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Sephardic Corner
A painting of Nachmanides in Akko, Israel
May 24, 2018, 7:11 am
Ramban’s Debate Skills Forced His Exile
Moses Montefiore followed Nachmanides to Jerusalem more than 600 years later.
By Mariana Montiel
By Robert Bowyer (1758-1834) published this view of the port of Hamburg in 1814 (via Wikimedia Commons).
April 26, 2018, 5:31 am
How Talmudic Scholarship Shifted to Spain
After the expulsion, Sephardim built the Jewish community of Hamburg.
By Mariana Montiel
Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra was a noted astrologer, among other talents.
March 29, 2018, 6:38 am
Ibn Ezra Personified Diaspora Wandering
Post-expulsion, Sephardim who settled in Livorno became the Syrian nobility.
By Mariana Montiel
Samuel William Fores depicts the epic first fight between Daniel Mendoza and Richard Humphries in 1788, which Mendoza lost.
February 21, 2018, 1:23 pm
From Poetry in Toledo to Pugilism in London
Yehuda Halevi and Daniel Mendoza stand out in Sephardic history.
By Mariana Montiel
The chief rabbi of the Bukharian communities of the United States and Canada, Itzhak Yehoshua, visits Atlanta in October 2015 for the dedication of Congregation Beit Yitzchak’s new building in Norcross.
January 25, 2018, 4:23 pm
From Spanish Algebra to Bukharian Revival
Just Abraham bar Hiyya boosted math in Europe, so Rabbi Yosef Mammon revived Jewish life in Bukhara.
By Mariana Montiel
John of Gorze, the ambassador of Otto I, arrives at the court of Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III, where Hasdai ibn Shaprut serves as a crucial go-between, in an 1885 painting by Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer.
December 19, 2017, 9:11 pm
A Caliph’s Adviser and Religious Freedom Convey Past
Hasdai ibn Shaprut built foreign alliances in the 10th century; an Italian Jewish community thrived, thanks to a 1593 edit.
By Mariana Montiel
A grave from 1736 in the Jewish cemetery in Bayonne, France. (By Daniel Villafruela via Wikimedia Commons)
November 21, 2017, 3:11 pm
How Sephardim Brought Chocolate to France
In the first installment of a new column on Sephardic history and culture, we follow our taste buds to Bayonne.
By Mariana Montiel
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