The buried manuscript of a Greek Jewish inmate of Auschwitz. The main gate of Auschwitz. Creative Commons image by Tulio Bertorini via Wikimedia Commons. In a Q&A with the editors of Sephardi Lives, each was asked to share some of what they regarded as being …
A Turkish Jew interned at Drancy writes home. The camp in Drancy, circa 1941. Creative Commons image from the Bundesarchiv of Germany via Wikimedia Commons. The following is a letter from Yaco Soulam, detained in Drancy, to his wife, Rebecca in Paris. The letter was …
The question of the hour: can a Sephardi-Ashkenazi romance survive? The following letters originally appeared in a Ladino newspaper, La Bos del Pueblo. They were translated into English by Aviva Ben-Ur and are excerpted below from Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History 1700-1950: In early-twentieth-century New York City, …
On collating hundreds of years worth of cultural history. by JULIA PHILLIPS COHEN & SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN Some six years ago, we began a collaboration with little idea that it would last so long, or yield such rich fruit. Our collaboration was motivated by a …
Fútbol has provided a unique arena for immigrants to immerse themselves in Argentinian culture. by RAANAN REIN Colombia’s President, Juan Manuel Santos, asked Colombia’s soccer coach, the Jewish-Argentine Jose Pekerman, to stay on after leading the national squad to and through the most successful World …
