<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4DkwiY_0wGCOzJW00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4DkwiY_0wGCOzJW00" width="700" height="376" ><h2>Wed 10/30 @ 7:30-9:30PM</h2><p>Sephardic Jews were those who settled on the Iberian Peninsula — Spain and Portugal — expelled in 1892 to settle in the Greek Isles, and eventually migrating throughout the Middle East and North Africa (distinct from Ashkenazi Jews, from central and eastern Europe). Most now live in Israel. They have their own distinct culture and traditions.</p><p>Learn more about their history and culture when the Maltz Performing Arts Center hosts a program called The White Islands/Las islas blancas: A Sephardic Sojourn. Its core is storytelling by Chilean-American author and poet Marjorie Agosín whose work addressed the Sephardic experience, and Spanish poetry read by Case Western Reserve University Dr. Damaris Puñales–Alpízar with English translations by CWRU Associate Professor of Spanish Jacqueline Nanfito. The program will be augmented throughout by music performed by flamenco guitarist Guillermo Salinas.</p><p>Go here for tickets.</p></div></body>

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Program of Music and Poetry Explores the Sephardic Jewish Experience

Sephardic Jews were those who settled on the Iberian Peninsula — Spain and Portugal — expelled in 1892 to settle in the Greek Isles, and eventually migrating throughout the Middle East and North Africa (distinct from Ashkenazi Jews, from central and eastern Europe). Most now live in Israel. They have their own distinct culture and traditions.