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27 January 2017
In honor of Dr. Konstantinos Koutras, Cousul General of Greece at New York, for organizing the “Holocaust Remembrance Day of the Greek Jewry,” a remarkable and moving event that brought together His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Rabbi Dr. Martin Cohen of Hebrew Union College, Solomon Asher of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece, David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, US and Greek diplomats, and distinguished board members of the Sephardic Brotherhood and American Sephardi Federation. |
In honor of Dr. Konstantinos Koutras, Cousul General of Greece at New York, for organizing the “Holocaust Remembrance Day of the Greek Jewry,” a remarkable and moving event that brought together His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Rabbi Dr. Martin Cohen of Hebrew Union College, Solomon Asher of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece, David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, US and Greek diplomats, and distinguished board members of the Sephardic Brotherhood and American Sephardi Federation.
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“A global monument against racism in Thessaloniki” By Giota Mirtsioti, Kathimerini English Edition
The philo-semitic mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutras, has decided to erect a Holocaust Museum and Educational Center, which is slated to open in 2019. The museum will sit at the spot from which, during WWII, 55,000 Sephardic Jews were sent by train to their deaths. According to Professor Giorgos Antoniou: “The Holocaust Museum, beyond the tragedy of the Greek Jews, beyond the tragedy of Thessaloniki’s Jews, represents the tragedy of the Sephardic Jews.”
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 Mayor Yiannis Boutaris wore a Holocaust-era Jewish Star at his inauguration to protest Golden Dawn, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2014 |
By Giota Mirtsioti, Kathimerini English Edition
Mayor Yiannis Boutaris wore a Holocaust-era Jewish Star at his inauguration to protest Golden Dawn, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2014
(Photo courtesy of The Pappas Post)
 Devin E. Naar stands amidst Aristotle University’s Holocaust memorial |
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“Jews in Salonica, Jews in Shanghai: Book Reviews” By Bill Gladstone, The Canadian Jewish News
Two recently published books, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, by Chair of Sephardi Studies at the University of Washington and ASF Advisory Board Member Devin E. Naar, and Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections, edited by Maisie J. Meyer, explore unique Sephardi communities─one a historic Jewish center, the other a dynamic 19th-20th century corner of Jewish creativity in a cosmopolitan hub─ that, by the end of WWII, were gone.
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Devin E. Naar stands amidst Aristotle University’s Holocaust memorial
(Photo courtesy of Iosif Vaena)
By Bill Gladstone, The Canadian Jewish News
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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The American Sephardi Federation is located at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St., New York, New York, 10011).
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