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Depth of Field: Sephardic Identities on Screen | The Governess
Feb 2, 2016 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
The Governess
UK, 1998. 115 min. The life of Rosina da Silva, the eldest daughter of a wealthy Jewish Italian family living in a small enclave of Sephardic Jews in London in the 1830s.
About the Depth of Field Series
The term “Sephardic” indicates the descendants of the Iberian Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal (in Hebrew, sepharad) after 1492, and came into contact with cultures and languages from Northern and Southern Europe, the Balkans, and especially the Ottoman Empire—in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean—where their communities flourished for centuries. The complex identities of the Sephardic Jews are represented on screen through documentaries and feature films about the Spanish Inquisition and its aftermaths, the encounters between Ottoman, Arab-Andalusian, and European cultures, the Holocaust as a global phenomenon, and the perseverance of culture the Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) language.
Spring Schedule 2016
First Tuesday of the Month, 7 p.m.
February 2 ; March 1; April 5
All screenings free and open to the public.