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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
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

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

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters