From Turin to Naples, from Genoa to Venice, Italian synagogues across the country lit up in remembrance on the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass.” This brutal pogrom, carried out by the Nazis in Germany on …
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 …
The 15th edition of the Jewish Book Festival will kick off on Thursday, September 26, in Ferrara. This year’s theme is linked to the exhibition “Jews in 20th-century Italy”, organized by the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS). …
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 …
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, …