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May 9, 2016 - Iyar 1, 5776

NEWS

Italy Allocates the Funds to Complete
Its Museum of Judaism and the Shoah

By Adam Smulevich

The Italian Government has allocated 25 million euros to complete the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara (MEIS). The decision is part of the largest heritage funding boost in the country’s history, worth over one billion euros to finance 33 big projects in 13 regions.
"I am deeply grateful for an act which has tremendous value and that invests us with new responsibilities,” the president of MEIS, Dario Disegni said, commenting on the announcement made by the Culture Minister Dario Franceschini. “It is greatly satisfying,” Disegni added, “because it recognizes once again the role of the MEIS in our national culture. Furthermore it is a stimulus for the new director of the museum, Simonetta Della Seta, and for the entire Board who will ensure that everything goes according to schedule. The museum will be fully operational in 2020, but step by step we are going to gradually open it and make use of many areas on it in the next years.”
Interviewed by Pagine Ebraiche, Minister Franceschini said: “Culture is a distinguishing feature of Italian identity. It is something for which the entire world envies us. It is one that you cannot separate from the heritage and the contribution that individual or large groups of Italian Jews have given us. In Ferrara, in particular, this contribution has left a deep mark influencing millions of Italians that have learned important lessons and universal principles from Judaism and its great cultural vitality, myself included.”

NEWS

Garden in Milan Named after Yitzhak Rabin

By Daniel Reichel

Since last week, Milan has a special place dedicated to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. On May 3, the city inaugurated the Yitzhak Rabin Garden, situated in Tripoli Square. “Israeli statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994,” reads the plaque.
“Rabin is a central figure of the last century. I hope this plaque will inspire people to study who Rabin was and what he did. He played an important and positive role in the destinies of the world,” said Milan City Council member Filippo Del Corno, speaking shortly after the unveiling of the plaque. The initiative was an idea of the Sinistra per Israele (The Left for Israel) group and was presented during the ceremony organized at Palazzo Marino, Milan’s City Hall, on the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Rabin.

CULTURE

Books and Translations, a Matter of Passion

By Ada Treves

The Salone del Libro of Turin, Italy, the biggest and most important international book fair of the country together with the Bologna Children's Book Fair, will open its doors on the 12th of May, for a twenty-ninth edition that as usual will attract not only the exhibitors but teachers, publishers, booksellers, librarians, agents, illustrators and translators, and a huge quantity of people that simply love books.
This year the theme is "Visions" and - as explained by the president and director - visionaries aiming clearly at the future, in a time when printed pages are having more than some difficulties, but are finally establishing themselves as more than "a thing from the past that is struggling to survive."
As every year since its very first appearance, that was staged at the Salone del libro in 2009, Pagine Ebraiche will be among the protagonists of the book fair, distributed in thousands of copies.

VENICE AND THE GHETTO

The University and the Jewish Community,
an Endless History

By Michele Bugliesi*

When the Ghetto of Venice was dissolved, a huge amount of intellectual energy was released from that small place, to the benefit of the whole city. Venetian Jewish people were eager to exercise the rights that they had just conquered and wanted to contribute to the creation of a unified Italy; they also left their mark inside the University, which had been created in 1868 as the first Business School in Italy and the second in Europe. Among its founders there is the great economist Luigi Luzzatti, who will later become Prime Minister.

*Michele Bugliesi is the rector of the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice. This article has been translated by Ilaria Modena, student at the Scuola superiore interpreti e traduttori di Trieste, ‎who is doing her apprenticeship in the newsroom of Pagine Ebraiche.

BECHOL LASHON - Français Fin par Elia Richetti* Le moment culminant après la sortie de l'Egypte, celui qui, en fait, détermine la rupture définitive entre Israël et ses persécuteurs, est le passage de la mer, dont on a lu dans les derniers jours de Pesach. Cette mer qu'on identifie généralement avec la mer Rouge est mentionnée dans la Torah comme Yam Suf (mer cannaie). Certains Maîtres ont observé qu'il pourrait également être lit comme "Yam Sof", la mer de la fin, et en ont tiré quelques leçons. Avec mer en face et les Égyptiens derrière, beaucoup ont pensé être arrivés à la fin; mais la prière et l'action de ceux qui a voulu tenter de tremper un pied dans l'eau ont fait de façon que cette mer s'ouvre, et seulement après l'avoir passé les Juifs ont réalisé d'être libre. *Elia Richetti est rabbin. La traduction est de Francesca Matalon. Lire la suite	pilpul - double life The Day That Was By Daniela Fubini* When I am back home in my small Tel Aviv apartment, if I switch on the television the voices I hear (sometimes I even listen to) are in Hebrew. Obvious, I am in Israel. But not too obvious, since I have many friends who switch on their TV in Israel and hear other languages. Italians watch Italian TV, Americans are on CNN, the Germans watch the German news and so on. Easy for the French, with i24news broadcasting from the beautiful renovated building in Jafo, in French and from Israel at the same time. But what about the others? The others keep updated daily about things happening in countries they don't live in for years already, sometimes decades. *Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Tel Aviv, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York. Read more

IT HAPPENED TOMORROW Zero Tolerance By Guido Vitale “Zero tolerance towards antisemitism" (Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London) Read more	italics The Senate Approves a Bill against Holocaust Denial By Pagine Ebraiche staff* The Senate of Italy has approved a bill that punishes Holocaust denial, taking it a step forward in turning it into law (another vote by the Italian Chamber of Deputies is required for this purpose). On the day of the Senate vote, the prominent Italian daily Corriere della Sera featured an op-ed by Giorgio Sacerdoti, lawyer and jurist, president of the Milan Center of Jewish Contemporary Documentation and member of the Council of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI). Read more

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