Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series: Luis Moses Gomez & Carvalho’s Journey

December 4 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Wednesdays at The Sandler Center
“Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series” at 1:00pm In-Person with Rose Pappo Allen
$8/$10 Members/Guests Prepaid $40/$45 Members/Guests for all 5 films. Tickets 561-558-2520

This film series examines places in the world where wandering communities of Sephardic Jewry took root, expanding the diversity of world Jewish history and heritage. This season the film selection will feature Sephardim in America; their roots and immigrant experience. Each film viewing will be followed by in-depth discussion providing historic and cultural context to the subject as well as Q&R.

~ Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 1PM (double header)
Luis Moses Gomez and His Mill
Follow Luis Moses Gomez, his life and his family, and uncover the fascinating history of American Jewish Colonial enterprise in New York City and the Hudson River Valley. A descendant of refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, Luis Moses Gomez was concerned about the future of Jewish life in the New World. His upstate building, now part of the Gomez Mill House Museum, represents the earliest Jewish-built dwelling still standing in North America.
2018, 17 mins. English. Tobe Carey, Gomez Foundation for Mill House

Carvalho’s Journey
A real life 19th century American western adventure story, CARVALHO’S JOURNEY tells the extraordinary story of Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1897), an observant Sephardic Jew born in Charleston, South Carolina, and his life as a groundbreaking photographer, artist and pioneer in American history.
2015, 85 mins. English. Steve Rivo