Par Gadi Luzzatto Voghera*
La Vénérable Bibliothèque Ambrosienne a imprimé une précieuse édition d’un extraordinaire texte hébraïque médiéval, dont elle conserve une copie manuscrite décorée. Il s’agit du Meshal Ha-Qadmonì, composé par Yitzhaq Ibn Sahula à Guadalajara entre 1281 …
A new website by the Museum of the Shoah Foundation in Rome was launched last week. Titled www.studiarelashoah.it, it is aimed at teachers and students of first and second grade secondary schools and illustrates “the historical roots and evolution …
The history of the music of Italian Jews is a rich and complex one. Every Jewish community in Italy, be it large or small, maintained its own musical tradition up to the early 1900s. It is an extremely diversified heritage …
By Adam Smulevich
Over the past few days, Rabbi Paolo Sciunnach and Rabbi Ariel Finzi, already members of the Italian Rabbinical College with the title of Maskil, have achieved a goal that was celebrated with great enthusiasm in Italian Jewry: …
The pandemic slowed down the project, but the commitment to give Palermo a synagogue never stopped. On the contrary, it recently gained momentum with an international crowdfunding campaign soon to be launched in order to support the initiative. The plan …
A painter, a writer, a doctor. Jewish, antifascist, journalist. Carlo Levi is one of the most complex and interesting figures in 19th-century Italian culture: a man of a multifaceted talent, driven by a profound humanity and an unquenchable thirst for …
The fascinating figure of Queen Esther, the savior of her people, is one of the key elements of the exhibition Beyond the Ghetto. Inside & Out on display at MEIS – National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah of …
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, a ceremony to commemorate the Jews of Libya persecuted by Nazi-Fascism took place in Rome at the Verano Cemetery on the initiative of Associazione Salvaguardia Trasmissione Retaggio Ebrei di Libia (ASTREL), aimed at protecting the transmission …
By Michaela Hoenig*
As Jews around the world were preparing to celebrate the High Holidays, I scoured the internet to discover some Italian traditions for Rosh Hashana, and consider how they compare to the American Ashkenazi traditions that I …
A large head with no eyes, ears, mouth. Seen from a distance, it looks like a stone. Like that the Israeli Ofer Lellouche really threw into the lake the first time he arrived in Meina, near Lake Maggiore. He was …