Sephardi Voices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sephardi Voices write by Henry Green. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Sephardi Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest brought an abrupt end to these once vibrant communities, scattering their members to the four corners of the earth. Their stories are mostly untold. Sephardi Voices: The Forgotten Exodus of the Arab Jews is a window into the experiences of these communities and their stories of survival. Through gripping first-hand accounts and stunning portrait and documentary photography, we hear on-the-ground stories of pogroms in Libya and Egypt, the burning of synagogues in Syria, the terrible Farhud in Iraq, families escaping via the great airlifts of the Magic Carpet and Operations Ezra and Nehemiah, husbands smuggled in carpets into Iran in search of wives. The authors also provide crucial historical background for these events, as well as updates on the lives of some of these Sephardi Jews who have gone on to rebuild fortunes in London and New York, write novels, and win Nobel Prizes. Sephardi Voices is at once a wide-ranging and intimate story of a large-scale catastrophe and a portrait of the vulnerability of the passage of time.
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica write by Aron Rodrigue. This book was released on 2012-01-11. A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820–1903), wrote about Ottoman Jews' daily life at a time when the finely wrought fabric of Ottoman society was just beginning to unravel. His vivid portrayal of life in Salonica, a major port in the Ottoman Levant with a majority Jewish population, thus provides a unique window into a way of life before it disappeared as a result of profound political and social changes and the World Wars. Sa'adi was a prominent journalist and publisher, one of the most significant creators of modern Sephardic print culture. He was also a rebel who accused the Jewish leadership of Salonica of being corrupt, abusive, and fanatical; that leadership, in turn, excommunicated him from the Jewish community. The experience of excommunication pervades Sa'adi's memoir, which documents a world that its author was himself actively involved in changing.
Sephardi Voices, 1492-1992
Sephardi Voices, 1492-1992 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sephardi Voices, 1492-1992 write by Marc Angel. This book was released on 1991. Sephardi Voices, 1492-1992 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sephardic-American Voices
Sephardic-American Voices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sephardic-American Voices write by Diane Matza. This book was released on 1998-11. Sephardic-American Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking literary anthology reveals the nature and history of a lesser-known but vital branch of Jewish culture.
Sephardi Lives
Sephardi Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sephardi Lives write by Julia Cohen. This book was released on 2014-08-27. Sephardi Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews—descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine. Reflecting Sephardi history in all its diversity, from the courtyard to the courthouse, spheres intimate, political, commercial, familial, and religious, these documents show life within these distinctive Jewish communities as well as between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Sephardi Lives offer readers an intimate view of how Sephardim experienced the major regional and world events of the modern era—natural disasters, violence and wars, the transition from empire to nation-states, and the Holocaust. This collection also provides a vivid exploration of the day-to-day lives of Sephardi women, men, boys, and girls in the Judeo-Spanish heartland of the Ottoman Balkans and Middle East, as well as the émigré centers Sephardim settled throughout the twentieth century, including North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The selections are of a vast range, including private letters from family collections, rabbinical writings, documents of state, memoirs and diaries, court records, selections from the popular press, and scholarship. In a single volume, Sephardi Lives preserves the cultural richness and historical complexity of a Sephardi world that is no more.
