Sephardic Jews
Jerusalem’s Sephardic Community, with Abraham Haim
26 Iyyar 5783 (16/05/2023) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: In what year did the great rabbi and philosopher Nachmanides, from Girona, Spain, arrive in Jerusalem and establish a synagogue, which revitalized the existing Jewish community there, and can … Leer más
Sephardic Jews in the US, with Devin Naar. Part II: Life, Culture, Language
30 Sivan 5782 (28/06/2022) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: When protesting in New York against the Nazis in 1933, who did the Sephardic Jews compare Hitler to?
Dr. Devin E. Naar is the chair of the … Leer más
Sephardic Jews in the US, with Devin Naar. Part I: Some History
23 Sivan 5782 (21/06/2022) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What were the causes of Jewish emigration from the former Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century?
Dr. Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff … Leer más
Nona Maccabeus: A Chanukah Story by Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer
1 Tevet 5781 (15/12/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week we’re celebrating Chanukah and, in keeping with our tradition here at English Corner, I’m going to read you a holiday story. Nona Maccabeus is a contemporary Chanukah story, written by the … Leer más
Rabbi Haim Ovadia I: Celebrating Sephardic Heritage
15 Av 5780 (04/08/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why were Sephardic Jews originally better able to co-exist with surrounding non-Jewish communities than Ashkenazi Jews were?
Rabbi Haim Ovadia was born and raised in Jerusalem. He was … Leer más
Moroccan Jews: Memory and Identity, with Dr. Angy Cohen
2 Tammuz 5780 (23/06/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why did Sephardic women in Argentina start going to Conservative Ashkenazi synagogues?
Dr. Angy Cohen was born and raised in Madrid, Spain and moved to Israel in 2014. She … Leer más
Venezuela’s Jews: Dealing with the Crisis, with Isaac Nahon-Serfaty
20 Av 5779 (20/08/2019) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How has the recent crisis in Venezuela influenced the issue of Jewish identity there?
Isaac Nahon-Serfaty is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University … Leer más
Martina Lemoine: Dr. Angel Pulido and the Sephardic Cause
23 Sivan 5778 (05/06/2018) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was “the Sephardic cause” that Dr. Pulido championed?
Angel Pulido was a Spanish doctor and politician at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th … Leer más
Daniela Flesler: The “Rediscovery” of Spain’s Jewish Heritage
16 Sivan 5778 (29/05/2018) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was discovered in Lucena, Spain, in 2006, and how has it affected the town’s relationship to its Jewish history?
Daniela Flesler is Associate Professor in … Leer más
Sephardic Jews in Zimbabwe, with Stella Cohen
23 Av 5777 (14/08/2017) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many Jews were there in Zimbabwe at their peak in the early 1960s, and how many are there now?
After the expulsion of the Jews … Leer más
Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue
6 Adar II 5776 (15/03/2016) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many Sephardic families live in Amsterdam now?
In 1492 Spain expelled its Jewish population. Many who fled to Portugal were nevertheless forcibly baptized after 1496. … Leer más
Charles A. McDonald: Return to Sepharad
24 Shevat 5776 (02/02/2016) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: From what two countries are many Sephardic Jews applying for Spanish nationality under the new citizenship law, and why?
Charles A. McDonald is a doctoral candidate … Leer más
Dr. Marcel Israel: Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria
9 Sivan 5775 (26/05/2015) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many Jews in Bulgaria were saved from the Nazis, and who was instrumental in saving them?
Dr. Marcel Israel is a Sephardic … Leer más