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Eitan Basseri
Sep 26, 20242 min read
New Sephardic Children’s Book - A Turkish Rosh Hashanah
A Turkish Rosh Hashanah: A Delightful Tale of Sephardic Tradition and Family Bonds Step into the enchanting world of the 19th- century...


Dr. Gloria Ascher
Mar 15, 20245 min read
El Diario de Alfred Ascher
El Diario de Alfred se puede meldar en The Diario: The Daring Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to America During World War I...


Anthony Gad Bigio
Mar 15, 20243 min read
A Sephardi Turkish Patriot
A Sephardi Turkish Patriot is the biography of Gad Franco, who was at first a journalist, then a lawyer and a jurist, and a prominent...

Professor Ruth Behar
Mar 15, 20246 min read
Four Sephardic Jewish Girls Caught in the Web of History
Before I began writing my new novel, Across So Many Seas , all I knew was that I wanted to write a story about four Sephardic Jewish...


Rachel Amado Bortnick
Jan 15, 20242 min read
The Wise Rat Who Composed Romansas
There once was a female rat who lived in a library, and having read all the books at her disposal, decided to start composing romansas....


Isaac Daniel
Sep 5, 20238 min read
Seven Miracles - The Story of a Survivor from Veria, Greece
This is the story of the miraculous survival of the Holocaust in Greece, of our entire family of six, including my two-year old brother,...


Alexandra Fellus
Mar 6, 20232 min read
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
Stella Levi had never spoken about her past, until she met Michael Frank. One Saturday, Michael stopped by her apartment to ask a...


Magazine Staff
Mar 1, 20232 min read
A Banker’s Journey: How Edmund J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire
The name is widely recognizable: Safra Bank, The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Jerusalem Municipality’s Kikar...


Elias V. Messinas
Sep 15, 20225 min read
The Synagogues of Greece: an exhibition, new books and an archive
The origins of the Jewish heritage of Greece are lost in antiquity. According to the ancient historian Strabo, there were organized...


Aron Hasson
Jul 1, 20222 min read
New Sephardic Book Review: Jewish Life in Rhodes "Family Portraits"
The book Jewish Life in Rhodes "Family Portraits" is a photographic collection of the Jews of Rhodes containing the individual and...


Professor Ruth Behar
Jan 15, 20224 min read
Book Review - Tia Fortuna’s New Home
Four and a half years ago, on a fall day in September 2017, I began to write the story that would eventually become my debut picture...

Alexandra Fellus
Jan 15, 20221 min read
What We Read in 2021 - Sephardic Book Review
In the Summer of 2021, our Greek Jewish & Sephardic Young Professionals Network launched a virtual Sephardic Book Club with participants...


Dr. Leon Saltiel
Sep 1, 20213 min read
Sephardic Book Review - Don’t Forget Me
“Don’t forget me, my dear children, my beloved children, my only reason for living.” With these words Neama Cazes, a 54-year-old Jewish...
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