Bio - Leon Taranto

Leon B. Taranto is a trial attorney in Washington, DC, and an author, lecturer and researcher of Sephardic Jewish genealogy.  He is an organizer and planning committee member for the Sephardic-Ladino group Vijitas de Alhad of the Greater Washington DC area.  He has authored articles for Sephardic and Jewish genealogical journals on the Jews of the Ottoman Empire and Mediterranean Basin, and presented at international conferences on Jewish genealogy, to genealogical societies and at synagogue-hosted events. 


                          
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