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Who Is a Sephardi?
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Haifa 1 Elul, 5724 August 9, 1964 To: His Excellency David Ben-Gurion Sde BokerDear Sir,From your letter of May 19, 1964, I understood that you wish to avoid a comprehensive discussion of the problems…

Contributor:

David Ben-Gurion, Elie Eliachar

Places:

Sde Boker, Israel

Date:

1964

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Sephardic, Racism, Ashkenazi, Ethnography, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
How Should One Pray South of the Equator?
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Rosario, Argentina, June 16, 1914Your Eminence,Permit me to bother you in the name of the Jewish collective of Rosario, because of a divergence of opinion arising between us, about which we desire…

Contributor:

David Pisanté

Places:

Rosario, Argentina

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Sephardic, Prayer & liturgy, Assimilation, Exile, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
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
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