Essere ebrei oggi (Being Jewish today, published by Il Mulino,) the latest essay by Italian-Israeli demographer and statistician Sergio Della Pergola, was conceived well before October 7. However, as the author acknowledges, “history also advances through leaps and disruptions.” Thus, …
“It felt right to have this kind of reckoning with my model of a writer, especially my ethical model of writing,” Italian writer Mauro Covacich explained to Pagine Ebraiche. That is why, at his publisher’s invitation and in the centennial …
Hundreds of students from across Italy responded to the call for applications by REMEMBR-HOUSE, a project promoted by the Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo and the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah …
About 800,000 Jews lived in Romania before WWII. Nearly annihilated and long marginalized, the Jewish Romanian Community – now numbering around 12,000 – is celebrating the 145th anniversary of the granting of citizenship and freedoms with a series of institutional …
The journey that began on July 23, 1944, from Rhodes and Kos in Greece towards Auschwitz-Birkenau, was the longest deportation ever undertaken by Nazis. It was also one of the most devastating, marking the disappearance of an entire world. That …
It has been 550 years since the massacres of Jews in Modica and Noto, Sicily, where 400 people were killed on August 15, 1474. Long forgotten, this tragic event is now commemorated by a plaque and a memorial stone. The …
Her birth certificate reads “Liliana,” but everyone knows her as Tatiana— a courageous and determined woman who survived the Holocaust and, like her sister Andra, has become a powerful testimony to that horror. They often speak together, sharing the stage …
In Rome, the European Day of Jewish Culture began at the garden of the monumental Great Synagogue, which this year celebrates 120 years since its inauguration. One of the three exhibitions organized for the occasion, Centoventi anni di matrimonio al …
At the Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan, an impressive Zoya Cerkaasky’s work, titled October 7, was projected on the background. The Israeli artist’s piece evokes Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, a famous denunciation of war. However, Cerkaasky choosed to depict a family: …
Over 50 locations in the Calabria region of Southern Italy participated in the European Day of Jewish Culture. From Reggio Calabria to Bova Marina, and from Crotone to Vibo Valentia, “the enthusiasm was remarkable and confirms a growing interest in …
“Years later, as he approached his eighties, Niccolò Introna would feel the need to defend himself for the first time in his life. It was as if he were on trial, not them. Particularly not the two people in question, …
Ruth’s is a kosher vegetarian restaurant next to the synagogue in Florence. Its owner for over twenty years, Tomas Simcha Jelinek, is also a vegetarian. “Everyone has been here. Even the Italian steak king, Dario Cecchini. Outside his realm, he …
After living between Milan, Paris and the Far East, photographer Mario Troiani settled in Israel drawn by “the emotions that this country and its light awaken in me.” For Troiani, born in 1962, capturing Israel’s colors and characters was more …
The European Day of Jewish Culture on September 15th will be dedicated to family. And in Rome, “no place better represents this concept than the Great Synagogue, which will soon celebrate 120 years since its inauguration,” said art historian Giorgia …
Also known as Judezmo or Judaeo, Ladino is the ancient language of the Sephardic Jews, which survived the forced expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century and the subsequent dispersion throughout the Mediterranean region. According to recent …
More than 800 manuscripts were in the running for the 37th edition of the Italo Calvino Prize, the most important prize for unpublished fiction in Italy. Founded by a group including philosopher Norberto Bobbio, the literary critic Cesare Cases, the …
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Rome, Micha Ullman’s sculpture Second Home. Jerusalem – Rome was restored to its original location near the former Jewish Roman Ghetto. The Israeli artist, internationally renowned for his works commemorating historical events …
Comme l’on sait, dans la bibliothèque de Leopardi il y avait de nombreux livres en hébreu, notamment une Bible polyglotte que le poète avait commencé à feuilleter à l’âge de 15 ans. Cette lecture avait impressionné le jeune Leopardi si …