Sephardic World
Sephardic World brings world-class speakers to a global audience for free. Our first meeting was on 3 May 2020, during the pandemic. Below are links to recordings of Sephardic World meetings.
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The Sephardic World lecture library
2020 Meetings
The Amsterdam Archives - Ton Tielen
The 1680 Madrid auto-da-fe - David Mendoza
The first Jewish citizen of New York - Daniela Weil
Jewish Genealogy in Morocco - Jacob Marrache Fischel
Jewish marriage in Livorno - Alain Nedjar
Family Nunes Vaz, a Journey of Western Sephardic genealogy - Jarrett Ross
Suriname: Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society - Aviva Ben-Ur
Sephardic DNA project - Adam Brown
Highlights from the Ets Haim collection - Heide Warncke
Muestro Yerusha: Jewish heritage and Identity in the Ottoman Empire - Michael Waas
Rabbis with Inky Fingers - Making 18th Century Hebrew Books - Noam Sienna
The Jews of Eighteenth Century Jamaica - Stanley Mirvis
Art of the Jewish Family - Laura Arnold Leibman
Geni.com, Good for the Sephardim? - Randy Schoenberg
The Amsterdam Notarial Archives - Harmen Snel
The Sephardic Poor of Amsterdam and London - Ton Tielen
The Jews of Italy - Luca Ascoli
Libyan Jews in the Maelstrom of Modern History - Sephardic Horizons
Syrian Jews from Aleppo to Brooklyn - Sarina Roffe
Menasseh ben Israel vs The Rabbi's - Steven Nadler
From Glory to Dispersion - the Sephardic Lisbona family from Damascus - David Lisbona
The De Sola Mendes Family and the Portuguese Inquisition - Florbela Veiga Frade
"My Heart is in the East..." Financial support for Eretz Israel from the farthest West - Ton Tielen
From Portugal to Jamaica - The Delgado Story - Steve Delgado Porter
Who owns the cemetery? Shearith Israel, New York - Zachary Edinger
Sir Moses Montefiore - Abigail Green
2021 Meetings
David Baruch Louzada 1640-1699 - Julian Land
The Dutch Pimentel Family - History and Holocaust - Esther Shaya, Henk Dijkman and Fokko Weerstra
Sephardic Jews in Diplomatic and Consular Archives - Thierry Samama
Genetic Census of the Sephardim - Adam Brown
A Journey through Curacao's Jewish History - Ron Gomes Casseres
Jews in the Maghreb - Their Surnames and their Roots - Alexander Beider
Jewish Archives in the Ottoman Empire - Michael Waas
Alliance Israelite Universelle - Jean-Claude Kuperminc
Sephardim in the Atlantic World - Jessica Roitman
Amsterdam - Bookstore of the World - Emile Schrijver
The Farhi of the Levant - Alain Farhi
Data Mining the Deceased - Julia Creet
Sephardic Research, Past, Present and Future - Schelly Talalay Dardashti
DNA evidence of Jews in Portugal - Inês Pires Nogueiro
Vindos de Portugal - Carla Vieira
Spanish archives pre-1750 - Daniel Smith-Ramos
Genealogy of the Jews of Egypt - David Mendoza
Chasing Shadows - Bringing the Gomes da Costa family to life - Ali Erginsoy
Gibraltarian Jews in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Joshua Marrache
The Jews of Jamaica, an interview with Ainsley Cohen Henriques
The Need for a Sephardic Genealogical Society - David Mendoza and Ton Tielen
Balkan Sephardim in Early Modern Amsterdam - Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Trade and the Sephardic Diaspora - A Reappraisal - Daniel Strum
Esther the Queen and the Brothers Buzaglo - Ali Erginsoy
The Jews of Rhodes: Between Ottomans and Italians - Valerie McGuire
The Nação Portuguesa in Antwerp - Florbela Veiga Frade
Amsterdam Research: Ets Haim School, Library, and Charity - Ton Tielen
A Moroccan Jewish Genealogical Journey - Raquel Levy-Toledano
Sephardic Diplomatic Power - Hans Wallage
From Cobblers to Cosmopolitans: The Baruch Lousada Story - Julian Land
The Peculiar Case of Luis Méndez Chávez and the Cartagena Inquisition - Brian Hamm
The Jews of Egypt - Yves Fedida
Ashkenazim with Sephardic Ancestry? David Mendoza and Ton Tielen
15 resources every Sephardic genealogist should know - Ton Tielen and David Mendoza
Sephardic Genealogy in Livorno - Alain Nedjar
Jewish Cemeteries in Jamaica - Rachel Frankel and Joseph de Leon
The Jews of Bosnia - Francine Friedman
Spain and the Jews: From Expulsion to Citizenship - David Mendoza
2022 Meetings
Why wasn't Spinoza excommunicated? - Yitzhak Melamed
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean? - Ton Tielen
Jews in Georgian Society - The Laras of London - Pearl Foster
Will the real Lousada duke please stand up?! - Julian Land
Trade and persecution: Three Merchants between Lisbon and London - Carla Vieira
The Sephardic Archives of Amsterdam - The Early Years - Ton Tielen
The Story of Sephardic Surnames: Fruit Trees, Catholic Themes and ‘Expert Lists’ - Michael Waas
The Sephardic Archives of Amsterdam in the Dutch Golden Age - Ton Tielen
Sephardic Traditions - What is different about Portuguese Jews? - Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota
Rabbis, Merchants and Consuls - The Marrache Family of Morocco - Jacob Marrache
The Holocaust in Yugoslavia - Esther Danon Gitman
Your Sephardic Problems Answered! Q&A session with Ton Tielen and David Mendoza
Dutch Sephardim: An Interview with Professor Bart Wallet
Finding Jews in Jamaican Archives - Toni Pitock and Marina Delfos Harris
Mail Order Brides, Sephardic Style (Dotar) - Ton Tielen
Servants, Masters and Families. African and Eurafrican Jews in 17th Century Amsterdam - Mark Ponte
The Moroccan Jews of Cabo Verde: Preservation of Memory - Carol Castiel
Origins of the Sephardic Mendoza Family - David Mendoza
Cardinal Errors in Sephardic Genealogy - Julian Land
Speaking for the Silenced - Richard Zimler
Peixotto: A Portuguese-Jewish family in the Americas - Haakon Lazarus Chevalier
Sephardic Music from the Inside Out - Ian Pomerantz
Opening the Archives with Technology - Bevis Marks, A Case Study - David Silvera
Finding Early London Sephardic Ancestors - Ton Tielen and David Mendoza
Sephardim in ancien régime France - Ton Tielen and David Mendoza
The Crypto-Judaism Movement: Are Bnei Anusim an Ashkenazi fantasy? - David Mendoza (Patrons only)
A Trip to the Dutch Wild Coast: A 1658 Sephardic Expedition - Jonathan Schorsch
Q&A with Harmen Snel, Senior Archivist at the Amsterdam City Archives - Harmen Snel
A Conversation with Ton Tielen - Ton Tielen and David Mendoza
Cohen de Azevedo: Tracing a Sephardic Family - Ton Tielen
Daniel Mendoza, Regency Boxer and Improbable Jewish Hero - David Mendoza
The Romanian Legacy: Sephardic Jewish Community - Peninah Zilberma
2023 Meetings
Mining the Archives with Technology - David Silvera
Eight Centuries of a Sephardic Family: The Malka Family, 1282-2022 - Jeff Malka
Jewish Bulgaria: A Virtual Sephardic Journey - Joseph Benatov (Not recorded. Link to speaker's website)
Sephardic and Ashkenazi Genealogy: Chalk and Cheese? - David Mendoza
In Conversation with Mark Ponte - Mark Ponte
Judah Touro and the Touro Synagogue of New Orleans - Adrien Genet
Sephardim and the Allure of Nobility - Ton Tielen
Y-DNA and the Jews - Wim Penninx
Books Every Sephardic Genealogist Should Know - David Mendoza and Ton Tielen
Anatomy of Torture: Torment as a Tool of the Spanish Inquisition - Ron Hassner
Researching Jewish Ancestors in the Ottoman Empire - David Mendoza
The Almosnino Family - Nathaniel Farouz
Sephardic Jews of Barbados - Simon Kreindler
Three Years of Sephardic World. What have we learned? - David Mendoza and Ton Tielen
Your Problems Answered - Sephardic Genealogy Q&A
The Portuguese and Spanish Nationality Laws - What went wrong? - David Mendoza
A Sephardic case study - The Baruch Lousada - Julian Land
The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries - David Sclar
DNA and Jewish Genealogy - Adam Brown
Using DNA to Track your Ancestors: A Case Study - Raquel Levy-Toledano
Untangling Jamaican Jewish Genealogy - Stephen Delgado Porter
Using Facebook for Researching the Jews of Egypt - Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch
Sephardim in Romania - Felicia Waldman
JewishGen and Sephardic Genealogy - Avraham Groll
Resources for Sephardic Genealogists in Israel - Rose Feldman
Review of 2023 - David Mendoza
2024 Meetings
Rewriting a Family History: De Sola Family - Ton Tielen
The Irresponsible Life of Joshua Cohen Rodrigues - Jair van Dijk
Ladino Culture and Jewish Identity in Bulgaria - Leah Davcheva
Portuguese Nationality for Sephardic Descendants: An Update - Isabel Comte and Teresa Santos
To hear Judith Cohen's talk, Adeus Vila de Belmonte: Music in the lives of crypto-Jews in Portugal, please contact her directly. Members-only meetings are not shared, but Patreon supporters can see them on request. Unfortunately recordings of two meetings are unavailable. These are: Dotar - The Sephardic Marriage Market and The Nunes Carvalho Family, from Portugal to the Wild West.
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