Preserving the stories of Sephardi-Mizrahi Jews in Canada-An exhibition and a new collection at Library and Archives Canada & More News Here

GATINEAU, QC, June 3, 2022 /CNW/ – Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Sephardi Voices are happy to announce a new exhibition in Ottawa and the donation of the Victor and Edna Mashaal Canadian Collection.

The Victor and Edna Mashaal Canadian Collection was donated to LAC by Sephardi Voices, a world heritage group. It is a sequence of practically 100 interviews in English and French, portraits, paperwork, and pictures chronicling the life stories of the Canadian Sephardi–Mizrahi neighborhood. This on-line collection is offered to the public on the Sephardi Voices web site.

In addition, LAC is internet hosting the exhibition The Forgotten Exodus—A Canadian Refuge in Ottawa till the finish of June 2022. It tells the story of the final technology of Sephardi–Mizrahi Jews born in North Africa, the Middle East and Iran earlier than a million of them have been displaced in the mid-Twentieth century. The pictures have been taken by Liam Sharp and the exhibition was curated by Dr. Henry Green, University of Miami Professor of Religious Studies, and David Langer, the Media Director for Sephardi Voices.

   Exhibition:  The Forgotten Exodus—A Canadian Refuge
   When:  June 3 to 30, 2022
                Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
   Where: Lobby of Library and Archives Canada
                395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON

   A reservation will not be required for viewing the exhibition
   Current security measures in place

The exhibition consists of chosen pictures from the Victor and Edna Mashaal Canadian Collection. Those unable to attend the exhibition in particular person can discover these pictures and extra on the Sephardi Voices web site.

Quotes

“We are pleased to accept the Victor and Edna Mashaal Canadian Collection, which was donated by Sephardi Voices. Contributions such as these bring more diverse voices to Canada’s documentary heritage, and align with Library and Archives Canada’s mandate to include, preserve and share stories from the diverse peoples of Canada for today and tomorrow.”

Leslie Weir, Librarian and Archivist of Canada

“The Sephardi Voices’ exhibition illustrates how Canadian multiculturalism welcomes all refugees and is a light to others that their voices matter and will be heard.”

Dr. Henry Green, Chair and Founder of Sephardi Voices

“It’s the story of refugees, who carry in them nostalgia and sometimes painful memories, and all of that beauty is etched in their faces.”

Liam Sharp, photographer of The Forgotten Exodus—A Canadian Refuge

Quick details

• Canada is dwelling to the fourth largest Jewish neighborhood in the world.
• Sephardi refers to Jewish diaspora descended from these expelled from Spain in the fifteenth century, many of whom migrated to North Africa and the Middle East.
• Mizrahi refers to Jewish diaspora from North Africa, the Middle East and central Asia.
• In the a long time following the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, near a million Jews grew to become refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran.
• Nearly 90 p.c of the Sephardi–Mizrahi have been pressured to hunt refuge in new international locations.

About Library and Archives Canada

The mandate of Library and Archives Canada is to protect the documentary heritage of Canada for the profit of current and future generations, and to be a supply of enduring data accessible to all, thereby contributing to the cultural, social and financial development of Canada. Library and Archives Canada additionally facilitates co-operation amongst communities concerned in the acquisition, preservation and diffusion of data, and serves as the persevering with reminiscence of the Government of Canada and its establishments.

Library and Archives Canada is on-line at www.bac-lac.gc.ca.

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SOURCE Library and Archives Canada

For additional info: Contacts: Media Relations, Library and Archives Canada, 819-994-4589, [email protected]

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