THE LAST RABBI OF CRETE (2017)

A film by Manoël Pénicaud for the exhibition SHARED SACRED SITES (LIEUX SAINTS PARTAGÉS) at : the THESSALONIKI MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY from 23 September 23, 2017 to February 17, 2018 the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION HISTORY in Paris from October 24, 2017 to January 21, 2018 : http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/ag... the JAMES GALLERY (The Graduate Center, CUNY) in NEW YORK, from March 27 to March 30, 2018: https://www.centerforthehumanities.or... Direction: Manoël Pénicaud Pictures: Manoël Pénicaud & Malek Sahraoui Translation: Karen Barkey Editing: Francesca Berselli Duration: 6 mn Chania, Greece, 2017 Production: IDEMEC Since the Antiquity, the island of Crete has known many occupations: Romans, Arabs,Venetians, Crusaders, Ottomans... making it a crossroads of cultures and religions. In 1944, the Jewish community of Chania was decimated during their deportation by the Nazis. In 1999, Nikos Stavroulakis (1932-2017) returned there to restore the synagogue Etz Hayyim. He founded a place of worship open to the faithful of other religions and non-believers...