The Sephardic Heritage Museum stitches together a community separated by land, sea, and thousands of years
A new documentary traces the rise, fall, and amazing rediscovery of the world’s first Arab cartoon star
How I learned to make ‘foul medemes,’ a fava bean-based dish he ate growing up in Cairo
In the Bay Area, Karaite Jews struggle to build a future in America
Lost Egypt comes alive in Yitzhak Gormezano Goren’s 1978 Hebrew idyll ‘Alexandrian Summer,’ in a first English translation
On Rosh Hashanah, a fresh leader rallies a dying community in Egypt
The trope has made a series of appearances this week
The Sephardi Voices history project collects testimony from Jews who fled Arab lands after Israel was founded
For Egyptian-born Jews, the current crisis elicits a mix of emotions—from nostalgia for an idyllic existence under the monarchy to the terror of being chased out to calls of ‘kill the Jews’
A novel examines the parallel dislocations of Hungarian and Egyptian immigrants to Israel
But it’s all Nasser’s fault
In telling her father’s story of exile, Lucette Lagnado conjures the beloved Egypt and ugly Brooklyn of her youth
