By Jonathan Gottschall*
During last Friday’s lecture in Mantua, at the Festivaletteratura, probably the best known literary festival in Italy, Jonathan Gottschall has explained how fiction is the most “ancient and powerful virtual reality technology, and it simulates the great …
By Ada Treves
At the end of the Summer, in Italy many are the culture festivals that take place everywhere and year after year the presence of Jewish culture and of Israeli authors is growing in their programmes. From the …
By Simone Somekh*
As the new Jewish year slowly gets closer, the Jewish communities in Italy prepare to kick off the fall calendar with a relatively recent tradition – the European Day of Jewish Culture.
The international festival, which is …
By Rossella Tercatin
“If the trip goes on like this, nobody will be willing to go back home!”.
The comment made by Noemi Ascarelli and Diletta Camerini is pretty common among people who are attending Taglit-Birthright Israel, an educational trip …
By Alain Elkann*
Since the beginning of the war I have spoken twice to Aharon Appelfeld. He is sort of secluded in his home in a little village close to Jerusalem. When there is the alarm he goes into his …
Music, performances, stands selling Jewish specialties and books. The Jewish Community of Bologna has invited all the citizens for a very special festival celebrating the encounter with Jewish culture. On June 9th, hundreds of people gathered in the neighborhood around …
By Adam Smulevich
The small Jewish Community of Merano in South Tyrol celebrated in the past few hours a unique, almost historical event: a new Bar Mitzvah, the second after Word War II.
Standing at the Tevah, the 13 years …
By Rossella Tercatin 
“Europe or not, it is time to change”. In an interview published on the June issue of Pagine Ebraiche, Luigi Zingales, the prominent Italian economist teaching at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, explained his …
By Simone Somekh*
The second edition of Balagan Café, a Jewish culture festival taking place in front of the majestic synagogue of Florence, is set to start on June 12th.
The project, designed by musician and klezmer expert Enrico Fink, …
By Ada Treves
The loss of memory and of the sense of history that affect dramatically the era in which we live, have prompted local institutions in Trieste – the Municipality, the Department of Humanities of the University of Trieste, …