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20 January 2017
In memory of Jonathan (Lopes) Pereira, A”H, a Portuguese-Sephardi pioneer of pharmacology, who passed this day in 1853. |
In memory of Jonathan (Lopes) Pereira, A”H, a Portuguese-Sephardi pioneer of pharmacology, who passed this day in 1853.
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“Latinos along border discover Sephardic Jewish heritage” By Mercedes Olivera, The Dallas Morning News
Dr. Peter Tarlow, a rabbi and professor at Texas A&M University, claims that the version of Spanish spoken along the Texas-Mexico border was deeply influenced by Ladino. By his account: “Three million people who live in South Texas and along the Rio Grande Valley today have crypto-Jewish blood.”
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 Talit-clad Crypto-Jew Lorenzo Domínguez (Levi Ben Macario) and his mother, Felima, by the Río Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
By Mercedes Olivera, The Dallas Morning News
Talit-clad Crypto-Jew Lorenzo Domínguez (Levi Ben Macario) and his mother, Felima, by the Río Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico
(Photo courtesy of Cary Herz/The Taos News)
 Moroccan Jews in America protested to protect Morocco’s territorial integrity at the UN, 21 March 2016 |
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“Moroccan Jews’ Departure to Israel Regretted in Morocco” By Dr. Mohamed Chtatou, The African Exponent
Dr. Mohamed Chtatou, a Professor of Education at Mohammed V University in Rabat, explores why Moroccans deeply lament the emigration of Jews from their country. Noting how Morocco’s Jewish roots go back 2,000 years, he argues that King Mohammed V protected Moroccan Jews from the Vichy regime during WWII because “the entire Moroccan population is Jewish, deep down, by solidarity.”
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Moroccan Jews in America protested to protect Morocco’s territorial integrity at the UN, 21 March 2016
(Photo courtesy of Morocco World News)
By Dr. Mohamed Chtatou, The African Exponent
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.
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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