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December 26, 2016 - Kislev 26, 5777
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NEWS

The Forced Exodus Of Jews from Arab Countries Presented to Italian Parliament

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By Daniel Reichel
 
The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian Chamber of Deputies held a meeting last week devoted to the forced displacement of Jews from Arab countries. The story of the many Jewish communities that were forced to leave Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq says a lot about the situation of these countries, where societies tend to be intolerant and where diversity is not perceived as a value.
This issue needs to be kept in mind when politicians speak about hospitality and refugees fleeing violence and coming to Europe especially when the balance between the general society and minorities is discussed, as in the case of the meeting before the Commission.
For the occasion, the representatives of the Italian Jewish world had the chance to participate in the session focusing on the forced exodus (Pagine Ebraiche devoted its special section in the December issue to this topic).
Introducing the meeting was the president of the Commission Fabrizio Cicchitto. The meeting was requested by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Commission (UCEI) and was included in the survey on the protection of minorities for the maintenance of international peace carried out by the Commission itself.

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NEWS

Uffizi Gallery in Florence to Feature Exhibit
of Precious Roman Jewish Textile Archive

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff
 
The world renown Uffizi Gallery in Florence will feature an exhibit of the ancient mappahs (mappa is the Hebrew word for cloth) of the Jewish Community of Rome in either 2018 or 2019. 
Last week, a volume devoted to the topic curated by Doretta Davanzo Poli, Olga Melasecchi and Amedeo Spagnoletto was presented in the gallery, introducing the initiative that will see the Jewish Museum of Rome cooperating with the prestigious Florence museum.

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COMICS & JEWS

Chronosquad, History is Alive

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“Chronosquad”, the graphic novel written by Pagine Ebraiche illustrator Giorgio Albertini, has been nominated in official selection for the Grand Prix in Angoulême, the prestigious award given annually during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to a comics author. Following is the review on the book published in the special session devoted to “Comics & Jews” in the November issue of Pagine Ebraiche.

By Ada Treves

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To be part of a Chronosquad has always been Telonius Bloch's dream: to become one of the agents who take care of the "chrono-tourists" wherever they are in space and time. The first volume of Chronosquad, written by Giorgio Albertini, illustrated by Grégory Panaccione and published by Editions Delcourt, has already been defined by critics "a little wonder." The story will become a tetralogy.
The first question is why sending a medievalist to manage a crisis in the fourth dynasty in Egypt? Whether it's a lack of staff or individual choice, responsibility can probably be attributed to Albertini’s personal story, in turn medieval historian and archaeologist as well as university professor of Comics History. Chronosquad, which features an escape in ancient Egypt, a love affair in 1491 and police investigations that take place in the Palaeolithic, intertwines social satire, always full of humor, and a perfectly enjoyable story, despite its length, which comes to nearly two hundred and thirty pages.

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bECHOL LASHON - Français

Joseph, homme
de la double culture

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par Jonas Jacquelin*

Joseph et Daniel interprètent chacun les rêves du plus grand monarque de leur temps, Pharaon et Nabuchodonosor. Ils ont en commun de participer de deux cultures à la fois, leur héritage juif et la culture universelle. Une double appartenance qui permet de mieux comprendre les préoccupations des grands de ce monde.




*Jonas Jacquelin est rabbin. Akadem 25.12.2016.


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Watch Your Step

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By Susanna Calimani*

The streets in Venice are paved with big rectangular stones, they are placed one next to the other, and they create a sort of irregular chessboard. It goes without saying that Venetian kids are divided into two subgroups: the line-walkers and the empty-walkers, that is those who only walk on the lines and want to avoid the inside of the stone, and those who avoid the side-lines and walk only in the empty spaces.

*Susanna Calimani is a wandering economist currently based in Frankfurt.

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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

"I am lucky"

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By Guido Vitale

"I may say that I am lucky," Ladany says, after more than 50 years as a Holocaust survivor, "but I don't feel any special joy. For most of the war years I was not really aware of the danger. As a young child, you do not really grasp how terrible things are. That was so for me, I would say, until I was put into the monastery. There, at the age of eight, I knew that my life would be in danger if I said that I am a Jew". (Shmuel Ladany, The Independent).

























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Beyond Latkes

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By Bonny Wolf*

Through the eight days of Hanukkah, it almost doesn't matter what you eat, as long as it's cooked in oil. A good case could be made for eating potato chips with every meal throughout the holiday.
The story goes that in 165 B.C., the Maccabees, a small band of pious Jews, led a revolt that defeated the powerful Hellenist imperial army. The Hellenist forces had mandated pagan rituals into Jewish life and desecrated the Jews' temple.
There was only enough consecrated olive oil left to keep the temple lamp burning for a single day, so a messenger was sent for more. When he returned to the temple eight days later, the lamp was still burning. And to celebrate this miracle, Jews cook with oil during Hanukkah, which begins Saturday.
For most American Jews, that means cooking up latkes — potato pancakes fried in oil. But other cultures toss different foods into pots of boiling oil. In Austria, Jews eat deep-fried breaded meat called schnitzel, and in Morocco, Hanukkah couscous features deep-fried, rather than boiled, chicken.
"Italian Jews are not latke people," writes Joyce Goldstein in Cucina Ebraica: Flavors of the Italian Jewish Kitchen. But deep-frying is an old Roman Jewish tradition, according to Goldstein, and cooks known as friggitori used to sell fried vegetables from street stands.

*This article was published in NPR on December 24, 2016.

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