Hosted by the Shoah Museum Foundation in Rome and organized by the historian Marcello Pezzetti, the exhibition “The Enemy Race” compares the Nazi antisemitic propaganda with the Fascist one. The exhibition is built around stereotypes and distorted interpretations of historical …
“La casa sul Nilo” (“The House on the Nile”) by Denise Pardo and “Under the Jujube Tree” by Gila Almagor (Acquario publisher) are the winning works of the 24th edition of the Adei Wizo “Adelina Della Pergola” literary prize in …
“One day I stayed away rather too long, wandering around on the city walls with a gang of boys I’d made friends with, who gave me rides on the bars of their bikes, and when I got home I found …
On October 18, 1943, Rome’s police chief Giovanni Travaglio informed the Ministry of the Interior that the train “with 28 wagons” in which were crammed the more than 1,000 Roman Jews captured in the previous hours by the Nazi-Fascists had …
About two thousand university professors throughout Italy have signed on to boycott relations with Israeli universities. About sixty or so teach at the University of Turin, which is at the center of national headlines after the academic Senate ended a …
Los Maestros enseñan que “todas las fiestas algún día se anularán, mientras que los días de Purim permanecerán eternamente”. Por lo tanto, el Purim constituye una celebración especial en la tradición judía. Igual de especial es la historia de su …
In collaboration with the Museum of the Liberation of Rome in via Tasso, in 2016 the University of Rome Tor Vergata created and launched the virtual platform ViBiA (Virtual Biographical Archive) with the aim of learning more about the stories …
The roots of the Ospedale Israelitico (Israelitic Hospital) go back centuries. In 1600, almost half a century after Roman Jews were confined to the ghetto, a first Opera Pia Ebraica (Jewish Religious Charity) was set up. Its purpose was to …
“Sotah” (Suspected adulteress) will be released in bookstores on March 22. This is the tenth tractate of the Babylonian Talmud to be translated into Italian in accordance with the memorandum of understanding signed in 2011 by State institutions and the …
One day, a friend of Francesco Maria Colombo showed him some pictures of the synagogue of Casale Monferrato. “I was impressed by its beauty and by the fact that I had never heard of it before. I asked myself, as …