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On the Question of All Questions Concerning the Settling of the Land
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The Arab Question—with which the youngsters born in this Land have been familiar for many years, and because of which they were subject to disgrace and ridicule by the prominent men within the Yishuv…

Contributor:

Chaim Ben-Kiki

Places:

Tiberias, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration over Ottoman Syria (Tiberias, Israel)

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Yishuv, Arab-Jewish relations, Zionism, Sephardic

Categories:

Political Culture
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

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity
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Let us begin with the most basic questions: Can oral traditions of music constitute a reliable source for historical research? While this question is applicable to most music…

Contributor:

Edwin Seroussi

Places:

Ramat Gan, Israel

Date:

1996

Subjects:

Music, Sephardic, Synagogue, Prayer & liturgy, Ethnography

Categories:

Political Culture, History, Historical Writing
The Sermon
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For a while there was quiet—a total, final quiet in the room. Then the chairman stirred, beetling his heavy eyebrows, and spoke with gruff, ironical severity: “Comrade Yudka, I call you to order! If…

Contributor:

Chaim Hazaz

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Zionism, Diaspora, Humanistic Judaism, Yiddish, Sephardic

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro
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The life and literary undertakings of Isaac Orobio de Castro are symbolic of the fate and fortunes of the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi diaspora in seventeenth-century western Europe. His passage…

Contributor:

Yosef Kaplan

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1982

Subjects:

Sephardic, Conversion, Conversos, Christian-Jewish relations, Christianity

Categories:

Political Culture