Month: February 2026

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#258 / Editorial

It is rare for political repression to result in massacres on a scale comparable to those that took place in Iran in January. And yet,...

By The Editors

Feature: Jews of Izmir – a revolving story

Izmir (Smyrna) was one of the great cosmopolitan ports of the Ottoman Empire. Having grown stronger after 1492, the Jewish community of Izmir endured migrations,...

By The Editors

The conflicted memory of the last Jews of Izmir

Since the arrest and imprisonment of the mayor of Istanbul in March 2025, tensions between the Kemalist CHP party and the central AKP government have...

By Camille Scali

Keeping Ladino alive in Izmir

In Izmir, Ladino is no longer measured by the number of speakers, but by what it connects: dispersed families, generations, and passed-down traditions. Jacob Ceki...

By Jacob Ceki Hazan

The Jewish community of Izmir: some historical landmarks

By Francois Azar

“The whole of Iran is a prison”

By Mahnaz Mohammadi

Purim 1962, or when we started dressing up as Jews

By Cilly Kugelmann

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#257 / Editorial

By The Editors

The rabbi, the Zionist, and the “men in the shadows”

By Ivan Segré

Towards a new exile?

By Jean-Claude Milner

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# 256 / Editorial

By The Editors

Pasolini’s Jews

By Tristan Koskas