*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
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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 …
Italian scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1986, used to recount that “imperfection has always allowed continuous mutations of that marvelous yet imperfect mechanism which is the human brain.” This thought forms the basis …
28.9% of the students in Italy who faced this year’s first session of the high school graduation exam chose Anne Frank. Or, more precisely, an excerpt by Maurizio Caminito from Profiles, selfies, and blogs citing Anne Frank’s diary. So are …
Also known as Judezmo or Judaeo, Ladino is the ancient language of the Sephardic Jews, which survived the forced expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century and the subsequent dispersion throughout the Mediterranean region. According to recent …
“This historical era has one problem among many: prophets are missing.” Marek Halter is one of Europe’s most influential intellectuals. Born in Warsaw in 1936, he fled with his parents from the horror of the ghetto established by Nazis along …
Dario Disegni was chosen for a new term as president of the Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy – FBCEI by the foundation’s new board of directors, installed last week in Rome. He will be joined by two vice …
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Rome, Micha Ullman’s sculpture Second Home. Jerusalem – Rome was restored to its original location near the former Jewish Roman Ghetto. The Israeli artist, internationally renowned for his works commemorating historical events …