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24 February 2017
In memory of Sephardi leader Solomon “Momy” Levy, MBE, Gibraltar’s first truly civic mayor, Chairman of the Jewish Community Association, a real estate entrepreneur, “the first Jewish soldier in the Gibraltar Defense Forces, and a staunch defender of the rock.” |
In memory of Sephardi leader Solomon “Momy” Levy, MBE, Gibraltar’s first truly civic mayor, Chairman of the Jewish Community Association, a real estate entrepreneur, “the first Jewish soldier in the Gibraltar Defense Forces, and a staunch defender of the rock.”
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“Important Judeo-Persian bibles in the British Library” By Illana Tahan,The British Library – Asian and African Studies Blog
Even though Judeo-Persian manuscripts exist in Judaica libraries around the world, little research has been done in the field. One institution that has committed itself to documenting Judeo-Persian literature is the British library: “Our Judeo-Persian collection comprises a variety of texts ranging from biblical translations… liturgies, illuminated versified paraphrases of Persian epics and stories, Jewish legal texts… divans of Persian and Jewish poetry, dictionaries, glossaries and… more.”
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 “Torat Mosheh, the earliest dated Judeo-Persian translation of the Pentateuch. Iran, 1319 (BL Or.5446, ff. 102-3)” (Photo courtesy of The British Library) |
By Illana Tahan,The British Library – Asian and African Studies Blog
“Torat Mosheh, the earliest dated Judeo-Persian translation of the Pentateuch. Iran, 1319 (BL Or.5446, ff. 102-3)” (Photo courtesy of The British Library)
The Jewish “monk,” Hananiyah Alfassi, A’H, caretaker of the shrine for over 30 years (Photo courtesy of Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life)
Last Sunday, 23 Shebat, was the hilula (date of passing) of Rabbi Shlomo ben Lahens (Lhens), the Snake Rabbi (literally “Son of the Snake”). Rabbi Shlomo traveled to Morocco to raise funds for yeshivot (schools) in Israel, but was unable to finish his journey and passed away in the Ourika Valley. His tomb remains as a place of pilgrimage for Moroccan Jews from all over the world. Join ASF’s partner in preservation, Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life, on a virtual pilgrimage to the tomb.
 Grave of Yitzchak (Ishag) Gabra, Khartoum, Sudan (Photo courtesy of C. Motzen / Diarna Geo-Museum) See also: “Khartoum’s Jewish Community: A Proper Burial,” Sephardi Ideas Monthly, June 2016) |
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“Stories of the Sudanese diaspora” By Ismail Kushkush, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The story of Sudanese Jewry, already one of the best-kept secrets in the Jewish world, is in danger of disappearing with the last remaining Jews from the East African country. Daisy Abboudi, a twenty-six year-old British granddaughter of Sudanese Jews, is working to keep that from happening by recording stories on her website, Tales of Jewish Sudan: “We should keep these stories, we should preserve them… They are all getting old. If someone doesn’t do it now, it’s going to be too late.”
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Grave of Yitzchak (Ishag) Gabra, Khartoum, Sudan (Photo courtesy of C. Motzen / Diarna Geo-Museum) See also: “Khartoum’s Jewish Community: A Proper Burial,” Sephardi Ideas Monthly, June 2016)
By Ismail Kushkush, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
When Baghdadi Jews Baruch and Ellen Bekhor (née Cohen) succumbed to the camera’s gaze for their denaturalization pictures in 1951, they became stateless. Ellen was in her eighth month of pregnancy. Permitted to bring no more than a few kilos of belongings out of Iraq, Ellen carried their wedding picture and ketubah in her pocketbook. Laissez-Passer, Royaume D’Irak by Leslie Starobin (2016)
Now Through April 2017
in ASF’s Myron Habib Memorial Display
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
The American Sephardi Federation proudly presents excerpts from The Last Address, a multi-year, photo-montage series and oral history and book project by award-winning artist Leslie Starobin that explores the enduring texture of memory and culture in the lives of Greater Sephardic families from dispersed Jewish communities in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Lebanon.
Leslie Starobin is a Boston-area photographer and montage artist. Her work is in the permanent collections of many academic (Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University) and public (Jewish Museum, MoMA) museums. Starobin is the recipient of numerous grants, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation of the Arts/Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Most recently, she received two Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Grants for this series, The Last Address.
Her exhibition in ASF’s Myron Habib Memorial Display is sponsored in part by CELTSS: The Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, Scholarship and Service at Framingham State University in Massachusetts, where Starobin is a Professor of Communication Arts.
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Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom
Through January 2017
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
The American Sephardi Federation, Portuguese Consulate of New York, the Sousa Mendes Foundation, and the Municipality of Almeida, Portugal proudly present an exhibition in the Leon Levy Gallery honoring Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the courageous and creative Portuguese diplomat who saved Salvador Dali, the authors of Curious George, and thousands of other Holocaust refugees.
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