Me'am Lo'ez. Ladino commentary on Parashat Vayehi (Genesis. 50:13)
Newspaper article in El Avenir about bar mitsva customs
Clipping from the Ladino newspaper El Avenir.
El bukyeto de romansas: kantikas rekojidas para novias i paridas
Collection of Ladino songs for brides and women who have just given birth, organized according to makam (Middle Eastern musical mode popular among Sephardic Jews).
Cropped postcard of Salonikan women
Carte postale: «Femmes israélites de Salonique [Thessalonique] dansant»
Postcard: "Israelite [Jewish] women of Salonika [Thessaloniki] dancing"
Postcard: "Israelite [Jewish] women of Salonika [Thessaloniki] dancing"
Maimon family kame'ot
Three amulets from the family of Rabbi Solomon Maimon, perhaps written by his father, Rabbi Avraham Maimon. Unknown if amulets were written in Tekirdag or Seattle.
Naar family kame'a
Sephardic amulet from the family of Benjamin Naar, great-grandfather of Professor Devin Naar.
Three Ottoman ketubot
(L to R): Ketuba of Solomon and Leah Bensussen (Tekirdag, 1919); ketuba of Yisra'el Katarbas and Marat [?] bat Avraham (Tekirdag, 1900; courtesy Yale University Library); ketuba of Avraham Benezra and Rachel Halfon (Tekirdag, 1890).
Photograph of Maimon family children
Photograph of Vida Sultana Maimon and her children. Fanny Adatto, top left, Louise Azose, top right, and a young boy assumed to be Rabbi Solomon Maimon.
Wedding procession in Rhodes
Photograph of a wedding procession in the streets of Rhodes (?). Bride and groom are being escorted down the street by at least 75 people.
Seattle Sephardic wedding
A Sephardic wedding in Seattle, couple unknown. First row, right to left: Mark Peha, Leatrice (De Leon) Gutmann, Lucille (Almeleh) Spring. Back row: Mary (Sidis) Ovadia, Isaac Ovadia, Bernice (Mossafer) Rind, [unknown], Albert Page, [unknown], Tillie…
Family portrait from the marriage of Rachel Alhadeff to Isaac Baruch
Alhadeff family photo from the wedding of Rachel Alhadeff to Isaac Baruch.
Photographs from the wedding of Flora Alcheck to Albert Saltiel
Two photographs from the wedding of Flora and Albert Saltiel. One photo is of the couple and rabbi under the huppah (wedding canopy). Wedding took place in a community institution known as Matanot La-Evyonim, a popular wedding venue in Salonica and…
Betty Policar and Samuel Alhadeff's wedding party
Wedding party at the marriage of Betty Policar to Samuel Alhadeff in Seattle. Left to right: [unknown], Anne Alhadeff (Ferrera), Sue Rousso, Marco Calvo, Betty (Policar) Alhadeff, Samuel Alhadeff, Harry Rousso, [unknown, unknown]. The two flower…
Postcard of the Jewish cemetery in Salonica
Color postcard of the Jewish cemetery in Salonica overlooking the city.
