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A Call for the Creation of a Sephardic Society for the Study of Jewish History and Culture
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If there is one branch of study that is entirely neglected in our schools it is the history of our forefathers from the time of their dispersion across the globe until the present. . . . [True,] our…

Contributor:

Mercado Joseph Covo

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1892

Subjects:

Sephardi, Sephardic, Education, Antisemitism, Christian-Jewish relations, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
A European Feminist Decries Sex Trafficking in the Ottoman Empire
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911 Dear Mrs. N., I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…

Contributor:

Bertha Pappenheim

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Türkiye)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Sexual violence, Prostitution, Women, Human rights, Sephardi, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Letters, Firsthand accounts