eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
ASF Exhibits Now On View
Embracing the Rituals of a Moroccan Wedding
A Joan Roth Photographic Journey, which opened on 17 June as part of The Morocco Conference (Uncommon Commonalities: Jews and Muslims of Morocco), continues in the
Leon Levy Gallery
On view until September
Leon Levy Gallery
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York City
About the Photographer
In addition to Morocco, Joan Roth traveled to Ethiopia before Operation Moses and again afterwards, Yemen, Bukhara, India, Israel, and photographed extensively in the United States. Her photographs of Jewish women are published, exhibited, and collected by museums and collectors worldwide. Some of Joan’s photographs are published in the book: Jewish Women: A world of Tradition and Change (Jolen Press, 1995).
Gloria Steinem has written the following appreciation: “Joan Roth has looked at the Jewish world as if women mattered, and therefore as if everyone mattered. Across all the boundaries of geography and language, there is not only a common world of belief, but a common world of women. We see into its intimacy through her eyes.”
Roth richly depicts the personal and historical dimensions of these women as they preserve and adapt centuries-old traditions amid varied cultural surroundings. The effect, in the words of Rocky Mountain art critic Mary Voltz Chandler, “is like opening a jewelry box filled with so many secrets women know but never told each other.”
The American Sephardi Federation, Consulate General of Spain at New York, and Centro Sefarad-Israel present:
Visados para la Libertad (Visas for Freedom)
On view until July
Steinberg Great Hall
Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street
New York City
“The history of the Holocaust is not merely one of villains and their victims. There were also those who did not want to stand idly by in the face of tragedy; driven by their conscience, they decided to take action. Among these are the heroes, those who risked, or even sacrificed, their own lives to save others. However, there is also another group of individuals, whose actions behind the scenes, albeit more modest, are no less deserving of remembrance and tribute. They took advantage of the scope of Influence offered by their position or profession to protect and help, as far as was at all possible, Jews condemned to extermination in Europe.”
The American Sephardi Federation presents:
Sephardic Life in Old and New Lands
part of
All in the Family – Photographs from Across the Jewish World
(presented by American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
On view until mid-August
Myron Habib, A»H Memorial Display
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York City
An exhibition of family photographs offers a rare look into a few of the places where Greater Sephardi culture has flourished, including Iraq, Egypt, and the United States. The Baghdad photos, from Maurice Yamen and Violet (née Shouker) Shasha, were donated by their children, Virginia and Emil. The images attest to the dramatic changes in social customs and dress that occurred with the modernization of Iraqi society, particularly in the Jewish community.
The Egyptian photos are from Dr. Victor D. Sanua, who was born at Cairo on 22 July 1920 to a cosmopolitan Turkish/Egyptian family. The Sanuas held Italian citizenship, spoke mainly French (the language of commerce in Egypt) and Ladino, and had moved to Belgium when Victor was seven, before returning to Egypt in 1933, ahead of the Holocaust. The scenes of life on the Alexandrian beach, horsing around in front of a Coca-Cola sign (in Arabic), and young and old involved in a ceremony of some kind show the good life generally lived by Egyptian Jews, who were eagerly awaiting the future – one unexpectedly cut short by a second exodus of the Jews from Egypt.
Fuente: americansephardi.org
