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 …
*By David Jager
I dislike moralizing in art. In truth, I bristle when anyone tells me how I should feel about anything. Blame it on my father’s childhood under Nazi occupation, or my post-punk childhood in suburban California. As Oscar
By 2026, the city of Turin will dedicate an exhibition space to Jewish-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi and his works within the new civic library under construction. This initiative, a collaboration between the municipal administration and the Primo …
British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley spent the last four years of his life in Italy. In his poem Julian and Maddalo, written between 1818 and 1819, Venice plays a major role. Among many places, one spot caught his …
The European Day of Jewish Culture on September 15th will be dedicated to family. And in Rome, “no place better represents this concept than the Great Synagogue, which will soon celebrate 120 years since its inauguration,” said art historian Giorgia …