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.
Manna from heaven: Bumuelos, a Sephardic Hanukkah treat
Tracing a Sephardic holiday dessert from the Sinai desert to the shores of Seattle.
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.
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.
UW Grad Creates Digital Museum Exhibit on a “Sephardic Lighthouse”
Ashley Bobman, UW Class of 2016, helped create an online exhibit about the Sephardic intellectual Albert D. Levy--her own great-grandfather.