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April 15, 2019 - Nisan 10, 5779

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Smiling, A Jewish Lesson

By Ada Treves*

“See you in Bologna” - this is the typical way children's books professionals say goodbye to one another. You can hear it echoing in the different languages spoken at the Bologna Children's Book Fair every year, an unmissable event, a must for those working in the children's publishing industry, who have been gathering every year for more than half a century.
With more than 26,000 visitors every year, the fair attracts a lot of keen professionals – it is not open to the public – over four wonderful crazy days. It represents a major event for publishers, authors, illustrators, literary agents, book distributors, teachers, translators and anyone working in the children's publishing industry. The famous wall where illustrators display their works in the hope of getting noticed is as important as the fact that this fair is the most remarkable event on the trading of publishing rights worldwide – creativity and business blend together in a powerful mix.

*The article was published in the special section Leggere per crescere (Reading to Grow).
Translated by Sara Facelli, with the help of Claudia Azzalini, both students at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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A scratch to dissolve the darkness

By Guido Vitale*

He moves his first steps in the dark. The sheet he puts in front of him is intensely, impenetrably black. Then Hannes Binder starts to raise to the surface something that looks like light. And his work takes shape absorbing the sunrays that are flooding his spacious, glass-walled studio.
Underneath the dark patina lies a white layer – it is Hannes’s task to extract it and to let every white groove tell its own story once the first black coat has been scratched off. The blade scraping the black cardboard produces astonishingly powerful illustrations, resulting from an ancient technique and from the extraordinary handicrafts of an artist who knows he is not allowed to make mistakes. Today is going to be a hard day, even an awaited friend is only welcome if he doesn’t make him fall behind schedule.
Binder is one of the eminent Swiss artists representing the Confederation in Bologna. Right after finishing the breath-taking scenery honouring his fascinating, unique Zurich, along with Kurt Guggenheim’s masterpiece Alles in Allem, set in the 19th-century Jewish society, it is time to hand in the book on the Second Ark.

*The article was published in the special section Leggere per crescere (Reading to Grow) in the April issue of Pagine Ebraiche. Translated by Claudia Azzalini with the help of Sara Facelli, students at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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'Unforgettable Childhood,' an Exhibit
in Bologna

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

A selection of artwork by over 60 Israeli and Italian artists is on display at the Jewish Museum in Bologna.
Titled, “Unforgettable childhood”, the exhibition aims at depicting children and adolescences according to different artistic interpretations and genres.

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Cómo nace el soberanismo

Por Anna Foa*

Hace unos días, durante una conferencia en el Forte di Bard (un conjunto monumental situado en las alturas de la aldea de Bard, en la región del Valle de Aosta) nos preguntábamos por qué muchos de los italianos que, en un principio, ante las leyes raciales, no habían hecho nada para defender a los judíos, salieron más tarde a defenderlos, sobre todo a partir de la ocupación nazi, en circunstancias mucho más trágicas y peligrosas.

*Anna Foa, historiadora. Traducido por Arianna Mercuriali, estudiante de la Escuela Superior para Intérpretes y Traductores de la Universidad de Trieste, de prácticas en la oficina del periódico de la Unión de las Comunidades Judías Italianas.

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Our Language

By David Bidussa*

“Words can become like little doses of arsenic: ingested unconsciously they might seem of no consequence, but after a while the toxic effect emerges,” (Viktor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich). What language are we speaking?

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

A chance to see a rare Hebrew manuscript made in medieval Milan

By Susan Moore*

There could be no more appropriate period than Passover to turn the spotlight on one of the rarest and least known of Hebrew illuminated manuscripts: the Lombard Haggadah. Produced in Milan in the late 14th century, it is the earliest standalone Italian manuscript of this text, which tells the story of the flight of the Israelites from Egypt as chronicled in the Book of Exodus. The text sets the order of the Seder, the ritual meal shared on the first night of Passover, and its reading at the Seder table fulfils the commandment of the Torah to recount and deliberate on this day on the story of deliverance from slavery under Egypt’s pharaoh.
Not seen in public for more than a century – it was last exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 – and absent from any of the major studies of illustrated Haggadot, the manuscript is to be unveiled at the New York gallery of dealers Les Enluminures on 12 April and will remain on view until 20 April. As well as a gallery talk (13 April), the show will also be accompanied by a public lecture (10 April) and conference (14 April) at, and co-sponsored by, Fordham University, and an illuminating scholarly monograph (Paul Holberton Publishing). One of only three illustrated manuscript Haggadot remaining in private hands, it is also for sale – for an undisclosed ‘mid to upper seven-figure sum’.

*The article was published in the magazine Apollo on April 10, 2019.

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