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28 October 2016
In honor of Sir Moses Motefiore, Sephardi entrepreneur, philanthropist, and statesman, who was born 232 years ago this week |
In honor of Sir Moses Motefiore, Sephardi entrepreneur, philanthropist, and statesman, who was born 232 years ago this week
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“The Escape from Iran” By Yariv Peleg, Israel Hayom
65-year-old Eti Sionit Goshen fled Iran thirty years ago with her husband and two children. Before leaving, she helped young Iranian Jewish men flee the Islamic revolution racked country by forging passports. Then, she was caught: “They beat the hell out of us during the interrogation. They used electric shocks … the torture was unimaginable.” In 1988 the family finally escaped to Israel, landing on the 4th day of Hanukkah: “It was our own private Hanukkah miracle.”
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 Houman Goshe and his mother, Eti Sionit Goshen |
By Yariv Peleg, Israel Hayom
Houman Goshe and his mother, Eti Sionit Goshen
(Photo courtesy of Yehoshua Yosef/Israel Hayom)
 Yahudiylar Machiti Synagogue, Bukahara, Uzbekistan |
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“Dwindling at home, Central Asia’s Bukharian Jews thrive in Diaspora” By Cnaan Liphshiz, The Times of Israel
Bukharian Jews in the Diaspora have successfully maintained their traditions, including the tradition of mutual assistance that enables penniless immigrants to buy $900,000 homes in New York City: “When I’m established and done paying back my family members who are already established in Israel and the States, I’ll lend money to a relative. It’s how we succeed.”
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Yahudiylar Machiti Synagogue, Bukahara, Uzbekistan
(Photo courtesy of Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life)
By Cnaan Liphshiz, The Times of Israel
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“A South Mumbai synagogue helps tourists learn more about Judaism” By Tabassum Barnagarwala, The Indian Express
There are 4,000 Jews remaining in Mumbai and eight synagogues, including “Keneseth Eliyahoo.” Commissioned by Jacob Sasoon for the Baghdadi Jewish community and built in 1884, the Eliyahoo synagogue, “is getting fewer devotees, but more attention from tourists.” According to the synagogue’s caretaker: “About 20 Jews come on Fridays and Saturdays for prayers. But everyday, tourists, mostly from other countries, come to visit the synagogue.”
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 Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, Mumbai, India, 2010
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By Tabassum Barnagarwala, The Indian Express
Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, Mumbai, India, 2010
(Photo courtesy of Drora Arussy/Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life)
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a novel by Sarit Yishai-Levi
November 13th at 3PM
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Join the American Sephardi Federation and author Sarit Yishai-Levi for a reading and discussion of her award-winning book, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. Described by a reviewer as a “romantic and engaging novel [which] has been an Israeli bestseller for more than two years” and which is now an international bestseller available in English translation from St. Martin’s Press, Yishai-Levi explores the lives of four generations of Sephardi women who come together and apart in the vibrant city of Jerusalem from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the 1970s.
Sarit Yishai-Levi is a renowned Israeli journalist, notable for being the first Israeli to interview Yasser Arafat. She has also interviewed major political and cultural figures like Muhammad Ali, Ariel Sharon, Leah Rubin, and Hugh Hefner. In researching her novel, Sarit has become an expert in Israeli history and Sephardic culture (she is an eighth-generation Jerusalemite–a rare heritage to claim!), and as readers and reviewers alike have commented, the novel truly brings both to life in new and exciting ways.
Reviews, photographs, an author interview, and excerpt are available here.
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Complimentary; Space limited
Liberated Libyan Holocaust Survivors (Photo courtesy of Yad VaShem)
Benghazi Bergen-Belsen Special Staged Reading with Yossi Sucary and La MaMa
November 14th at 7PM
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Join the American Jewish Historical Society and American Sephardi Federation in celebrating the English-language publication of Benghazi Bergen-Belsen (click here to readThe Sephardi World Weekly’s coverage), the first novel exploring the experiences of Libyan Jews in the Holocaust. Hear a staged reading from the upcoming theatrical adaptation of the novel, premiering at La MaMa in March 2017, and meet author Yossi Sucary for the post-reading Q&A session.
Please click here for tickets
(Tickets:$7 AJHS or ASF Members; $15 General Admission)
We were Neighbors:
Remembering Middle Eastern Jewish Communities
November 30h at 7PM
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
In honor of the date chosen by the Knesset to commemorate the Middle Eastern Jewish experience, ASF will present a program featuring exclusive Diarna Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life digital documentation on endangered sites, oral histories of the last primary source generation, original artwork, and scholarly reflections.
The original artwork on display will be selections from Leslie Starobin’s The Last Address, a multi-year, photo-montage and oral history exhibition and book project exploring the enduring texture of memory and culture in the lives of Sephardic families from dispersed Jewish communities around the world.
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Complimentary
Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom
April through October
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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