By Daniela Gross
This is a very easy word. “Museo” (to be pronounced Moo-zay-o) is the Italian version of “Museum” – a world, by the way, derived from the Latin and the ancient Greek that means “location sacred to the …
By Daniela Gross
Maybe after World Cup fever, even if you don’t like sports, you have learned the word “calcio”. In Italy “Calcio” (to be pronounced with a sweet second “c”) is more than a national passion. Everybody knows this …
By Daniela Gross
As you can see, the Italian word for “rabbi” is not so different from the English and it is quite obvious, as both come from the common Hebrew root “rav”. To tell the truth we use the …
By Daniela Gross
In some way the word of the week is strange. The Italian word “giornata” can only be translated as “day”. But “giornata” has a nuance and perhaps this is the reason that most non Italian speakers find …
By Daniela Gross
All of us know the term “Aliyah”: it means “ascent”, the act of going up that indicates the migration from the Diaspora to Israel. It is a Hebrew word that in the recent weeks has acquired a …
By Daniela Gross
At first sight the word of the week has nothing to do with the Italian Jewry. “Viaggio” means “journey” and that’s absolutely not a specific Jewish characteristic: All the world travels, especially in the summertime. But the …
By Daniela Gross
This is a word we learn since our childhood. The best pupils know also the etymology – from the Greek verb “diaspeiro”, that means to scatter or to spread – even before to be aware what does …
By Daniela Gross
Sometimes geography reserves surprises. And if you look at the geography of the Italian Jews you can’t help but being surprised. There are in Italy 21 Jewish Communities. Seventy per cent of Italian Jewry is in fact …
By Daniela Gross
I grew up in a Jewish community in the extreme northeast of Italy, Trieste, at the border with Slovenia. We were not more than five hundred people – so, in the reality of Italian Jewry a medium …
By Daniela Gross
The 14th International Architecture Exhibition put anew Venezia (Venice) in the spotlight. That magical city, where water and light are intertwined in a so unique way, has reached an important role of reference in the global cultural …