La historia de los sefardíes en el Imperio Otomano se prolonga desde hace más de cinco siglos, cuando llegaron tras haber sido expulsados por los Reyes Católicos del que era su hogar, la Península Ibérica. Los sefardíes pronto se integraron en la vida de la capital del imperio hasta sentirse parte del lugar, como lo habían sido antiguamente de España.Aunque han pasado cinco siglos, y la comunidad se ha reducido en gran medida debido a las migraciones del siglo XX, aún conservan gran parte de ese legado que trajeron de su vida en la península ibérica.
La fundación de los 500 años se creó en 1992 para conmemorar el quinientos aniversario de su llegada a estas tierras, y el museo está alojado en la Sinagoga Zulfaris, escondida en un pequeño y anónimo callejón del histórico barrio de Gálata. La sinagoga, como muchas de la ciudad, cayó en desuso a medida que la población sefardí emigraba, pero fue rescatada del olvido y utilizada para albergar el museo. Aunque el interior no sea excesivamente grande, es suficiente para explicar la historia de los judíos sefardíes desde que huyeron de España hasta el presente a través de objetos, fotografías, y textos.
Para más información sobre la comunidad sefardita de Estambul:
http://elena-senao.blogspot.com/2008/04/sefadies-de-estambul.html
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The story of Sephardic in Ottoman Empire comes back in time more than 5 centuries ago,when they arrived, after being expelled from the Iberian Peninsula by the Catholic Kings.The Sephardic community soon got integrated into the Empire capitalʼs life so they felt part of it as they were in Spain before.
Although it has been five centuries already and the community reduced drastically by the 20th century migrations, they keep still great part of the legacy they brought with them from their life in the Iberian Peninsula.
The 500 years Foundation was created in 1992 to commemorate de 500th anniversary of their arrival to this land. There is a museum in the Zulfaris synagogue, hidden in a small and anonymous street of the historical neighborhood of Galata. The synagogue, as many others spread along the city, died out while Sephardic population migrated out of Istanbul, but it was rescued from oblivion and used to hold the museum. Although the inside isn’t so big, it’s sufficient to explain the history of the sephardic jewish since the exodus from Spain until the present times through objects, photographs and texts.
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The story of Sephardic in Ottoman Empire comes back in time more than 5 centuries ago,when they arrived, after being expelled from the Iberian Peninsula by the Catholic Kings.The Sephardic community soon got integrated into the Empire capitalʼs life so they felt part of it as they were in Spain before.
Although it has been five centuries already and the community reduced drastically by the 20th century migrations, they keep still great part of the legacy they brought with them from their life in the Iberian Peninsula.
The 500 years Foundation was created in 1992 to commemorate de 500th anniversary of their arrival to this land. There is a museum in the Zulfaris synagogue, hidden in a small and anonymous street of the historical neighborhood of Galata. The synagogue, as many others spread along the city, died out while Sephardic population migrated out of Istanbul, but it was rescued from oblivion and used to hold the museum. Although the inside isn’t so big, it’s sufficient to explain the history of the sephardic jewish since the exodus from Spain until the present times through objects, photographs and texts.
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