By Adam Smulevich
“It is a significant sign in the short and long term”, said Ricardo Franco Levi, president of the Italian Publishers Association AIE since 2017. A piece of news – he really hoped for – has been made …
“Did you know that the European Jewish Congress has ongoing collaboration with its 41 affiliated Jewish communities? Today, we meet the Jewish Community of Italy. UCEI @ucei_it is Italy’s Jewish umbrella organization and the country’s EJC affiliate”.
So begins the …
Beginning with the establishment of the first ghetto in Venice in 1516, followed by that of Rome and other cities, the Jews had to measure themselves against this circumscribed and ambivalent place, which included them in the urban perimeter but …
By Anthony Grafton*
On July 22, 1955, the Times Literary Supplement welcomed the appearance of a new scholarly book with an enthusiasm rarely matched in its gray, closely printed pages. Pride of place, in those days, went not to the …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
Over ninety Italian locations, from North to South, will take part in the upcoming edition of the European Day of Jewish Culture scheduled for Sunday 6 September.
The 2020 edition will focus on several topics and …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
Italian prominent director Marco Bellocchio will devote a movie to the story of Edgardo Mortara, the Jewish six-year-old kidnapped by the Church in 1858 and forced to convert to Christianity.
In an interview published by the …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
The rabbi is also a sofer. During his work he discovered, in the small synagogue of Biella, one of the oldest Torah scrolls still fit for ritual use, manufactured in 1250.
“The appointment of Amedeo Spagnoletto …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
David Kertzer, the most authoritative scholar about the relations between the Catholic Church and the Jews and winner of a Pulitzer Prize, is working on a book focused on the relations between Eugenio Pacelli, who became …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara (MEIS) Management Board announced that the museum’s Director Simonetta Della Seta was appointed Director of the European Department of Yad Vashem’s International School of Holocaust …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
The exhibition Dentro e Fuori (Inside and Outside) which will cover Jewish life in Italy at the time of the ghettos and to emancipation will be inaugurated on April 2.
Announcing it was the president of …