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The cover of Julie Scolnik's book, Nat Pinkerton: Diez Novelas Policiacas en Lengua Sefardi, published in 2014.
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  • Marina Mayorski
Nat Pinkerton: Detective Novels in Ladino
One of the most popular literary genres in Ladino was the detective novel. This genre first emerged in Western Europe in the nineteenth century. Published in 2014, Julie Scolnik's study, Nat Pinkerton: Diez Novelas Policíacas en Lengua Sefaradí, examines a set of Ladino detective novels and offers Spanish translations, which make them more accessible to contemporary readers and scholars.
Lost in the Stacks
The front matter of the novel El amor de Matilda by Moiz Habib in a 2016 edition. The novel was originally published in 1931
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  • Marina Mayorski
The Revival of Ladino Literature
Many consider Ladino, the traditional vernacular of Sephardi Jews, a dead language. However, the growing interest in the language and its culture creates opportunities to learn more about it and even read some of its literature. Recently added to the catalog, Ladino novels originally published in the 1930s and now reprinted in new editions provide a glimpse into the fascinating world of Sephardi Jews in the 20th century.
Lost in the Stacks
Postcard depicting a group of men in front of a two-store building in Salonica (Thessaloniki), circa 1917
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Varsano and Mosse restaurant in Salonica, photographed by Henry Manuel in 1917
Newly cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: a postcard depicting a group of men in front of a narrow two-store building in Salonica (Thessaloniki), circa 1917. On the ground floor of the building was the Electrically Powered Bakery while the first floor housed the kosher restaurant of Varsano and Mosse.
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Photograph, old Jewish man in Salonica
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Salonique: type de vieux juif
Newly cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Salonique, type de vieux juif – a historical postcard depicting an old Jewish man in traditional dress standing in the middle of a street in Salonica, the famous Balkan port-city located on the shore of the Aegen Sea. Some evidence from the picture allows us to established that it was taken between 1912-1917.
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Postcard featuring Rabbi Jacob Meir
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
From Jerusalem to Salonica and back: Chief Rabbi Jacob Meir (1856–1939)
From the Jewish Heritage Collection: a trilingual postcard depicting Jacob Meir, Chief Rabbi of Salonica.
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Three dockworkers from Salonica, two of them sitting and one standing
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Group of Salonican dockworkers
Newly acquired and cataloged for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.
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Postcard depicting a Jewish mother and adult daughter from Salonica, Greece.
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Souvenir of Salonica: Mother and daughter, circa 1917
Newly catalogued for the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Two centuries meeting – the mother and daughter, circa 1917.
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A street parallel to the dock in Salonica, circa 1912
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Souvenir de Salonique: Rue Parallèle au quai
A newly acquired and cataloged item for our Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.
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The Jewish cemetery of Salonica, Greece.
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
The Jewish Cemetery of Salonica
A historical postcard depicting the Jewish cemetery of Salonica, Greece --- newly cataloged for the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
The Jewish district of Salonica destroyed by the fire of 1917
A new item added to the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Le Quartier israëlite détruit.
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