The documentary film  “In search of Sepharad” directed by the young ladies Carina Gurovitz and Paula Castiglioni  was presented at the Embassy of Spain on Monday afternoon. It was supported by the Sephardic Israelite Association of Buenos Aires (ACISBA) and the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA).

Rabbi Isaac Sacca, as the Sephardic  Chief Rabbi, took part in the documentary film and supervised its content. He was also present at the premiere.

David Izquierdo Ortiz de Zarate, counsellor of the Embassy of Spain, officiated as the chairman. The first person to talk was the Spanish Ambassador Javier Sandomingo Núñez . He welcomed the guests and remarked that “it is a special day” because the “Sephardic community are compatriots of our ancestors”, but he assured that lots of times people who ruled Spain  in different moments, didn’t have enough “wisdom”, emphasizing the expulsion from Spain  Jewish people suffered.

The President of DAIA, Ariel Cohen Sabban  stressed the importance of this documentary film framed in the possibility of learning “to be able to know even better all the tour of the Sephardies”and he also congratulated the directors of the film.

Sephardic  Chief Rabbi Isaac Sacca said:” Going into the Embassy of  Spain in an experience very hard to describe. We are stepping on Sephardic soil. Coming into the Embassy is coming into OUR home. Returning to our origins.”
He stood out that the Spanish people understood that the world needed to reconcile. After that, the guests enjoyed the film ” In search of Sepharad”, which aims to expone the identity of those Spanish-Jewish descendants who came to Argentina and kept their culture and costums and transmitted them to their children and grandchildren, in spite of being away from home, Spain.

Together with the Ambassador of Spain Javier Sandomingo Núñez, the President of DAIA Ariel Cohen Sabban, Carina Gurovitz and Paula Castiglioni directors of the documentary film “In search of Sepharad” at the premiere at the Embassy.