The Jews of Ferrara Italy, with Tiziana Palandrani
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why did many Jews settle in Ferrara after the expulsion from Spain in 1492, and what professions did many of them have?
Tiziana Palandrani is an ethnomusicologist, historian, documentary filmmaker and teacher from Sardinia. She has published an essay on Chopin and has also studied the music of Easter Week in Andalusia. Among her other interests, she has investigated traces of Jewish culture in Sardinia and other places in Italy. At the Zamora Sefardí conference in July she gave a talk titled From Zamora to Ferrara: Five…
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