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Articles by Zion Zohar
Jews of the Spanish Homeland: Finding My Sephardic Family in a 1929 Film
In the film, the family is not named. My grandmother was long gone by the time I started writing my novel Kantika, which uses her migration story as a springboard. I emailed the link to the film to my uncle David, who was ninety-two and sharp as a tack, and called to ask him to check his email. Ten minutes later, he called me back: “Holy cow! Where the hell did you find that?
The Chocolate King
By – January 11, 2022 Michael Leventhal and Laura Catalán’s new picture book tells the surprising story of Jewish refugees from Spain who brought chocolate to France in the seventeenth century. Weaving together fairy tale elements and history, Leventhal illustrates the persistence of one Jewish family as they enrich the culture of their new home.
Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century to Today
By – October 4, 2021 Can you tell if someone’s Jewish from how they prepare their food? Can you tell a Sephardi from an Ashkenazi by what they are eating? Had major Jewish thinkers, like Maimonides, have anything to say about food, apart from discussing kashrut?
The Secret Shofar of Barcelona
By – November 1, 2011 Talented children’s author Jacqueline Dembar Greene mixes a high holiday with scary Jewish history during the Spanish Inquisition in a little known Sephardic legend. The conductor of the Barcelona Orchestra is a Converso; he will lead a concert celebrating the Spanish colonies on the first night of Rosh Hashanah.
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