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May 6, 2019 - Iyar 1, 5779

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Sergio Minerbi, A Life for Italy and Israel

By Daniel Reichel*

Former Israeli Ambassador Sergio Minerbi passed away at age 89 in Jerusalem last week.
He was a diplomat, an intellectual and a symbol of the Italian community in Israel.
Minerbi was born in Ferrara in 1929. His father was from Ferrara, his mother was Polish. He emigrated to Israel at 18, and after graduating university joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

culture

Beit Italia, 60 years of social commitment

By Daniela Fubini*

To a simple visitor, Beit Italia looks like a complex consisting of little buildings that could act as a school, thanks to its being continuously kept tidy with renovations and structural improvements.
There is a courtyard in the middle, you can guess the schoolrooms by only looking at the windows, and a fence surrounds the whole building making it a safer place. Beit Italia celebrates its 60th anniversary, though it can be considered either younger or older depending on how you look at it.
In order to celebrate the anniversary, an exhibition was officially opened yesterday by Gianluigi Benedetti, Ambassador of Italy in Israel. Curated by Giordana Tagliacozzo Treves and Yael Sonnino Levy, the exhibition will be on until June 1.

*Translated by Arianna Mercuriali, student at the Advanced School for Interpreters
and Translators of Trieste University, intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

culture

Small Books, a Key to Understand the Present

By Daniel Reichel

Contrary to what some might believe, the future of books is not in danger. Books have undergone a metamorphosis, adapting themselves to a faster society, but reading is still a widespread practice, explains historian David Bidussa.
"Reading and writing have changed what an essay book is, even before the fiction. Unlike the fiction often turned into saga (Harry Potter, above all) the essay book cannot afford to be as long as in the past. It is a product that must be consumed quickly, read quickly, and must communicate a problem. The essay book is now an opportunity to discuss, rather than the tool that offers a solution. It represents the opportunity to make 'a round table' of ideas, proposals, projects".
This opportunity was translated in a Festival - I giorni del Libro Piccolo (The Days of the Small Book) - curated by Bidussa – contributor of Pagine Ebraiche -, which took place at the Genova's Palazzo Ducale last weekend.

*Translated by Claudia Azzalini, student at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University and intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

bechol lashon - Français

Bon Anniv, Daniel!

Alberto Cavaglion*

L’année 2019 marque le bicentenaire de la naissance de George Eliot, pseudo de Mary Ann Evans, observatrice perspicace des dynamiques du Judaïsme en Europe et auteure d’un roman, Daniel Deronda, dont la maison d’édition Fazi a récemment publié une nouvelle édition en italien pour la série « i tipi » (2018). Il vient juste de paraître chez Giuntina une élégante monographie par Elia Boccara, « G. Eliot et la naissance de l’état juif. D. Deronda : un idéaliste au sein de l’Angleterre victorienne ». Je suis toujours impressionné par le travail énergique d’Elia Boccara, qui a produit, toujours chez le même éditeur, une fascinante autobiographie et un essai suscitant un débat très animé l’année dernière, où il a abordé un sujet plus que jamais controversé (Sionistes chrétiens en Europe, 2017).

*Traduit par Mattia Stefani, étudiant à l’École Supérieure pour les Interprètes et les Traducteurs de Trieste, stagiaire dans le bureau du journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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A Voice that We Miss

By David Bidussa*

Amos Oz would have turned 80 last week end. The absence of his voice is felt, and it makes a difference.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Gino Bartali: Cyclist who helped save
Italy's Jews from Nazis honored
with new innovative cycling school

By James Masters*

The memory of Gino Bartali, the champion cyclist who risked his life to save hundreds of Italian Jews during the Holocaust, is set to be honored with the establishment with a youth leadership school in his name.
Italian Bartali, one of the world's leading cyclists during the 1930s winning three Giro d'Italia titles and the 1938 Tour de France, used the handlebars on his bike to hide counterfeit identity papers, delivering them to Jews in hiding and handing over exit visas which allowed them to escape transportation to the death camps.
Bartali, who passed away at the age of 85, is credited with saving the lives of 800 people.
The announcement of the new venture was made Thursday, on Yom Hashoah, a day where Israel remembers the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II.
The school, which will be based at Ben Shemen Youth Village in Israel, south east of Tel Aviv, will officially open in September 2019.

*The article was published in The Jewish Chronicle on April 18, 2019.

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