Stamp review: The Sehrane Festival (2019-09-18)
The Sehrane Festival | חג הסהרנה The Kurdish-Jewish Sehrane Festival, more commonly known as the Saharana , was the subject of a stamp issued by Israel Post on September 18th, 2019. Designed by Mario Sermoneta and Meir Eshel, it was the second in an Ethnic Festivals in Israel series after a Mimouna Festival stamp issued on May 1st. The Sehrane stamp depicts two men standing in the foreground, each playing a traditional Kurdish musical instrument and dressed in festive clothing, while behind them seven dancers in a field are swinging their legs to the pair's music. Blue, gold and green are the prominent colors of the stamp, and the attached tab features a Kurdish Torah scroll case. In the pamphlet issued as an accompaniment to the stamp, this is the explanation given in English for the Sehrane festival's origin: The Sehrane Festival stems from the Jewish community in Kurdistan, where it was celebrated annually in the springtime, on the day after the last day of Passover....