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September 26, 2016 - Elul 23, 5776

CULTURE

An Exhibit in Milan Tells the Story
of the Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

By Daniel Reichel

From the beginning of the Thirties to the beginning of the Forties, many Jews fled Europe and found refuge in Shanghai, to escape the persecution of Nazi and fascist regimes. Although the story is almost unknown in Italy, the country played a key role in these events. From 1933 to 1940, most of the refugees fleeing to China journeyed through Italy before sailing to Shanghai from the ports of Genoa and Trieste. The stories of these European Jews, about 18,000, is presented in the exhibition (for the first time translated into Italian) entitled, “The Jews in Shanghai” at the Milan Holocaust Memorial – Binario 21.
Inaugurated on September 18, the exhibition is open until December 15. The exhibition was organized by the Confucio Institute of the Catholic University and by the University of Milan in collaboration with the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, the Milan Holocaust Memorial Foundation and the Italian Institute of Culture - General Consulate Italy to Shanghai.
“The history of Jews in Shanghai is the proof that language barriers can be overcome and coexistence and integration are possible everywhere,” said the vice-president of the Milan Holocaust Memorial Roberto Jarach.

NEWS

Promoting Peace and Religious Tolerance
in New York

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) Noemi Di Segni and a member of the board, Giacomo Moscati participated in a meeting of the “Appeal of Conscience Foundation” in New York last week. The organization was founded by human rights activist and rabbi Arthur Scheier in 1965 to promote peace, tolerance and reciprocal understanding between different peoples, religions and cultures.
Among the participants were the former US secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, and the president of France, Francois Hollande, who received an award acknowledging his efforts towards “peace and promotion of tolerance, human dignity and human rights” in leading his country which has been a victim of multiple terror attacks in the past year.

NEWS

Religious Leaders Gathered in Assisi

By Adam Smulevich

Many Italian Rabbis and Jewish leaders attended an international meeting for peace between the religions in Assisi together with Pope Francis last week.
The meeting took place 30 years after the first edition, which was the initiative of Pope John Paul II. It brought to Assisi several hundred religious representatives from all over the world.
Representing the Italian Jewish community were, among the others, the president of the Italian Rabbinical Assembly, Alfonso Arbib, the chief rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Genoa Giuseppe Momigliano, the chief rabbi of Florence Joseph Levi, and the president of the Jewish Community of Rome, Ruth Dureghello.
Before meeting the Pope, the participants took part on different panels concerning the most relevant issues of our current society: migrants and the challenge of integration, the fight against extremism, as well as the duty of Memory of what happened during the Holocaust. Among the topics covered were also the key points and new questions of the dialogue between Jews and Christians and the coexistence of different religions in Israel.

BECHOL LASHON - Français Murs par David Bidussa* Les murs montent rapidement en Europe. Ils disent: ça ne nous concerne pas, arrangez-vous. L'Europe est déjà morte un première fois, quand les démocraties ont tourné leurs dos à ceux qui demandaient de l'aide, en discutant si ça valait la peine de "mourir pour Gdansk" ou pour Prague. C'était les années '30. Pas contente de la première fois, elle tente de nouveau. *David Bidussa est un historien. Traduction par Francesca Matalon. Lire la suite	pilpul - double life Fusion By Daniela Fubini* Once upon a time, in that part of my life that happened in the North of Italy, we witnessed two opposed and equally social trends: the era of the aperitivo, and the one of fusion food. Since I was born in Turin, that little pre-meal treat made of light wine (absolutely no beer, please) and finger food is part of my DNA, and till today, I regard to the aperitivo as one of the too many good things that Milano took from Turin and made bigger. *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 Le fait religieux et l’entreprise By Guido Vitale Le fait religieux gagne du terrain en entreprise. Cest du moins ce que ressentent beaucoup de ceux qui y travaillent Près des deux tiers des salariés interrogés pour l'institut Randstad et l'Observatoire du fait religieux en entreprise (Ofre) ont noté en 2016 plusieurs manifestations du fait religieux, contre 50% en 2015. (Les Echos, 23 septembre 2016) Read more	italics Celebrating a Distant Sephardic Past in Sicily By Sam Kestenbaum* More than 300 men and women who identify as descendants of Jews whose families were forced during the Spanish Inquisition gathered in the Sicilian capital of Palermo on Sunday to celebrate their shared bond of Jewish history. “This celebration of Jewish culture in the heart of Palermo underlines the resilience of the Jewish spirit,” said Michael Freund, chairman of Shavei Israel, an Israeli organization that seeks out “lost” and “hidden” Jews around the world - often also assisting with immigration to Israel. *The article was published in The Forward on September 20, 2016. Read more

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