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9 December 2016
Mazel tov to American Jewish Historical Society President Bernard Michael, Chairman Sidney Lapidus, and Executive Director Rachel Lithgow on the success of their 2016 Emma Lazarus Dinner honoring Brett Ratner and Larry King |
Mazel tov to American Jewish Historical Society President Bernard Michael, Chairman Sidney Lapidus, and Executive Director Rachel Lithgow on the success of their 2016 Emma Lazarus Dinner honoring Brett Ratner and Larry King
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“Wiped out ‘in the blink of an eye’: Only 35 Jews survived from a 2,000-year-old Greek community” By Reut R. Cohen, The Times of Israel
The 2,000 year-old Sephardic Jewish community of Kastoria, Greece, was nearly wiped out during WWII. Of 900 original members, only 35 survived. A new documentary, Trezoros: The Lost Jews of Kastoria by co-producer and director duo Lawrence Russo and Larry Confino, tells their story: “If the Holocaust had not occurred, we’d be traveling back to Greece to visit relatives. Instead, we’re doing what we can to preserve the memories of victims,” says Confino.
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 Poster for the film, Trezoros, featuring the wedding photo of Allegra Confino and Calev Elias, the film director’s grandparents |
By Reut R. Cohen, The Times of Israel
Poster for the film, Trezoros, featuring the wedding photo of Allegra Confino and Calev Elias, the film director’s grandparents
(Photo courtesy of Lawrence Russo/The Times of Israel)
Road to Tighedouine, Morocco
(Photo courtesy of Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life)
 Ambassador Eldan |
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“The man who changed the face of Israel’s foreign service” By Bernard Ellouk, The Jerusalem Post
Who is Yitzhak Eldan, “the man who changed the face of the Israeli Foreign Service?” Originally from Morocco, Eldan made Aliyah without his parents at the age of twelve and, once in Israel, suffered numerous insults because of his Sephardi heritage. Angry at how Moroccan Jews were treated in the Jewish state, Eldan joined the Black Panthers as a student. How does he reconcile his resentment with his decision to become a diplomat? “I will do whatever I can to strengthen our country. I moved on, but I never forgot.”
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Ambassador Eldan
(Photo courtesy of The Ambassadors’ Club of Israel)
By Bernard Ellouk, The Jerusalem Post
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)
The Last Address
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.
Please click here for additional information and viewing hours
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.
Please click here for additional information and viewing hours
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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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