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First
Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Book Fair
to be held July 25, 2010 at the Center
for Jewish History
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Shelomo Alfassa (917-606-8262)
(NEW
YORK, NY) July 16, 2010 - The first
annual New York Sephardic Jewish Book Fair
will take place on Sunday July 25, 2010 with
book readings, author signings, book sales
and tours at the Center for Jewish History.
Hosted
by the American Sephardi Federation
(ASF), the book fair will bring together authors
and book lovers that write about and enjoy
books relating to the culture, history, philosophy,
religion, languages and experiences of the
Sephardic Jews, past and present. Hundreds
of Sephardic-oriented books, including both
new and hard to find titles, as well as antiquarian
books, will be available.
Several
visiting authors will discuss a wide range
of topics including personal histories, Sephardic
history, philosophy, culture and religion.
The program starts at 12pm with Jean Naggar
who will be reading from her memoir from Egypt,
Sipping From the Nile; At 12:30pm Marc
Kligman, Professor of Jewish Musicology, at
Hebrew Union College will read from his award
winning book, Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual,
Music, and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn.
At 1:00pm Andrée Aelion Brooks will
read and discuss the life of a Sephardic banker
and heroine, from her book, The Woman who
Defied Kings: The Life and Times of Doña
Gracia Nasi.
Young
adult hour will start at 1:30pm with Peninnah
Schram, Professor of of Speech and Drama at
Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University,
sharing a Sephardic tale for youths from her
work, The Hungry Clothes - And other Jewish
Folktales; This will be followed at 2:00pm
by Mara Cohen Ioannides, Professor of English
at Missouri State University, reading a story
about Sephardic and Romanoite Jews from her
award winning book, A Shout in the Sunshine.
At
2:30pm Jessica Jiji will read from her novel,
Sweet Dates in Basra, a tale of friendship
and family, set in Iraq during the Second
World War. The key speaker will be Rabbi Marc
D. Angel, Ph.D., founder of The Institute
for Jewish Ideas and Ideals and Rabbi Emeritus
of Congregation Shearith Israel, North America's
oldest Jewish congregation. Rabbi Angel will
speak from 3-4pm on his books, Foundations
of Sephardic Spirituality and Maimonides,
Spinoza and Us. At 4:00pm, Abraham Sutton
will read from The Aristocrat, a book
about his father, the illustrious Rabbi Hillel
Menashe Sutton, a leading member of the Sephardic
community in Aleppo, Syria and Jerusalem;
at 4:30pm, J. Daniel Khazzoom, Professor emirtus,
will be reading from his book, No Way Back:
The Journey of a Jew from Baghdad. The
day will conclude with a reading by Mitchell
James Kaplan from his, beautifully written
tale of ordinary men and women swept up in
the chaos and upheavel of the Inquisition
and the 1492 expulsion, By Fire, By Water.
Participating
vendors include Dan Wyman Books, specialists
in out-of-print Jewish books and Blue Bird
Books who focus on both modern and rare
Jewish titles, some from the 18th-20th centuries,
including antique volumes in Ladino and Hebrew
from Salonika, Livorno, Tunis, Venice and
Jerusalem.
A
selection of rare Sephardic books from the
on ASF Library and Archives will be
on display and Yeshiva University Museum
will be offering tours of their current exhibitions,
including 'A Journey Through Jewish Worlds:
Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of
Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books.' This
exceptional collection includes hand-written
manuscripts and printed books from Holland,
Italy, Spain, Greece and India.
The
New York Sephardic Jewish Book Fair will
be held in The Steinberg Great Hall of the
Center for Jewish History (15
West 16th St. Manhattan) The event
will be free and open to the public from 12pm-5:30pm.
For more information please call Shelomo Alfassa,
ASF Special Projects Coordinator, at 212-294-8350
x8262.
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