Among the most extraordinary pieces showcased at Case di vita. Synagogues and Cemeteries in Italy, there are a late 15th century mahazor (prayer book) from the Emilia Romagna area, shown for the first time; the Vercelli Holy Ark or chamber …
The Bet HaKnesset, the house of assembly, and the Bet Chaim, the house of life. The synagogue and the cemetery. They are profoundly different and distant places, which apparently share only being a fundamental part of the cycle of Jewish …
“How it is possible to rediscover a sense of collectivity even in a land where conflict is a constant and how accepting life with its contradictions may be the key to a better existence”. The exhibition Conscious Collective, on display …
By Murilo H. Cambruzzi, David Jacobson*
I still remember the first time I came across one of Hirsh’s letters. I was having my first meeting (on Zoom, pandemic times) with Professor David Jacobson, who was my thesis supervisor. Right …
Rendre aux juifs le rôle de protagonistes et pas seulement de victimes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Et rappeler au grand public l’importance des différentes formes de Résistance : pas seulement armée, mais également civile. C’est l’objectif du grand projet …
It is 1961 when Marina Piperno makes her debut as a film producer with a short film entitled “16 ottobre 1943”: its impact is evident from the beginning, and this work broke through the silence that was not allowing to …
Il croyait qu’il allait rencontrer deux collectionneurs d’art intéressés à ses œuvres. C’était, tout au contraire, deux agents de la Gestapo déguisés qui ne perdirent pas l’occasion de mettre fin à sa clandestinité. Ainsi commença, dans le froid de décembre, …
The Babylonian Talmud Translation Project celebrates a new milestone: the publication of Sukkah (Hut), the eighth tractate to be printed since the beginning of the collaboration between the Jewish, the scientific, and the Italian institutions. The tractate – curated by …
Abraham B. Yehoshua lo ha demostrado más de una vez en sus libros: la familia constituye la mejor llave para interpretar y revelar las dinámicas de las relaciones humanas. Se trata de una lección puesta en práctica con maestría por …
By Daniela Gross*
In the darkest months of the Nazi Occupation, when the raids were increasing in number and violence was covering Trieste with blood, San Giovanni compound seemed to be a safe place from the storms of history. …