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Sephardi Voices
JH215
| TUE |
| 12 |
| OCT |
Bea Lewkowicz and Henry Green
Tuesday mornings at 10:30
£120.00
Term Starting 12 October
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(Individual sessions can be booked at £17. Click on individual sessions to book).
The eight sessions will explore the history and culture of the Jews from North Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean. Specialist speakers will take you on a journey that will illuminate the rich tapestry of Sephardi/Mizrahi life, transformed by post-1948 migrations to different parts of the world. Sephardi Voices is a new international audio-visual oral history project which aims to record the testimonies and narratives of Jews displaced from North Africa and the Middle East. This course will introduce you to the project and enable participants (if interested) to become involved.
Dr. Henry Green is the former Director of Judaic and Sephardic Studies at the University of Miami, Florida, USA and has served as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Toronto. The Founding Director of MOSAIC: the Jewish Museum of Florida, he has published extensively on the Sephardi, Israel and American Jewry. He is frequently called upon to serve as a consultant regarding the Sephardi/Mizrahi. Currently, Dr. Green is leading an international audio/visual oral history project, Sephardic Voices, to document the testimonies/stories of Sephardi Jews that migrated voluntarily or were displaced from North Africa and the Middle East post-World War Two. He has been invited to give testimony to the USA Congressional Human Rights Caucus, the British House of Lords Human Rights Committee and was involved in the recent Knesset (Israel) legislation that provides legal rights to Israeli Sephardi Jews displaced from Arab countries.
Dr. Bea Lewkowicz is a social anthropologist and oral historian. After studies in Cologne and Cambridge, she received her PhD from the London School of Economics. Her thesis on the Jewish Community of Salonika was published in 2006 (The Jewish Community of Salonika. History. Memory. Identity, Vallentine Mitchell) She has co-directed the Refugee Voices Archive and is currently the director of Sephardi Voices UK, an audio/visual oral history project which aims to record testimonies of Jews from North Africa and the Middle East in the UK. She has produced a number of films for exhibitions, such as ‘Refugee Experiences’ currently on show in the history gallery of the new Jewish Museum in Camden.
12 October - Introduction and Overview Screening of ‘Sephardi Voices: Seven Stories’
With Dr. Henry Green, Alec Nacamuli, Dr. Bea Lewkowicz
19 October - Case Study: The Jews of Egypt
With Alec Nacamuli and Ellis Douek
26 October - Case Study: The Jews of Salonika
With Dr. Bea Lewkowicz
2 November - Case Study: The Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, the Alliance’s initiative and Jewish Life in 19th Century Aleppo and Calcutta
With Lucien Gubbay
9 November - Case Study: The Jews of Iraq
With Edwin Shuker and Linda Dangoor-Khalastchi
16 November - Case Study: The Culture of the Jews of Morocco
With Dr. Hilary Pomeroy
30 November - ‘My Experiences with the Sephardi Communities’
With Rabbi Dr. Abraham Levy OBE
7 December - Case Study: The Secrets of Jewish Djerba
With Dr. Shaul Zadka
The eight sessions will explore the history and culture of the Jews from North Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean. Specialist speakers will take you on a journey that will illuminate the rich tapestry of Sephardi/Mizrahi life, transformed by post-1948 migrations to different parts of the world. Sephardi Voices is a new international audio-visual oral history project which aims to record the testimonies and narratives of Jews displaced from North Africa and the Middle East. This course will introduce you to the project and enable participants (if interested) to become involved.
Dr. Henry Green is the former Director of Judaic and Sephardic Studies at the University of Miami, Florida, USA and has served as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Toronto. The Founding Director of MOSAIC: the Jewish Museum of Florida, he has published extensively on the Sephardi, Israel and American Jewry. He is frequently called upon to serve as a consultant regarding the Sephardi/Mizrahi. Currently, Dr. Green is leading an international audio/visual oral history project, Sephardic Voices, to document the testimonies/stories of Sephardi Jews that migrated voluntarily or were displaced from North Africa and the Middle East post-World War Two. He has been invited to give testimony to the USA Congressional Human Rights Caucus, the British House of Lords Human Rights Committee and was involved in the recent Knesset (Israel) legislation that provides legal rights to Israeli Sephardi Jews displaced from Arab countries.
Dr. Bea Lewkowicz is a social anthropologist and oral historian. After studies in Cologne and Cambridge, she received her PhD from the London School of Economics. Her thesis on the Jewish Community of Salonika was published in 2006 (The Jewish Community of Salonika. History. Memory. Identity, Vallentine Mitchell) She has co-directed the Refugee Voices Archive and is currently the director of Sephardi Voices UK, an audio/visual oral history project which aims to record testimonies of Jews from North Africa and the Middle East in the UK. She has produced a number of films for exhibitions, such as ‘Refugee Experiences’ currently on show in the history gallery of the new Jewish Museum in Camden.
12 October - Introduction and Overview Screening of ‘Sephardi Voices: Seven Stories’
With Dr. Henry Green, Alec Nacamuli, Dr. Bea Lewkowicz
19 October - Case Study: The Jews of Egypt
With Alec Nacamuli and Ellis Douek
26 October - Case Study: The Jews of Salonika
With Dr. Bea Lewkowicz
2 November - Case Study: The Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, the Alliance’s initiative and Jewish Life in 19th Century Aleppo and Calcutta
With Lucien Gubbay
9 November - Case Study: The Jews of Iraq
With Edwin Shuker and Linda Dangoor-Khalastchi
16 November - Case Study: The Culture of the Jews of Morocco
With Dr. Hilary Pomeroy
30 November - ‘My Experiences with the Sephardi Communities’
With Rabbi Dr. Abraham Levy OBE
7 December - Case Study: The Secrets of Jewish Djerba
With Dr. Shaul Zadka
Course Dates
- Tue 12th October 10
- Tue 19th October 10
- Tue 26th October 10
- Tue 2nd November 10
- Tue 9th November 10
- Tue 16th November 10
- Tue 23rd November 10
- Tue 30th November 10