“We were grieving and shaking from a nervous reaction because we couldn’t defend ourselves. Almost none of us was able to eat dinner, but thank God the people that surround us and their relatives are merciful. They are trying to …
The looting of Rome’s Jewish Community Libraries and of the Rabbinical College has been carefully planned. On 30th September 1943, the men from the Einsatztab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, one of the two Nazi organisations specialised in plundering Jewish artwork, books, and …
By Daniela Gross
The Community’s centuries-old collection is loaded onto a special train bound for Germany two days before the Jews of Rome are deported. An immense heritage of history, knowledge and tradition is thus snatched from Italian Judaism – …
Paintings, sculptures, jewelry, and precious artifacts. As the war has been ravaging Ukraine, the tragedy of lost lives and devastations is being accompanied by the systematic plundering of the country’s artistic and cultural heritage, in the name of its so-called …
Die Ausstellung Il Giardino dei Giusti in Mostra. La Memoria Verde di Milano (“Der Garten der Gerechten zur Schau. Die grüne Erinnerung an Mailand”) erzählt, wie der Garten der Gerechten auf dem künstlichen kleinen Berg Monte Stella, ein symbolischer Ort …
Amitai Romm was born in Jerusalem in 1985 and currently lives and works in Denmark. His artistic research revolves around hybridization between nature and the artifices of technology, mediated by science. Therefore, being the research strained between plant life and …
Empezamos por el gran trabajo de catalogación y de transición digital del patrimonio de la Biblioteca Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano Tullia Zevi (el antiguo Centro Bibliografico di Lungotevere Sanzio 5) y por su valorización como centro cultural. Seguimos con la continuación …
How can Judaism be defined? As an ethnicity? As a religion? As a culture? “Frequently asked questions in the Ghetto of Venice”, a small book which has recently been published, aims to answer these questions. Published by the publishing house …
Die internationale Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst “Arte in Memoria” (Kunst im Gedenken) ist wieder da. Die von Adachiara Zevi konzipierte und kuratierte Ausstellung befindet sich auf dem Gelände der Synagoge der antiken Stadt Ostia, nämlich der ältesten Synagoge des Westens …
Aktion Reinhardt, the Nazi plan that murdered about 1.7 million Jews and an unknown number of Poles, Roma, and Soviet prisoners of war in German-occupied Poland, is the focus of a new exhibition by the Museum of the Shoah Foundation …