Abstract
While one particularity of Jewish historicity is that it is supposed to have invented an oriented timeline and that the works of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem reinvested the forms of messianic time, this article deals with the limits of such a perspective regarding the Jewish Sephardim in the Eastern Mediterranean. The study is based on religious and historiographical expression during the decade prior to the Second World War. On one hand, in a journal reflecting the views of notables from the former Ottoman Empire settled in France (Le Judaisme Sepharadi), and on the other, in the work of historians of Thessaloniki and Istanbul, Joseph Nehama and Abraham Galante. This is an attempt to produce a specific model of historicity from which the primacy of the category of space (within Sephardic networks) in the interpretation of time emerges.