In 2020, Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel and University of Washington professor of Sephardic studies Devin Naar, both descendants of Ladino speakers from Salonica (Thessaloniki) in Greece, had a <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/are-we-post-sepharadim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">conversation</a> about what meaningful Sephardic representation might look like in the wake of near-total erasure. In this week’s episode, Angel and Naar join community leader and singer of Arab Jewish music Laura Elkeslassy and professor of Hebrew literature and Mizrahi studies Oren Yirmiya to deepen the discussion about Sephardi and Mizrahi reclamation work. What are the practical entry points to this identity today? What is the use of catchall caucuses that bring together Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews from many different countries and linguistic lineages, and does this identity have to homogenize in order to survive? What does it mean to do this work amid the genocide in Gaza? And how do we make sure reclamation work is not only backward-looking, but responsive to the present?Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”Media Mentioned and Further Reading“<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/are-we-post-sepharadim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Are We Post-Sepharadim?</a>,” Arielle Angel in conversation with Devin Naar, Jewish CurrentsYa Ghorbati: Divas in Exile by Laura Elkeslassy, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXUccCpyFQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">live in concert</a> and the artist’s <a href="https://ayinpress.org/folio/ya-ghorbati-divas-in-exile/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reflections</a> in Ayin on the songs she performsShirei Yedidut, book of Moroccan piyyutim and bakashot&nbsp;Translations of the writings of Hayyim Ben-Kiki by Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite in <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv102bhzm?turn_away=true" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture 1893–1958</a>“<a href="https://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Before the Law</a>,” Franz Kafka“<a href="https://www.jewishideas.org/article/going-out-limb-joha" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Going Out on a Limb: Joha</a>,” Jane Mushabac&nbsp;The story about Djohá and the land can be found in Bewitched by Soli­ka and Oth­er Judeo-Span­ish Tales by François Azar.Devin Naar <a href="https://ayinpress.org/introduction-to-moabet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">discusses</a> Djohá in his introduction to the Moabet column in Ayin.Transcript forthcoming.&nbsp;

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