Fwd: OP- 30, The Farhi Mansion in Damascus

[Judith Roumani]

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From: Annette Fromm <annett...@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: OP- 30, The Farhi Mansion in Damascus
To: Judith Roumani <judith...@yahoo.com>

Good morning, 

Hope all is well and that your son had an enjoyable birthday, albeit in seclusion ...

I'm cleaning up my desktop so I can start the week anew with few loose ends.

I'm looking at what you sent from Ben Varon. This is not the Farhi Palace review, but a discussion of a review of a book called Being Ottomans that he wrote for another publication.

I do have the Farhi Palace review in a PDF, I'm not sure I can convert it to a word document.

Which piece to you want to include in the journal?

Thanks - 

Annette

Annette B. Fromm, Ph.D.    3060 Alton Road    Miami Beach, Fl 33140, USA       305-532-3530

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From: Judith Roumani <judith...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 8:41 AM
To: Annette Fromm <annett...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Fw: OP- 30, The Farhi Mansion in Damascus

 

Good morning Annette,

Yesterday I received the news of the sad passing of Ben Varon, one of our most prolific contributors. Just less than a month ago, he had sent out an essay, a book review about the Farhi mansion of Damascus. What more could one wish for, to keep on doing what one loves to do as long as possible? He hadn't exactly sent it for Sephardic Horizons, but he had told me to let him know if there was anything I was interested in. 

It has many typos, and some slightly extreme opinions, otherwise would make a good review article and memorial to this Sephardi of renaissance tastes and indomitable self-motivating drive to write (he has a number of self-published books, some of which we reviewed). If you flip through the previous issues, you will see that his name often comes up as an author. Both of these problems can be fixed with editing an shortening.

I think this book came out a couple of years ago, and I went to hear a lecture with slides by the author at the ASF in New York. I even asked whether review copies were available (they weren't).  

I'm thinking of asking his children if we could publish this in a future issue, both as a memorial and as a review on an interesting subject. What do you think?

Judith

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From: Bension Varon <benv...@aol.com>

To: Bension Varon <Benv...@aol.com>

Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 02:21:39 PM EDT

Subject: OP- 30, The Farhi Mansion in Damascus

These days one does not come across a reference to Syria in the news unless it is in the tragic context of war, terrorism, bombs, bullets, hunger, refugees, orphans, and ethnic conflict.  This essay--reviewing the history of the fabled, lavish Fahri mansion in Damascus, built by Sephardi Jews whose every day language was Arabic--conjures the rich and complex culture of Ottoman Syria in the 18th and 19th centuries, during an era of rapid construction in Damascus, rather than destruction.

[Altan Gabbay]

I hope all is going well. If you'd like to have the PDF document converted to Word you can send it to me. Altan

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