“When publishers complain, we have to take the past into account. For over 500 years editors and publishers have complained that books don’t sell enough or that it’s too expensive to make them. We can read this even in the …
The exhibition “Houses of life – Synagogues and cemeteries in Italy”, recently inaugurated at the MEIS – National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara devotes a significant attention to events and testimonies of Jewish Rome. From the …
The Italian Synagogue, built in 1575, is one of the five synagogues in the ancient Venice Ghetto. It is a symbol of the Jewish-Venetian identity, recognisable also by the five windows that recall the Great German Synagogue and by the …
Né à Vienne dans une famille juive originaire de Trieste, Bruno Morpurgo (1875-1917) était un compositeur prolifique et cependant encore peu connu, qui a produit différentes œuvres de musique de chambre, deux symphonies, lieder et musique instrumentale. L’intérêt de l’Associazione …
Born in 2014, the Viktor Ullmann Festival aims at bringing back to life works by Jews and non-Jew composers persecuted by Nazi fascism for their cultural commitment, their artistic activity, and their identity. The music festival, set in Trieste, opened …
Die Archiginnasio Stadtbibliothek Bolognas, die größte in der Region Emilia-Romagna, hat beschlossen, die Erstellung einer speziellen Website zum Fall des kleinen Edgardo Mortara zu fördern. Er war das jüdische Kind, das von der Pius IX. Kirche aus seinen Lieben entführt …
The Jewish complex of Casale Monferrato returned to host one of the various exhibitions linked to CasaleComics&Games, the event in the city center that recently has engaged the citizens throughout the past weekend. Titled Aspettando il Golem (Waiting for the …
“The commitment of this award is more necessary than ever in order to make people aware of our world, without those filters and distortions that are difficult to extirpate even in unsuspecting people. But also by reading what the students …
With a remarkable ceremony, held in January 2020, the Association of Architects of Rome had decided to invalidate the act of expulsion of four of its members that had been dismissed with the promulgation of the Italian racial laws. An …
“L’histoire de l’enlèvement d’Edgardo Mortara est tellement atroce que, si elle n’était pas vraie, personne n’y croirait”. Le journaliste Daniele Scalise parle d’un drame, tout d’abord par rapport à la première victime de cet évènement : le petit Edgardo, arraché …