Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people by Esther (the secretly Jewish Queen) from Haman, vizier of...

By Leila Issacharoff, Work Experience 2021 I was very grateful to secure work experience with Dr Bea Lewkowicz and Daisy Abboudi and had...

"World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on...

On Sunday 30th May an international zoom event was held to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Farhud. The event was attended by over...

This year we face another Pesach in lockdown and while the social distancing, online shopping and deep cleaning may now feel ‘normal’,...

This month we have had the pleasure of taking over the Parkes Institute blog. From the Parkes Institute website: "The Parkes Institute is...

This year has in many ways been a pivotal one for Sephardi Voices UK. As we come close to completing our original target of conducting...

We were thrilled to be invited to record a podcast with the brilliant Ask Historians platform. You can listen to the whole episode here.

We are proud to announce that the Sephardi Voices UK archive is now accessible at Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv.

This year we are celebrating the festival of Passover in exceptional circumstances. Many of our interviewees will celebrate it without...

Our interviewee David Khalastchi died in 2018. Read a remembrance by his daughter and extracts from David's interview with with Dr Bea...

This year, on the 19th February, there will be a special memorial service in a London synagogue to mark fifty years since the Baghdad...

The interview extracts in this post have been redacted and edited for clarity. The Holocaust is primarily seen as a European tragedy;...

As part of our Jewish Museum Exhibition Event Series we hosted a wonderful discussion on food, memory and identity. Food plays a vital...

Watch a video of speeches to accompany the launch of the Jewish Museum Sephardi Voices exhibition in London on June 7, 2017.