Photo Essay: Belmonte, a Judaism That Has Remained Alive
In a village nestled in the heart of the Serra da Estrela, some fifty descendants of Marranos continue to uphold, five centuries after the forced...
Evelyne Dreyfus & Eric Beracassat
Éric Béracassat is a photographer born in Paris and raised in Casablanca. He began his career as a journalist at AFP and is now a photographer represented by the Gamma-Rapho agency, a member of the Hans Lucas agency. His current areas of expertise include tourism (in all its diversity), internal security, health, lifestyle, and economics. Évelyne Dreyfus is a journalist. She worked in public service in Alsace (France 3 radio and television) before collaborating in the field of classical music with leading conductors. Returning to print media, she has held various positions as section editor and editor-in-chief. Author of the documentary ‘Les Fantômes de Kippenheim’, she recounts the return, 60 years later, of German Jewish survivors to their native village. Today, she devotes herself to the tourism press.
Articles by Evelyne Dreyfus & Eric Beracassat
The Swiss villages where synagogues told the time
In Switzerland, two villages that are now almost empty of Jews preserve traces of a long-forgotten history: for centuries, Endingen and Lengnau were the only...