The Sephardic Diaspora lays claim to a varied repertoire of delicious dishes. But what are the origins of this culinary heritage? And how have the foods that define Sephardic…
Before Gentleman’s Agreement became the Academy Award–winning postwar film starring Gregory Peck, it was the bestselling novel of Laura Z. Hobson, a Jewish American woman…
This article uses the Silver Palate shop and cookbooks to consider how older ethnic and religious models of hospitality were remade as a secular, cosmopolitan cuisine, and how…
The establishment of the Deinard Chair in Jewish History at the University of Minnesota has ensured the continuity of research and teaching in the field of Jewish history at…
Vilified for their supposed usury, condemned by church leaders, and expelled by opportunistic rulers—such was the fate not only of medieval Europe’s Jewish communities, but…
”Latitude 33°,” Rotem Tamir’s exhibition at Mia November 21, 2026 through February 21, 2027, is named for the cartographic line running through Iraq, north Libya, and near…
Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche grew up within a notable Sephardi family in the tiny but flourishing Jewish community in Jaffa. Born in 1870, he became a prominent entrepreneur, a…
In hindsight, the early 1930s marked the erosion and eventual collapse of liberal democracy in Germany. For those living through these years, however, the trajectory was far…
