Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series: Island of Roses & the Pike Place Market
February 26, 2025 @ 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, February 26, 2025 at 1PM (double header)
Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles
About the Los Angeles community of Rhodeslis, Jews who lived on the Mediterranean island of Rhodes from 1492 to World War II. These immigrants from Rhodes settled in Los Angeles during and after World War II and passed down their traditions, food, songs, rituals, and their medieval Ladino Spanish dialect to their American-born children and grandchildren.
1995, 55 minutes, English, Italian, French & Ladino with English subtitles, Gregori Viens
The Sephardic Jews and the Pike Place Market
At the turn of the century, Sephardic Jews fled the turmoil of their homeland to start a new life in America. Filled with interviews, archival photos and dozens of Ladino phrases, this slice of Northwest history captures their story as they arrived in Seattle and found work at the Pike Place Market.
2001, 30 mins, English and subtitles, Stephen Sadis
No Trailer for the Rhodes movie.
