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The film traces Jewish life in Libya as far back as the 3rd century B.C. It focuses on the Roumani family, residents of Benghazi for centuries, beginning during the Turkish Ottoman rule.
Jul 13, 2007 · The Last Jews of Libya, narrated by Isabella Rossellini, documents the final decades of a centuries-old Sephardic Jewish community. Thirty-six thousand Jews lived in Libya at the end of World War II, but not a single one remains today.
The history of the Jews in Libya stretches back to the 3rd century BCE, when Cyrenaica was under Greek rule. The Jewish population of Libya, a part of the Sephardi - Maghrebi Jewish community continued to populate the area continuously until the modern times.
May 14, 2007 · The film, which recounts the last decades of Libya's ancient Sephardic Jewish community through the story of the Roumani family, drew more than 300 that night and about 1,000 over four...
May 2, 2007 · The Last Jews of Libya: Directed by Vivienne Roumani. With Isabella Rossellini. Isabella Rossellini narrates this memoir of the Sephardic Jewish population in North African prior to WWII.
Nov 27, 2007 · The Last Jews of Libya documents the final decades of a centuries-old Sephardic Jewish community through the lives of one remarkable family. At the end of WWII, 36,000 Jews lived in Libya,...
The Last Jews of Libya, a documentary by Vivienne Roumani-Denn, chronicles the history and plight of the Jewish community in Libya, particularly in the 20th century. Through the story of her own family, Roumani-Denn weaves together a touching and harrowing tale of a family and community torn apart by war and held together by tradition.
