Event Details
Documentary Film: Forgotten Refugees |
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| Category: | Center For Jewish Culture | ||
| Date & Time: |
Friday , 12/04/2009 from 12:01 PM to 01:30 PM |
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| Location: | Woodland Commons [map it]* | ||
| Admission: | Free! | ||
| Sponsored by: | Center for Jewish Culture | ||
| Contact: |
Rabbi Jacqueline Satlow jsatlow@umassd.edu 508-910-6551 |
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| Description: |
"The Forgotten Refugees" is a documentary film exploring the history and destruction of Middle Eastern Jewish Communities, some of which had existed for over 2,500 years.
Using extensive testimony of refugees from Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iraq and Morocco, the film recounts the stories of joy and suffering that nearly one million individuals have carried with them for so long. The film weaves personal stories with dramatic archival footage of rescue missions, historic images of exodus and resettlement, and analyses by contemporary scholars to tell the story of how and why the Arab world's Jewish population declined from one million in 1945 to several thousand today. "The Forgotten Refugees" film was produced by the David Project Center for Jewish Leadership. |
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