The academic committee of the Hebrew University’s “Misgav Yerushalayim” Institute for the Study of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry has decided to undertake the massive project of writing up the history of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry from the 15th Century to the present. The project’s crowning achievement will be the publication of a seven-volume documentary history of this community, starting with its expulsion from Spain, its dispersion through-out Northern Africa, Iran, the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the Americas, and including events in post-World War I emancipated countries and up to the present time. An international editorial committee based in the Institute will coordinate research and writings solicited from historians in Israel and abroad.
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