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Sunday April 29, 2012
3:30PM - 4:45PM
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A GLIMPSE INTO THE TURKISH JEWISH WORLD: Sephardic Writer Jane Mushabac Tells Tales
Sephardic Jewish culture is not monolithic. Rather, there are a multitude of unique Sephardic Jewish cultures that include Jews from Egypt, Tunisia, Greece, Iraq, Morocco and Algeria, just to name a few of the countries where Sephardic Jews have lived for centuries.
Jane Mushabac, a Turkish Jew on both sides of her family, will perform her short story, Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti. The story, originally written in Ladino, offers an entry into Turkish Jewish culture and explores themes of gender, identity and survival.
Dr. Mushabac is the 2011 Scholar on Campus at City Tech, a CUNY college,. She's won fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and Harvard. She is the author of Melville’s Humor: A Critical Study and (with Angela Wigan) A Short and Remarkable History of New York City, now in its 5th printing. She also has written fiction and essays about Judeo-Spanish characters and culture along with a radio play, Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews, that was broadcast on NPR with Tovah Feldshuh.
Sephardic Jewish culture is not monolithic. Rather, there are a multitude of unique Sephardic Jewish cultures that include Jews from Egypt, Tunisia, Greece, Iraq, Morocco and Algeria, just to name a few of the countries where Sephardic Jews have lived for centuries.
Jane Mushabac, a Turkish Jew on both sides of her family, will perform her short story, Pasha: Ruminations of David Aroughetti. The story, originally written in Ladino, offers an entry into Turkish Jewish culture and explores themes of gender, identity and survival.
Dr. Mushabac is the 2011 Scholar on Campus at City Tech, a CUNY college,. She's won fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and Harvard. She is the author of Melville’s Humor: A Critical Study and (with Angela Wigan) A Short and Remarkable History of New York City, now in its 5th printing. She also has written fiction and essays about Judeo-Spanish characters and culture along with a radio play, Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews, that was broadcast on NPR with Tovah Feldshuh.
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Location/Venue:
SAJ
Address:
15 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024
Contact Name:
Amy Stein
Phone:
2122131002
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