After several months, the facade and left tower of the Synagogue of Florence have finally been cleared of the scaffolding. The end of a restoration set off by the finding of some structural fragilities has officially been certified with a …
“This is a world in which hatred is rampant and people are listening less and less. But we must not stop striving to change it, because each of us can do something to correct distortions. Writing, testimony, raising our voices: …
Le 18 septembre 1938 Benito Mussolini annonce l’entrée en vigueur des lois raciales depuis piazza Unità d’Italia à Trieste. Pour les juifs italiens commence la période de la persécution des droits, ce qui est le prélude de la persécution de …
Between the Marche, Abruzzo and Umbria regions of Italy, 57 Jewish partisans fought during WWII against the Nazi-Fascists. «In these regions the Nazi occupation lasted a year. They were marked, especially Abruzzo, by the construction of the Gustav German defence …
En 1933, la Unión de las Comunidades Israelitas Italianas se puso en contacto con el experto de Galitzia Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) y le encargó un estudio sobre las comunidades judías del territorio italiano para que evaluase la consistencia del patrimonio …
Two students graduated last week obtaining a Union of the Italian Jewish Communities university degree in Jewish studies. In her paper Miryam Bahar offers an in-depth study on “proverbs in Judeo-Spanish with words in Turkish in the Ottoman Empire.” Sandro …
Hosted by the Shoah Museum Foundation in Rome and organized by the historian Marcello Pezzetti, the exhibition “The Enemy Race” compares the Nazi antisemitic propaganda with the Fascist one. The exhibition is built around stereotypes and distorted interpretations of historical …
“La casa sul Nilo” (“The House on the Nile”) by Denise Pardo and “Under the Jujube Tree” by Gila Almagor (Acquario publisher) are the winning works of the 24th edition of the Adei Wizo “Adelina Della Pergola” literary prize in …
“One day I stayed away rather too long, wandering around on the city walls with a gang of boys I’d made friends with, who gave me rides on the bars of their bikes, and when I got home I found …
On October 18, 1943, Rome’s police chief Giovanni Travaglio informed the Ministry of the Interior that the train “with 28 wagons” in which were crammed the more than 1,000 Roman Jews captured in the previous hours by the Nazi-Fascists had …