The Search for Sepharad 3/4
Thursday 31 August 2006 21:15-22:00 (Radio 3)
Broadcaster and film-maker Dennis Marks travels across the Mediterranean in the footsteps of the Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492.
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3/4. The Sublime Porte
In the Balkans, Sephardic Jews were afforded 500 years of relative stability and influence. In Istanbul and Izmir, this tradition persists despite the recent terrorist outrages, while in Thessaloniki, devastated by the Nazis in 1943, new shoots survive in the remains of an ancient society.
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