January 28 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm. Bridgewater JCC - 775 Talamini Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807
The saga of Jewish history has no simple chapters, and the chapter on Sicilian Jews is certainly no exception. While the histories of Galician, Indian, and Japanese Jews have been studied extensively, one of the oldest communities of the Diaspora has been generally neglected. The biggest island of the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily, has been for millennia one of the most important crossroads of the early civilizations.

Jews have left their mark in many Sicilian areas, from their language, to their culinary traditions, to the topography of cities, and in the names of the people. Most of these connections remain to be investigated, and much is yet to be done to better understand these Jewish communities, which have lived for more than fifteen centuries on the island, leaving us precious pearls still waiting to be discovered. Join us for a free lecture with Sergio Caldarella, a passionate reader of poetry, physics and philosophy. Author of ten books, several papers and two theater pieces staged in Italy and Germany, lives in Princeton, NJ.

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Source: http://www.njitalianheritage.org/