Sephardic and Mizrahi Secularisms

Sephardic and Mizrahi Secularisms

Secularization in Mizrahi Jewish Life

Mizrahi Jews “believed that just because something was done in the past did not make it sacred.”

By Michel Abitbol

Jews in the Ottoman Empire

Eyal Ginio explores secularization in the Ottoman Empire and its effect of the region’s Jews.

By Eyal Ginio

Queen Esther

My Jewish Grandmother spoke Arabic.

By Vanessa Hidary

Conversations with A.B. Yehoshua

Leading Israeli novelist Yehoshua
discusses Jewish culture and identity,
and the importance of Jewish texts.

By Bernard Horn

Dario Moreno and Sephardic Cosmopolitanism

The life and legacy of Turkish singing legend Dario Moreno, the Mediterranean’s “Frank Sinatra.”

By Pamela Dorn Sezgin

A Room With a View

God let me down on a bright summer night…

By Lucette Valensi

A Jewish Voice Left Silent:

Articulating "The Levantine Option"

Reflections on the Sephardic legacy of coexistence.

By David Shasha

Sephardic Jews Observe Hoshanah Rabah, 1723-1743.