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July 8, 2019 - Tamuz 6, 5779

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Music, a language of freedom

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“Unfortunately, we failed to save the lives of those men and women, but we managed to preserve their music. And this has the same value of saving their life in its metaphorical and metaphysical meaning.”
These words express the thirty-year endeavors of Francesco Lotoro, pianist, composer and conductor, to collect, preserve and promote music produced in concentration and extermination camps. More than 8,000 scores have been recovered, together with 10,000 documents about music production in camps. It is a unique heritage, which will be soon on display at the Citadel of Concentrationary music in Barletta, his hometown, as a further tribute to his intense work on the rediscovery of twenty years of European and universal history: from 1933, the year when Hitler came to power, to 1953, the year of Stalin’s death.

*Translated by Mattia Stefani and revised by Claudia Azzalini, students at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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UCEI President Congratulates
New EU Parliament President

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), Noemi Di Segni, sent a message to congratulate Italian member of the European Union Parliament, David Sassoli, over his election as new EU Parliament President.
“The appointment of an Italian as the leader of the EU Parliament is a cause of great pride and satisfaction to the whole country,” Di Segni said.

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‘I Remember,’ films of Jewish life

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

These nine minutes tell the story of the cheerful daily life of those same people that years later would be upset by racial laws and the Shoah. These black and white images go by, showing Silvio Della Seta and Iole Campagnano’s wedding, a trip to the Anzio beach and another one to the mountains of Valtellina. It is a precious testimony of Jewish life, captured in 1923 by Salvatore Di Segni in eleven 35mm film reels, which unravel personal lives and the history of Italy at the time. The films were shot by Di Segni, found by journalist Claudio Della Seta and then restored; they are now stored at the Jewish Contemporary Documentation Centre (CDEC) in Milan.

*Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Mattia Stefani, 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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Einer auseinandersetzung entgegenzutreten

Dario Calimani*

Es gibt immer mindestens zwei Wege, in den man einer Auseinandersetzung entgegentreten kann. Ein wird angewandt, indem man sich im Schützengraben einschließt, den Feind hart angreift und nur die Verantwortungen und Schulden des Gegners in Betracht zieht. Es sind keinen mildernden Umstand gewährt, man gibt keine eigene Verantwortung und keine eigene Schuld zu. Auf diese Weise legt man fest, wer der Stärkste ist, und stellt man das Durchhaltvermögen und die Reaktionsfähigkeit des Feindes auf den Prüfstand. Im schlimmsten Fall gibt es immer Zeit und Gelegenheit, Reue zu zeigen und einen ehrenvollen Frieden auszuhandeln, auch nachdem man das Schlachtfeld – auf beiden Schlachtfeldern – verheert hat. Erde um die Kriegsgefallene zu begraben wird es immer geben.

*Dario Calimani, Universität von Venedig. Übersetzung von Sara Facelli, mit der Hilfe von Anna Zanette, beide Studentinnen der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Trieste und Praktikantinnen bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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Gardening

By Daniela Fubini*

This is a real story, the story of unexpected gardening. Last year we built raised bed gardens to plant herbs and vegetables at the back of the house. We went to the greenhouse and bought all the plants we thought we might want, and I insisted on zucchini, because there is absolutely nothing more delicious than zucchini flowers filled with mozzarella and fried. Perfectly logical decision, you see. Except for, something went very wrong, the flowers where too spread open and thin, and I couldn’t really use them for the wrap I had in mind, and when the plant started giving fruit the zucchini were watery and mushy, and I really didn’t know who to cook them properly.

*Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Israel, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York.

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The Sweetness of Sour Cherries

By Leah Koenig*

Almost exactly five years ago, I tasted sour cherry soup for the first time. I was at a restaurant in Budapest, very pregnant and dining with an equally pregnant friend who had a powerful craving for dairy. Scanning the menu, her eyes lit up when she saw meggy leves, a chilled sour cherry soup enriched with sour cream. When it arrived—a light pink froth dotted with tart bits of fruit and capped with a billowy cloud of whipped cream—I didn’t quite know what to make of it. Was it a soup or a dessert or a smoothie in a bowl? But after a spoonful, followed quickly by several more, definitions hardly mattered.
There is something uniquely beguiling about the sour cherry. The fruit’s season is quite short—just a fleeting few weeks in early summer, which gives enjoying them a sense of urgency. And while closely related to sweet cherry varieties, the tiny ruby drupes are bracingly acidic. They are not a simple snacking fruit; they require a bit of attention and finesse (and often a good deal of sugar) to reveal their charms. But when treated properly, they pay back in flavorful dividends.

*The article was published in The Tablet on July 8, 2019.

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