SephardicJews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula. The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad, can also refer to the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, who were also heavily influenced by Sephardic law and customs. Many Iberian Jewish exiled families also later sought refuge in those Jewish communities, resulting in ethnic and cultural integration with those communities over the span of many centuries.
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University. It is one of the oldest academic presses in the United States and the first university press to be established on the West Coast. It is currently a member of the Association of University Presses. The press publishes 130 books per year across the humanities, social sciences, and business, and has more than 3,500 titles in print.
Jews outside Europe under Axis occupation suffered greatly during the Holocaust and World War II.
Joseph Skibell is an American novelist and essayist living in Atlanta, Georgia, and Tesuque, New Mexico.
Lucette Matalon Lagnado was an Egyptian-born American journalist and memoirist of Syrian origin. She was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
Gavriel David Rosenfeld is President of the Center for Jewish History in New York City and Professor of History at Fairfield University. His areas of academic specialization include the history of Nazi Germany, memory studies, and counterfactual history. He is an editor of The Journal of Holocaust Research and edits the blog, The Counterfactual History Review, which features news, analysis, and commentary from the world of counterfactual and alternate history.
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is an annual prize awarded to an outstanding literary work of Jewish interest by an emerging writer. Previously administered by the Jewish Book Council, it is now given in association with the National Library of Israel.
Steven B. Bowman is an American scholar and academic particularly known for his research of Greek and Jewish relations throughout the past three millennia, with emphasis on Byzantine and Holocaust periods. He is a professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches a wide range of courses in ancient and medieval Judaic Studies and modern Israel.
Molly Antopol is an American fiction and nonfiction writer. As of 2016, she is the Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her primary research interests include the Cold War and the Middle East.
North African Sephardim are a distinct sub-group of Sephardi Jews, who descend from exiled Iberian Jewish families of the late 15th century and North African Maghrebi Jewish communities.
Moshe ben Rafael Attias, also known as Moshe Rafajlović and Zeki Effendi, was a Bosnian Jew who became a scholar of the Islamic faith and of medieval Persian literature.
Abigail Frances Floretta Green is a British historian. She has been a Fellow of the Brasenose College, Oxford, since 2000, and in 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford.
Aron Rodrigue is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University.
Žamila Andžela Kolonomos was a Sephardi Jewish partisan, writer, academic, and political activist in what is now North Macedonia.
Vitalis Haim Danon was a Jewish-Tunisian writer and professor. Danon is notable for his groundbreaking portrayal of day-to-day Jewish Tunisian life in his book, Ninette de la Rue du Péché.
Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington. He is descended from Greek Sephardic Jews who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s.
Zvi Hirsch Koretz, also written as Tzevi or SeviKoretz, was an Ashkenazi Jew who served as the Chief Rabbi of Saloniki's Jewish community from 1933 to 1945. His role as president of the Judenrat during World War II has been called into controversy, with many accusing him of being a Nazi collaborator.
La Epoca was a Ladino language newspaper published between 1875 and 1911 in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire. Published nearly for forty years it was the leading Ladino publication in the Empire and first Ladino newspaper in Thessaloniki.
Menachem Kaiser is a Canadian writer. He received the 2022 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure.
Sarah Bunin Benor is an American linguist and scholar of Jewish languages. She is a professor of contemporary Jewish studies and linguistics and vice provost of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.
