Persistiendo en las Sombras
Reseña sobre la tesis doctoral de Schulamith Halevy sobre los Conversos Neoleoneses Por David Ramírez En el curso de la historia concerniente a los conversos[1], los temas más estudiados han […]
Category Archives: Historiae
Persisting on the Shadows
Review of Schulamith Halevy’s Doctoral Thesis on Conversos Neoleoneses By David Ramírez In the course of Converso[1] related history, the subjects mostly studied have been the lives of few famous […]
Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi: A Study in Contrasts
By David Shasha The late Elie Wiesel was an immensely complicated figure who helped raise public awareness of the Holocaust, but who also became consumed by his own celebrity and […]
Convivencia Under Siege: Live Action Self-Hating Sephardim
By: David Ramírez Please note: All the Facebook quotes are reprinted without change. The typos have been retained. The personal names of the participants have been removed. And just to […]
De conversos y la pérdida de la identidad sefaradita
Por David Ramírez Al platicar con un amigo mío sobre cómo la nueva generación de sefaradíes está cada día menos consciente sobre la identidad sefaradí, y los problemas sistémicos que […]
Of Conversos and the Loss of Sephardic Identity
By David Ramírez In talking to a friend of mine about how the new generation of Sephardim are becoming less and less aware about Sephardic identity, and the systemic problems […]
Don’t Blame Abraham for the Israeli Conquest of Palestine
A Response to Gary Leupp’s “The Myth of Abraham and America’s Allegiance to Israel”[1] By David Ramírez People who have been critical of the modern state of Israel often have […]
The Status of Women in the Sephardic Jewish Tradition
By: Renee Levine Melammed Written histories of the Jews in Spain have rarely included women. The two major historical works in the field, The Jews of Moslem Spain (2 vols.) by Eliyahu […]
The Role of Spanish & Portuguese Conversas as a Model for the Future of Sephardic Jewry
By Yehonatán Ele‘azar de Mota Many a time within the contemporary Sephardic Jewish community, much is said about women’s issues. The reality is that there is a conflict between traditional […]
