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Welcome to our Archive
Discover the stories behind Sephardic families who helped shape communities across the Atlantic world.
Are your roots connected to names such as Seixas, Cohen, Levy, Noah, Benhamou, Nassy, Costa, Benarroch, or Malka?
Explore journeys of migration, commerce, diplomacy, culture, and resilience that connected Iberia, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Through interactive maps, biographies, images, and archival materials, this archive invites you to reconnect with the people, places, and networks that shaped Sephardic history across generations.
Explore remarkable Sephardic figures across centuries and continents.
• American Sephardi Exhibition
250 years of Sephardic contribution to American history.
The Rabbi Pirate, Moroccan diplomat, spy, and Atlantic negotiator.
• Moses Elias Levy
Visionary founder of a Jewish Florida settlement.
• David Levy Yulee
First Jewish U.S. senator and railroad builder.
• Haym Salomon
Financier of the American Revolution.
• Gershom Mendes Seixas
Early American Jewish religious leader.
• Emma Lazarus
Poet who reshaped the American immigrant ideal.
Sephardic businesswoman and political strategist who aided converso escape networks across Europe.
Medieval Jewish traveler whose writings mapped Jewish communities across three continents.
Mexican Sephardic writer revitalizing Ladino memory through poetry and cultural reflection.
Founder of America’s first enduring Ladino newspaper in New York.
Biographies, migration maps, archival documents, images, and digital collections continue to grow across the archive.
The Impact of Migration on Sephardi Identity
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