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Memories of the Meldar: An Ottoman Jew’s Early Education
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Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…

Contributor:

Alexander Benghiat

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Adolescence, Scholarship, Education, Memory, Sephardic, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Reportage
Letters to the Central Committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle from Tangier, Morocco; Sousse, Tunisia; and Tunis, Tunisia
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Tunis, November 1920Zionism still continues to make progress in Tunisia. In all the major cities of the Regency, Zionist committees have already been established. In Tunis itself there are three…

Contributor:

Alliance Israélite Universelle

Places:

Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Tangier, French Protectorate in Morocco (Tangier, Morocco)

Date:

1920–1938

Subjects:

Zionism, Mizrahi, Sephardic, Education, Antisemitism, Journalism, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Reportage
Chapters of My Autobiography
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The story of my life is only exceptional in that it represents a great change of identity in the heart of the Jewish people. [ . . . ] I was born a Jewish Algerian—a French citizen to boot—and during…

Contributor:

Léon Ashkenazi

Places:

Orsay, France

Date:

1967

Subjects:

Modernity, Sephardic, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish identity, (Auto)biography, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, (Auto)biography