The Teixeira-Fernandes Family: From Porto to Brazil, Tuscany, and Beyond (1497–1640). Literary contributions (Bento Teixeira’s Prosopopeia), mercantile networks, and complex religious identities leading to connections with Amsterdam’s Sephardic community.
Distinguished Sephardic family noted for commercial diplomacy, rabbinical leadership, slave mediation in North Africa, and contributions to Jewish communities in Amsterdam, London, and the Caribbean.
Distinguished Sephardic family noted for commercial diplomacy, rabbinical leadership, slave mediation in North Africa, and contributions to Jewish communities in Amsterdam, London, and the Caribbean.
The preservation and poetic revitalization of Ladino memory through diasporic language and loss. A journey shaped by exile, silence, and the embodied language of ancestry.
A Franco-Sephardic poet who preserved Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) through her bilingual poetry. She is best known for evoking exile, memory, and maternal heritage in her lyrical reconstruction of Sephardic identity.
Brilliant 19th‑century lawyer and politician: after serving as a U.S. senator from Louisiana, he became a key member of Jefferson Davis’s Confederate cabinet.
Founding and editing La America, the 1st enduring Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) weekly newspaper in the US (NY, 1910–1925), aimed at uniting and guiding Sephardic Jewish immigrants socially and culturally
Building an enduring Sephardic rabbinic, communal, and intellectual legacy over five centuries — migrating from the Ottoman world to Western Europe, and from the Caribbean to South America.
Sephardic philanthropist, industrialist, Zionist organizer, and cultural preservationist. Founder of the Salti Foundation and the Salti Institute for Ladino Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
Moses Maimonides was a medieval Jewish thinker who wrote a clear, all-in-one rulebook for Jewish law and a big-ideas book about faith vs. reason—while also working as a top doctor in Egypt.
Moses Maimonides was a classic Jewish thinker who wrote a thorough guide for Halacha and a book about faith vs. reason, while also working as a doctor in Egypt.
Western Sephardi U.S. naval officer and reformer (first Jewish commodore), preserver of Monticello, and donor of the Thomas Jefferson statue to the U.S. Capitol.