Category: Book
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The Familiar
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming…
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The Jews of Rhodes. The History of a Sephardic Community
The Sephardic Community of Rhodes was established in 1523 by victims and children of victims of the expulsion of Jews from Spain. It was destroyed by the Nazis in 1944. Although relatively small, the Rhodian Jewish community was important far out of proportion to its size, due to the considerable influence of its rabbis and…
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Stella’s Sephardic Table: Jewish family recipes from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes
To be seated at a Sephardic table is to bare witness to centuries of a mesmerizingly rich cultural heritage overflowing with traditions and festivities, symbols and superstitions, stories and insights, fragrances, tastes and culinary secrets all handed down from generation to generation around the ever-present Sephardic feast. Following the expulsion of the Jews in…
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I Remember Rhodes
The Island of Rhodes located in the Aegean Sea 12 miles off the Turkish coast was the home of a unique and vibrant Jewish community since antiquity. In the early part of the haven there in the wake of their expulsion from the Iberian peninsula. Their descendants thrived under the benevolent rule of the Ottoman…
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LUCIA CAPELLUTO – My Life in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen
The testimony of Lucia Capelluto, as recorded by Lina Galasso Delfini, in Rome in 1946.
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A Guidebook to the Jewish Quarter of Rhodes
This 60-page guidebook of “La Juderia” contains a map with locations and information on Jewish monuments, the Kahal Shalom, and the cemetery, as well as a summary of the Jewish presence by Stella Levi. You’ll want to read this before visiting Rhodes.