From Rhodes to Racine: Why a Sephardic Teenager in 20th-Century Paris Was Reading the Tragedy Esther
What can a quote from Racine's play Esther tell us about what it was like to be a young Jewish woman in 20th century France?
Crossing the Bosphorus: A Sephardic Memoir in a 100-Year-Old French Notebook
Finding clues to a great-grandmother's migratory life in her notebook from the Alliance Israelite Universelle school.
The Flavor of Rhodes: Paradise Lost, Recipe Saved
The art of the boreka told through the Ladino letters of Rachel Shemarya.
Seattle International Ladino Day 2015 Videos
View the full program of Seattle's third annual International Ladino Day community celebration, as well as selected clips.
Sephardic New Year Cards and a Seattle Printing Press
The story of Joe Souriano, a Seattle Sephardic printer, and the postcards he received from all over the world.
Tisha Be-Av in Sephardic Seattle: A Ladino Journey from the Old World to the New
Prayers and poems written in Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language of Sephardic Jews, give a window onto the annual Jewish holiday of Tisha Be-Av.
Remembering Rhodes, Family History, and the Sephardic Holocaust
As the Rhodes Jewish community marks a solemn anniversary, Hannah Pressman considers what it means to search for family history in the wake of the Holocaust.
The Faces and Voices of Sephardic Music in Seattle
Sephardic ballads called romansas hold valuable medieval Spanish history. Rina Benmayor recorded these songs in the 1970s and will speak at UW on April 24th.