The Lost World of Monastir: Sephardic Jews in Ottoman and Yugoslav Macedonia

Sephardic Jews are believed to have arrived in Monastir, today called Bitola, in the years immediately after the Expulsion from Spain. The history of the community reflects Jewish Europe. This Ladino-speaking population survived changes in borders and rulers but eventually succumbed to the Holocaust in which 99% of the city’s Jews were murdered by the Nazis. This meeting will focus on the community’s life and what few documents are available to Sephardic family historians.
Our speaker, David Mendoza, is a Sephardic genealogist, co-host of Sephardic World, trustee of A Nação Hebraica, and an Admin of The Sephardic Diaspora group on Facebook. He was recently elected to the council of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain.
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