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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

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Reportage
Portrait of Tzvi Ashkenazi
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Tzvi Hirsch ben Jacob Ashkenazi was a talmudist and community leader from Moravia. He was also known as the Ḥakham Tzvi, a Sephardic scholarly title he is thought to have received from the rabbinic…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Painting, Portrait, Ashkenazi, Scholarship, Sephardic

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Portrait painting of man in hat facing viewer and pointing toward a book tucked under his arm with slip of paper with Hebrew text.