Intolerance is inclined to censor, and censorship promotes ignorance of the arguments of others and thus intolerance itself: a rigid, vicious circle that is hard to break. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
The Music Room at Bookhouse, a collaborative space of the American Sephardi Federation and Centro Primo Levi. During the past two years, Bookhouse has become home to students and the public for classes, seminars, roundtables, concerts, and film screenings dedicated…
Zack Youcha is the founder and Executive Director of Music is Culture (MiC), a nonprofit organization that sponsors, promotes, and publishes community-based music preservation efforts around the world. When he is not at MiC, Zack doubles as a writer, translator,…
Daniel Elias is a founding member of the Elias Ladino Ensemble. The grandson of Rabbi David Elias Cassorla and the son of Joe Elias, he has been performing Ladino music since 1977. Dan learned the Sephardic repertoire from his grandparents,…
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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…
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Mostafa Hussein, Princeton University Press, 2025 In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures while navigating their evolving identities as settler colonists. Hebrew Orientalism challenges the…
Helen Pfeifer, Princeton University Press, 2022 Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan’s court. In Empire of Salons, Helen Pfeifer points instead to a critical but overlooked factor: gentlemanly salons. Pfeifer…
