The exhibition “Houses of life – Synagogues and cemeteries in Italy”, recently inaugurated at the MEIS – National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara devotes a significant attention to events and testimonies of Jewish Rome. From the …
The Italian Synagogue, built in 1575, is one of the five synagogues in the ancient Venice Ghetto. It is a symbol of the Jewish-Venetian identity, recognisable also by the five windows that recall the Great German Synagogue and by the …
Born in 2014, the Viktor Ullmann Festival aims at bringing back to life works by Jews and non-Jew composers persecuted by Nazi fascism for their cultural commitment, their artistic activity, and their identity. The music festival, set in Trieste, opened …
“The commitment of this award is more necessary than ever in order to make people aware of our world, without those filters and distortions that are difficult to extirpate even in unsuspecting people. But also by reading what the students …
Las líneas directrices para contrarrestar el antisemitismo son un presidio de importancia fundamental en los distintos ámbitos en los que estas se reflejan. Entre estos ámbitos, cabe destacar el de la educación que, a partir del otoño pasado, es objeto …
La Constitution italienne, rédigée à la suite de la dictature fasciste et de la persécution antijuive, est le fondement de la démocratie italienne. L’article 3 est sa pierre angulaire en stipulant l’égalité et le respect de la dignité de tous …
Historienne de la Shoah de renommée internationale, organisatrice du projet de reconstruction des noms des juifs arrêtés en Italie par les nazi-fascistes, l’historienne Liliana Picciotto a associé son nom à celui de la Fondation CDEC de Milan pour le compte …
Die internationale Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst “Arte in Memoria” (Kunst im Gedenken) ist wieder da. Die von Adachiara Zevi konzipierte und kuratierte Ausstellung befindet sich auf dem Gelände der Synagoge der antiken Stadt Ostia, nämlich der ältesten Synagoge des Westens …
Aktion Reinhardt, the Nazi plan that murdered about 1.7 million Jews and an unknown number of Poles, Roma, and Soviet prisoners of war in German-occupied Poland, is the focus of a new exhibition by the Museum of the Shoah Foundation …
Every year rabbis from all over the world travel to the southern region of Calabria to get a special type of etrog (citron) for Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles commemorating the Jews wandering in the desert after flying Egypt. A …