The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the political, social and cultural changes through which the speakers of Jewish-Spanish went since the turn of the nineteenth century.

Alisa Ginio, Ph.D. (1989) in History, Tel Aviv University, is a Professor Emeritus of History at the Department of History, Tel Aviv University. Her publications deal with Christian polemics contra judaeos in the Iberian Peninsula; the Iberian conversos and the Jewish-Spanish speaking Sephardim.