What the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula can teach us about political power & minority status
Graduate Fellow Vivian Mills shows how all-too-familiar patterns of discrimination and exclusion affected Sephardic Jews in the Middle Ages.
Announcing Winter 2018/Spring 2018 Opportunity Grant winners
Congrats to our 2018 Opportunity Grant winners, whose research ranges from exploring Sephardic Jewish Turkish heritage to travelling to Tanzania and Rwanda to study how foreign direct investment affects perceptions of donor states, including Israel.
Seattle’s fifth annual Ladino Day breaks tradition and hosts sold-out concert with Yasmin Levy
Singer Yasmin Levy's fusion of traditional and modern Sephardic music drew a packed house for the fifth annual Ladino Day.
Remembering Nona: The life of Rachel Tacher (née Levy) in Ladino
Ashley Bobman's moving Ladino tribute to the life of her grandmother Rachel (Levy) Tacher.
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?
A Book Lover’s Tour of Judaica Libraries in Los Angeles
Scholar, translator, and librarian Emily Thompson visited Judaica libraries in LA to learn more about their collections and operations.
Devin E. Naar’s “Jewish Salonica” Book Release
Mazel tov to Dr. Devin E. Naar, whose archival work for "Jewish Salonica," his first book, won two National Jewish Book Awards.
