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“Becoming a Sephardic Jewish teen on 1916’s Lower East Side to teach living history” By Megan Cerullo and Ginger Adams Otis, NY Daily News
The Lower East Tenement Museum in Manhattan is telling the story of Victoria Confino, a 14 year Sephardi girl from a wealthy Greek Jewish family that found itself on the Lower East side in 1916, newly impoverished and socially marginalized. A recurring theme of immigrant stories is that “life is better here than it was back home…,” which was not necessarily the case for the Confinos and many other immigrants, at least initially.
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 Victoria Confino, back center, lived at 97 Orchard Street, 1916 |
By Megan Cerullo and Ginger Adams Otis, NY Daily News
Victoria Confino, back center, lived at 97 Orchard Street, 1916
(Photo courtesy of Lower East Side Tenement Museum/New York Daily News)
 Joseph and Lilian Abraham’s Wedding, 1931 |
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“How the 20 Jews left in Kolkata are using food to keep their culture alive” By Tania Bhattacharya, Quartz
While only twenty of Kolkota (Calcutta), India’s 6,000 Baghdadi Jewish remain a new restaurant recently reached out to an eighty-six year-old Indian Jewess living in the United States in order to learn how to serve, and thus preserve, Indian Jewish cuisine.
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Joseph and Lilian Abraham’s Wedding, 1931
(Photo courtesy of Recalling Jewish Calcutta)
By Tania Bhattacharya, Quartz
On the Front Lines: Preserving Middle Eastern
Jewish History in the Age of ISIS
September 18th at 7:00PM
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
125 East 85th Steet
New York City
Amidst the horrors of the Syrian civil war, the historic Eliyahu Hanabi (“Elijah the Prophet”) Synagogue in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus was destroyed. ISIS demolished the purported Tomb of Jonah, which was located in one of Mosul’s oldest mosques (pictured above). ISIS has also caused the Christian village of al-Qoosh in Iraqi-Kurdistan, home to the traditional Tomb of Nahum, to be evacuated several times, and has looted Dura Europas, in which the ruins of one of the world’s oldest synagogues reside.
These are brusque reminders of how the synagogues, schools, and other structures that once composed Jewish life in hundreds of communities across the Middle East and North Africa are decaying or being destroyed, and the last generation with memories of these communities is passing on. There is limited time left to capture site data and record place-based stories before they are forever lost.
Diarna (“Our Homes” in Judeo-Arabic): Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life meets this urgent challenge with a synthesis of traditional scholarship, fieldwork, and multimedia technologies—satellite imagery (complete with terrain, zoomable perspectives, tiltable views and 360-degree rotation), immersive panoramas, three-dimensional architectural reconstructions, archival and contemporary photography, and place-based oral history recordings—all meant to create virtual entry points to once vibrant yet now largely vanished communities.
Join us for an interactive lecture made possible by The David Berg Foundation.
Please click here for additional details
A light supper will be served
An Intimate Rivalry: The Jews and Classical Islam
September 27th at 7:30PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York City
ASF is co-sponsoring the first in a series of programs by the Center for Jewish History and Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell exploring how Jewish-Muslim relations in the pre-modern era are popularly portrayed as a precursor of conflict in the contemporary Middle East. Drawing on religious texts, historical documents, and other materials, however, cultural historian Ross Brann (Cornell University) offers a rich and more complex portrait of early Jewish-Muslim relations, one that is characterized by the creative dynamics of minority-majority interaction. This series is being made possible by the generous support of Bruce Slovin, Chair Emeritus & Founder of the Center for Jewish History and Distinguished Board Member of the American Sephardi Federation.
Please click here to purchase tickets
(General Admission $10; Center for Jewish History /Partner Members $5, Seniors,Students, and Cornell Alumni $5)
Reservations Suggested
Call for Art: Homelands
Deadline: October 7th
ASF is co-sponsoring Homelands, a proposed exhibit at the next Jerusalem Biennale (October 2017). Multiple artists will “reflect on one of the defining moments of the last century: the disbanding of the Jewish communities of the Muslim world.” Curated by Meira Balas, PhD and Organized by Lenore Mizrahi-Cohen. For additional details and to submit artwork click here.
Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom
April through October
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York City
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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The American Sephardi Federation’s Sephardi House is located at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St., New York, New York, 10011).
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