sephardic memorialization project
The sephardic memorialization project is an independent research project into the memory landscape of Jewish life in the Iberian peninsula using the lenses of Barcelona and Girona as case studies.
The memory work of Jewish Sefarad finds itself to reside in various (borrowing the term coined by Pierre Nora) sites of memory that each bear very different narratives as to the "true" history of the Jews in Spain. The project is an investigation into the oral histories, tourism narratives, institutions, living communities, and forgotten spaces that are central to telling the story of Sephardic Jews.
Purpose of the Project
The purpose of the Sephardic Memorialization Project is to uncover the narratives of Jewish Spanish history through the various "sites of memory" that work to functionally memorialize. I do not seek to provide a correct version of such a long and complex history but rather, seek to understand the main players who contend with what remains...
About Me
Although a Montreal native and Wichita, KS high school graduate, I find myself as an incoming sophomore at the University of North Carolina studying Information Science (con. human computer interaction) and History (con. religion, culture, and intellectual life). As a Sephardic Jew with ties to both Spain and Morocco, I became invigorated to start the Sephardic Memorialization Project both from an academic and personal standpoint...