Saved by Language: Free San Francisco and Berkeley film presentations and screenings

From October 20 to November 3, there will be two presentations about and two screenings of Saved by Language. All are free and open to the public.

Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust.

Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015: 7 pm

Presentation about Ladino, Sephardic music and Saved by Language (not a full film screening)
Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, 94115
http://www.jewishlearningworks.org/events/savedbylanguage
Free garage parking; entrance on Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy.
DVDs of Saved by Language will be for sale at the event.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015: 12-1pm 

Presentation about Ladino, Sephardic music and Saved by Language (not a full film screening)
The Magnes Auditorium
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
http://www.magnes.org/visit/exhibitions-programs/programs/popup-exhibition-susanna-zaraysky-ladino-sarajevo

Thursday, October 29, 2015: 6:30pm-8pm

Free Screening; Co-Producer, Susanna Zaraysky, will speak about Ladino and the making
of Saved by Language at the University of San Francisco.
University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
The film will be shown in two rooms, one with Ladino subtitles and the other with English subtitles.
https://www.usfca.edu/event/2015-10-29-1830/saved-language-spanish-movie-about-moris-albahari-sephardic-jew-sarajevo-who

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 7pm

Free Screening
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life /  The Magnes Auditorium
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Saved by Language (2014) + Jews of the Spanish Homeland (1929)
Presented by The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and the University of California
at Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities
as part of the Depth of Field 2015-2016 Seminar Series: Sephardic Identities on Screen.