By Simone Somekh*
Over the weekend, the remains of Victor Emmanuel III, the king of Italy who signed Mussolini’s Racial Laws in 1938, were flown back from Egypt to Italy for reburial. The remains, together with those of Queen Elena’s, …
von Pagine Ebraiche staff
Am 18. Januar findet eine beispiellose gerichtliche Vertiefung in Rom statt, um Schulden und Haftung zu klären.
Im Jahr 2018 wird das 80. Bestehen des Erlasses der Rassengesetze sein, die vom König Viktor Emanuel III. im …
Daniel Reichel
Un proyecto que tiene su propia identidad, que entrelaza el pasado con un alma profundamente contemporánea y que se integra en el espacio urbano de Ferrara. Un lugar nacido para contar la historia del judaísmo italiano, que abarca …
By Daniela Modonesi
“There are no nice or ugly things. You just have to display them well”. For Giovanni Tortelli and Roberto Frassoni, who were called to design and implement the inaugural exhibition at Meis, Franco Albini’s words are not …
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
It’s always Hanukkah in this picturesque town in northern Italy’s Piedmont region.
Jews have lived in Casale Monferrato for more than 500 years, with the community reaching its peak of 850 members at about the time …
By Daniel Reichel
Amid applause from the public in the Casa della Musica (Music House) of Parma, the top prize of the first edition of the “Concorso di composizione musicale nella tradizione ebraica” (Musical Composition in Jewish Tradition Contest) went …
By Simonetta Della Seta*
When I visited for the first time the place where we were going to set up the first part of the exhibition of the Meis (Museo nazionale dell’ebraismo italiano e della Shoah), what struck me was …
By Dario Disegni*
The opening of the first large building of the “Meis – Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah” (National Museum of Italian Judaism and Shoah) (Meis), with the exhibition “Jews, an Italian history. The first thousand years …
By Ada Treves
A complex and multi-shaped reality, comprising national authorities as well as smaller local organizations. A rich heritage including over a hundred institutions from all over Europe. This is the reality that Brigitte Sion depicted in her “Survey …
By Talya Zax*
“The story of Jews in Italy is really an Italian story,” Dario Disegni said one recent autumn morning at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies.
Disegni, president of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the …