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Qui a dit qu'on ne pouvait pas stationner en voiture à l'impasse Henri Popp à Rabat. J'ai la preuve voici la belle chevrolet de mon père Henri Benzaken.Il nous a prit en photo en 1957. on habitait au 1 er étage dessus
CARNET – Décès de Jacky BENAROCHE.Un ancien de RABAT.C'est avec tristesse que nous apprenons la disparition de l'un de nos coreligionnaires, Jacky BENAROCHE, décédé ce samedi 14 janvier 2017.Vice-Président et Trésorier de la communauté juive de Créteil et Responsable de l'oratoire "Ohr Haim" (Palais, Valéry-Radot), Jacky BENAROCHE a consacré une très grande partie de sa vie à notre communauté, n'h...
https://youtu.be/wHlk-YQTd-kThis unusual and arresting melody for 'Hamabdil ben Kodesh Lechol' appears in 'The Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' (Aguilar 1857). In his notes to that anthology D.A de Sola describes it as “the best and most melodious [tune for this piyyut] of those known to me, and which bears unmistakable traces of a Spanish origin, as those who ar...
UCLA's Sephardic Archive which was launched in 2015, is the first of itskind in the United States. Its focus, at least initially, will be on the LosAngeles Ladino speaking community whose pioneer immigrants came frommodern-day Turkey and the Balkans in the early 20th century. Over time thecollection will expand to include Los Angeles' North African, Persian andother Middle eastern Jewish communit...
I thought this was interesting enough to pass on:
The original Hebrew and translation of two contemporary accounts of the expulsion from Spain as abridged in the Marcus excerpt posted below. NB the numbers given like all medieval figures need to be taken with a generous pinch of salt.
Ecole de Pau CM1 à Rabat 1955.Avec ma soeur Rose et Jean le fils du directeur.Remarquez les belles nappes sur les tables.
A question has anybody actualy read the original written in 1495 by an Italian Jew
Below I commented on the thread started by צבי רבי, and I showed that Meir Cohen (Belinfante) is mentioned in the Dutch arcchives for the first time in 1691 |(CAA 334, PJC 219, page 2.) I have now taken the time to transcribe the rest of the names of those who fled the Great Turkish War (1683-1699.) The ones that came to Amsterdam mostly came from Belgrado and surroundings. I thought this list mig...
Cecil Roths History of the Marranos
y a plus qu'à aller sur place.
This sort of thing makes one despair. Why try to do history research with integrity when an expert in Tourism (!) can just make it up ...
Apparently this is a thing...http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adult-Sephardic-Chacham-Rabbi-Costume-By-Dress-Up-America-/152384383949?var=&hash=item237ad12bcd:m:m_JIpjh3HybWBsdrKqLxWnA
The image below is taken from the dossier concerning Benjamin (Vaz) Martens, son of Jacob Vaz Martins of London. The source is the by now well known archive of the Portuguese Jewish Community. CAA 334, click your way to chapter 5.2.7.1.4.1, and scroll down to inventory number 729 The image shows the children of Jacob Vaz Martins, and where they lived or died± London, Amsterdam and Kingston on Jam...
Bon dimanche.https://www.facebook.com/marocains00/videos/1362363983786701/
Hello, everyone. My name is Emil Eskenazy Lewinger. I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. My family came from the ex-yugoslavia and we are half sephardim (Eskenazy, Ozmo, Ruso and Romano) and half Ashkenaz (Lewinger et all). I´m currently on an academic research for a MA on the life of the jewish communities in Belgrade and Nis, So, if someone needs (or have) some information about the area, It will be my ...
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BRASIL 1648Since I am unhappy with the transcription done by Arnold Wiznitzer of the list of signatures under the statutes of the Jewish Community in Recife, Brasil, under Dutch rule, I decided to do my own transcription of these 170 names. I still have some trouble reading some of the names, and will get back to that. You can find these signatures here: https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/inv...
Joli tableau de Maurice Bellolo
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Hello. I was wondering if anyone in here had a number of Ladino-speakers today (dyudeo-espanyol), and which countries house the four most significant Ladino communities.... Thanks a lot.....Shalom from Copenhagen :)
Help, I was trying to find out more about Gracia de Crasto the grandmother of Abigael Imanuel Nunes, I came across two docs and I wonder if anybody can put 2 and 2 together.. in both cases they are not carrying the Crasto name which I find confusingJoseph Baruch marries Rachel Abendana in 1679 ( Joseph born in 1654 his mother is Gracia, Rachel is born in Hamburg in 1662) 692-2 regFast forward 171...