By Pagine Ebraiche staff
Italian prominent director Marco Bellocchio will devote a movie to the story of Edgardo Mortara, the Jewish six-year-old kidnapped by the Church in 1858 and forced to convert to Christianity.
In an interview published by the …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
The rabbi is also a sofer. During his work he discovered, in the small synagogue of Biella, one of the oldest Torah scrolls still fit for ritual use, manufactured in 1250.
“The appointment of Amedeo Spagnoletto …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
David Kertzer, the most authoritative scholar about the relations between the Catholic Church and the Jews and winner of a Pulitzer Prize, is working on a book focused on the relations between Eugenio Pacelli, who became …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara (MEIS) Management Board announced that the museum’s Director Simonetta Della Seta was appointed Director of the European Department of Yad Vashem’s International School of Holocaust …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
The exhibition Dentro e Fuori (Inside and Outside) which will cover Jewish life in Italy at the time of the ghettos and to emancipation will be inaugurated on April 2.
Announcing it was the president of …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
Two years ago on December 21, 2017, Italian scholar Elèna Mortara walked through Manhattan’s Upper West Side on her way to her appointment for a historic interview with American legendary writer Philip Roth.
The result of …
Over 150 representatives of Jewish Museums from all over Europe have gathered at the Museum of the Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara for the annual conference of the Association for the European Jewish Museums, between November 18 and …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
A fourth tractate of the Babylonian Talmud has been released with an Italian translation. Devoted to marriage, Qiddushin hit the bookstores on Thursday, published by Giuntina.
The project of translating all Babylonian Talmud is included in …
By Adam Smulevich
“The raising of the 25 million euros intended for the project of the MEIS is almost complete. I hope I will make an announcement briefly,” said Minister for Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini last week on the occasion …
By Rachel Silvera*
Primo Levi’s poems are intense, blunt, and painful: they retell through poetry the nightmare and the awakening.
They were chosen as the main focus of the international concert which was held in the magnificent Sala Estense in …