Matt Alexander Hanson is an arts and culture journalist based in Istanbul.
A new album from Ladino singer Sarah Aroeste is a collaborative, loving homage to a once-vibrant Sephardic Jewish community in Macedonia
The prolific author wrote stories with a satirist’s keen eye, but remains relatively unknown today
Museums grapple with how to show visual art not isolated from greater sociohistorical processes
Is the Greek-born Swiss Jewish author and diplomat a hapless romantic or a man with a message for our times?
How two fundamental pillars of Western thought—classical Greek rationalism and monotheistic Jewish faith—collided in a remote area of the archipelago to produce a short-lived but influential communist