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Conference “Sefarad, Soul’s Calling – Past and Future”
12 March 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Ireland Brazilian researcher Denise Sabino Villanova will talk about contemporary Sephardim and their attachment to their roots and cultural heritage. Going ...
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The Golden Horn: Balat
The Golden Horn is a small estuary created by two rivers that flow into the Bosporus. From one side of the Golden Horn to the other extend traditional Jewish neighborhoods that arose beginning at ...
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Madrid
In the film A Monkey in Winter, Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo debate whether the Prado is a museum surrounded by a garden or a garden on which a museum is placed. What is certain is that the ...
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Turkey
In the beautiful synagogue of Ahrida, one of the oldest in Istanbul, the tevah assumes the shape of a caravel symbolizing not only Noah's Ark but also the vessels that in 1492 transported the ...
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Spain
There are numerous legends surrounding the arrival of the Jews in Spain. They were propagated by Jewish and Christian chroniclers, especially in the sixteenth century. Some say they came in the ...