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June 15th, 2015 - Sivan 28th, 5775

Intégration
By Guido Vitale*

"Si l’intégration connaît des ratés, ce n’est pas la faute de la République, c’est faute de République". (Haim Korsia, gran rabbin de France)

*Guido Vitale is the editor-in-chief of Pagine Ebraiche.
 
Nazi Diseases
By Daniela Gross

It is hard to believe. But when we talk about medical issues, we often conjure some Nazi doctor. Even today, many diseases are in fact named after the Nazi scientist who discovered them, through atrocious experiments on human beings. To amend this situation, an international campaign has just been launched, by a congress promoted in Rome by the University La Sapienza, the Jewish Community of Rome, and the Jewish Hospital.
 
As reported by Francesca Nunberg, on the Messaggero Veneto, Dr. Cesare Efrati, gastroenterologist and volunteer rabbi at the Tempio Maggiore in Rome, pointed out that “Several diseases bear the names of Nazi doctors. Let’s take, for example the Reiter syndrome, which affected Columbus. This illness was named after Hans Conrad Julius Reiter, a Nazi fanatic about racial hygiene.” Also, the portal vein thrombosis was named after Hans Eppinger, the Nazi doctor who experimented on Gypsies in Dachau to test the drinkability of sea water.  Yet there is no lack of other examples.

“These diseases must have a scientific denomination, or, if possible, be given the name of the victims, even if only symbolically,” pointed out Dr. Efrati. The University La Sapienza supports this initiative, and its Chancellor already announced that the request will be sent to all the international scientific societies. The goal is to reach the European Court for Human Rights. A new medical vocabulary cannot erase the past, but maybe it can build a more respectful way of thinking of the victims.

 
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NEWS
The Jewish Community of Rome Choses Its New Leaders

By Adam Smulevich

The Jewish Community of Rome, the oldest of the Diaspora, was called to elect its new board (which is made up of 27 members) on Sunday. The new board will lead the Community for the next four years.
The voters were presented with a choice among four lists: “Per Israele”, lead by outgoing counselor Ruth Dureghello; “Menorah”, lead by entrepreneur Maurizio Tagliacozzo; “Binah”, lead by public official Claudia Fellus; “Israele siamo noi”, headed by journalist Fiamma Nirenstein.


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LEADERS
Europe and a Lively Jewish Life
By Francesca Matalon
 
“The American Jewish Committee Global Forum is an incredible opportunity to connect with Jewish leaders from all over the world,” said Talia Bidussa, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Students (UGEI), who attended the conference which was held in Washington, DC, on June 7-9, as part of a delegation of the European Union of Jewish Students.
“In a global world, people coping with different realities nonetheless share similar experiences, and those bridges are the base to build our Communities and an endless source of inspiration,” Bidussa told Pagine Ebraiche.
Inspiring concrete solutions and food for thought is the main purpose of the AJC Global Forum. The advocacy organization's annual event brings together more than 2,000 participants from 70 countries around the world.”

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BOOKS
Inside and Outside the Ghetto
By Rachel Silvera
 
“Dentro e fuori dal Ghetto” ("Inside and Outside the Ghetto" published by Mondadori Education), the new book written by Micol Ferrara, professor of Jewish studies at the BA offered by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), is not just a history textbook, it`s deeper than that. Bypassing the barriers of distance and time, Ferrara describes the topography of the ghetto of Rome in the modern age, and virtually rebuilds the buildings of the neighborhood where for centuries Jews were confined. Among other things, she focuses on the Ghettarello, the part of the ghetto that disappeared and was recently rediscovered by the scholar Giancarlo Spizzichino (1938-2014). She writes about the relationships between Christians and Jews through the eyes of converts.

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ITALIAN PORTRAITS
Svevo, a ground-breaking voice
of twentieth-century literature

By Colby Robbins*

Throughout the course of history some of the greatest works of art and literature have been overlooked by the public when they were first created. This is certainly the case for Italo Svevo whose most well-known work, “La coscienza di Zeno” (published in 1923), was at first largely ignored and did not achieve success until three years after it was originally published. It is today one of the most highly regarded works among early examples of the psychological novel. Many of Svevo’s other novels, short stories and plays were only published after his death. Many of these works eventually became highly regarded both in Italy and abroad, especially in France.   
Italo Svevo was born Ettore Schmitz in 1861, at Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  His father, Franz Schmitz, was from a German-Jewish family, while his mother, Allegra Moravia, hailed from an Italian-Jewish background, engendering in the young Ettore that particular combination of Italian and Mitteleuropäisch culture so characteristic of Trieste.

*Colby Robbins is a student at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA).

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DEUTSCH
Drei Frauen und ein Mann

Von Daniel Mosseri

Rom ist eine jüdische Frau. Eigentlich sind es drei: eine Gesundheitsmanagerin, eine Journalistin mit eigenen Erfahrungen in der Politik und die derzeitige Schuldezernentin der Gemeinde. Am Sonntag stimmen Roms Juden über einen neuen Gemeindevorstand ab.

Dieser wird dann aus seinen Reihen einen neuen Präsidenten wählen. Die zweite Amtszeit des derzeitigen Gemeindechefs Riccardo Pacifici (51) geht demnächst zu Ende. Ein drittes Mal darf er nicht antreten. So hat er es vor einiger Zeit selbst verfügt.

(Jüdische Allgemeine Wochenzeitung, 14 Juni 2015)


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Seeing the Land – Between Empirical and Textual Sights

  By Yaacov Mascetti*

 When you live in Israel, everything is political. And when you accept to live a religious lifestyle, chances are you will have to face moments of inevitable politicized interpretation of your actions or of the consequences of your actions. Buy a house, cover your head, wear certain kind of pants, buy a car, drive to your relatives in the north (through the Jordan valley or within the 1948 borders?), etc. Anything can carry a political charge. I personally find it somewhat nauseating, at worst, and exhausting, at best. But it is also, to my utterly postmodern sensitivity, also a clear demonstration of the fact that we are always engaging reality from within a set network of values, and we always project our expectations and a-priori values onto what may appear to be the "thing in-and-of-itself." We never truly perceive reality – we always perceive a filtered existence, a scenario painted with the nuanced colors of our understanding.

*Yaakov Mascetti holds a Ph.D. and teaches at the Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University.


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