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...
EditorialPendant (amulet) decorated with small circles flanked by parallel incised lines. 1200-800 BC. Iron II. From Palestine. Bone. Sephardic Museum. Toledo. Castile-La Mancha. Spain.
EditorialAbove: pointer (or yad) with vegetal motifs and Hebrew inscription, used to follow the reading of the Torah (Jewish Law). Centre: pointer (or yad) with Hebrew inscription and spice receptacle. From Italy, 20th century. Bottom: pointer (or yad). 19th-20...
EditorialOssuary with lid, 1st century AD. Limestone. From Kidron Valley, Tomb 15. Jerusalem, Israel. Sephardic Museum. 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.
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...
EditorialText page, at the passage starting with 'This matzah which we eat'; historiated initial-word panel: Pesach (Passover lamb) depicting a young man roasting the Passover lamb. Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona H...
EditorialSpain. Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito. Sephardic Museum. Built in 1336 by order of the Jew Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, treasurer of Peter I of Castile. Interior with mudejar coffered ceiling.
EditorialDie Encantada. Pl. I, Sculptures and ruins of the Agora of Thessaloniki with the house of a Sephardic merchant family, Pl. VII, Lief. XIII, 1829, James Stuart, Revett Nicholas: Die Alterth?mer zu Athen. Erster Theil. Leipzig und Darmstadt: Verlag von C...
EditorialText page, at the passage starting with 'This matzah which we eat'; historiated initial-word panel: Pesach (Passover lamb) depicting a young man roasting the Passover lamb. Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona H...
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...
EditorialText page, at the passage starting with 'This matzah which we eat'; historiated initial-word panel: Pesach (Passover lamb) depicting a young man roasting the Passover lamb. Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona H...
EditorialSpanish Bible with Masorah. Date/Period: 13th century (before 1287). Manuscript. Handwritten on parchment; brown ink; square Sephardic script Handwritten on parchment; brown ink; square Sephardic script.
EditorialSpain. Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito. Sephardic Museum. Built in 1336 by order of the Jew Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, treasurer of Peter I of Castile. Interior with mudejar coffered ceiling.
EditorialPurim painting: A Chasidic rabbi on the right, from Eastern Europe, celebrates Purim with the Sephardic rabbi on the left and two Chasidim. From Safed, Israel. Painting on paper, 37 x 18 cm.