Silent Splendor
By Daniela Gross
Today, more than ever, we need to remember how rich the weave of languages, cultures, and habits can be. Journalistic help comes to us from the last issue of the New York Times Style Magazine. With its …
Italian Word of the Week
Unheeded Signals
By Daniela Gross
“We thought we could get away with a million people walking on Paris’s boulevards, last January, after the manslaughter at Charlie Hebdo, all together, all of us repeating ‘Je suis Charlie’, and later forgetting, removing what happened, …
A Fascist Cake
By Daniela Gross
Would you like a birthday cake with Nazi and fascist symbols? Most people would say no, and most of us would be horrified by the idea. But a senior official in the northern Italian region of Veneto, …
Star & Stripes
By Daniela Gross
Primo Levi just became the first Italian author to have his complete work, including unpublished writings, translated in English and put into print by a single publisher. This has never happened before: not even for Dante, Machiavelli, …
The Jewish Brigade
By Daniela Gross
The Jewish Brigade, which decidedly contributed to the liberation of Italy during the Second World War, comes back into the spotlight. Last Wednesday, on the Fatto Quotidiano, Furio Colombo expressed his support for a law proposal aimed …
The Perfect Citron
By Daniela Gross
The Search for the Perfect Citron Strengthens the Ties with Jews. Rabbis and Farmers on the Tirrenian coast: Harvesting is a Rite.” Given that Sukkoth is already over, this headline might sound strange. However, in these days …
On the Front Line
By Daniela Gross
“In Milan, the Jewish commitment is made plain in the ongoing work at the Milan Holocaust Memorial where thousands of migrants and refugees have found a safe, free place to spend the night.” On October 2, the …
SUMMER BOOKS Con le peggiori intenzioni
By Daniela Gross
This book was the successful literary debut of Alessandro Piperno, who won the Campiello Prize with it in 2005 and came to the national spotlight. “Con le peggiori intenzioni” – which means “with the worst intentions” – …
SUMMER BOOKS Conta le stelle, se puoi
By Daniela Gross
Moise Levi is 23 years old, when he leaves Fossano for Turin in search of fortune, bringing with him only a chariot full of rags. He will start an incredibly successful clothing trade, will get married, have …
SUMMER BOOKS Lessico famigliare
By Daniela Gross
Family Sayings – as it translates in English – is a semi-biographical, ironic, and delicate chronicle of the daily life of an Italian Jewish family between 1920-1950. Natalia Ginzburg tells us about her father, the renowned histologist …