Memories on film: The Jewish Community of Oporto in images

Memories on film: The Jewish Community of Oporto in images

Scene from the movie Sefarad filmed at the Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue

Videography is a form of culture that encompasses the production of videos and films, which are means of artistic expression, communication and historical and cultural record.

The Jewish community in Oporto has produced forty videos in the last decade and a half. On Youtube, where the organization created an account, such videos were posted, which, as a whole, already have more than 3 million views.

The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in the video about the Jewish Museum of Oporto.

Here is the list of videos produced by the community over the years in reference:

2012: Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue (English, Spanish and Hebrew).

2013: 75th anniversary of the Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue

2015: Jewish Museum of Oporto (the first).

2017: Sephardic Memory Concert - "Tradition and Modernity", with Turkish singers.

2018: Sefarad (trailer and film)

2019: Jewish Museum of Oporto / "1618" (trailer)

Scene from the movie "1618"

2020: Holocaust Museum of Oporto/ Testimony of a Holocaust survivor / Holocaust Museum – Testimonies / Operation Entebbe Room

2021: Brief history of the Jews of Sepharad / The Nun's Kaddish / David D'Or in Oporto, Portugal / II Course of the Jewish Education Center of Oporto

2022: European Day of Jewish Culture in Portugal / Commendation of Merit of King D. Pedro I of Brazil / Kristallnacht Exhibition - Holocaust Museum of Oporto / Mekor Haim Choir / How to Destroy a Jewish Community

Hundreds of Portuguese students visiting the Holocaust Museum for the commemoration of Kristallnacht

2023: European Day of Jewish Culture in Oporto / Jewish Community of Oporto - A Centenary Institution / Event of the European Jewish Association / Soviet-Style Antisemitism in Portugal / Inauguration of the Jewish Cemetery of Oporto / Painting Gallery of the Jewish Community of Oporto / Concert on International Holocaust Remembrance Day / The history of the Jewish Community of Oporto from 1923 to 2018 / Interviewing Marilyn, the "boss".

Image taken from the video of the Porto cemetery inauguration in 2023

2024: European Day of Jewish Culture in Oporto / Memorial to the victims of the "7th of October" inaugurated in the cemetery of the Jewish community of Oporto by 150 rabbis / National Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Inquisition at the Jewish museum / The Genocide of Lisbon (trailer and film) / Jewish Community of Oporto announces that it has appointed the World Jewish Agency as its legal heir / 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht / Thousands of teenagers comemmorate the Edict of Expulsion at the Jewish Museum.

2025: European Day of Jewish Culture in Oporto / "The 2000 kidnapped children" (trailer and film) / Centuries of Jewish success in the midst of mediocrity.