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13 January 2017
In memory of Francis Salvador, A”H, a Sephardi immigrant to Charleston, South Carolina, who, on 11 January 1775, was the first Jew elected to public office in the Americas and became known as the “Southern Paul Revere” for warning his fellow Patriots of the approaching British fleet. |
In memory of Francis Salvador, A”H, a Sephardi immigrant to Charleston, South Carolina, who, on 11 January 1775, was the first Jew elected to public office in the Americas and became known as the “Southern Paul Revere” for warning his fellow Patriots of the approaching British fleet.
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“‘Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic’” By Larry Yudelson, The New Jersey Jewish Standard
Dr. Ronnie Perelis is a professor of Sephardic studies at Yeshiva University and a self-professed: “total Ashkenazi… who loves Sephardic history and culture.” Perelis’ love is on display in his book, Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith, an exploration of three remarkable, “first-person accounts of life in the 15th and 16th centuries,” each of which could be made into a movie: “I feel I’ve been so lucky… So many people who write books get so sick of their material by the end. I still find the stories powerful and eye-opening.”
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 The autobiographical manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, circa 1595, with devotional manuscripts |
By Larry Yudelson, The New Jersey Jewish Standard
The autobiographical manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, circa 1595, with devotional manuscripts
(Photo courtesy of the Government of Mexico/The Times of Israel)
“Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition and New World Identities”
(Photo courtesy of New Mexico History Museum)
 Sephardi Lives Co-Editor Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles |
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“UCLA acquires major collection chronicling Sephardic Jewish past in LA” By Margaret MacDonald, UCLA Newsroom
UCLA’s Sephardic Archive Institute recently acquired a treasure trove of material that treats how Sephardic Jews migrated to California, as well as, “the shaping of Sephardic culture in Los Angeles; and Sephardic Jews’ contributions to the Jewish and urban fabric of L.A.” According to Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Director of the Archive and holder of the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies: “We are in L.A., which is home to one of the oldest and largest Sephardic communities in the country, and we have the world-class resources to pioneer a comprehensive and invaluable archive of Sephardic culture.”
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Sephardi Lives Co-Editor Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles
(Photo courtesy of UCLA)
By Margaret MacDonald, UCLA Newsroom
Book Talk: What Survives by Phyllis Skoy
18 January 2017 at 6:30PM
The Oded Halahmy Gallery at ASF
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Phyllis Skoy’s debut novel, What Survives, explores how the past and present intertwine in a deeply personal story about love and loss in the post-9/11 world. Follow Adalet (a Turkish divorcée severely burned in a massive earthquake) and Mark (an American art professor seeking out his Sephardi roots in Turkey) as sweeping cultural changes make their unlikely romance possible.
Join ASF for a reading and Q&A with the author.
Phyllis M Skoy lives with her husband in Placitas, New Mexico, where she settled after living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a number of years. She currently maintains a small private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Albuquerque. What Survives was short-listed by the Santa Fe Writers Project, and Skoy was named “Discovery of the Year” by Bosque Press for her short story, Life After. She spends most of her free hours working on a prequel to What Survives.
Space is limited. RSVP required. Please click here to register.
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.
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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