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  • Light purple background with art deco pattern. At left: text reads Bailar a la Turka: 78 rpm records in Seattle Sepharadi households. At right: 3 record labels, one blue, one red, one purple, and a black and yellow illustration of a phonograph.

Bailar a la Turka: 78 rpm Records in Seattle Sepharadi Households

Maureen Jackson investigates Turkish music in Sephardic Seattle with artifacts, audio, and more.

By Makena Mezistrano|2021-02-17T12:23:32-08:00September 23rd, 2020|Categories: Digital Projects, Sephardic Studies|Tags: Music, Seattle, Sephardic Music, Turkey|0 Comments
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Celebrating Sephardic culture in Seattle | World Jewish Congress

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2019-12-12T13:41:56-08:00December 3rd, 2019|Categories: Sephardic News, Sephardic Studies|Tags: Devin Naar, Ladino Day, Seattle, Sephardic Studies, Ty Alhadeff|0 Comments
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This musician helps keep an ancient language alive for Sephardic Jews | KUOW Radio

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2019-08-27T10:19:01-07:00June 12th, 2019|Categories: Sephardic News, Sephardic Studies|Tags: Devin Naar, Ladino, Sarah Aroeste, Seattle, Sephardic Music, Sephardic Studies|0 Comments
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Why does Seattle have so many Sephardic Jews? | KUOW Radio

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2019-06-12T14:10:02-07:00June 6th, 2019|Categories: Sephardic News|Tags: Devin Naar, Ottoman Empire, Seattle, Seattle Jewish community|0 Comments
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A Walk Down Sephardic Memory Lane: Reflections on Ladino Day

Ty Alhadeff takes a look back at the 4th annual International Ladino Day celebration at the University of Washington.

By Ty Alhadeff|2017-09-04T22:41:15-07:00December 12th, 2016|Categories: Our Events, Sephardic Studies|Tags: American Jewish Community, Devin Naar, Ladino, Ladino Day, Ladino Day 2016, Seattle, Sephardic Studies, Ty Alhadeff|0 Comments
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A Sephardic Thanksgiving: “Uniting the whole community”

In Seattle, Jews from the former Ottoman Empire learned to embrace an American tradition.

By Ty Alhadeff|2019-12-12T13:03:44-08:00November 24th, 2016|Categories: Digital Sephardic Treasures, Sephardic Studies|Tags: American Jewish Community, Devin Naar, Seattle, Sephardic Studies, Ty Alhadeff|0 Comments
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  • Ketubah of the Bensussan family in Tekirdag, Ottoman Empire, 1919. Shared with the Sephardic Studies Program by Rabbi Solomon Maimon and Albert Maimon.

Jews, Muslims, and the Limits of Tolerance

Non-Muslims were accepted in the Ottoman Empire, but the tolerance policy for Jews had limits. Devin E. Naar suggests why tolerance is a double-edged idea.

By Devin Naar|2019-09-26T11:57:30-07:00November 21st, 2016|Categories: Jewish History & Thought, Sephardic Studies|Tags: American Jewish Community, Devin Naar, Faculty Writing, Ladino, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Religion & Ritual, Seattle, Sephardic|1 Comment
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  • A booming field: Three titles of note published this year in Sephardic Studies.

Reading Roundup: New Titles in Sephardic Studies

Pocket-sized reviews of three new Sephardic Studies books that are connected by the theme of citizenship and identity in America and around the globe.

By Hannah Pressman|2018-08-05T21:59:27-07:00October 26th, 2016|Categories: Sephardic Studies|Tags: American Jewish Community, Devin Naar, Hannah Pressman, Ladino, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Seattle, Sephardic|0 Comments
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