Archives: Portfolios

by Julia Phillips Cohen, Ph.D. Like so many immigrants before and after them, Ottoman Jews who made the trek halfway […]

by Marie-Pierre Ulloa, Ph.D. In the years after World War II, North African Jewish immigrants became the mediators and re-inventors […]

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

By Chris Silver, Ph.D. Zohra El Fassia (1905-1994) was among the most important Moroccan vocalists of the 1950s. Like so […]

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 Regine Basha Featuring video clips and still images from Los Angeles-based home movies excerpted from “Tuning Baghdad,” a narrative […]

  by Saba Soomekh, Ph.D. Blending sacred traditions, folkways, and secular cultural influences, weddings (and the customs and rituals surrounding […]

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