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23 June 2017
Ramadan Kareem and Mazel tov/Mabrouk to our friends and partners, Association Mimouna, as well as Jacky Kadoch and the Jewish Community of Marrakesh, who worked with Chabad Morocco to distribute 1,000 food packages to needy families during Ramadan
There Were Once Jews Here” 
By Lucette Lagnado, Tablet

After Israel triumphed against all odds in the Six-Day War, Arab rejectionists responded by taking revenge on the Jews still living in their midst. From Algeria to Egypt and points in between, local Jews were blamed for events which they had nothing to do with, “Even in those countries that were, as some of us like to say, ‘nice to the Jews’… there were terrifying demonstrations and expressions of hatred and venom.”

Bat Mitzvah Procession, Alexandria, Egypt, 1950s
(Photo courtesy of Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life)
Special for Museum Week’s Day for Women in Sports: 
 

Iraqi Jews play tennis, Laura Kadoorie School for Girls, Baghdad, Iraq, 1924 
(Photo courtesy of Diarna: Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life/Alliance Israelite Universelle)
Feature of the Week: Yagel Ya’akov (“Jacob will rejoice”) Collection 
 

Lior Elmaliach 
(Photo courtesy of Ziv Kfir/Wall Street International)


Moroccan-Israeli payytan Lior Elmaliach joins the Ashdod Andalusian Orchestra for a medley of piyyutim from the Abuhatzeira family.
The Spanish Ambassador to Cairo, Angel Sagaz
(Photo courtesy of el Mundo
The Angel Of Cairo: How Spain Saved Egypt’s Jews After The Six Day War” 
By Jeffrey Boxer, The Forward

On June 21, 1967, in the wake of the Six-Day War, the Spanish government secretly worked to secure the release of hundreds of Jews who had been thrown into Egyptian prisons for the crime of being Jewish. The Spanish Ambassador, in his meetings with Egyptian authorities, “emphasized that Spain had an obligation to protect the descendants of the Sephardic Jews that had been expelled.”
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Upcoming Events:


Al-Andalus: Tolerance, Culture and Violence in Medieval Spain
Course


Wednesdays, July 5, 12, 19. & 26
6:30 - 9:30 P.M.

Center for Jewish History 
15 W 16th Street
New York, NY 10011

Between 711 and 1492, Islamic governments ruled over varying swaths of the Iberian Peninsula. Muslim Spain, or al-Andalus, still holds a powerful grip on the modern imagination as a time and place of religious tolerance—a “golden age” in which Muslims, Jews, and Christians peacefully coexisted and culturally thrived. In this four-week course taught by Dr. Rachel Stein, students will explore this common perception of al-Andalus by examining primary sources produced by Muslims, Christians and Jews in medieval Iberia that bear witness to inter- and intra-faith relations: poetry, treatises, laws, chronicles, architecture, and manuscripts. What was the relationship between religion, language, and culture in the societies of al-Andalus? And to what extent should we use past societies like those of al-Andalus as mirrors or models to think through the present?

Presented by Brooklyn Institute for Social Research & Center for Jewish History > $315; 10% discount for ASF Members

 

Please click here to enroll


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) 

The Last Address

Through September 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

 and your tax-deductible contribution will help ASF preserve and promote the Greater Sephardi history, traditions, and culture as an integral part of the Jewish experience! 

Contact us by email or phone ((917) 606-8266) to learn about giving opportunities in honor or memory of loved ones

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