Marion Stein wrote:
We'd like to deepen and expand these conversations with reference to
writers who may have had firsthand knowledge of their experiences with
migration and expulsion.
Marion's email made my whiskers wiggle because it made me remember an
email from 10 years back which I looked up in my AJL-list archives, to whit:
On December 22, 2009, a member of AJL, Joan Gremont of the JFed of
Greater Dallas posted on this list and recommended Sadia Shepard's "The
Girl from Foreign: A Memoir". In the book, Ms. Shepard, a graduate of
Stanford and docu-film maker, writes about her promise to her
grandmothher to return to India to document the life-journey her
grandmother made from Bene Israel (India) to the U.S.A. But there's a
really great twist to the tale:
Ms. Shepard's BeneIsrael-jewish-india grandmother ran off with a
Muslim-pakistan-contractor to go live in Lahore (Pakistan) where
...she raised her daughter muslim who
...moved to the u.s.a and married a christian, then had Sadia who
...was raised christian and who
...promised her grandmother, who lived with her daughter and
grand-daughter in the u.s.a., in a tri-political, tri-religiour,
tri-lingual, tri-cooking household to....
...journey to India to document the grandmother's story.
There is a 2009 interview with Sadia Shepard on the new-dehli-based NDTV
video program "Just Books"
<https://www.ndtv.com/video/shows/just-books/the-girl-from-foreign-by-sadia-shepard-72662>
hosted by Sunil Sethi. The interview is fabulous because both Sadia and
Sunil are so well-spoken, intelligent and charming.
https://www.ndtv.com/video/shows/just-books/the-girl-from-foreign-by-sadia-shepard-72662
Joan Gremont herself is quite interesting because, (if I'm understanding
the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas
<https://jewishdallas.org/calendar/community-calendar/gone-2-texas-two-waves-of-immigration-soviet--south-african-1521499057>
webpage correctly), her husband Boris's parents came from Russia to
South Africa and then to Texas.
https://jewishdallas.org/calendar/community-calendar/gone-2-texas-two-waves-of-immigration-soviet--south-african-1521499057
Not sefardic, true, but an interesting story nonetheless. Here's a video
of the delightful interview Boris did
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxe2Ro2toZ4> with the Dallas Jewish
Historical Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxe2Ro2toZ4
Cheers to one and all
Alba Toscano
Sinagoga /La Javurá/ (now in our 23nd year)
Calle Baró de Patraix, 13, pta 3
46018 Valencia ( Spain)
www.lajavura.org
(34) 658721769
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