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Featured Sephardic Film
Seattle Jewish Chorale Performs

LEON - A NEW ENCOUNTER

Sunday, March 14, 11:30 AM (Chorus starts 11:20 AM) at SIFF CINEMA AT MCCAW HALL

About the Film

The extensive bonds between Jewish and Spanish culture in Northern Spain, especially the town of Leon, are explored through a shimmery blend of personal reflection including interviews with Marranos who are still practicing some Jewish rituals today, archival footage and haunting artistry. Excavations in Puente del Castro reveal Jewish settlement dating back to the 10th-century. Today, the town of Leon prides itself on having once been home to Rabbi Moshe de Leon, a 13th century Jewish mystic thought to be the author of Kabbalah's major tome: The Zohar. LEON deals with the amazingly unbroken emotional ties to Spain of its Sephardic descendants, who despite being scattered the world over centuries still retain an almost magic sense of belonging to the motherland that rejected them. They can, "still smell the pomegranates that grew in our gardens." Narrator and producer, Margalit Matitiahu, is the daughter of Greek-born descendants of a 15th century Leon family. Seattle Jewish Chorale Performs Before @ 11:20 AM.

PRINT SOURCE: Ruth Diskin Films Ltd.

WEBSITE: http://www.ruthfilms.com

Israel

PHONE: +972-2-5610094, +972-2-5669691

CONTACT:

Ruth Diskin, ruthdis@netvision.net.il

FILMS: Salonika, "City of Silence", RABBI FIRER: A REASON TO QUESTION, LEON - A NEW ENCOUNTER

Sponsors

COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Honorary Consulate of Spain in Seattle, Kol HaNeshamah, Seattle Jewish Chorale & Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood.