ANCONA – Three projects for Marche’s Jewish heritage
Three projects for the preservation and valorisation of the Jewish heritage in the Marche Region. This is what the Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy (FBCEI) has proposed together with the Community of Ancona, where the FBCEI Board of Directors met on March 19.
“It has become a habit for the Foundation to meet regularly in some Jewish Communities, especially the smaller ones, in order to strengthen our calling to serve them. This time as well everyone was satisfied,” said at the end of the meeting the President of FBCEI, Dario Disegni. In Ancona, he explained, the intention is “to begin a restoration to solve the problems of water infiltration in the building that houses the Italian and the Levantine synagogues.” A second project aims to restore some antique fabrics preserved in the synagogue of Senigallia, in the province of Ancona. The third project is “the restoration and safeguarding of the synagogue of the city of Urbino.” In addition to the meeting in Ancona, which unanimously approved the report on the 2024 activities and the final balance sheet, the Council of the FBCEI carried out an inspection of the synagogue of Senigallia. A conference was also at the Jewish Community of Ancona organized to discuss “The synagogue and the Jewish cemetery: a parallel and dialoguing story.”
A national conference will be held in September, on the European Day of Jewish Culture. “We will talk about the binding of Jewish books,” Disegni explained. “A theme in line with the event, which this year is dedicated to books.” Also on this theme, the Council will soon publish the documents of a conference on Jewish printing held last year. Another project under study concerns the Marche region: in a warehouse of the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, two staircases, once part of the Senigallia synagogue, have been ‘languishing’ for a long time.” “We are taking action with friends who live in Israel. The stairs are beautiful and they deserve to be appreciated.”
Translated by Chiara Tona and revised by Rebecca Luna Escobar, students at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of the University of Trieste, trainees in the newsroom of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities – Pagine Ebraiche.