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03 February 2017
In memory of Gloria Mound, A”H, tireless researcher of crypto-Jews and founder of Casa Shalom: The Institute for Marrano (Anusim) Studies, which is now a part of Netanya Academic College. |
In memory of Gloria Mound, A”H, tireless researcher of crypto-Jews and founder of Casa Shalom: The Institute for Marrano (Anusim) Studies, which is now a part of Netanya Academic College.
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“Chasing Challah in Mumbai” By Shulie Madnick, The Forward
Shulie Madnick’s Jewish-Indian heritage trip was spurred by an email with an off-hand remark about delivering challot to the Jewish community in Mumbai. During her journey she tasted Puri (an Indian flat or fried bread) and Khibis (Iraqi flat bread): “The evolution of food… occurs due to geo-political shifts, among many other factors. I… didn’t fathom that on my personal Jewish heritage journey to Mumbai, I would witness so clearly this natural evolution of customs and traditions of this Jewish ritual food, the challah, in India.”
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 The Bene Israel are familiar with challah, but traditionally make the Shabbat blessings over Puri, JDC Bakery, Mumbai, India |
By Shulie Madnick, The Forward
The Bene Israel are familiar with challah, but traditionally make the Shabbat blessings over Puri, JDC Bakery, Mumbai, India
(Photo courtesy of Shulie Madnick/The Forward)
President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa with Holocaust Survivors and Dignitaries (Photo courtesy of Chrystie Sherman)
Click here to watch a video of the visit.
The American Sephardi Federation hosted the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, at the Center for Jewish History for a tour of ASF’s multi-partner exhibit, Portugal, The Last Hope: Sousa Mendes’ Visas for Freedom. “Your history is our history,” said the President before a private reception of Holocaust survivors saved by Aristides de Sousa Mendes and board members of ASF, American Jewish Committee, B’nai B’rith International, Sousa Mendes Foundation, Sephardic Home for The Aged Foundation, and Center for Jewish History, as he announced his intention to confer on Mendes Portugal’s Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty.
The exhibit honors Mendes, the creative and courageous Portuguese Consul General at Bordeaux during the Holocaust, who saved Salvador Dalí, the authors of Curious George, and thousands of people, many of them Jews, by issuing visas against the orders of the Salazar regime. 50 years ago Mendes was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad VaShem.
In addition to the exhibit, the President viewed rare books from ASF’s collection on Portuguese Jews in the Center’s Lillian Goldman Reading Room, and heard performances by Pedro de Silva (who played an original composition on Portuguese Guitar) and David Serero, the Sephardi baritone opera singer and star of ASF’s theatrical season, who performed the Ladino classic Aido Querida. The President interpreted the song to be a metaphor for the Sephardim who, due to the Inquisition, were forced “to say goodbye to the homeland, but never forg[o]t… it.”
 The Tomb of Jonah moments after ISIS detonated explosives that leveled the shrine and surrounding mosque |
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“Will anything remain of Mosul’s Jewish history after ISIS?” By Hannah Lynch, Rudaw
In the wake of Iraqi forces liberating the tomb of Jonah in northern Iraq from ISIS control, Rudaw, a Kurdish media network, reports on ISIS’ destruction of Jewish sites across the country. By way of contrast, the Jewish affairs representative to the Kurdistan Regional Government, Sherzad Mamsani, notes that, “In the Kurdistan Region, no Jewish site has been looted, burned or disrespected. The sites have been dealt with respect.”
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The Tomb of Jonah moments after ISIS detonated explosives that leveled the shrine and surrounding mosque
(Photo courtesy of Euronews/YouTube)
By Hannah Lynch, Rudaw
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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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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