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The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean
The Last Transport The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean is a powerful and meticulously researched account that sheds...
Magazine Staff
Apr 12 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...
Eitan Basseri
Sep 26, 20242 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...
Dr. Gloria Ascher
Mar 15, 20245 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...
Anthony Gad Bigio
Mar 15, 20243 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...
Professor Ruth Behar
Mar 15, 20246 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....
Rachel Amado Bortnick
Jan 15, 20242 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,...
Isaac Daniel
Sep 5, 20238 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...
Alexandra Fellus
Mar 6, 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...
Magazine Staff
Mar 1, 20232 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...
Elias V. Messinas
Sep 15, 20225 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...
Aron Hasson
Jul 1, 20222 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...
Professor Ruth Behar
Jan 15, 20224 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...
Alexandra Fellus
Jan 15, 20221 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...
Dr. Leon Saltiel
Sep 1, 20213 min read
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