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24 August 2018

In memory of Egyptian-born, Sephardi-Israeli Filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi, A”H
 
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Moshe Mizrahi, Israeli Director of 3 Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees, Dies at 86” 
By David Caspi, The Hollywood Reporter 
 
Moshe Mizrahi, Israel’s only Oscar-winning director, passed away on 3 August at the age of 86. Born in Egypt in 1931, Mizrahi was fourteen when he moved to Israel and forty-six when his French-language film, Madame Rosa, won the Academy Award. One of the many fascinating nuggets of Mizrahi’s career: in 1986 he cast a young Tom Hanks in “Every Time We Say Goodbye,” a drama set in mandatory Jerusalem that featured extensive dialogue in Ladino. 

Tom Hanks in Every Time We Say Goodbye (Photo courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes)   
Feature: Moshe Mizrahi and the Forgotten Film 
 
Moshe Mizrahi on the set of Le Vie Continue, 1982
(Photo courtesy of Everett Collection)
 
In honor of Moshe Mizrahi’s passing, Sephardi World Weekly presents a 2015 homage to one of Israel’s great but “overlooked filmmakers.” 

A young Jewish bride in 1920s Yemen wearing many pieces of bridal jewelry, along with a headpiece (Photo courtesy of Shiryn Solny/JNS
Multi-sensory exhibit explores Yemenite Jewish culture and history” 
By Shiryn Solny, JNS
 
The Yemenite Conference organized by E’eleh BeTamar, The American Sephardi Federation, and The Institute of Semitic Studies included a multi-sensory exhibit, “The Teimani Experience,” that featured, “rare photographs, religious items, Yemeni wedding jewelry, clothing, fragrances, music, voices and more.” Yemenite Jewish culture is famous for preserving elements of the tradition that have been lost by the rest of the Jewish world, and “The Teimani Experience” placed some of those elements, such as letters written in Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic, front and center. As the founder of Princeton's Institute of Semitic Studies, Professor Ephraim Isaac, reminds us, “Yemenite Jews... are the only Jews who to this day still read the Torah and Haftorah in both Hebrew and Aramaic [Targum], as prescribed in the Mishnah, on Sabbath and festivals.”
Vegetarian Mushroom Moussaka Recipe” 
By Leah Koenig, The Arizona Jewish Post
 
Moussaka is a casserole popular in the eastern Mediterranean, especially Greece, that is made from “eggplant and lamb and thickly layered with béchamel.” Béchamel, however, is milk-based, and Jewish law prohibits mixing milk and meat, so Greek Jews faced two choices: either drop the milk or drop the meat. In this tasty variation, “cremini mushrooms” serve in place of the lamb. Follow the link for the full vegetarian recipe. 

Vegetarian Mushroom Moussaka 
(Photo courtesy of Linda Pugliese)   
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The ASF’s Sephardi Scholars Series Presents:

Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus 

Monday, 17 September, at 7:00PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street 
New York City

Please click here to make a reservation


Professor Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis will present new research on the remarkable courtyard houses of the Farhi and other important Sephardic families in late 18th/early 19th century Damascus.
Her analysis of architecture and décor offers a lens into the Damascene Jewish community and its interaction with Ottoman culture.

Professor Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, an active archaeologist and architectural historian, is the author of Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries (American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018). She currently teaches at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY), where she also serves as the Acting Executive Officer in M.A. in Liberal Studies and directs the M.A. in Liberal Studies concentration in Archaeology of the Classical, Late Antique, and Islamic Worlds.  She is the Deputy Director of Manar al-Athar, an open-access digital humanities resource for the study of the Middle East, co-director of the Upper Egypt Mosque Project, serves on the governing board of the Archaeological Institute of America, and is both Smarthistory’s Governing Board Chairperson and Contributing Editor for Art of the Islamic World. Professor Macaulay-Lewis has a DPhil in Classical Archaeology from Oxford University. 

We look forward to seeing you!


Image Credit: "Old Damascus, Jew's Quarter" by Frederick Leighton, 1874 (Photo courtesy of Museum Syndicate)


The Jewish Genealogical Society and The American Sephardi Federation Present:

Branching out from Sepharad: Solving a Converso Mystery with Sarina Roffé 

Sunday, 21 October, at 2:00PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street 
New York City

Ticket Info: 
For non-members: $5 at the door 
Free for JGSASFNYG&B members


Sarina Roffé, professional genealogist, founder of the Sephardic Heritage Project, and author of Branching Out from Sepharad: A Global Journey of Selected Rabbinic Families with Biographies and Genealogies (Forward by Professor Walter P. Zenner, Sephardic Heritage Project, 2017), outlines the history and expulsion of Jews in Spain, their history in Syria, and immigration to the Americas.

She discusses the Kassin rabbinic dynasty from the 12th century through the 50-year leadership of Rabbi Jacob S. Kassin in Brooklyn, and solves a Converso mystery. 


We look forward to seeing you!


The ASF’s Sephardi Scholars Series Presents:

Synagogues of Iran: Design and Development in Urban Context

Monday, 22 October, at 7:00PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street 
New York City

Please click here to make a reservation


Professor Mohammad Gharipour will discuss his research and recently published book, Synagogues of the Islamic World: Architecture, Design, and Identity (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), which explores how the architecture of synagogues in Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain responded to contextual issues and traditions, as well as how these contexts influenced the design and evolution of synagogues. The book considers patterns of the development of synagogues in urban contexts in connection with urban elements and monuments, while revealing how synagogues reflect the culture of the Jewish minority at macro and micro scales.

This presentation is being made possible by the generous support of The Cahnman Foundation.

Mohammad Gharipour is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University at Baltimore, Maryland. He obtained his Masters in Architecture from the University of Tehran and a Ph.D. in Architecture and Landscape History from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has received several awards, including the Hamad Bin Khalifa Fellowship in Islamic Art, the Spiro Kostof Fellowship Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, the National Endowment in Humanities Faculty Award, and was recognized as "one of the twelve minority scholars in the US who are making their mark in academia" in 2016 by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine. Professor Gharipour's books include Bazaar in the Islamic City (American University of Cairo Press, 2012), Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in Poetry, Arts, and History (I.B. Tauris, 2013), Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World(co-edited with Irvin Schick, Edinburgh University Press, 2013), The City in the Muslim Word: Depictions by Western Travelers (co-edited with Nilay Ozlu, Routledge, 2014), and Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities across the Islamic World (Brill, 2014). He is the director and founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (www.intellectbooks.com/ijia)

We look forward to seeing you!


Image Credit: Haj Elyahu Synagogue, Isfahan, Iran (Photo courtesy of © Mohammad Gharipour/Diarna Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life), 2015.


Yemenite Faces and Scenes & Episodes in Yemenite History

The Teimani Experience, which closed on 5 June, continues in part with a photographic exhibit in our Leon Levy Gallery and an art exhibit in the Myron Habib, A"H, Memorial Display.

On view until September

Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street 
New York City
 

Yemenite Faces and Scenes: Photographs by Naftali Hilger

Intrepid photographer and photo-journalist Naftali Hilger traveled extensively in Yemen in the late 1980s and early 1990s photographing structures, street scenes, and the last remnants of Jewish life. These images—including of Yemenite children learning to read Torah upside-down in their father’s shop and a family relaxing in their diwan (salon)—depict an existence that has faded into history as the ever-shrinking community has found refuge in a government compound at Sana’a.



Episodes in Yemenite History: Paintings by Tiya Nachum

A series of eight paintings by the artist and sculptor Tiya Nachum of Encino, CA. The paintings reflect the tragedies and triumphs of Yemenite Jewish history, from the Mawza exile to the founding of the Inbal Dance Troupe by Sara Levy. Each painting tells a story and each story is a history onto itself.

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