The Last Jews of Libya

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Isabella Rossellini narrates this memoir of the Sephardic Jewish population in North African prior to WWII.

The Last Jews of Libya documents the final decades of a centuries-old North African Sephardic Jewish community through the lives of the remarkable Roumani family, residents of Benghazi, Libya, for hundreds of years. Thirty-six thousand Jews lived in Libya at the end of World War II, today none remain. Based on the recently discovered memoirs of the family's matriarch, Elise Roumani, as well as interviews in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Arabic with several generations of the Roumani family and a trove of rare archival film and photographs, it is an unforgettable tale.

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Originally Released: May 02, 2007

Production Country: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Genres:Documentary