Parma, Italy is best known for parmesan and prosciutto, but it is also a place of Jewish pilgrimage,
Yiddishists come here, as I did last October on a YIVO tour, to visit the Palatina Library and walk in the footsteps …
“I had long envisioned the core of the story: a country with a Muslim majority and a significant Jewish presence, the interaction between the two communities, and I wanted child protagonists,” says Benedetta D’Incau. Known as BeneDì, D’Incau received the …
The transcriptions of ketubbot (Jewish marriage contracts) from the “Nazione Israelitica” fund housed at the State Archive of Florence, which comprises records produced by the Tribunale dei Massari and the chancellery of the Jewish nation of Florence. But also messianisms …
In the 600th anniversary of the first recorded Jewish presence along the River Po in 1424, Turin will serve as the flagship city among 106 Italian locations hosting meetings and initiatives for the upcoming European Day of Jewish Culture. In …
The City of Chieri, located in the Metropolitan City of Turin, “is committed to acquiring the former local synagogue.” Mayor Alessandro Sicchiero’s announcement followed the city council’s resolution to acquire the property at 8 Via Paci. A piece of Piedmontese …
On July 29, 2024, Goti Herskovits Bauer, one of the last living witnesses of the Holocaust, turned 100. Born in the Czechoslovakian town of Berehove and raised in Fiume, she survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and Theresienstadt. On her birthday, UCEI President Noemi …
“She was truly a remarkable figure, a pioneer in many ways. She opened the subject of sex to the world. Back then it was a taboo, and Dr. Ruth made television and radio programs about it. Thanks to her, today …
The coexistence of the Jews of Mantua and the Gonzagas, the family that ruled the Lombard city from 1328 to 1708 was “long” and “at times troubled.” The exhibition The Gonzaga family and the Jews of Mantua recounts this story. …
Twenty-three works of Jewish art created before World War II form the exhibition “La notte dipingevo quadri rossi” (At night I painted red pictures), set in the premises of the former Scola Grande synagogue in Trani, in the Apulia region, …
After living between Milan, Paris and the Far East, photographer Mario Troiani settled in Israel drawn by “the emotions that this country and its light awaken in me.” For Troiani, born in 1962, capturing Israel’s colors and characters was more …