Diaspora

/ Winter 2024 /

Publisher's note

Issue on Diaspora

What constitutes a diaspora as opposed to an exile? Our Winter issue considers the suffering we have endured, but also our enduring hope to persevere and flourish.

By Ty Alhadeff

/ Winter 2024 /

Featured article

When Is It Time to Leave?

Admit it, the question has crossed your mind recently. We look for an answer from someone whose parents knew the right time to leave Iran.

By Elliott Benjamin

/ Winter 2024 /

My Tear-Prayer: A French-Algerian Jewish Journey of Justice

The discovery of a looted family heirloom in Paris’ Jewish museum leads to realization, recognition and reparation.

By Miléna Kartowski-Aïach

/ Winter 2024 /

A Broken Peace Leaves a Family’s Heritage Trip in Shards

Bad signs ahead, as repellent sensory memories of fish in a Jerusalem market haunt a father before tragedy strikes in Tunisia.

By Adam Eilath

/ Winter 2024 /

They Found, then Lost, their Espanya in the Tropics

Researching the history of Jews in Cuba illuminates the understanding of what it means to be an exile in a family of exiles.

By Ruth Behar

/ Winter 2024 /

Special Exhibit

Sephardic Legacy Reawakens at Every Corner

A visual tour of Izmir’s Old Jewish Quarter evokes the life and culture once so vibrant in the Turkish city.

By Nesim Bencoya

/ Winter 2024 /

Poem

The Second Exodus

"Wandering Jew, open your Jewish eyes, you will soon have to spread your wings again, and look for a new nest."

Diaspora

Issue on Diaspora

When Is It Time to Leave?

My Tear-Prayer: A French-Algerian Jewish Journey of Justice

A Broken Peace Leaves a Family’s Heritage Trip in Shards

They Found, then Lost, their Espanya in the Tropics

Sephardic Legacy Reawakens at Every Corner

The Second Exodus

A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal

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