Below is a listing of past events that were featured
by the American Sephardi Federation and Sephardic House
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Traces of Esther: The Jewish Presence in Contemporary Catalan Literature |
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Manuel Forcano, Ph.D. in Semitic Philology, poet and essayist, will offer a Catalan perspective on Jewish culture as reflected in the writings of the great 19th and 20th century Catalan authors. Offering rich passages from the literature, Dr. Forcano will guide us from the negative stereotypes of the 19th century, through the fascination with Israel as both a religious and political inspiration, and the Bible and the Talmud as references, to the emergence of a modern, nuanced view of the place of Jewish culture in Catalonia.
In collaboration with, and with the support of, The Catalan Center at NYU, an affiliate of the Institut Ramon Llull
Free admission. Event takes place at the King Juan Carlos Center,
53 Washington Square South (bet. Sullivan & Thompson Streets).
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A Certain Identity: Crypto Jews around the World
LECTURE BY GLORIA MOUND
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Monday, May 3, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Thousands of Iberian Jews went "underground" at the time of the Inquisition and the expulsion from Spain. They dispersed across Europe, across the ocean to South America and the Caribbean, and to North Africa and the Middle East. With tremendous tenacity, they preserved their heritage, married among themselves, and passed it down from generation to generation. |
Gloria Mound, Director of the Casa Shalom-Institute for Anusim Studies in Israel, will illuminate their fascinating history, their presence in the Caribbean and in European countries, as well as previously unsuspected links with French Huguenots. Casa Shalom-Institute for Anusim Studies works to uncover the ancestry of Anusim, and help them find their way back to Judaism. Its new, highly esteemed library, opened in 2005 by President Yitzchak Navon, comprises a unique collection of more than 2,000 books, 5,000 documents and a computer data base relating to secret or hitherto unknown Jewish Communities world-wide, providing a wealth of resources for academic researchers and genealogists.
Tickets at the door: $10 General admission, $5 for ASF members and students.
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Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 4:00pm
This beautifully illustrated book traces the rich and fertile history of the Jews in Catalonia from the time of the late Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages, until the drastic decree of expulsion by the
Catholic Monarchs. It captures their wedding songs, the smells from their cooking pots, and reconstructs the soaring intellectual edifice
they created despite the difficulties of a daily life fraught with religious persecution and social degradation. The authors, Sílvia Planas and Manuel Forcano, will talk and engage with the audience.
In collaboration with, and with the support of, The Catalan Center at NYU, an affiliate of the Institut Ramon Llull
Book sale and signing follows. Free for ASF members and students.
$5 General admission at the door.
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| Daughters of Sara, Mothers of Israel: Jewish Women of Medieval Girona |
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 6:30pm
The names of the Jewish women who lived in medieval Girona were
Astruga, Dolça, Esther, Mairona, Preciosa, Rahel, Sara. They were born in the city, and they gave birth there. They worked and did business there. Some of them, often under duress, gave up the faith of their fathers. Others professed to be the fervent heiresses of the ancestral law. In this talk Sílvia Planas, Director of the Institut d'Estudis
Nahmanides and the Museum of Jewish History of Girona, will endeavor to
rediscover these women and honor their legacy and their memory.
In collaboration with, and with the support of, The Catalan Center at NYU, an affiliate of the Institut Ramon Llull
Free for ASF members and students. $5 General admission at the door.
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ASF: Next Generation Culture Café
Defining Sephardic: A Roundtable Discussion on Sephardic Identity |
A year-long program made possible through the generous support of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation.
ASF is grateful for the invaluable assistance of the Consulate General of Spain in New York. |
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Thursday, January 14, 2010, 6:30pm
“Defining Sephardic” will be a kick-off event that explores identity in the Sephardic, or “non-Ashkenazic,” communities of New York. The evening is a round-table discussion moderated by Lacey Schwartz, filmmaker and New York Director of Be’chol Lashon. Featured Speakers:
Zena Babayov, Communications Master’s student at New York University and active member of the Bukharian community in Forest Hills;
Mijal Bitton, Originally from Argentina, she is a junior at Stern College of Yeshiva University, and an active member of the Sephardic Community of Great Neck; Sion Setton, Director of Youth programming at Manhattan’s Safra Synagogue and descendant of Iraqi, Syrian, and Egyptian heritage; and Matieu Furster, A software engineer with both a Moroccan Sephardi and Russian Ashkenazi heritage.
Light refreshments will be served. Free admission. Reservations are requested by phone: 212-294-8301 ex. 8356 or email: smenchel@asf.cjh.org.
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THE JEWS OF SPAIN: Past and Present
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A year-long program made possible through the generous support of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation.
ASF is grateful for the invaluable assistance of the Consulate General of Spain in New York.
All the events will take place at the Center for Jewish History,
15 West 16th Street, NYC
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Concert & Symposium |
Tickets may be purchased online or by calling 212-294-8350 x0
We request that you purchase your tickets by Monday, November 23, 2009
to insure your place at the buffet lunch. Dietary laws observed. |
| Saturday, December 5th, 2009, 8pm |
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Gala Concert: Sueños de Sefarad
ASF is delighted to present the music of Spain’s Paco Díez. One of the most important musicians in Judeo-Spanish music, Mr. Díez has been decorated by the Sephardic authorities (ANL) for his work in spreading Sephardic music and culture. He brings his voice, guitar, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes and percussion, and his scholarship of the folk traditions from the varied regions of Spain. A dessert reception follows. |
We express our appreciation to the Consulate General of Spain in New York, and its Consul General Fernando Villalonga,
and to Casa Sefarad Israel, Madrid and its Director General, Diego de Ojeda, whose support and assistance has made this
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| Sunday, December 6th, 2009 |
| 9:30am |
Registration and Coffee |
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Welcome & Introduction to the Symposium |
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From Insiders to Outcasts: A History of the Jews of Spain - Prof. Jane S. Gerber, CUNY/Graduate Center, New York. |
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Yehuda Halevi: Poet and Pilgrim - Prof. Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. |
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The Challenge of Philosophy on Religious Thought: The World of Moses Maimonides -
Dr. Alfred L. Ivry, New York University. |
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Buffet Luncheon |
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Jewish Thought: The Mystical Traditions - Prof. Elliot Wolfson, New York University. |
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The Reconquista: Jews and the New Realities of Christian Spain - Prof. Jonathan S. Ray, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. |
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The Unknown Jewish Artists of Spain - Dr. Vivian Mann, Director of the Master's Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture, The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. |
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Day One concludes |
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| Monday, December 7th, 2009 |
| 9:30am |
Registration and Coffee |
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Jews and the City in Medieval Spain- Prof. Eleazar Gutwirth, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University |
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The Inquisition/The Expulsion of 1492 and Don Isaac Abravanel – Prof. Eric Lawee, York University, Toronto, Canada. |
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The Dispersion of 1492 and Beyond - Prof. Matthias B. Lehmann, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. |
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Buffet Luncheon |
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Introduction to Present Day Spain |
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Spain and The Jews Today - Enrique Múgica Herzog, Defensor del Pueblo (Ombudsman), Madrid. |
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The Jewish Communities in Contemporary Spain - Jacobo Israel, President of the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Spain. |
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The Sephardic Heritage as a Living Part of Spanish Culture - Diego de Ojeda, Director General Casa Sefarad/ Israel, Madrid; Assumpcio Hosta Rebes, Secretaria General Red de Juderias |
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Roundtable: Contemporary Spain and the Jews -
Moderator: Stanley A. Urman, Executive Director, ASF. |
| 5:30pm |
Conclusion of Symposium |
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OTHER FALL PROGRAMS |
ASF MEMBERSHIP FILM SERIES
Afternoon screenings for ASF members and their guests |
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Thursday, December 10th, 1pm
The Pioneers (HeHalutzim)
Israel, 2007, 50 mins. Hebrew w/English subtitles.
A film by Aharale Cohen and Sigalit Banai.
The Pioneers depicts the establishment of Sderot - today's target of terrorist rockets -- from the viewpoint of the first settlers, early immigrants from North Africa who were transported on trucks in the middle of the night to a desolate desert ma'abara (transit camp). Despite severe hardship, they stayed and developed a unique, vibrant town. |
Admission at the door: $5 for each program. Free for ASF members and a guest. New members may sign up at the door.
Reservations requested by phone 212-294-8350 x0 or by email info@americansephardifederation.org |
Monday, December 14th, 7pm
Ilyas Malayev: Remembering the Poet Laureate of the Bukharian Jews
Ilyas Malayev (1936-2008) was an immensely popular musician across Uzbekistan and deeply loved by the Bukharian Jewish community. He was a master of the Central Asian classical music cycles known as "Shash maqâm," and a major innovator of traditional forms through his musical compositions, poetry and theatrical works. ASF/SH is pleased to be a co-presenter of this event organized by The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the Center for Jewish History, and The An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Presentation Series, curated by Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D. (Bar Ilan University, New York University).
Admission: $15 general; $10 for CJH, ASF and Center for Traditional Music and Dance members.
Purchase tickets online at www.smarttix.com; or by phone at 212.868.4444.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 7pm
Sephardic Music Festival: Scholar Series
Program Curator: Samuel R. Thomas
Ph.D candidate, CUNY, Graduate Center
Aviva & Dan and The Nadel/Thomas Duo
The electrifying New York City duo, Aviva & Dan, perform an eclectic mix of Spanish and Mediterranean music. Their repertoire spans generations and genres from medieval to modern, classical to tango, and includes pieces from Spain, Israel, Argentina and France, as well as the melancholic romances of the Sephardim – the exiled Jews of Spain.
The Nadel/Thomas Duo performs instrumental renditions of songs of the Moroccan Jews. By bringing in jazz sensibilities, Nadel and Thomas seek to stretch the musical boundaries of the Sephardic musical tradition.
Lisa Katzman works as a filmmaker, screenwriter, and journalist. Ms. Katzman is currently completing production on FLAMENCOS: HERE AND THERE, a documentary about the cultural history of Flamenco that traces its roots in gypsy and Sephardic music. Her prior work includes producing and directing the award-winning documentary TOOTIES LAST SUIT (2007), on Nicolas Lemann's THE PROMISED LAND and Kartemquin Films GOLUB. Ms. Katzman is currently a visiting lecturer in the Film Department at Vassar College.
A presentation of the Sephardic Music Festival in association with the American Sephardi Federation and Yeshiva University Museum. Co-sponsors: The Foundation for Iberian Music, the Institute for Sephardic Studies, AsefaMusic and Shemspeed.
General Admission: $15/ $12 for ASF & YUMuseum members and students. Ticket includes both performances, panel discussion with the artists, and viewing the current ASF exhibit, Jerusalem and the Jews of Spain: Longing and Reality. Tickets may be purchased online at: www.smarttix.com; or by phone: 212.868.4444. For more information visit: http://www.sephardicmusicfestival.com/ |
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Thursday, November 19, 6:30pm
ASF Books & Authors Series
Exiles of the Heart: Two Sephardic Women from Egypt Share Their Stories of Loss and Connection
Jews can trace their presence in Egypt back more than 3,000 years. In 1948 there were 80,000 Jews in Egypt; today, less than 100. Jean Naggar's book Sipping From the Nile: My Exodus From Egypt is a fascinating look at a forgotten world. Naggar was born in Alexandria and grew up in Cairo in a world of wealth and sophistication that disappeared after the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. Having left at the age of 18, her childhood memories open a window into a little-known time and place.
Joyce Zonana's book Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey is one of seeking memories and constructing identity. She left Cairo with her family at 18 months, following the Arab-Israeli war of 1948.
To purchase these books (click here)
Admission at the door: $5; Free for ASF members.
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Tuesday, November 10th, 6:30pm
Lecture: The Great Hebrew Poets of Medieval Spain
Peter Cole has translated works by the great Hebrew poets of medieval Spain and revealed this remarkable poetic world in his highly praised anthology, The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492. He will be joined by Professor Ross Brann, Milton R.Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, Cornell University, NY. Audience Q&A follows.
Admission at the door: $5; Free for ASF members and students.
Reservations required: 212.294.8350 x0 or by email
info@americansephardifederation.org
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Wednesday, November 4th, 1pm
Salaam Shalom: The Jews of India
Dir. Vanessa C. Laufer / Canada, 1999 / 5O mins. / English
This colorful film brings to life a remarkable history dating back two millennia. The filmmaker travels to Goa, Bombay, Cochin, and Calcutta the cities of the fascinating subcontinent of India where Jews have made their homes.
Screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with Rahel Musleah
Rahel Musleah was born in Calcutta, India, the seventh generation of a Calcutta Jewish family that traces its roots to 17th-century Baghdad. Through her multi-media song, story and slide programs about the Jews of India and Iraq, she shares her rare and intimate knowledge of the history, customs and melodies of these ancient communities. Ms. Musleah is an award-winning journalist, author and singer. Please visit her website, www.rahelsjewishindia.com
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Jerusalem and the Jews of Spain: Longing and Reality
Exhibition Opening, Program & Reception
6:30pm View the exhibition: Jerusalem and the Jews of Spain: Longing and Reality, created by Shelomo Alfassa.
For centuries, a central theme among the Jews of Spain was their longing for a return to the Land of Israel. This was a romantic and religious desire of many Spanish Jews - a desire that eventually became a reality.
7:30pm Keynote Address: Professor Ross Brann, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, Cornell University, NY.
Admission at the door: $8; Free for ASF members.
Reservations required: 212.294.8350 x0 or by email info@americansephardifederation.org
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Sponsored by YIVO in partnership with the American Sephardi Federation
RUTH GAY SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES
Uncommon Voices, Everyday Lives:
Jewish Experiences in Salonika through the YIVO Archives
SUNDAY 12 JULY 2009
Meet the faculty at 3PM; Seminar at 3:30PM
Chair: Isaac Benmayor
Introductory Remarks: Steven Bowman
Presenter: Devin Naar
RSVP REQUIRED: 212-294-6143 / fmohrer@yivo.cjh.org
Devin Naar, a doctoral candidate in the department of History at Stanford University, was
Project Historian of the Salonika Project at YIVO. Under the project, the Records of the
Jewish Community of Salonika housed in the YIVO Archives were arranged, microfilmed,
and digitized, and a finding aid was completed. The project received support from the
Maurice Amado Foundation and from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Naar is writing his dissertation on the Jewish Community of Salonika during the 19th and
20th centuries. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece where he
organized a segment of the Salonika archives housed at the Jewish Museum of Salonika
and curated the exhibition "With Their Own Words: Glimpses of Jewish Life in Thessaloniki before the Holocaust.
" He has delivered conference papers or lectured at numerous
locations in New York and New Jersey, as well as St. Louis, Georgetown, New Haven,
Jerusalem, Moscow, and Paris.
Isaac Benmayor holds a Ph.D. in Modern Greek Linguistics from Oxford University. Born
and raised in Thessaloniki, Benmayor is a past president of the American Friends of the
Jewish Museum of Greece, and has worked on a number of publications on the Holocaust
in Greece, including The Holocaust in Salonica: Eyewitness Accounts.
Steven Bowman is Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati and has
written extensively on Greek Jewry. His books include Jews in Byzantium, 1204-1453,
Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece, The Holocaust in Salonica:
Eyewitness Accounts and The Agony of Greek Jewry during World War II (in press). Bowman is Editor in Chief of
the "The Sephardi and Greek Holocaust Library."
The Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies is given at YIVO several times a year by scholars
who have done research in the YIVO Archives and who wish to share their research with
the public. The seminar series is named in honor of the noted American Jewish scholar
and historian Ruth Gay (1922-2006), and was made possible thanks to a generous gift from
the family of Ruth Gay.
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Membership Film Series
A Matter of Time
A Matter of Time presents the historical evidence of plans by German and Italian occupiers to carry out the Final Solution far from the shores of Europe. The film includes unique archival material and testimony of people who lived in North Africa during WWII.
Our thanks to Filmakers Library, Inc. (212.808.4983) for providing the films. |
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Part II: Common Fate
Director: Serge Ankri - Israel, 2005 - 52 mins. Hebrew with English subtitlesh |
Thursday, June 4, 1:30pm
Hitler left it to the Vichy government to impose the racial laws in Algeria and Morocco. Many European Jews had fled to Morocco at the outbreak of the war and it had the largest Jewish population in North Africa. The Moroccan Jews suffered the least because they were on good terms with the Arabs who traded with them while they were interned. In German-occupied Tunis, however, the forced-labor camps were harsh and many died of typhoid and starvation.
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Part I: From Tripoli to Bergen-Belsen
Director: Marco Carmel - Israel, 2005 - 52 mins. Tunisian & Hebrew with English subtitles |
Thursday, May 14, 1:30pm
The Jews of Libya, an Italian colony, maintained their traditions more so than the Jews of Italy who had assimilated. Survivors tell of the impact of Italian-imposed racial laws, property confiscation, and the separation of the Jews from the rest of the community. |
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| Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce |
Thursday, May 7, 6:30pm
Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein, author, is Professor of History and holds the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA.
Dr. Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology |
A bold and original work of cultural and economic history!
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Join these two dynamic women in a discussion on Jews and Fashion, through the lens of Dr. Stein’s book. Plumes examines the thriving global trade in ostrich feathers from the “feather boom” of the 1880s to the economically devastating “feather bust” that coincided with WWI. At that pivotal moment, the exotic plumes that adorned the hats of European and American women - especially the elusive Barbary feather from Sudan, coveted the world over for its “dazzling fullness” - fell precipitously out of fashion. Drawing on archival material from three continents, Dr. Stein brings to light a remarkable portrait of Jewish enterprise, and tells a rich story of a boom and bust market, global commerce, and the rise and fall of a single glamorous luxury item.
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From Baghdad to Bombay: In the Kitchens of My Cousins
A colorful culinary journey – a testimony to keeping a culture alive! |
Wednesday, April 29, 6:30
Pearl Sofaer -- author, painter, sculptor, singer -- was born and grew up in Bombay. Her large family originated in Baghdad and Kirkuk, Iraq, before migrating to Burma and India during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After the partition of India in 1947, most of her family moved to the four corners of the globe. Their rich and diverse cultural heritage is reflected in their kitchens, which they generously opened to their cousin, who has woven the threads of a diverse family into a rich tapestry of cuisine. |
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February 5
- February 12, 2009
13th NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival- An Extraordinary Success!
The Festival’s Bar Mitzvah Year broke attendance and box office records, attracting nearly 3,000 ticket buyers! Fifteen films (nine documentary and six features) were screened during the week of February
5-12, 2009, and a selection was presented as part of the 12th Miami Jewish Film Festival and at The JCC in Manhattan. They included two World premieres, three U.S. premieres, and three New York premieres. The films portrayed the cultural heritage, traditions, inter-generational struggles, and search for identify, of Jewish communities in 14 countries. Most films were followed by post-screening discussions with international filmmakers and scholars. Guests included dignitaries from the Consulate General of Israel in NY, Consulate General of Spain in NY, Consulate General of Turkey in NY, Consulate General of The Kingdom of Morocco, as well as Board members, journalists, artists, and an enormously diverse and appreciative audience. First-time Israeli-Ethiopian filmmaker, Shmuel Beru, led a joyful discussion following the NY Premiere of his film, Zrubavel, with a performance by the unique talent of singer/actress Meskie Shibru-Sivan. Zrubavel was also presented at the Washington DCJCC to a sold-out house supported and attended by the Ethiopian Embassy and Ambassador, and a presentation the following day at the Library of Congress. We thank all the filmmakers, our sponsors, donors and all who attended. |
 13th NYSJFF website
Press coverage of the Festival
Press Release
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The truth is known from
fools and children
Del loco y del niño sabe la verdad |
| Traces of Sepharad:
Huellas de Sefarad - Currently on view |
Thursday, December 11, 2008
6pm View the etchings of Judeo-Spanish Proverbs
7pm Program
The new exhibition and book, Traces of Sepharad, by Marc Shanker, features more than 40 interpretive etchings of Judeo-Spanish proverbs, offering a unique window into Sephardic culture and thinking. The sheer breadth of lovely etchings of these timeless Ladino proverbs are easily recognized, understood and shared by a broad audience. They evoke the Judeo-Spanish culture which was maintained for over 500 years by Sephardic Jewish communities in the Diaspora. They bring our attention back to the thriving Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula at a time when Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together in relative peace.
press release
To see the prints and read excerpts from the book visit: www.gravityfreepress.net
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Jews of Lebanon (le Petite Histoire des Juifs du Liban)
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Wednesday, December 3 at 1:30pm
Second in this series of encounters with young artists. Our talented panelists will discuss their craft, their connection to their Sephardic history, and delight us with samplings of their work.
Featured: Lisa Alcalay Klug, award-winning journalist and author of Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe. Sarah Aroeste, singer and leader of the Sarah Aroeste Band, a contemporary Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) music group. Erez Safar a.k.a. Diwon, formerly dj handler, the founder and director of Shemspeed, Modular Mood Records, Hip Hop Sulha, and The Sephardic Music Festival. Moderator: Michelle Ishay-Cohen, producer of Aromas of Aleppo and award-winning art director.
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Young Artists Exploring Our Heritage: A Journey Where Art Meets History
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Wednesday November 19, 2008 at 7pm
Second in this series of encounters with young artists. Our talented panelists will discuss their craft, their connection to their Sephardic history, and delight us with samplings of their work.
Featured:
Lisa Alcalay Klug, award-winning journalist and author of Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe. Sarah Aroeste, singer and leader of the Sarah Aroeste Band, a contemporary Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) music group. Erez Safar a.k.a. Diwon, formerly dj handler, the founder and director of Shemspeed, Modular Mood Records, Hip Hop Sulha, and The Sephardic Music Festival. Moderator: Michelle Ishay-Cohen, producer of Aromas of Aleppo and award-winning art director.
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AMemories of Eden
A Journey through Jewish Baghdad
by Violette Shamash |
Monday October 27, 2008 at 7pm
Mira and Tony Rocca will present Memories of Eden, a memoir of Mira's mother, Violette Shamash, drawn from recollections and notes she sent over a period of 20 years to Mira, and son-in-law, Tony, a former staff writer with The London Sunday Times and Daily Mail. |
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| About the Jews of Yemen: A Vanishing Culture |
September 10, 2008 - 7pm
Post-screening discussion: Sampson Giat, former Executive Director of the Yemenite Jewish Federation of America, will discuss his mission to Yemen in 1992, documenting, photographing,
and fighting for the rights of the Jewish community to make aliyah to Israel. Moderator: Richard Z. Chesnoff, journalist and N.Y. Daily News columnist. Director: Dr. Johanna Spector.
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THE SEARCH COMMITTEE
Published by Urim Publications |
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
A powerful story about two rabbinical scholars who seek to become head of a leading Lithuanian-type Yeshiva. The novel unfolds as a series of presentations to the Search Committee—by the candidates, their wives, colleagues, students, and philanthropic supporters. The struggle is not just between two men, but between two very different views of Judaism, Torah education, modernity, the role of women, and freedom of thought and expression. |
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Young Artists Exploring Our Heritage: A Journey Where Art Meets History
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May 15, 2008 - 7pm
This panel discussed how young Sephardic Jews are discovering and reconnecting to their history through their own creative processes.
Featured Michael J. Cohen, co-author, Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews; Michelle Ishay-Cohen, producer and art director, Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews; Vanessa Hidary, actress, poet and playwright; Galeet Dardashti, vocalist for the all-female Mizrahi / Sephardi band. Moderated by Alana Newhouse, Arts & Culture editor of The Forward.
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Film Screening: The Pioneers (Hehalutzim)
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May 6 at 7pm
Upon the establishment of the State of Israel, new immigrants were sent to peripheral regions in order to settle the Israeli frontier. In 1951 a group of immigrants from Asia and North Africa arrived, in the middle of the night, to a desolate ma’abara (transit camp) location in the Negev. In time they established the town of Sderot. Today it is the target of ongoing terrorist rockets -- and yet it remains a unique and vibrant town. |
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Sephardic Nightlife Music Series
presented by American Sephardi Federation
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April 29, 2008 at 8pm
Mimouna (Eating bread again)
The third, and last concert of the series presents The Sultana Ensemble featuring Yoel Ben Simhon, with original contemporary music based on traditional Arabo-Andalusian Moroccan themes celebrating the end of Passover.
Moroccan Jews have used the occasion of Mimouna to open their homes for neighborhood parties, feast on freshly-made traditional pastries and toast the end of Passover. Join us to celebrate
Mimouna with the music of The Sultana Ensemble and sweet desserts.
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12th
NY SEPHARDIC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
February 7 - 14, 2008
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 annual exploration of Sephardic Jewry presents the audience with an extraordinary breadth of lands, languages and traditions, revealing the “other” within the Jewish tradition. The Festival line-up is very exciting, with our main themes of Sephardic Music in Film; Sephardic Heritage in Inter-Generational Relations; and tributes to Israel at 60. |
| Learn more about The 12th NY Film Festival |
| Press Release |
| NYSJFF Extends its Reach to The JCC in Manhattan, Miami, Brooklyn, and Australia |
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Sephardic Nightlife Music Series
presented by American Sephardi Federation
and Yeshiva University Museum
Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 8pm
Piyyut Renaissance: Middle Eastern Jewish Music Comes to America
NYC-based musical ensemble, Pharaoh’s Daughter, performs Hebrew piyyutim (liturgical poems). The traditional Sephardic religious practice of singing Hebrew piyyutim has developed, in recent years, into an innovative movement that transcends the boundaries of religious and secular cultures. Traditionally performed by men, female vocalist, Basya Schechter, will infuse the repertoire with New World musical nuances and a redefined gender perspective.
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Sephardic Nightlife Music Series
presented by American Sephardi Federation
and Yeshiva University Museum
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 8pm
Ghetto Beats: Jewish Musical Nightlife, From Italy to New York
Ghetto Beats pairs the repertoire of late-Renaissance and Baroque art music from Italy with the contemporary resurgence of Sephardic Jewish music in New York City neighborhoods. The Renaissance Jewish repertoire will be performed by the male choir of Congregation Shearith Israel, directed by Leon Hyman. Following will be an after-party with DJ Handler, mixing contemporary beats based on the Sephardic musical heritage.
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Monday, October 29, 2007 at 7PM
Tu Boca en Los Cielos: El Judeo-Espanol de los nuestros
Book Event, Exhibit and Performance
Artist Gladys Benaim Bunan will discuss her new book, presenting the culture and Judeo-Spanish (Haketia) language of the Sephardim of Morocco. Ms. Bunan, born and raised in Tangiers, Morocco, combines her father's words with her own lush, watercolor illustrations, creating a rich, multi-layered graphic synthesis, bringing many facets of Sephardic culture to life. Her original watercolors will be on view. Following Ms. Bunan, international performer and comedian, Solly Levy, will bring his wit and talent to our stage. Born in Tangiers, he performs in Spanish, Haketia, English, Hebrew and French. Well-loved throughout the Sephardic Diaspora, Levy captivates the hearts and souls of his audience in live performance and on his weekly Radio Sefarad program. |
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An exhibition of photographs by award- winning photographer Joan Roth |
In the mid-1980's , Roth traveled to Bukhara, the famous city along the Silk Road, and documented the people, traditions and daily life of the Jewish community there. An incredible people with a colorful 2,000 year history. The exhibition will include selected objects from the Bukharian Jewish Museum, the collections of the American Sephardi Federation, and a selection of photographs from the collection of Amnun Heifitz.
On view through
Sunday September 30, 2007
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The exhibition and opening night celebration is made possible through the generous support of Beth Gavriel,
Jacob and Angela Arabo, Dr. Zoya Maksumova and Boris Kandkorov, Isaac and Liliya Katan, Aba and
Yaffa Ibragimov, Arkady and Mira Zirkiev, Gavriel and Zoya Davidov,
Aaron and Lida Kandchorov, Yan Moche, Albert Kataev, Rita Baskin,
Aron Aronov- Bukharian Jewish Museum, Lana Levitin,
David and Lisa Ribacoff. |
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11th
NY INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC FILM FESTIVAL
February 1 - 8, 2007
The NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival recently
celebrated its 11th season this past February 2007.
The film festival, a centerpiece of the public programming
presented by the American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic
House, continues to explore the varied and rich cultures,
identities and widespread historical roots of the Sephardic
Jews.
As in past years, this year’s film festival offered
international and New York premiers, post-screening panel
discussions moderated by filmmakers and scholars, and
actors and directors from around the world.
Recognizing the growing impact and influences of Sephardim
in the Israeli film industry, the 2007 festival spotlighted Sephardic
Voices in Israeli Cinema featuring works of prominent
as well as up and coming Israeli filmmakers.
Over the past three years, the NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
has gained unprecedented critical and public recognition and
has become a one-of-a kind and important event in the world
of Jewish film festivals.
In 2007 the Sephardic Film Festival expanded its reach
three distinct venues: the Center for Jewish
History in the Chelsea Neighborhood and the Manhattan
JCC on the Upper West Side in New York, and for the first
time showcased outside of the New York area as part
of the Miami Jewish Film Festival in January.
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BACK TO BABYLON: 2600 Years of Jewish Life in Iraq
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A Four-Day Conference, November 2
- 5, 2006
at the Center for Jewish History & Congregation
Shearith Israel |
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Dedicated to the legacy of Meir Basri
(1911-2006), the last President of the Jewish Community in Iraq
With Iraq so dramatically present before the eyes
of the world, the American Sephardi Federation, in pursuing its mission
to preserve and promote Sephardic culture, will offer its diverse
audience a unique chance to go beyond the headlines, and to uncover
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Exhibitions |
Baghdad
Revisited
Iraqi
Jewish Art & Artifacts
From Private Collections
November 2006 - March 2007 Leon
Levy Gallery |
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the Rivers of Babylon
Photographs
from the London Jewish Museum
November 2 - December 8, 2006 Great
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 7:00PM
Annual Jack Calderon Memorial
** C o n c e r t **
HABRERA HATIVEET FEATURING SHLOMO BAR
One of the most dynamic ensembles in world music, Habrera
Hativeet’s very formation in 1977 was a bold experiment
in diversity that fused together artists with authentic Sephardic,
African, Indian and Middle Eastern roots, time-honored songs
from Andalusian Spain, Yemen, and Morocco, Hasidic chants
from Eastern Europe, and contemporary Israeli poetry. Twenty-nine
years later, "The Natural Gathering" still possesses
a seemingly bottomless reservoir of uncompromising energy
and creativity.
Admission: $18 general, $15 seniors, $10
students, ASF/SH and Museum members.
Buy tickets online at www.mjhnyc.org or call the Museum's box office at 646-437-4202 at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage -- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust,
36 Battery Place in Lower Manhattan.
Co-presented with the Museum of Jewish Heritage –
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Part of our annual Performing
Arts Series.
This Concert is dedicated to the Memory of Jack Calderon former
Vice-President of Sephardic House.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
7:00PM
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: THE COCHIN JEWS OF INDIA
A FILM BY DR. JOHANNA SPECTOR
Filmmaker Dr. Johanna Spector explores the religious, cultural
and economic life of the Cochini Jews in their native India
while following the younger generation in their new life in
Israel.
Admission: $10/$8 for ASF/SH
members, seniors and students.
To reserve tickets please call the Center
for Jewish History Box Office at 917-606-8200. |
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Opening & Reception
- Monday, April 3, 2006 7pm
Exhibition on view - April
3 - June 30, 2006
 Cochin
Diary: Jewish Life in Southern India
The opening night program will feature a talk by Jewish-India
expert, Dr. Kenneth Robbins on The Jews of Cochin and
Kerala. Reception will follow.
Photographer-anthropologist Joshua Eli Cogan conveys the spirit
and evolution of the centuries-old community of Cochin, a
small peninsula town in the Indian state of Kerala, where
Jews, Hindus, Christians, and Muslims have lived side by side
for generations. Our goal is to enlighten both the Jewish
and non-Jewish public about the people and traditions that
have so long distinguished this small Indian town.
Exhibition on loan from the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National
Jewish Museum.
Exhibition Opening and Reception
Admission: $25 general - $20 ASF/SH members,
seniors and students / Suggested tax-deductible contribution
$40.
Location: American Sephardi Federation with
Sephardic House
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011 |
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Tuesday, March 28th 2006 at 6:00 PM
In Search of a Lost Ladino: Letter to Antonio
Saura
Book presentation
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Photo
by: Jean Marc de Samie |
French writer Marcel Cohen is one of Europe’s
greatest living authors. Poignant and richly textured, his
prose has been widely published and has received accolades
from the prestigious Académie Française. He
will present his latest work which is both a haunting journey
into personal and collective memory and a meditation on a
dying language, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), and a dying way of
life—that of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire.
In Search of a Lost Ladino includes a thoughtful essay, “Three
Degrees of Exile” by translator Raphael Rubenstein as
well as a series of ink drawings by the well-known Spanish
painter to whom Cohen addresses his letter. The author originally
wrote this touching memoir in the language of his childhood,
Judeo-Spanish.
Location: At the Cervantes Institute
211 East 49th Street in New York
Admission is free. Seating is limited; reservations
suggested. 212.308.7720 |
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February 2-8, 2006
10th Anniversary of
the NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
10 Years
of Cinematic Exploration of Sephardic Jewry
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS:
Live and Become (Va, Vis et Deviens); Radu Mihaileaunu; France/Israel,
2004; 143mins.
Audience Award winner of the Berlin Film Festival 2005 will
open the festival on February 2nd. From director Radu Mihaileanu
comes a poignant story of an Ethiopian boy airlifted from
a Sudanese refugee camp during 1984’s Operation Moses.
Adopted by a Moroccan family in Israel, the film follows Schlomo’s
conflicted journey into adulthood as he struggles with survival,
a secret identity, and love. Actor Sirak Sabaha will be present
for a Q & A.
Until Tomorrow Comes, New York Premiere;
David Deri; Israel, 2004; 65mins.
Directed by David Deri, the film vividly depicts the realities
of inter-generational conflicts in a dramatic and tender portrayal
of a week-in-the-life of a beauty salon owner in the South
of Israel facing the decline of her aging mother, the unraveling
marital crisis of her daughter, and an unexpected courtship
threatening her glorious solitude.
The Forgotten Refugees, New York Premiere;
Michael Grynszpan; USA, 2005; 49 mins.
A documentary that traces the decline and disappearance of
once vibrant Middle Eastern Jewish communities that had existed
for over 2,500 years. Compelling interviews from modern day
Jews from Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya, who quietly carry
the memory, give insight into a destroyed civilization.
Secret Passage; Ademir Kenovic; UK-Luxembourg,
2004; 94mins.
Directed by Ademir Kenovic and starring John Turturro, the
film is a period piece filled with intrigue and romance. Set
in 16th century Venice, Isabel and Clara are growing up in
a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all
Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or
face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the
sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in
Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence
rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages
to the Ottoman Empire for refugees fleeing the Inquisition
while Clara falls in love with a Venetian nobleman.
Love Iranian American Style; Tanaz
Eshaghian; USA, 2005; 62mins.
The film first premiered at the festival in 2001 as a short
entitled “The Persian Girl.”
Sexual purity, money, and a mother’s worries come together
in Tanaz Eshaghian’s humorous documentary, offering
a rare glimpse into the inner circles of the tightly knit
Persian community in the United States. The film follows Tanaz,
the narrator, a hip New Yorker whose Iranian family attempts
to marry her off now that she’s reached the ancient
age of 25. As they arrange dates with suitors, lament her
liberal American upbringing, and agitate about the passing
of youth, Tanaz explores whether she can find love in her
own way.
Elias Canetti; Thomas Honickel; Germany,
2005; 59mins.
A "Spanish poet of German language," Elias Canetti
grew up a polyglot, living at different periods of his life
in Bulgaria, England and Vienna. He was born into an elite
Sephardic family who when expelled from Spain in 1492, settled
in the Ottoman Empire. His masterpieces “Auto-da-Fé”
and “Crowds and Power,” are considered among the
most original works of the 20th Century. The film will be
followed by a talk with Gloria Ascher, Tufts University on
Canetti’s Sephardic heritage.
A Matter of Time, NY Premiere; Serge
Ankri; Israel 2005; 52mins.
The little-known story of the Jewish Communities of North
Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco) during WW II,
revealing how, had fate not intervened, it was only “a
matter of time” until they would share the fate of their
co-religionists in Europe. While often considered a Jewish
community “apart,” the film reveals through archival
and contemporary footage and stills, and extensive interviews
with surviving witnesses and historians, that these Jews too
were very much in the thoughts of Nazi planners.
Salaam Shalom; Vanessa C. Laufer;
Canada, 1999; 50mins.
A colorful film about the Jews of India that brings to life
a remarkable history dating back two millennia. A microscopic
minority living within a vast, varied nation, Jews who have
been in India for thousands of years and more recent immigrants
from Iraq and Spain, co-existed in an environment of tolerance
and pluralism. With the declaration of Indian independence
in 1947 and the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, many
of the Jews of India decided to “leave their home to
find their home: their religious loyalty stronger than their
national loyalty to India.”
The Garden of the Finzi Continis,
Vittorio De Sica; Italy/West Germany, 1970; 94mins.
Adapted from Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical
novel, the film chronicles the gradual disintegration of the
Jewish community living in Italy at the beginning of World
War II. As Fascist persecution of the Jews escalates from
the onset of Benito Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts in 1938
to the mass arrests and deportations in 1943, the wealthy
Finzi-Contini family open their lush gardens to the persecuted
friends of their daughter, Micol, and their son, Alberto.
It is through the eyes of one of these friends, a middle-class,
Jewish-Italian student named Giorgio, that the story of unrequited
love, unfolds.
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December 14 -
22, 2005, (See schedule below)
Victor Attar in
Golgotha
A stirring journey into the past of Albert, a Holocaust survivor
from the Greek city of Salonica; a monodrama revealing, through
the blending of video and music, the story of the Ladino–speaking
Sephardic Jews who were sent to the Auschwitz and Bikenhau concentration
camps.
The play is based on the character of Alberto Salavado, a
traditional Jew from Thessalonica, Greece. When in 1943, Alberto
with his wife and two daughters, were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau,
he alone survived. The play, set in Tel-Aviv at the end of
Alberto’s life, shows him remembering some of the most
dramatic moments in the hell of Auschwitz.
By Shumuel Refael
Adapted by Haim Idissis
Directed by Geula Jeffet-Attar
Play runs from December 14 -22, 2005
Opening Night
Benefi t Performance, 8pm
Performance followed by a discussion/commentary with Dr. Shmuel
Refael,
Head of the Naime & Yehoshua Salti Center for Ladino Studies,
Bar-Ilan University, Israel. With the participation of the
Consul General of Israel, NY and the Press Counselor of Consulate
General of Greece, NY. Reception will follow.
Admission: $50
Includes a tax-deductible contribution of $35 to benefi t
the Sephardic Greek
Holocaust Project which builds awareness of the effects of
the Holocaust on Sephardic Jewry.
Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 2:30PM
Matinee Performance for Young Audiences and their
Families
Performance followed by dialogue and commentary with the
playwright.
Admission: $15 and $10 for students and seniors
Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 8 PM
Evening Performance
Performance followed by Flora Hogman, PhD giving
a talk on “The Double Edged Sword
of Memory: Issues and Conflicts Faced by Survivors Remembering
their Holocaust Experience.”
Admission: $20 / $15 for students and seniors
To reserve tickets for December 14th and 18th performances,
please contact ASF/SH (212) 294-8350 / info@americansephardifederation.org.
For all other performances, contact La MaMa Theatre Box Office directly.
This presentation is made possible through the generous support
of the Recanati Foundation, Norman Belmonte, Martin Elias,
Leon Levy and other individual contributors.
Play runs from December 14-22, 2005
All performances at:
La MaMa Theatre
74 E. 4 St. - New York City
Box office: 212.475.7710
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Monday,
December 19, 2005
THE SYRIAN-JEWISH PIZMON LATE 19TH
& EARLY 20TH CENTURIES
Dr. Kay Shelemay, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Harvard University
Co-sponsor: The National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Location: American Sephardi Federation with
Sephardic House
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011 |
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Tuesday,
November 8, 2005, 7:00 PM
RETURN TO JUDAISM: CRYPTO JEWS (ANOUSIM)
AROUND THE WORLD
Yaffah daCosta will join Rabbi Marc D. Angel of Congregation
Shearith Israel to talk about an extraordinary and growing
phenomenon of our time the desire of forcibly converted Jews
or anousim from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and parts of the
Americas to return to the religion of their ancestors. Yaffah
daCosta is founder and director of Ezra L'Anousim, a Jerusalem-based
organization dedicated to reconnecting crypto-Jews with their
Jewish heritage. Of "Anousim" background, the story of her
discovery of and return to Judaism is fascinating and inspiring.
Ezra L'Anousim is playing a vital role in reaching out to
crypto-Jews throughout the world.
Co-sponsor: Congregation Shearith Israel
Admission: Free admission
Location: 8 West 70th Street, NYC |
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005
at 7:00 PM
HONORING TURKISH
DIPLOMATS- IN COLLABORATION WITH THE RAOUL WALLENBERG FOUNDATION
One in a series of four programs, to honor heroic rescuers
of Jews during the Holocaust who came from countries where
Sephardim lived for hundreds of years. Successive programs
will focus on rescuers from Greece, Italy, and Spain.
Co-sponsor: Consulate General of Turkey
Admission: By Invitation
Location: The Turkish House
821 United Nations Plaza, NYC |
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Sunday, October
30 (12:00 Noon; 2:00 PM; 7:30 PM)
CENTENNIAL
SYMPOSIUM ON ELIAS CANETTI
A Symposium, Film and Readings in honor of the Nobel Laureate’s
Birth
A "Spanish poet of German language," Elias Canetti
grew up a polyglot, living at different periods of his life
in Bulgaria, England and Vienna. He was born into an elite
Sephardic family who when expelled from Spain in 1492, settled
in the Ottoman Empire.
His masterpieces “Auto-da-Fé” and “Crowds
and Power,” are considered among the most original works
of the 20th Century.
12:00 Noon - U.S. premiere of film, Elias Canetti, by Thomas
Honickel, (60 min./German w/ English subtitles); 2:00 PM-5:00
PM-Talks and debates with Gloria Ascher, Tufts University;
Michael Taussig, Columbia Univeristy; Dagmar Barnouw, University
of Southern California; Robert Elbaz, University of Haifa;7:30
PM-Readings, lecture and public dialogue with Claudio Magris
and other guests. Moderator, Liliane Weissberg, University
of Pennsylvania.
Admission: Film and talks & Evening
Lecture, each: $20; $10 Students/faculty & ASF members.
All-day pass: $35 (includes 10% discount at the bookstore
and café)
Presented in collaboratioin with the Primo Levi Center and
the Leo Baeck Institute.
For reservations call the CJH Box Office: 917-606-8200 |
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Thursday,
September 15, 2005 at 7:00 PM
"Meet
the Author"
Dr. Marc D. Angel
"Losing the Rat Race, Winning
at Life" - A book signing and talk with author, scholar
and Senior Rabbi of the Congregation Shearith Israel, Marc
Angel. Rabbi Angel, the author of numerous books and articles
on Sephardi history and culture, will discuss his latest work Losing the Rat Race, Winning at Life.
Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
Admission: Free admission
Location: American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic
House
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011 |
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June, 2, 2005
"The Road from Valencia"
Tracing the route of Sephardic musicians from Renaissance Spain
to Italy and to the court of Henry VIII. With Sheila Shepard,
actor; Shelia Schonbrun, soprano; Daniel Swenberg, lute and
vihuela.
Since its formation in 1972 the New York Consort of Viols has
shared with audiences the beauty and breadth of music written
expressly for viols or particularly suited to them. The Consort
is widely known for its performances of contemporary works,
several of which have been commissioned.
The ensemble has appeared in such series as Music Before 1800,
the Berkeley Festival, Early Music Now, and the New York Early
Music Celebration. Its members are in great demand as teachers
and coaches, and have participated in the Consort's outreach
programs for children and seniors.
This concert is the 3rd cultural event in the Jack Calderon
Memorial Fund for the Sephardic Arts Series, dedicated to the
memory of Jack Calderon, past Vice President of Sephardic House.
Contributions to the Jack Calderon Memorial Fund
for the Sephardic Arts can be sent to The
American Sephardi Federation.
Admission: $15.00, ASF Members: $10.00
Presented by ASF/SH at the Cervantes Institute
211 East 49th Street, b/t 2nd & 3rd Avenue
Reservations recommended: 212-308-7720
or email: events@cervantes.org |
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June 8, 2005
Disobedience: A Theatrical and Culinary
Event
For the benefit of the Jewish Community
of Belmonte, Portugal
The evening will feature a
staged reading of the play Disobedience by playwright Luis
Francisco Rebello which compellingly recounts the heroic efforts
of Consul Aristedes de Sousa Mendes of Portugal in saving
the lives of thousands of Jews during the Nazi regime. The
performance is followed by a question and answer session with
the playwright and a reception featuring a Portuguese Kosher
wine and olive oil tasting.
The proceeds of this event will benefit the Jewish community
of Belmonte, Portugal who is re-embracing Judaism” after
secretly holding onto their faith for five centuries as a
result of the Spanish Inquisition.
RSVP by June 1 to 212.294.8350
Admission and tax-deductible contribution: $50
Center for Jewish History (CJH)
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011 |
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May 26,
2005
Israel Independence Day and Lag B’Omer Concert
In celebration of the state of Israel’s establishment
on May 14, 1948, this event features songs and melodies influenced
by the Sephardic traditions of the Middle East, Andalus and
the Orient. Co-sponsored with the Yeshiva University Museum;
Congregation Sheartith Israel and the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue.
Location:
Center for Jewish History (CJH)
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011 |
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May 12, 2005
Panel Discussion: with editor Ilan Stavans
and selected authors
"The
Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature"
A never before collected anthology of fiction, memoir, essay,
and poetry from 28 writers in 18 countries, dealing with resonant
issues such as the status of minorities, opposing forces of
religion and secularism, and the sting of prejudice.
Location:
Center for Jewish History (CJH)
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011 |
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March 9, 2005
Commemorating Maimonides 800 Years of
Influence
Join guest speakers Rabbis Hayyim Angel
and Yamin Levy, with moderator Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, in a
discussion of the continuing relevance of Maimonides’
life and philosophy. Meet author Dr. David Bensousan who will
present his new book, A Jewish Wedding in Mogador: The Illuminated
Ketuba of Mogador, Morocco. Presented by Yeshiva University
in cooperation with the American Sephardi Federation with
Sephardic House.
Location:
The Schottenstein Center
239-241 East 34th Street
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
New York |
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March 18th
- 20th, 2005
Sephardic Experience
Weekend, Orange County, California with Guest Speaker Rabbi
Marc D. Angel
Rabbi Marc
D. Angel is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Shearith
Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New
York City, founded in 1654. He is the author of over twenty
books and numerous articles on Talmudic, religious and historical
topics, and is known for his pioneering work on Sephardic history
and culture. He has served as president of the Rabbinical Council
of America, president and founder of Sephardic House, and chairman
of the Rabbinic Advisory Committee of the Jewish National Fund.
Rabbi Angel holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yeshiva
University, as well as a graduate degree in English literature
from City College of New York.
Location:
at the Hyatt Newporter • Newport Beach, California
For further information, please contact the Sephardic Experience
at (949) 257-0897
or via e-mail at sephardicOC@earthlink.net |
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