Growing up Sepharadi in an Ashkenazi America
I was born and raised in a neighborhood in Boca Raton, Florida, where everyone was above the age of 75, and everyone was all too familiar with the horrors committed by Nazi Germany. Sitting by…
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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…
We Will Not Be Divided
At one my first meetings with the group Salam Shalom Barcelona (see description at end of entry), one of the organizers asked us to get into groups with about two Jewish members and two Muslims…
The (re)construction of the Catalan Jewish community
This coming year the Catalan Jewish community will celebrate its Centenary in our country. This anniversary refers to the creation, in the years 1917-1918, of a specific organisational structure (community) that served as a social,…
Armin Langer: A Jew in Neukölln
I met Armin Langer last summer at a beach party. A very peculiar one, as there were no DJs, no tanned volleyball players, no cocktails with umbrellas, and no beach. It took place in the…
Interview with David Albahari*
David Albahari (b. 1949) is a Serbian writer who has lived more than 10 years in exile in Canada. He went into exile because the former Yugoslavia was torn apart by ethnic war. Albahari left…
Convivencia and filosefardismo in Spanish Nation-building*
2015: The Law of reencuentro or the old-new Philo-Sephardism “¡Cuánto os hemos echado de menos!”—“We have missed you so much!” These were the words of King Philippe VI, Head of State of Spain, in the…
Grossman Revisited (English Version)
Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son” Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on” God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?” God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but The…