History
General §
- Moreshet Sepharad - Articles and Lectures - Some of the best historical writing on Sephardic History out there. Covers topics like the Sephardic Response to the Enlightenment, the anti-Maimonideans and the formation of Kabbalah in the context of the Reconquista, the Sephardic tradition of Religious Humanism, Conversos, etc.
- Asenath Barzani
- Flora Sassoon
- Diane Cohler-Esses
- Abigail Lindo
- Dr. Marc B. Shapiro has a series on Torah in Motion covering lives of various rabbis, he has talks on The Ben Ish Hai, Rav Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Yosef Messas, Rabbi Shalom Messas, R’ Yosef Kafih, R’ Eliyahu Benamozegh, Hakham Ben Zion Uzziel
- Note: I have not listened to these yet, and may or may not recommend them.
Sephardic Women §
Rabbis and Scholars §
Bukharian §
- Yosef Mammon (Maimon) - descendent of Moshe ben Maimon haSepharadi (aka Rambam)
- Shimon Hakham - great-grandson of Rabbi Yosef Maimon. Translated many Hebrew works into Bukhori
- Shlomo Moussaieff - rabbi and gem trader. Helped found Rehovot haBukharim (the Bukharian Quarter)
Spanish & Portugese §
- The Spanish Tradition in Chronological Order - a list of rabbis and scholars from the Spanish Tradition. Each entry includes some details about their significant works or contributions
Hakham Bashi - Ottoman, Syrian §
Ottoman Empire (Hahambaşı) §
- Eli Capsali (1452–1454)
- Moses Capsali (1454–1495)
- Elijah Mizrachi (1497–1526)
- Mordechai Komitano (1526–1542)
- Tam ibn Yahya (1542–1543)
- Eliyyah Benjamin ha-Levi (1543)
- Eliyyah ben Ḥayyim (1543–1602)
- Yeḥiel Bassan (1602–1625)
- Joseph Miṭrani (1625–1639)
- Yomṭov Ben Yaʿesh (1639–1642)
- Yomṭov ben Ḥananiah Ben Yaqar (1642–1677)
- Ḥayyim Qamḥi (1677–1715)
- Judah Ben Rey (1715–1717)
- Samuel Levi (1717–1720)
- Abraham ben Ḥayyim Rosanes (1720–1745)
- Solomon Ḥayyim Alfandari (1745–1762)
- Meir Ishaki (1762–1780)
- Elijah Palombo (1780–1800)
- Haim Palaci - (1788-1868)
- Ḥayyim Jacob Benyakar (1800–1835)
- Abraham ha-Levi (1835–1836)
- Samuel ben Moses Ḥayyim (1836–1837)
- Moses Fresco (1839–1841)
- Jacob Behar David (1841–1854)
- Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (1854–1860)
- Jacob (or Yakup) Avigdor (1860–1863)
- Yakir Geron (1863–1872)
- Moses Levi (1872–1908)
- Haim Nahum Effendi (1908–1920)
- Shabbetai Levi (1918–1919)
- Ishak Ariel (1919–1920)
Turkish Republic §
- Haim Moşe Becerano (1920–1931)
- Haim Ishak Saki (1931–1940)
- Rafael David Saban (1940–1960)
- David Asseo (1961–2002)
- Ishak Haleva (2002–)
Galielee §
- Makhlouf Eldaoudi (1889–1909)
Ottoman Palestine §
- Chaim Abraham Gagin (1842–1848)
- Isaac Kovo (1848–1854)
- Haim Nisim Abulafia (1854–1861)
- Haim David Hazan (1861–1869)
- Abraham Ashkenazi (1869–1880)
- Raphael Meir Panigel (1880–1892)
- Jacob Saul Elyashar (1893–1906)
- Elijah Moses Panigel (1907)
British Mandatory Palestine §
- Jacob Meir (1921–1939)
- Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1939–1948)
Israel §
- Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1948–1953)
- Yitzhak Nissim (1955–1972)
- Ovadia Yosef (1972–1982)
- Mordechai Eliyahu (1982–1993)
- Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (1993–2003)
- Shlomo Amar (2003–2013)
- Yitzhak Yosef (2013–present)
France (Provence) §
Communities §
Bukharian §
- Ron Furman - Bukharan Roots video
- Bukharian Community.com - YouTube Channel
- Boris Abromov - Exit Uzbekistan documentary
Syrian §
Aleppo (Halabi) §
- Add links
Damascus (Shami) §
Urfalim (Kurdish) §
- See Kurdish section
Diaspora §
America §
- Syrian Jewish Communities of the United States
- Tablet: Road From Damascus by Paula Sadok - about Brooklyn and Manhattan communities
Kurdish §
Urfalim
- Urfa (Ur Kaśdim) (Kurdish)
- Ur Kadism (Biblical)
Yemenite §
Ritual §
- Bar and Bat Mitzvahs: Different traditions same rite of passage - Mentions the Italian and Egyptian origins of the Bat Mitsvah ceremony - dating back to the 19th Century.
Sepharadim and the Holocaust §
- See movies section, until further resources are added here