Carn jueva
Aquest text reuneix el contingut d’algunes entrades publicades a la pàgina web de l’autor, en concret “Llevadures i carns” (2011), “Jueu no toquis la carn!” (2013) i “Els jueus a Manresa” (2017). Els enllaços a…
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Sundials that Unite: Teddy Park Sundial, Jerusalem, Israel
A version of this article was previously published in La Busca (2017; num. 88), the magazine of the Societat Catalana de Gnomònica, and in English in the Bulletin (2018; vol. 30(3)) of the British Sundial Society. All images…
Poetry challenge: a bit of zoological verse
According to its author, this is a “brief and lighthearted poem in easy, vocalized Hebrew, containing animal- and environmentally-related vocabulary, where I mention some amusing creepy-crawlies and other lively little creatures.” This poem currently has no…
Moisès Remós: Retrat fúnebre d’un jove jueu mallorquí
Moisès ben Isaac Remós (1406-1430) és una figura de la nostra literatura que és tan poc coneguda com inusual. Amb prou feines en conservem un petit recull de poemes1, del qual només la present lamentació…
Mozaika opens its doors to the neighbors
Yesterday we opened the doors of Casa Adret to the neighbors of the Call, the old Jeiwsh neighborhood. A week before, several Mozaika members went door to door, handing out invitations to come and meet…
Anti-Semitism in France
In memory of Mireille Knoll, Sara Halimi, Philippe Braham, Francois-Michel Saada, Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Rabbi Yonatan Sandler, Aryeh Sandler (6 years old), Gabriel Sandler (3 years old), Miriam Monsonego (8 years old), Ilan Halimi,…
Anti-Semitism and Western Metaphysics
One of the more transparent and pathetic strategies of damage control that has emerged in the wake of the Black Notebooks’ publication is the contention that, given the proportions and extent of the current historical…
Exceptional moments. Séfer 2017.
Dear friends, Today we celebrate the second edition of the Jewish Book Festival, Séfer Barcelona, and at the same time we can say that we are living in exceptional times. We must confess that those…
100 years of the Comunidad Israelita de Barcelona (Jewish Community of Barcelona).
The Tour The tour tries to rescue the history of the first years of the CIB, Comunidad Israelita de Barcelona, from its foundation, at the end of 1918, until the inauguration of the new headquarters…
A Rejection of Spain’s Sepharad (Part I)
Locating Sepharad in Spain’s Law of Return “Berlin’s Jewish population goes back to about 1670. Some of these Jews had Sephardic roots, but they’re hard to trace. I charge US$80/hr, 10 hours minimum.” Roger, a…