“It has been quite a task, and I’m really happy. I am also grateful to the publisher Carocci: it wanted this volume for the ‘Studi Superiori’ series, that now also includes my Primo Levi, the only author of the twentieth …
The junction of Yad Mordechai, 4 km far from the border of the Gaza Strip, was where the artist Tamar Nissim started feeling scared. “It was 2017, and I was travelling from Tel Aviv to Be’eri to create a video …
One of the darkest pages of the Shoah in Turin has long remained unknown. On December 3, 1943, the fascist police arrested 20 Jewish women between 65 and 85 years of age in the shelter of Via Como 140 (today …
“Civil wars among the Jews were never fought with the sword, but with the pen,” Abraham B. Yehoshua argued years ago in Ferrara. During the conference “Am Ha Sefer – The People of the book. Readers and bibliophiles in Jewish …
In Devarim/Deuteronomy we find the first biblical mention of Gaza, spoken by Moses. In his first speech to the sons and daughters of Israel, he who freed the Jewish people from the Egyptian enslavement in fact mentions the Avvim, a …
A considerable number of illustrious people rest in the Jewish cemetery of Rožna Dolina in Nova Gorica, such as the philosopher Carlo Michelstaedter, the glottologist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli and the journalist Carolina Luzzatto, the first woman in Italy to run …
The history of the Jewish ghetto of Florence, which existed in the city between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, becomes an exhibition organized by the Uffizi Galleries. Arranged in the Gallery of Modern Art of Pitti Palace and curated by …
Mario Finzi was a talented musician and a young man with strong democratic passion. His story is the subject of the exhibition “Mario Finzi, un ragazzo fantastico” (Mario Finzi, a wonderful boy), rich in documents and images, and accessible online …
From the vestiges of Roman emperors along the Danube to the most recent signs of the Liberation from the Nazis and Fascists and from industrial heritage landmarks to the historical gardens route, there are 47 cultural itineraries under the protection …
En toda Europa el Día de la Cultura Judía del próximo 10 de septiembre se dedicará a la Memoria. Solo Italia tomó una decisión diferente, indicando como hilo conductor el tema de la “Belleza”. Florencia será la ciudad líder de …