Speakers
Latest Past Events
Lecture: Aramaic and Iraqi Jews
Beit Eliahou 7026 Bathurst St, ThornhillLight Breakfast and Lecture. Featuring: Dr. Jacob Maoz, Schechter Institute in Jerusalem The Ezra and Nechemia immigration campaign of the 1950-1951 winter marked the peak of Aramaic speaking immigration to Israel. Some 100,000 Jews who had been living in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria brought a forgotten Jewish culture dating back thousands of years to […]
Tuesday Lecture: The Jews of Kobe
IJAO 7026 Bathurst St, ThornhillKobe, Japan. Jewish refugees, writers and journalists, in a Passover ceremony, 1941. Speaker: Dr. Tony Fattal The Jews of Kobe, Japan (1930-1945) Synopsis: Not unlike Baghdadi Jews who migrated along the spice road in earlier centuries, with the opening of Japan to trade in the mid 19th century, Ashkenzi and Sephardi Jews started migrating to […]
The Historic Iraqi Jewish Community and Its Exodus
Temple Sinai 210 Wilson Avenue, TorontoSpeaker: Lisette Shashoua Ades Temple Sinai, 210 Wilson Avenue Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 from 8 pm Doors open at 7:30 pm Lisette Shashoua Ades was born in Iraq to an affluent Jewish family and studied Arabic, English, French and Hebrew in a private Jewish school. She escaped the persecution and ethnic cleansing of Jews from Arab […]