• Title:
• A Synagogue on Broome Street

• Director:
• Ed Askinazi

• English

• USA, 60 min

• Venue:
• Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

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A personal exploration of the filmmaker’s heritage doubles as a fascinating glimpse into the little known community of Greek Jews, also known as Romaniotes, with 2,000 years of history and their own language.  Neither Sephardic nor Ashkenazi, Romaniotes are descendants of Jewish slaves bound for Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple who were diverted by a storm to Greece, where they settled and developed their own culture.  The Kehila Kedosha Janina on Broome Street is the only remaining Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.  Local filmmaker Ed Askinazi journeys there to learn more about his past and discovers a community determined not to disappear.

Special Guest: Ed Askinazi, director

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