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El Tiempo Celebrating 400 Years of Sephardic Life in the Ottoman Empire
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El Tiempo (Time) was the first Ladino-language newspaper published in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey) and the longest-running Ladino newspaper in the city, with a run of almost sixty…

Contributor:

David Fresco

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1892

Subjects:

Sephardi, Jewish identity, Community, Sephardic, Holidays

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Journalism, Print & Book Culture
Page with decorative motif bordering text written in Arabic and Hebrew scripts.
Portrait of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
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This engraving portrays Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, a rabbi, kabbalist, and preacher, born in Castro Daire, Portugal, to a family of New Christians. He arrived in Amsterdam with his family at the age of…

Contributor:

Aernout Naghtegaal

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1683

Subjects:

Portrait, Print, Sephardi, Kabbalah, Rabbis

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Rabbinic Commentary
Print portrait of man in skullcap and beard, in front of bookshelf and holding open book in his hand, with crown and Hebrew text underneath.