Based on a real three-month journey in the winter of 2006, Sefaradi Travelogue depicts a series of "coincidences" that led to encounters with remarkable people, exotic places and disappearing worlds. It is the journey of an Ashkenazi Jew discovering for the first time the riches of the Sefaradi past and present, and the ways the cultures and religions of the Iberian Peninsula influenced one another.
A journey in the spirit of Paulo Coelho's "The Pilgrimage", it begins with a mystical dream in Portugal that carries the artist onto a completely unplanned adventure, taking him far away from all that is familiar and ultimately leading back home.
In the remote Portuguese village Belmonte, whose inhabitants believed until 1950 that they were the only Jews left on earth, an elderly couple chant secret prayers their mother taught them when they were children. In Gibraltar, the ultra-orthodox chief rabbi tells how he met Saudi Arabia princes at inauguration of a new mosque. In Casablanca, a Jewish community leader tells how King Hassan II consulted the rabbis of Morocco about the design of the second biggest mosque in the world.
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