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Past 2019 Event Highlights

Check out some highlights of our events of 2019.

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Upcoming Events

Check out our calendar of events for spring 2020.

  • January 22 – Screening of Your Wishes in Heaven at the Miami Jewish Film Festival VIEW FLYER
  • February 3 – 28 – The Forgotten Exodus – An American Refuge, portrait exhibition at the University of Miami Gallery, Wynwood District, Miami VIEW FLYER
  • March 4 – From the Spanish Inquisition to the Present – The Search for Jewish Roots, Miami Beach JCC, Lecture by Genie Milgram, Introduced by Henry Green
  • April 6 – Greater North Miami Historical Society, Lecture on Sephardi in South Florida, lecture by Henry Green
  • April 10 – Temple Judea, Miami, The Forgotten Exodus, lecture by Henry Green
  • Multimedia Portrait Exhibition and event, Schwartz Reisman JCC, Toronto
  • Multimedia Portrait Exhibition, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa Ontario
  • Portrait Exhibition, Florida International University, Hubert Library, Miami

Featured Sponsors:

Sabet Family Foundation (Miami)

Robert and Dennis Shasha (New York)

Ezra Zilkha Z”L (New York)

Congregation Beth Jacob (Miami)

Robert and Richard Mashaal (Montreal)

Sylvain Foundation (New York)

Richard Stursberg (Toronto)

Dangoor Education (London)

Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal

Watch “Last Class in Baghdad”

Our poignant film about the last graduating class of the last Jewish school in Iraq is now online!

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Director’s message

In 2005 in Jerusalem, I invited other Jewish scholars to join me in launching a new ambitious project. I called it “The Forgotten Exodus”. There was sparse information on the remarkable Sephardi population who had to flee their native lands in North Africa, the Middle East and Iran. Following Steven Spielberg’s Shoah model, the idea was to collect as many testimonies as possible of the near-million Jews who were now scattered far and wide.

Sephardi Voices International was born in 2009, with its core initiative the International Audio-Visual History Project.

Over the last decade, more than 400 people have been interviewed in Canada, the USA, the UK, France, Italy, and Israel. We have produced two films and are in the process of developing portrait exhibitions that will soon open in Montreal, Toronto and Miami. The Sephardi Voices archive collection will be hosted by the National Library of Israel and available online to everyone for free.

Sephardi Voices’ mission is a simple one: to foster the legacy of Jews from Islamic lands and to reframe the narrative of Jewish history and Zionism—one that has a Sephardi voice.

We are grateful for the many volunteers who have supported us in so many ways. I look forward to continuing to share the funny, touching, insightful and heroic voices of the Sephardi with all of you.

Henry Green
Executive Director

In the spotlight: Liam Sharp

When the Iraqi Jewish Voices exhibit opens this month at the Museum of Jewish Montreal (Sept. 20-Oct. 22), its dramatic photography will be on display, bringing to life and into focus the people who represent this 2,000-year-old community. The photographer is Liam Sharp, and the unique style he brings to bear in the exhibit promises to surprise and move visitors.

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