Like many incredible historical quests, uncovering the American Sephardi Federation’s marvelous embroidery and textile collection was a great coincidence. After overhearing a corridor conversation where I mentioned my research topic at one of Centro Primo Levi’s events, Natalia and Alessandro…
This summer, Elya Assayag has been a fellow at Bookhouse and produced a catalog of the American Sephardi Federation's textile collection. She was assisted by and trained Michael Fulgencio, who interns at CPL from CCNY, and Naila Hassan, a former…
We are delighted to repost this interview conducted by our friend and colleague Lyudmila Sholokhova, Curator of the NYPL Dorot Jewish Division. This profile is part of a series of interviews chronicling the experiences of researchers who use The New…
My time with Elya and Michael cataloging and archiving textiles that were donated to The American Sephardic Federation went nothing like I imagined. Elya’s specialty as a textile researcher is embroidery which is something that has always visually interested me…
The textile I have chosen for one of my favorite textiles is one donated and belonging in the Lenore Hazan Levy collection and its origins could be from Castoria, Rhodes and or Salonika. This textile is one of the first…
