Posts by Elise Friedmann
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Who knows? 'Hallel #3'https://m.facebook.com/groups/917941698217065?view=permalink&id=1486574358020460
Looking for records in the UK? Ancestry apparently has lots of documents and is giving free access this weekend, even if you are not a paid account holder.
Dr. Rina Benmayor collected over 140 audio recordings in Seattle and Los Angeles during the 1970s, of elderly pple singing ballads. Together with theUni of Washington, the Sephardic Studies Program and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, she organized, catalogued, and digitized her recordings and kindly contributed them to the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection.
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A new Sephardi myth, brought to you from Amsterdam. Throughout the Winter season, the Dutch sell and eat sweet fried 'oliebollen' in the streets that - Hey they are just like sufganiot! This makes them just like many other sweet pastries made of deep-fried dough, including the German Berliner, which is much more like the oliebol in taste, texture and appearance BUT, writes the American Jewish new...
Entertaining diversion about tennis champ Rafael Nadal Parera: one more myth about who is supposed to be a converso...“Rafa,” as Nadal is affectionately called (and the Rafa name appears everywhere at the US Open at souvenir shirts and souvenir stands), is known more formally as Rafael Nadal Parera.This “Parera” name has led to speculation in recent months that Nadal may have Jewish ancestry. Simc...
This is obviously not one of 'my' Pintos since there appears to have been an inheritance, but incase someone here is investigating Da Costa, Pinto of De Jong: I accidentally stumbled on this advert concerning those names
Amazing, I found a Ladino music (internet) radio channel.
Lovely story about Dutch cigar makers moving to London
Born in Salonica in 1896, Albert Levy came from a family deeply involved in Jewish communal life. He appears to have been related to the prominent Levy publishing family in Salonica. where, from 1913-1916, he edited a daily Ladino newspaper called El Liberal. His scrapbooks record Levy’s writings and offer a glimpse into the life and times of this twentieth century Sephardic luminary.
http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2016/08/01/call-for-applications-2017-jdc-archives-fellowship/”
Great, isn't it, that so many records have been indexed and digitised! Help yourself and others by indexing some more: only one more day
Maybe this was posted already, if so sorry didn't notice it & thought it interesting.http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/07/05/400-year-old-jewish-cemetery-in-turkey-to-be-restored-in-effort-to-commemorate-once-vibrant-jewish-community-in-milas/#