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Être historien, un travail souterrain mais qui laisse une trace

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 …

Florença: “Renovação da sinagoga, toda a ajuda é preciosa”

Por 140 anos a sinagoga de Florença tem enriquecido o horizonte da cidade, com as suas formas inconfundíveis e a sua mensagem de “emancipação” após cerca de três séculos em que os judeus florentinos foram forçados a viver num gueto. …

A dialogue between parallel histories

Approaching Jewish architecture, especially regarding symbolic places such as synagogues and cemeteries, requires confronting the delicate fabric of identity. From this premise, Andrea Morpurgo, the curator with rabbi Amedeo Spagnoletto of Houses of Life – Synagogues and Cemeteries in Italy,

A millenary history of beauty, people, and cities

Among the most extraordinary pieces showcased at Case di vita. Synagogues and Cemeteries in Italy, there are a late 15th century mahazor (prayer book) from the Emilia Romagna area, shown for the first time; the Vercelli Holy Ark or chamber …

De l’Émilie-Romagne à la Ligurie, histoires juives de Résistance

Rendre aux juifs le rôle de protagonistes et pas seulement de victimes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Et rappeler au grand public l’importance des différentes formes de Résistance : pas seulement armée, mais également civile. C’est l’objectif du grand projet …

Italian Alpine Club, formal readmission for members expelled in ’38

Nobel laureates such as Franco Modigliani and Emilio Gino Segrè, famous writers like Alberto Moravia, mathematicians of the caliber of Guido Castelnuovo and architects and urbanists of the stature of Bruno Zevi. Many illustrious personalities figure on the list of …

Talmud translated into Italian, new tractate available in bookstores

The Babylonian Talmud Translation Project celebrates a new milestone: the publication of Sukkah (Hut), the eighth tractate to be printed since the beginning of the collaboration between the Jewish, the scientific, and the Italian institutions. The tractate – curated by …