Media Coverage and Reviews (Selected)
December 11, 2009
“For the World Traveler: The Ninth Night of Hanukkah! A Sephardic Celebration (Los Angeles)”
by Beth Schwartzapfel, The Forward
October 11–12, 2009
“Jewish journey in Spain led author to write a history”
by Dolores Sloan, San Diego Jewish World
Fall 2009
“Libros Nuevos”
by Andrew Lovato, La Herencia
July 19, 2009
“Judaism’s struggle, in Old World and New: Sephardim served as advisers to kings, all the while fleeing persecution around the Iberian peninsula”
by David Steinberg, The Albuquerque Journal
July 13, 2009
“A Wonderful life: Keeping her ancestry alive”
by Ana Pacheco, Santa Fe New Mexican
July 1, 2009
“Luís de Santángel: El Konverso en el Servisio del Rey i de la Deskuvierta del Mundo Muevo,”
Adaptado de “The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal” por Dolores Sloan
by Gad Nassi
El Amanaser, Istanbul (in Ladino)
Summer 2009
“Dolores Sloan. The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”
by Ron Duncan-Hart, HaLapid
Summer 2009
“Homage to a Resourceful and Resilient People”
by Dolores Sloan, Kulanu
April 18, 2009
“Telling the story of Sephardic Portuguese and Spanish Jews”
Amazon review by Maria Victor Smith
Useful Resources
- American Sephardi Federation
- Arthur Benveniste Home Page
- Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)
- Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
- Bancroft Library
- Barbara Aiello, First Woman Rabbi in Italy
- Cary Herz: New Mexico’s Crypto Jews: Image and Memory
- Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture (FASSAC)
- Friends of Marranos
- Ignacio Steinhardt’s Web Site
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Journal for the Study of Sephardic and Mizrachi Jewry
- Journal of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian Crypto Jews
- Judith R. Cohen, PhD, Ethnomusicologist/Performer
- Judy Frankel, Performer of Sephardic Music
- Kulanu
- Ladina (in Portuguese and English)
- Les Juifs du Maroc/Jews of Morocco (in French)
- Nahman Home Page
- National Hispanic Cultural Center
- Poems by M. Miriam Herrera
- Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam
- Recuerdos Sefarditos
- Saudades
- Sephardicgen
- Sephardim.com
- Shavei Israel
- Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
- Tracing the Tribe