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16 December 2016
In memory of Jacques Roumani, A”H, a Libyan-Jewish scholar of the Middle East |
In memory of Jacques Roumani, A”H, a Libyan-Jewish scholar of the Middle East
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“King Mohammed VI Attends Synagogue Inauguration, Shows Commitment to Moroccan Jewish Community” By Ghita Benslimane, Morocco World News
King Mohammed VI recently reaffirmed the place of Moroccan Jewry in Moroccan society and his government’s commitment to preserving Jewish life in the country by attending the inauguration of two restored synagogues in Casablanca. Serge Berugo, the Secretary-General of the Council of Moroccan Jewish Communities, noted that the synagogues include, “paintings retracing the history of Judaism in Morocco.”
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 King Mohammed VI and Serge Berdugo, Secretary-General of the Council of Moroccan Jewish Communities |
By Ghita Benslimane, Morocco World News
King Mohammed VI and Serge Berdugo, Secretary-General of the Council of Moroccan Jewish Communities
(Photo Courtesy of Morocco World News)
 The autobiographical manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, circa 1595, with devotional manuscripts |
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“Lost diary of tortured Mexican ‘converso’ features in early-American Jewish exhibit” By Penny Schwartz, The Times of Israel
More than 170 objects are on display at, “The First Jewish Americans: Freedom and Culture in the New World,” now showing at the New-York Historical Society. The exhibit helps correct the common misconception that American Jewish history began in mid-to-late 19th century, “[T]here’s a very rich history of American settlement and Jewish community in the Colonial period.” The exhibit also includes the 16th-century diary of a Mexican converso that mysteriously disappeared in 1939 from Mexico’s National Archives and was only recovered a few months ago.
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The autobiographical manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, circa 1595, with devotional manuscripts
(Photo courtesy of the Government of Mexico/The Times of Israel)
By Penny Schwartz, The Times of Israel
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“Will Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry restore dilapidated synagogues?” By Khalid Hassan, Al-Monitor
Three of the original thirteen synagogues in Cairo’s Jewish Quarter remain standing. Although recognized as heritage monuments by Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, “Their walls are either crumbling or eroded by underground water, and they are surrounded by garbage.” The Ministry, for its part, rejects accusations of intentional neglect, “These monuments belong to Egypt… However, the country is facing now many challenges at the economy level and tourism is declining, which prevents us from taking care of all Egyptian monuments.”
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 Restored Rambam (Maimonides) Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt, 2014 |
By Khalid Hassan, Al-Monitor
Restored Rambam (Maimonides) Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt, 2014
(Photo courtesy of Gamal/Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life)
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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Thank you for opting (on our websites, at an event, or by email) to receive American Sephardi Federation Programming Updates and Publications. We apologize if this message was sent in error.
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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