For centuries synagogues have been a defining mark of Italian cities fabric. They may be monumental as those built during the Emancipation era or occult as those going back to the period of ghettos, when the constant menace of forced …
Both a poetess and a translator, Giovanna Bemporad is a cornerstone of the Italian culture in the 20th century. A hundred years after her birth and a decade since her passing, this brilliant and unconventional; figure, who miraculously survived anti-Jewish …
When asked about his Stolpersteine, the stumbling stones scattered throughout Europe, the German artist Gunter Demnig quotes the Talmud: “A person is not forgotten until his name is”. For over thirty years now, he has been committed to commemorate individuals …
In January 2010, Rome was the first Italian city to welcome the Stolpersteine, the “stumbling stones” created by German artist Gunter Demnig to commemorate the victims of nazi-fascist persecution from where they were arrested or deported to extermination camps. These …
The lives and landscapes are “offended by the war” but the desire and need to move forward still survive. In the shots by photographer Stefano Rosselli, you can find a portrait of Ukraine today, shattered by the Russian aggression, but …
“A great silence has fallen [on the rape of Israeli women by Hamas.]” And it is painful to think that “this silence is so significant in Italy, the country I love most, but where hypocrisy is stronger than elsewhere. It …
“It has been quite a task, and I’m really happy. I am also grateful to the publisher Carocci: it wanted this volume for the ‘Studi Superiori’ series, that now also includes my Primo Levi, the only author of the twentieth …
The junction of Yad Mordechai, 4 km far from the border of the Gaza Strip, was where the artist Tamar Nissim started feeling scared. “It was 2017, and I was travelling from Tel Aviv to Be’eri to create a video …
One of the darkest pages of the Shoah in Turin has long remained unknown. On December 3, 1943, the fascist police arrested 20 Jewish women between 65 and 85 years of age in the shelter of Via Como 140 (today …
“Civil wars among the Jews were never fought with the sword, but with the pen,” Abraham B. Yehoshua argued years ago in Ferrara. During the conference “Am Ha Sefer – The People of the book. Readers and bibliophiles in Jewish …