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  • Old sepia toned postcard from Rhodes. Features three brick windmills in the foreground and a brick wall along a sea line.

Between Rhodes and Seattle: Three generations of Sephardic women in family letters

Ladino letters written and dictated by women between Rhodes and Seattle offer a rare insight into the concerns and aspirations of Sephardic women in the early twentieth century.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2020-11-06T12:34:29-08:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Digital Sephardic Treasures, Sephardic Studies|Tags: Ladino, Ladino Reflections, Rhodes, Seattle Jewish community|0 Comments
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  • Renan Koen seated at a black grand piano. Renan is wearing a black sleeveless dress and is sitting straight-backed at the piano with hands on her lap. The room has a light brown wood floor and a burgundy wall with white trim around the baseboard and windows.

This year, pianist Renan Koen will lead Seattle’s Sephardic Holocaust memorial from Istanbul’s historic Italian synagogue

Pianist Renan Koen on her family history, her career, and what drew her to music composed during the Holocaust.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2020-11-06T12:44:30-08:00July 27th, 2020|Categories: Sephardic Studies|Tags: Holocaust, Rhodes, Salonica, Sephardic music, Turkey|1 Comment
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  • Théodore Chasseriau, Esther se parant Eugène Delacroix, Mariée juive à Tanger pour être présentée au roi Assuérus, 1841

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?

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-08-19T21:16:07-07:00June 9th, 2017|Categories: Sephardic Studies|Tags: France, Graduate Student Writing, Ottoman Empire, Rhodes, Sephardic|0 Comments
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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.

By Hannah Pressman|2018-08-05T21:54:35-07:00December 2nd, 2016|Categories: Personal History, Sephardic Studies|Tags: France, Hannah Pressman, Ladino, Ottoman Empire, Rhodes, Sephardic|2 Comments
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The Flavor of Rhodes: Paradise Lost, Recipe Saved

The art of the boreka told through the Ladino letters of Rachel Shemarya.

By Ty Alhadeff|2020-10-10T20:37:15-07:00December 2nd, 2016|Categories: Digital Sephardic Treasures, Global Judaism, Sephardic Studies|Tags: Devin Naar, Food, Ladino, Ottoman Empire, Religion & Ritual, Rhodes, Seattle Jewish community, Sephardic, Sephardic Studies Digital Library & Museum, Turkey, Ty Alhadeff|15 Comments
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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.

By Ty Alhadeff|2017-09-04T22:41:35-07:00February 12th, 2016|Categories: Sephardic Studies, Video|Tags: Devin Naar, History, Ladino, Ladino Day 2015, Ottoman Empire, Our Events, Rhodes, Seattle, Sephardic|0 Comments
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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.

By Ty Alhadeff|2019-09-24T22:22:18-07:00September 6th, 2015|Categories: Digital Sephardic Treasures, Global Judaism, Sephardic Studies|Tags: Ladino, Religion & Ritual, Rhodes, Seattle, Sephardic, Sephardic Studies Digital Library & Museum, Turkey, Ty Alhadeff|6 Comments
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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.

By Ty Alhadeff|2019-08-10T23:22:27-07:00August 8th, 2014|Categories: Digital Sephardic Treasures, Sephardic Studies|Tags: American Jewish Community, Devin Naar, Holocaust, Israel, Ladino, Rhodes|1 Comment
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