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6 MARCH 2015
In Honor of Kamram Hakim, Sponsor of Iran Night at the 18th NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
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“For One Outspoken Teenager in Revolution-Era Iran, Queen Esther Was a Kindred Spirit” By Sima Goel, Tablet Sima Goel grew up in Iran, “a strong-willed, intelligent girl in a world where silence and obedience were required of women.” Urged by her mother to flee the country at the age of seventeen, Sima survived a journey that took her from Iran to Pakistan and then to Canada by identifying with another strong-willed, intelligent girl who grew up in Persia, the Biblical Esther.
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 Dome Inside the Purported Shrine of Esther and Mordechai, Hamadan, Iran (Photo courtesy of Yassi Gabbay/Diarna Geo-Museum) |
By Sima Goel, Tablet
Sima Goel grew up in Iran, “a strong-willed, intelligent girl in a world where silence and obedience were required of women.” Urged by her mother to flee the country at the age of seventeen, Sima survived a journey that took her from Iran to Pakistan and then to Canada by identifying with another strong-willed, intelligent girl who grew up in Persia, the Biblical Esther.
Dome Inside the Purported Shrine of Esther and Mordechai, Hamadan, Iran (Photo courtesy of Yassi Gabbay/Diarna Geo-Museum)
The complete list of selected films with dates, times, ticket, donor & sponsorship information can be found here.
The ornate gate that formerly adorned the Shrine to Esther and Mordechai (Photo courtesy of Yassi Gabbay/Diarna Geo-Museum)
 Jewish Cemetery, Tiaret, Algeria (Photo courtesy of Diarna Geo-Museum) |
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“Home, for Algeria’s Jews, is elsewhere” By Farah Souames, Open Democracy Are there any Jews living in Algeria? No one in Algeria seems to know, or to want to talk about it. What is for sure, however, is that ”when the last Jewish emigrant from Algeria has died, the notion of visiting the ‘Algerian homeland’ will likely die with them.” |
Jewish Cemetery, Tiaret, Algeria (Photo courtesy of Diarna Geo-Museum)
By Farah Souames, Open Democracy
Are there any Jews living in Algeria? No one in Algeria seems to know, or to want to talk about it. What is for sure, however, is that ”when the last Jewish emigrant from Algeria has died, the notion of visiting the ‘Algerian homeland’ will likely die with them.”
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