Categories: Landscapes

by Caroline Luce, Ph.D. On July 4, 1905, some 40,000 L.A. residents gathered to celebrate the opening of a new […]

by Maxwell Greenberg In the early twentieth century, a Sephardic commercial orbit connected Aleppo, Syria, Paris, New York City, Mexico […]

  By Jessie Stoolman The “Spanish Revival” movement remade the landscape of Southern California by popularizing Andalusian and Spanish colonial […]

By Leslie J. Erganian, MFA Midcentury modern architecture, one part of a design movement that encompassed interior, product, and graphic […]

  By Aomar Boum, Ph.D. Before the twentieth century, a few Moroccan Jews came to America seeking economic opportunities. In […]

By Kateřina Králová, Ph.D. In late autumn of 2015, one of the research fellows at the United States Holocaust Memorial […]

  by Michael Hoberman, Ph.D. Solomon Nunes Carvalho pointed to two of Los Angeles’ most important attributes in the aftermath […]

  by Caroline Luce, Ph.D. Since the establishment of the New York Stock Exchange in 1792, Manhattan’s Wall Street has […]

by Rachel Smith At backyard parties, beach picnics, and trips to Catalina Island, Sephardic Jews in Los Angeles gathered outside […]

by Max Modiano Daniel During the first few decades of the twentieth century, Los Angeles and its Southern California environs […]