## *SEPHARDIC WORLD, SUNDAY 13 MARCH 2022*## *WITH YEHONATAN ELAZAR-DEMOTA*## *SEPHARDIC TRADITIONS - WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THE PORTUGUESE JEWS?*It is customs and traditions that make a community unique. The Western Sephardim, also known as the Nação Portuguesa (Portuguese Nation) and Spanish & Portuguese Jews, were the community that experienced the Inquisition. What sets this historically small but important group apart? What is different about its liturgy, and why? What is uniquely Portuguese? Historically, how were the young people educated? How did a 17th and 18th Century religious merchant community deal with the institution of slavery?Our speaker this week, ***Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota***, obtained a doctorate in international law from the University of Amsterdam. His thesis was Nação Legal Consciousness and its Contribution to the 17th century Dutch Republic Debate on Slavery and Slave Trade. Yehonatan holds a MA in Religious Studies and Anthropology, and a BA in Liberal Studies from Florida International University. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the political history department at the University of Antwerp. In addition to academia, he is the Rosh Yeshibah at Beth Midrash Eleazar in the Dominican Republic.The meeting is on Sunday 13 March 2022 at 11am in LA, 2pm NYC, 7pm London, 8pm Paris/Amsterdam, and 9pm Jerusalem. Patrons can join us on Zoom. The link is shared at our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/sephardiEveryone is invited to join us for free at: https://www.youtube.com/SephardicGenealogyAndHistory/ Please subscribe to the YouTube channel. It helps us a lot and reminds you when we are going live!If you missed last week's talk, The Sephardic Archives of Amsterdam in the Dutch Golden Age with Ton Tielen, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/VT_i3DvKlXMOver the last two years, Sephardic World has become the leading forum for learning about Sephardic history and genealogy. We have no commercial sponsorship or public funding. There is no charge to attend our meetings or to view our content. If you are not a patron and can afford it, please consider supporting our work: https://www.patreon.com/sephardi*Best wishes,**Ton and David**Sephardic World**Image: Display of the Torah scrolls in the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam, Abraham Jacobsz. Hulk, after Abraham Pietersz. Hulk, 1783*