Judaic Studies: Sephardic

at the University of Washington serves as a bulwark against the loss of culture, language, and history. As the world’s first major digital repository of sources pertaining to the largely invisible yet historically significant Sephardic Jews of the Mediterranean world, the SSDC includes key books, archival documents, and audio recordings that illuminate the history, culture, literature, politics, customs, music, and cuisine of Sephardic Jews all expressed in their own language, Ladino. The artifacts offer Mediterranean views of major political, cultural, social, and economic transformations from the 17th to the 20th centuries articulated in a Spanish-based language utilized by Jews living in the Muslim world. In short, these texts challenge us to reconsider popular and scholarly assumptions about the relations between Jews and Islam as well as Europe, the Middle East, and the United States—past and present.

A digital library documenting the historical experience of the Jews of the Iberian peninsula and their diaspora. The site includes digital surrogates of original documents and texts dating from the medieval period to 1940. The site can be accessed in English and French, as well as in Spanish.

Centropa is a Jewish historical institute dedicated to preserving 20th century Jewish family stories from Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. This site focuses on the stories of the Sephardim of Central Europe.