By Angelica Calò Livnè*
These days, I often think that in the 1930s, when the racist laws were promulgated, my grandparents were the same age of my children today. I have often imagined my grandfather Cesare in his thirties, …
An international conference, titled “Personal and collective trauma, sharing of points of view and professional experiences,” was to be held in Rome on June 9. It was to be a discussion between Italian, Israeli and British experts about the traumas …
Comme l’on sait, dans la bibliothèque de Leopardi il y avait de nombreux livres en hébreu, notamment une Bible polyglotte que le poète avait commencé à feuilleter à l’âge de 15 ans. Cette lecture avait impressionné le jeune Leopardi si …
Along with his colleagues Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Paolo Menozzi, Turin geneticist Alberto Piazza was credited 30 years ago with dismantling the myth of human races. “Humanity cannot be divided into races,” Piazza explained in an interview a few years …
In occasion of the Casale Comics & Games Festival, a event dedicated to comics in Piedmont region, the Fondazione Casale Ebraica (Jewish Casale Foundation) inaugurated “History, seen from above,” an exhibition dedicated to the works of Giorgio Albertini. Passionate about …
Para los aficionados al fútbol, el estadio Filadelfia de Turín representa el símbolo del Grande Torino. Aquí se ha consagrado la leyenda de los Invencibles, que terminó trágicamente el 4 de mayo de 1949. Aquí el once granate, liderado por …
As it is now well known, to the two curators’ decision, the Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale will stay closed to the public until an agreement is reached on the hostages held by Hamas and on the ceasefire. In …
Diana Di Segni is a young lecturer in Medieval Jewish and Arabic Philosophy at the University of Milan La Statale, an expert on Moses Maimonides (1138-1204). A critical edition of the Latin translation of the second book of the Dux …
A forest of wires descends from the ceiling of the Shoah Memorial in Milan. There are 1,817 of them to be exact, almost all white, and with different lengths. The audience is invited to cross them to understand the magnitude …
Psychotherapist and writer Masal Pas Bagdadi, who passed away at 86 last week, has dedicated many books to her work and life experiences. In A piedi scalzi nel kibbutz (Barefoot in the Kibbutz), published by Bompiani, she recounted her escape …