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Matt Alexander Hanson

Matt Alexander Hanson is an arts and culture journalist based in Istanbul.

  • Sarah Aroeste outside Bitola’s “Zionist House”
    Sarah Aroeste outside Bitola’s “Zionist House”
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    My Dear Monastir

    A new album from Ladino singer Sarah Aroeste is a collaborative, loving homage to a once-vibrant Sephardic Jewish community in Macedonia

    byMatt Alexander Hanson
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    Was Elia R. Karmona the Sholem Aleichem of Ladino?

    The prolific author wrote stories with a satirist’s keen eye, but remains relatively unknown today

    byMatt Alexander Hanson
  • League of German Girls dancing during the Reich Party Congress, 1938
    League of German Girls dancing during the Reich Party Congress, 1938
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    Curating Nazism in Today’s Europe

    Museums grapple with how to show visual art not isolated from greater sociohistorical processes

    byMatt Alexander Hanson
  • Albert Cohen in Geneva, 1967
    Albert Cohen in Geneva, 1967
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    America’s Albert Cohen Moment

    Is the Greek-born Swiss Jewish author and diplomat a hapless romantic or a man with a message for our times?

    byMatt Alexander Hanson
  • Portrait of Joseph Eliyia, illustration by Dr. Johan A. Van Zuylan, from the collection 'Poems,' translated from the Greek into English by Rae Dalven and published in memoriam by the Greek Jews of New York
    Portrait of Joseph Eliyia, illustration by Dr. Johan A. Van Zuylan, from the collection 'Poems,' translated from the Greek into English by Rae Dalven and published in memoriam by the Greek Jews of New York
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    Joseph Eliyia, the Jewish Messiah of Greek Poetry

    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

    byMatt Alexander Hanson
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