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 […]
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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 […]
The Tabernacle of God
By: George S. Belasco We begin this week’s newsletter with an astounding sermon from the late minister of the Montefiore Endowment Synagogue in Ramsgate, England, George Belasco. I first learned […]
The Lost Tribes’ Musical Chairs
By David Ramírez Whenever I see a new post in the Ashkenazi media on the subject of the Lost Tribes or Iberian anusim, I ask myself: Whatever happened to basic […]
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 […]
More on Conversos and Freund’s Continuous Web of Lies
By David Ramírez In his ongoing self-promotion cycle, recently we learned of Freund’s discovery of Abarbanel’s “prophecies” in a Jerusalem Post article titled “The Abarbanel and the return of the […]
The Unchanging Law
Shearith Israel’s Heritage and Hope By the Rev. David de Sola Pool, Ph. D. Sermon preached in the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel, Central Park West and Seventieth Street, […]
Ideological and Contextual: Legal Reasoning Deployments by Kook and Uziel
The Instrumentation of Halakháh leMa‘aséh in Ashkenazic and Sephardic Traditions By David Ramírez INTRODUCTION In the early 20th century, women’s suffrage was a hot topic. Countries began to give voting […]
The Zionist Politicization of Conversos and Its Risks
By David Ramírez As we had mentioned in other articles, [1] the renaissance of returning conversos, descendants of Iberian Jews who were converted to Catholicism with or against their will, […]
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