To escape poverty in London, four out of five of Aaron Gomes da Costa’s children moved to Jamaica. Did they succeed, and at what price? Along the way, we confront slavery, interracial and Sephardic-Ashkenazi marriages, and the societal pressures that took some of them away from Judaism. Ali Erginsoy returns to Sephardic World to share the incredible story of the Gomes da Costa family.
Ali Erginsoy is a former journalist at BBC television, including working on their flagship news programme, Newsnight. He is also a filmmaker and consultant. He is a regular contributor to the discussion of Sephardic genealogy.
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Watch Ali's previous Sephardic World talk, on the Gomes da Costa family's migration from Portugal to England, on the Sephardic Genealogy channel on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/SephardicGenealogyAndHistory/
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