A Centropa Walking Tour
“The Sephardim of Belgrade“
A walk through Belgrade’s Jewish quarter: personal stories, historical lectures, readings from Serbian fiction, and sephardic music.
Walking Tour
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Episodes
Welcome to Belgrade
A historical overview
A walk through Belgrade
Vera Amar and Avram Aleksander Mosic, describe growing up in Dorcol
Matilda Kalef
Born in 1929, Matilda paints a picture of a bustling Sephardic community on the eve of its destruction
Breda Kalef
Breda Kalef, born in 1931, shares with us her pictures and tells us where she learned to sing
Götz and Meyer
Actor Allan Corduner reads an excerpt from David Albahari’s Holocaust-era novel, Goetz and Meyer
The Holocaust in Serbia
One of the least known chapters of the Holocaust: historian Emil Kerenji provides an overview for us
Credits
Matilda Kalef was interviewed by Rachel Chanin in Belgrade in 2005 and 2016Breda Kalef was interviewed by Edward Serotta in Belgrade in 2016The Kalef interviews were underwritten by the Jack Buncher Foundation, Pittsburgh and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against GermanyThis podcast season was produced by Patrick Schmid and Tijana Zherajikj at Centropa in Vienna, and Jaehee Cho in the Entertainment Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon UniversityMusic performed by Stefan Sablic in BelgradeRebeca West was read by Melanie Preston in ViennaVera Amar was read by Jilly Bond in LondonAvram Mosic was read by David Horovitch in LondonErnst Pavel was read by Mikael Gemeda-Breka of Carnegie Mellon University in PittsburghMatilda Kalef was read by Sara Kestelman in LondonLeigh White was read by Nate Kelderman at Carnegie Mellon in PittsburghDavid Albahari was read by Allan Corduner in LondonThanks to our researcher, Claire Schuler, Carnegie Mellon.And to Michal Rose Friedman, the Jack Buncher Professor of Jewish Studies, Dept of History, Carnegie Mellon University
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