NORTH COUNTY LECTURE SERIES: A Diaspora within a Diaspora: Sephardic Jews in America
Monday, February 17, 2025 | 10:30 AM
The HIVE at Leichtag Foundation, Eastside Hive | 441 Saxony Road, Encinitas, CA 92024

As many as fifty thousand Jews from the lands of the former Ottoman Empire came to the United States in the decades surrounding World War I. Due to their small numbers, origins in a Muslim society, and differences in languages, names, and customs that set them apart from Eastern European Yiddish-speaking Jews, they were sometimes denigrated or not recognized as Jews. How did they navigate the U. S. immigration and naturalization laws as well as the established Jewish community? How did they forge their own sense of community through cafes, mutual aid societies, synagogues, newspapers, and the theater? And how did they seek to transform themselves and their new society in the process, through labor organizing and political activism? This lecture led by Dr. Devin Naar will explore the trajectories of Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews from the Mediterranean world to America during the first half of the twentieth century.

Price: Complimentary

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