Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies - 2005 Sephardi Jewries and the Holocaust with Aron Rodrigue - The Holocaust devastated European Jewry and dealt a death blow to the Ashkenazi heartland of Eastern Europe and Russia. What is less commonly known is the fact that it was also disastrous for Sephardi Jewries. The Sephardi communities of Southeastern Europe, the Ladino speaking centers of the Judeo-Spanish world, with Salonica as a principal center, were destroyed or disintegrated, leading to their disappearance from an area where the exiles from the Iberian peninsula after 1492 had reconstructed a transplanted Sepharad. Elsewhere, North African Jewries saw considerable hardship and discrimination under the rule of Vichy France and fascist Italy, and faced real dangers with the German armed forces in Tunisia and Libya, leading in many cases to their profound destabilization which contributed to their eventual mass departures from these lands.
These lectures discuss the history of these communities during the period of the Holocaust, in areas that ha
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