Performances
Monday, January 23rd
Someday Lounge
125 Northwest 5th Avenue
Tuesday, January 24th
Hoda's on Belmont
3401 SE Belmont Street
Wednesday, January 25th
Lewis & Clark College
Smith Hall
615 SW Palatine Hill Rd
Monday, January 30th
Food For Thought Café
PSU Smith Memorial Student Union
1825 SW Broadway (Basement)
7:00 PM /Tickets $10
Cafe Baghdad
Have Arab Coffee with a Jew
in the New York City of the Middle East.
It's 1928.
What? There were Jews in Iraq?
In the 1920s, Baghdad
was 25% Jewish.
Enveloped in the trappings of a Baghdad inspired café, audiences will be exposed to a collage of stories culled from memoirs, primary sources and poetry that introduce them to a face of a city different from violent and fractured Baghdad encountered on television and in the newspaper today. Step back into 1928, enter a profoundly modern and cosmopolitan city which presents a paradigm of Jewish, Muslim and Christian coexistence often obscured today, but reflective of trends across the Middle East and North Africa at the time.
Post performance conversations with local scholars will reflect on this experience.
Adaptation & Stage Direction:
Sacha Reich
Performers:
Doren Elias, Brian Allard, Aithan Shapira & Shuhe Hawkins
Links
Annotated Bibliography
Ethno-Religious Minorities in Iraq
Jewish Communities in the Middle East and North Africa
Jews of Iraq
Program Partners
Harold Schnitzer Family
Program in Judaic Studies
Middle East Studies Center at PSU
Lewis and Clark Student Activities
Sephardic Cultural Center of Oregon
A Fertile Ground
Staged Reading presentation
