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The Spaniolische (Sephardic) Woman
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We have been implored to print the following letter:Dear Mrs. Bernadzikowska-Belović,I am an eager reader of the Bosnische Post and, especially, of your short feature pieces and articles, which are my…

Contributor:

Laura Papo

Places:

Sarajevo, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Sephardi, Women, Jewish languages, Ladino, Modernity

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
Perversion of Justice (in Serbia)
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In one of the recent issues of Ha-Melits, which for unknown reasons I only received today, I read about Mr. W. Shor’s complaint about the Serbian Jews’ refusal to accept Jews, persecuted in other…

Contributor:

Simon Bernfeld

Places:

Belgrade, Serbia

Date:

1886

Subjects:

Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Sectarianism, Migration, Rabbis

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Journalism
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, Turkey)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Sexual violence, Prostitution, Women, Human rights, Sephardi

Categories:

Political Culture, Letters, Firsthand Accounts