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A film seminar presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley 2015-2016. The term "Sephardic" indicates the descendants of the Iberian Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal (in Hebrew, sepharad) after 1492, and came into contact with cultures and languages from Northern and Southern Europe, the Balkans, and especially the Ottoman Empire—in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean—where their communities flourished for centuries. The complex identities of the Sephardic Jews are represented on screen through documentaries and feature films about the Spanish Inquisition and its aftermaths, the encounters between Ottoman, Arab-Andalusian, and European cultures, the Holocaust as a global phenomenon, and the perseverance of culture the Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) language.
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The Magnes | Film Series Fall 2015
Depth of Field: Sephardic Identities on Screen SAVED BY LANGUAGE
Dir. Susanna Zaraysky and Bryan Kirschen. Documentary.
USA, 2014. 53 min.
7:00pmTuesday, November 3, 2015
The Magnes Collection, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
THE MAGNES COLLECTION OF JEWISH ART AND LIFEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY2121 ALLSTON WAY, BERKELEY, CA 94720510.643.2526 MAGNES.ORG
THE MAGNES COLLECTION OF JEWISH ART AND LIFEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY2121 ALLSTON WAY, BERKELEY, CA 94720510.643.2526 MAGNES.ORG
ABOUT THE SERIESThe term Sephardic indicates the descendants of Iberian Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal after 1492, and came into contact with cultures and languages from Northern and Southern Europe, the Balkans, and the Ottoman Empire where their communities flourished for centuries. The complex identities of the Sephardic Jews are represented on screen through documentaries and feature films about the Spanish Inquisition, global intercultural encounters, the Holocaust, and the perseverance of culture the Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) language.
A film seminar presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. University of California, Berkeley.
NEXT FILMDecember 1: Toledo: El Secreto Oculto, Israel, 2008, 90 min.
The Magnes | Film Series Fall 2015
ABOUT THE SERIESThe term Sephardic indicates the descendants of Iberian Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal after 1492, and came into contact with cultures and languages from Northern and Southern Europe, the Balkans, and the Ottoman Empire where their communities flourished for centuries. The complex identities of the Sephardic Jews are represented on screen through documentaries and feature films about the Spanish Inquisition, global intercultural encounters, the Holocaust, and the perseverance of culture the Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) language.
A film seminar presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. University of California, Berkeley.
NEXT FILM
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 partisan refuge after he ran away from a train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944, he was able to lead the pilot and other American and British soldiers, to a safe partisan airport.
Depth of Field: Sephardic Identities on Screen SAVED BY LANGUAGE
Dir. Susanna Zaraysky and Bryan Kirschen. Documentary.
USA, 2014. 53 min.
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 partisan refuge after he ran away from a train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944, he was able to lead the pilot and other American and British soldiers, to a safe partisan airport.
7:00pmTuesday, November 3, 2015
The Magnes Collection, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
December 1: Toledo: El Secreto Oculto, Israel, 2008, 90 min.
