## *Sephardic World YouTube Premiere*## *Merchants, Migrations, and Memory*## *The Pariente Family from Tetuan to Nice****Jacob Marrache*** traces the *Pariente *family's journey across the Mediterranean. Beginning in 18th-century Tetuan. He tracks their establishment as merchants in Tangier, Gibraltar, London, Nice and Livorno while navigating war, exile, and changing empires. Using censuses, legal records, notarial deeds, and family petitions, the talk reconstructs a network built on trade, diplomacy, and kinship.Jacob Marrache is a genealogist focused on the Moroccan-Jewish diaspora. As well as his Adafina brand, he is an admin of NAJMA, the Moroccan-Jewish group, and a Geni.com curator. His work includes publishing on Tetuan's Jewish history, transcribing Tangier cemetery and Mogador's Beth Din registers. Gibraltar-born and resident in London, Jacob works as an Operations Manager for Playtech.Join us for the YouTube premiere on Sunday 4 May 2025, at 11 noon in LA, 2pm in NYC, 7pm in London, 8pm in Paris/Amsterdam, 9pm in Jerusalem, and 6am the next morning in Sydney. This is the link: [https://youtu.be/2sjAWXGFCHg](https://youtu.be/2sjAWXGFCHg)If you are not yet a patron and can support our work, please sign up here: [https://www.patreon.com/sephardi](https://www.patreon.com/sephardi). As little as $5/month makes a huge difference to our work and gives you the opportunity to put your questions directly to world experts. ***Book Review: Der Hamburger Portugiesenfriedhof, Ein *****Welterbe *****Michael Studemund-Halévy, ****expert on the history of the Jews in **Hamburg, wrote a booklet about the Portuguese Jewish Cemetery in Hamburg, in German, titled: Der Hamburger Portugiesenfriedhof, Ein Weltkulturerbe, 2013.*Whoever enters the Portuguese Cemetery in Hamburg-Altona steps into a confusing world of letters and images—a kind of open-air museum filled with scholarly biblical quotations and elaborate poems, decorative symbols and biblical images, real and imagined genealogies that imagine a past life as "Jewish" and immortalise it as material for reading and study. The names of the deceased serve as reminders and speak for the dead, both individually and collectively. Inscriptions, symbols, and biblical scenes teach the "passersby of life" not only about dying, but also admonish and instruct them on how a Jew should live. The dead in the "House of Life" communicate their attitude toward death and grant us insight into their lives and the culturalIn a mere 150 pages Studemund covers the history of the place, sepulchral art, gravestones as ego-documents, epitaphs and their makers, iconography, surnames, given names and a lot more. In short, everything that you need to know about the cemetery is here, followed by footnotes and a literature list if you want to find more details.Michael Studemund-Halévy also wrote the indispensable Biographisches Lexikon der Hamburger Sefarden, 2000, in which he provides minibiographies, genealogies and descriptions of the graves of the more than 1600 Sephardim buried in Hamburg. Sadly that book is sold out, and second-hand it is getting more costly over the years.*Michael Studemund-Halévy, Der Hamburger Portugiesenfriedhof, Ein Weltkulturerbe, 150 pages, Brochure, 67 images, ISBN: 978-3-95565-582-2, Edition 2023, 12,90 €. Available here: *[https://www.hentrichhentrich.de/buch-der-hamburger-portugiesenfriedhof.html](https://www.hentrichhentrich.de/buch-der-hamburger-portugiesenfriedhof.html)* ****Spanish Nationality Law***As of April 2025, Spanish nationality have been granted to 72,209 people under the Sephardic origin law. Mexico leads with 23,635 successful applications, followed by Colombia and Venezuela.In addition, since 2020, 3,187 applications for nationality by naturalisation have been submitted, of which 214 have been granted. We assume this is the mechanism under which someone of Sephardic ancestry can apply for Spanish citizenship after two years of legal residency in Spain, rather than the standard five years. Citizens of Spanish-speaking countries already benefitted from the two year rule. ***IAJGS 2025 Conference***The 2025 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will take place in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the United States from 10–14 August. Featuring over 140 sessions, a film festival, a DNA bootcamp, and a “Family Journey Showcase,” it is designed for all levels of experience. Highlights include a keynote by genetic genealogist CeCe Moore and tours of the renowned Genealogy Center. A commemorative cookbook and over 30 rare Jewish films will also be featured. Early-bird registration is $395. Details are available at [www.IAJGS2025.org](http://www.IAJGS2025.org) ***Can you speak to Sephardic World?***Every Sephardic family has a unique story to tell. Do you want to share yours? If you would like to speak but haven’t given a presentation before, we are happy to provide support and to practice with you. If you don’t want to talk for a full 45 minutes, we can have a series of shorter presentations. If you are very nervous about public speaking, we can pre-record. Our only requirement is that you have archival evidence to support what you say. Send us an email at [society@sephardicgenealogy.com](mailto:society@sephardicgenealogy.com) ***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](https://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=15233972a829161e2c117fb4a&id=e060e62e41&e=e9e9d2bc46). We are particularly looking for people with video editing, fundraising and web design experience.We 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/c/sephardi](https://www.patreon.com/c/sephardi) ***Join our 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](https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaHxAjhJ93wTMhWkTF0i) ***From the Sephardic Archives***The Farhi of the Levant. Alain Farhi's Les Fleurs de l'Orient website has long been a valuable resource for Sephardic genealogists researching families from the Ottoman Empire. Alain joined Sephardic World on 21 March 2021 to share his decades of research on the Farhi family, from 13th Century France to the Ottoman Empire and Syria. Alain Farhi is a well-known personality in Jewish genealogy. He started tracking the Farhi families in the early 1980s. His Les Fleurs de l’Orient website currently numbers over 147,000 families and over 325,000 names.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpge00aDPZk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpge00aDPZk) *Best wishes**Ton and David **Sephardic World *