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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

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Firsthand accounts, Letters
Chapters of My Autobiography
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The story of my life is only exceptional in that it represents a great change of identity in the heart of the Jewish people. [ . . . ] I was born a Jewish Algerian—a French citizen to boot—and during…

Contributor:

Léon Ashkenazi

Places:

Orsay, France

Date:

1967

Subjects:

Modernity, Sephardic, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish identity, (Auto)biography, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, (Auto)biography
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