Tuesday 20 July 2021, 7:00 pm UK time. Judeo-Arabic may be considered the premier Diaspora language. For most of the last 1400 years, Arabic, in its Jewish form, was spoken by more Jews than any other language. From the seventh until the end of the seventeenth centuries, the majority of the world's Jews lived in […]
Harif, Jewish Music Institute, Jewish Renaissance, Jewish Chronicle, JIMENA and Sephardi Voices UK present this exciting programme which will be simultanously broadcast on the Harif Facebook page. 7:30 pm UK time. More details to come. 12th August: Film: Remember Baghdad - introduced by Edwin Shuker 19th August: Concert: Lafalfula Groove, David Regev Zarur and Yair Dalal. Interview: David […]
Tuesday 17 August 2021, 7:30 pm UK time. "May he grow up to live in Manchester": with these words, a newborn baby was blessed at his brit in Aleppo. Why did so many members of the Syrian Jewish community come to live in Manchester? Who were the leading influencers? Rabbi Ariel Abel will give us […]
Thursday 19th August 2021 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm UK time: Screening of La Falfula Groove. Go to the Harif Facebook page or Jewish Music Institute site to watch the Iraqi maqam group of singers (and one dancer) La Falfula Groove live in concert. Led by Iraqi-Israeli David Regev Zaarur, a qanun player and great-grandson of Yusuf Zaarur, […]
Rachel Wahba, Gina Waldman and Lyn Julius in conversation. THURSDAY 26 AUGUST 5:30 pm UK/ 9:30 am PT/ 12:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm Europe / 7:30 pm Israel Middle Eastern and North African Jewish women active in promoting the Mizrahi story discuss antiisemitism, feminism and building an international movement for recognition and justice. The […]
Thursday 26 August, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm. Harif Facebook page Harif is proud to be partnering with the Jewish Music Institute, JIMENA, Sephardi Voices UK, Jewish Renaissance and Jewish Chronicle in this Iraqi-Jewish Music and Culture Series. Mosheh Ḥabusha is unquestionably the most important Arab-Jewish cantor and musician known today. He is admired by Jews […]
Wednesday 1 September, 7:30 - 8:30 pm Harif Facebook page Harif is proud to be partnering with the Jewish Music Institute, JIMENA, Sephardi Voices UK, Jewish Renaissance and Jewish Chronicle in this Iraqi-Jewish Music and Culture Series. Composer Brian Elias joins ethnomusicologist Dr Sara Manasseh in conversation about their lives and their musical influences. Both […]
The flight from Arab countries of almost a million Jewish refugees in the latter half of the 20th century entailed the abandonment or seizure of Jewish heritage - records, archives, documents, artefacts. However, Arab governments are now claiming that the heritage of exiled minority groups is part of their national heritage. What does international law […]
Tuesday 12 October. 7:30 pm UK/ 11:30 am PT/ 2:30 pm ET / 8:30 pm Europe / 9:30 pm Israel Jews have lived in Central Asia for over 2,500 years.Many believe they are descended from the Lost Tribes. Why they did they go there? Where are they now? We will take a look at their […]
7 pm UK time, 8 pm Europe, 9 pm Israel, 2 pm ET, 11 am PT. Following the publication of her book, Reeva Spector Simon will deliver the 21st Simon Wiesenthal Annual Lecture, in association with Harif. Free online webinar introduced by Shimon Samuels and with concluding remarks by David Dangoor. Register at [email protected] or […]
Tuesday 2 November: 7:30 pm UK/ 12:30 am PT/ 3:30 pm ET / 8:30 pm Europe / 9:30 pm Israel. In the Flatbush, Midwood and Madison neighbourhoods of Brooklyn, New York, live some 50,000 Syrian Jews. When did they get there and why? How do they preserve their identity? Sarina Roffé, a respected expert on […]
Tuesday 16 November: 7:30 pm UK/ 11:30 am PT/ 2:30 pm ET / 8:30 pm Europe / 9:30 pm Israel. Ralph Avi Goldwasser was executive producer of the award-winning The Forgotten Refugees film for the David Project. It is one of the few films to draw attention to the 850,000 Jews driven from Arab lands. We ask […]
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