## **The Lost World of Monastir**## **Sephardic Jews in Ottoman and Yugoslav Macedonia**## **David Mendoza**## **Sephardic World, Sunday 1 September 2024**Sephardic Jews are believed to have arrived in Monastir, today called Bitola, in the years immediately after the Expulsion from Spain. The history of the community reflects Jewish Europe. This Ladino-speaking population survived changes in borders and rulers but eventually succumbed to the Holocaust in which 99% of the city’s Jews were murdered by the Nazis. This meeting will focus on the community’s life and what few documents are available to Sephardic family historians.Our speaker this week, ***David Mendoza***, is a Sephardic genealogist, co-host of Sephardic World, trustee of A Nação Hebraica, and an Admin of The Sephardic Diaspora group on Facebook. He was recently elected to the council of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain.Join us on Sunday 1 September 2024, at 11am in LA, 2pm in NYC, 7pm in London, 8pm in Paris/Amsterdam, 9pm in Jerusalem, and 4am the next morning in Sydney. Patrons are invited to join us live on Zoom.This meeting will not be live broadcast on YouTube this week, but premiered on YouTube next Sunday 8 September, at https://www.youtube.com/SephardicGenealogyAndHistoryPlease remember to subscribe to the channel! To join us live, please subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/sephardi**European Days of European Culture**The Sephardic Genealogical Society is proud to be participating in the European Days of Jewish Culture, organised by the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ). **On Sunday 15 September** at our usual time we will be hosting a free online Q&A session open to everyone. If you, your friends and family have any questions about your Sephardic genealogy, this is your moment!**Can you Volunteer or Donate?**The Sephardic Genealogical Society is looking for volunteers. If you have skills and time to spare, please complete our questionnaire. We are particularly looking for people with video editing, fundraising and web design experience.https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/1aFsubxSY_PtauwOJzlayxBmLTKjXL8kTzz50jmmRiHA/viewform?edit_requested=trueWe rely on the support of our patrons. If you can support our work by donating as little as $5/month, please visit our Patreon page. We have a number of projects that require more substantial support. Please let us know if you can help.https://www.patreon.com/sephardi**Join our new WhatsApp channel**We have set up a WhatsApp channel to better help communication with supporters. If you have WhatsApp, please follow the channel.https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaHxAjhJ93wTMhWkTF0i**From the Sephardic Archives**Ets Haim Library, Amsterdam. Heide Warncke is curator of Ets Haim in Amsterdam, the oldest still-functioning Jewish library in the world. It was founded in 1616 and has been housed in the historical complex of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam since 1675. The library's 560 Jewish manuscripts (47,000 folios) have been digitised.https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=AASsp9fAn8EnoRnR&t=21&v=QTp79cYw6fI&feature=youtu.be*Best wishes**Ton and David**Sephardic World*