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Sephardic World: Syrian Jews from Aleppo to Brooklyn - 1 Nov

From Ton Tielen and David Mendoza:

Meeting on Sunday 1st November 2020

Sarina Roffé, a respected expert on genealogy and Sephardic history, and the author of Branching Out from Sepharad, provides an overview of Sephardic Jewish life in Aleppo and a century of life in Brooklyn, New York.

Aleppo was a major Jewish community in the eastern Mediterranean and included both indigenous Arabic-speaking Jews and members of the Iberian Sephardic diaspora.

Topic: Syrian Jews from Aleppo to Brooklyn
Sunday November, 2020 07:00 PM London. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CLOCKS WILL JUST HAVE GONE BACK IN NORTH AMERICA. This is 8pm in Amsterdam/Paris, 9pm in Jerusalem and 2pm in New York.

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Ton Tielen and David Mendoza
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