The last generation of Sephardi Jews born in North Africa and the Middle East is little known in the world of British Jewish Life.
The authors, Richard Stursberg and Henry Green (Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands), will reveal the untold story of the expulsion of nearly one million Jews from Arab lands after the creation of the State of Israel. With a tribute to renowned businessman and philanthropist, David Dangoor (CBE), and special guests from the Israeli Embassy and the Board of Deputies, the Dangoor family story will frame the modern Sephardi/Mizrahi experience of loss and renewal.
Henry Green is Professor of Religious Studies and the former Director of Judaic and Sephardic Studies at the University of Miami, Florida. He is the Founding Director of MOSAIC: the Jewish Museum of Florida, and of Sephardi Voices, an audio-visual digital archive of Arab Jews. He has served as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has given testimony to the USA Congressional Human Rights Caucus as an advocate for the rights of those displaced.
Richard Stursberg is the author of The Tower of Babble (2012), named by the Globe and Mail (Canada’s national newspaper) one of the best books of the year; and The Tangled Garden (2019), which was shortlisted for Canada’s Donner Prize for the best book on public policy. He is the President of PEN Canada and Chairman of Sephardi Voices International.
In partnership with Sephardi Voices and the Board of Deputies.
