By Pagine Ebraiche staff
A five-day-long collaboration to reach one common goal: helping teachers find a way to introduce Italian high school students to new topics, namely the Shoah and the inalienable values at the basis of human rights.
The …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
They have worked together for half a century. The relationship between Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is a life-long love story, which was celebrated at La Scala Theatre in Milan yesterday, during the opening …
By Adam Smulevich*
The earliest records of Jews in Parma date back to the mid-15th century, when the city was part of the Duchy of Milan.
Following a decree of expulsion issued in the 16th century as a result of …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
Some of the books were confiscated by the Nazis and luckily retrieved in Frankfurt after the end of the Second World War. Others were rescued from the 1966 Arno’s flood. The nearly 8,000 volumes preserved in …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
An exhibition devoted to the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death was inaugurated at the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem on July 4.
“The continuous and extensive research, the meticulous method, and the craving for …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
“Unfortunately, we failed to save the lives of those men and women, but we managed to preserve their music. And this has the same value of saving their life in its metaphorical and metaphysical meaning.”
These …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
A monument to the Aliyah Bet – the operations to allow Shoah survivors and refugees to reach the land of Israel under the British Mandate between 1945 and 1948 – was inaugurated in the city of …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff*
Mibact, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, has granted material aid to value old evidence of Jewish presence in Italy, one that is not very famous, but could tell a lot. €2.5 million is …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) has a new mission abroad. The institution was presented in the prestigious venue of the University Club on 5th Avenue in New York. Its objectives and …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
“The past is always present within us and we must keep reliving it. We must keep interpreting it, in accordance with the teachings of Judaism and of the Babylonian Talmud,” Marco Bussetti, the Italian Minister of …