Santé Magazine Features Bulgaria Gourmet Food & Wine Tour
We’re happy to report that Santé Magazine recently published an article about our upcoming Bulgaria food & wine tour. You can read the feature here. And you can also find…
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News from the Sephardic Balkans. Jewish heritage tours.
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Food & Wine Tour Featured by Authentic Food Quest
Our friends Claire and Rosemary at Authentic Food Quest are kindly featuring our Bulgaria Gourmet Food & Wine Tour. Claire and Rosemary have been to Bulgaria themseleves, and their reporting…
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Bulgaria Gourmet Food & Wine Tour Featured on the Wineknitter
We are proud to report that our newest offering — a specialized food & wine tour of Bulgaria — was featured by author Penny Weiss on The Wineknitter. We’ve named…
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The Synagogues of Greece: An Online Resource
For anyone interested in the Jewish heritage of Greece, we recommend The Synagogues of Greece by Elias Messinas. The book is available online here. If you’d like to explore the…
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Jewish Trieste | Jewish Heritage Tour of Trieste
The northern Italian seaport city of Trieste boast a particlularly rich Jewish history. Trieste is one of the final stops on our Jewish heritage tour of Bosnia, Croatia, and Slovenia.…
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Vidin Synagogue Restoration
As the Jewish new year sets in, we wanted to provide an uplifting update from Bulgaria’s northwestern corner. You may remember that the restoration of the historic Vidin Synagogue, built…
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Three Bulgarian Recipes
Boyikos (Sephardic Cheese Pastries) 2 cups all-purpose flour ½ lb. Bulgarian feta cheese (block, not crumbled). 1/3 cup sunflower oil 1 ½ cups plain yoghurt (White Mountain Bulgarian yoghurt, if…
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Company Chosen for the Restoration of the Vidin Synagogue
On October 30, the Bulgarian daily newspaper Trud reported that the Vidin municipality has selected the contractor who will carry out the restoration and renovation of the Vidin Synagogue. Ten…
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The Future of Ladino
The Forward published an interesting article about this year’s commemoration of Ladino Day in New York, at the Center for Jewish History. I am proud to report that one of…
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The Jews of Sarajevo
Back in 2017, The English-language edition of Haaretz published a very interesting piece on the Sarajevo Jewish community. Jakob Finci, president of the Jewish community of Bosnia, speaks about present-day…
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Family Stories from Jewish Bosnia
Here is an interesting assortment of personal recollections — and photographs — from Bosnian Jewish life in the early 20th century. The page also contains an interesting documentary about the…
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Sarajevo’s Jewish Community Pays Annual Visit to Rabbi Moshe Danon’s Grave
Tablet Magazine ran an interesting news article about a ritual pilgrimage that the Jews of Bosnia were able to undertake a few days ago, as the country is slowly opening…
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Five Sephardic Cities
Here is some fascinating information about five Sephardic cities in the Balkans. We visit Sarajevo, Dubrovnik, and Split on our Jewish heritage tour of Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Trieste. Monastir…
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Ladino Day 2019
The Forward carried a very interesting article about this year’s Ladino Day celebrations at the University of Washington in Seattle — one of the main hubs of Sephardic culture in…
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Jewish Bosnia Celebrates Bicentennial of ‘Sarajevo Purim’
Here is a recent article about what is probably the most notable event in the 19th-century history of Jewish Sarajevo — the so-called “Sarajevo Purim“: Our Jewish heritage tour to…
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Lonely Planet Includes North Macedonia on ‘Best in Travel 2020’ List
Lonely Planet just published its list of “Best in Travel 2020” top destinations. North Macedonia appears in third place. Here is the full country list:https://www.lonelyplanet.com/best-in-travel/countries If you’re looking for a…
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Expansion of the Jewish Museum in Thessaloniki
The Jewish Museum in Thessaloniki has expanded, adding a new wing with several new galleries. The official reopening took place a week ago, and Greek President Prokopios Pavlopouplos was in…
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BBC Radio 3 Program on Ladino
If you have 30 minutes to spare, listen to this very interesting radio story about Ladino. The author is Jessica Marlowe, a British artist and musician of Sephardic/Bulgarian descent. She…
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Thousands Sephardi Jews Apply for Spanish Citizenship
Spain received 127,000 applications for Spanish citizenship from descendants of Iberian Jews. Here is the full story, as reported by the BBC.
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Sofia Synagogue Anniversary and New Jewish School
In September, the Bulgarian Jewish community celebrated the 110th anniversary of the building of the Sofia Synagogue. Among the many local and foreign dignitaries attending the event was WJC president…