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This year's Festival was a huge success!

Since its debut at Lincoln Center over a decade ago the NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival (NYSJFF) has continued its commitment to create a unique platform for quality films with distinctively Sephardic themes. This year's annual exploration of Sephardic Jewry presented the audience with an extraordinary breadth of lands, languages and traditions, revealing the “other” within the Jewish tradition. The Festival line-up was very exciting, with our main themes of Sephardic Music in Film; Sephardic Heritage in Inter-Generational Relations; and tributes to Israel at 60.

This is a memoir of identity, of growing up in a tumultuous polyglot society. Here is a fascinating portrait of a people, a city, a state, and a culture that are as troubled today as Kattan found them sixty years ago.

The Traditions and Customs
by Michael Molho

The traditions, customs, rituals and beliefs, proverbs, ballads, songs and tales which author Micheal Molho has preserved in these pages are preserved with a genuine appreciation and passion for his culture and will invoke in the eyes of its readers the ancient ties of the Sephardim to their Spanish and Iberian origins.