EditorialSpain: Moses ben Maimon or Maimonides (1138 - 1204), born in Cordoba, was a Sephardic Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer and physician. Statue in Plaza Maimonides, Cordoba
EditorialSephardic Museum. Located in the El Transito Synagogue, built in the 14th century. Architectural detail of the interior. Toledo. Castile-La Mancha. Spain.
EditorialSephardic Museum. Located in the El Transito Synagogue, built in the 14th century. Partial view of the interior. Toledo. Castile-La Mancha. Spain.
EditorialSephardic Museum. Located in the El Transito Synagogue, built in the 14th century. Architectural detail of the interior. Toledo. Castile-La Mancha. Spain.
EditorialAnthropomorphic domestic idol-altar. Chalcolithic. 4th millennium BC. Basalt. Cylindrical in shape with handles. The upper part has a small deposit for offerings. It was placed inside dwellings. From the Golan Heights (Middle East). Sephardic Museum. T...
EditorialLeft: lamp for the festival of Lights (Hanukkah). Late 19th century. Brass and glass. From Djerba (Tunisia). Center: perfumer for the Habdalah ceremony. 19th-20th centuries. Silver and ivory, inscriptions in Hebrew. From Central Europe. Right: Kiddush ...
EditorialTureen. 18th century. Ceramic. From Talavera de la Reina (Toledo province, Spain). The owner's name appears: Juan Ram?n Alcoba. Sephardic Museum. Toledo. Castile-La Mancha. Spain.
EditorialMaimonides, Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204). Sephardic Jewish philosopher and physician. Guide for the Perplexed (More Nebujim), 1190. Cover of an edition from Jessnitz (Germany), 1742. Sephardic Museum. Synagogue of El Tr?nsito. Toledo. Castile-La Mancha...
EditorialScroll of Esther (Megillah of Esther). Book read on the feast of Purim, to commemorate the salvation of the Jews from the Persians thanks to the intervention of Esther. Written in Hebrew. Parchment and wooden guide. 19th century. From Morocco. Sephardi...
Editorialvan der Stradanus, Christ Among the Doctors, after 1551, brush and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on paper, 16 1/8 in. x 10 15/16 in. (40.9 cm. x 27.8 cm.), This drawing by Flemish-born painter Stradanus, who spent most of his professional l...
EditorialHavdalah. A decorated initial-word panel Barukh (Blessed) and full foliate border inhabited by hybrids and including a scene of a pig-like figure lifting the first cup of wine and a hare placing a stick upon a dog's head. Haggadah, liturgical poems and...