Diana Di Segni is a young lecturer in Medieval Jewish and Arabic Philosophy at the University of Milan La Statale, an expert on Moses Maimonides (1138-1204). A critical edition of the Latin translation of the second book of the Dux …
A forest of wires descends from the ceiling of the Shoah Memorial in Milan. There are 1,817 of them to be exact, almost all white, and with different lengths. The audience is invited to cross them to understand the magnitude …
Psychotherapist and writer Masal Pas Bagdadi, who passed away at 86 last week, has dedicated many books to her work and life experiences. In A piedi scalzi nel kibbutz (Barefoot in the Kibbutz), published by Bompiani, she recounted her escape …
The Remembr-House/Case di Memoria project, promoted by the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara, along with the Compagnia di San Paolo’s 1563 Foundation for Art and Culture, aims to raise awareness about the years of Nazi-Fascist …
In the coming months, the Italian Touring Club, in collaboration with the Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy – FBCEI, will publish a guide to some of the most relevant Jewish sites in the country. It should be released …
After several months, the facade and left tower of the Synagogue of Florence have finally been cleared of the scaffolding. The end of a restoration set off by the finding of some structural fragilities has officially been certified with a …
“79% of Jewish victims of antisemitic violence have never reported it and this is what ENMA is also for. If successful, the platform’s comparability of transnational data on antisemitism will also help decision-makers in European countries.” With these words, the …
Between the Marche, Abruzzo and Umbria regions of Italy, 57 Jewish partisans fought during WWII against the Nazi-Fascists. «In these regions the Nazi occupation lasted a year. They were marked, especially Abruzzo, by the construction of the Gustav German defence …
Two students graduated last week obtaining a Union of the Italian Jewish Communities university degree in Jewish studies. In her paper Miryam Bahar offers an in-depth study on “proverbs in Judeo-Spanish with words in Turkish in the Ottoman Empire.” Sandro …
Hosted by the Shoah Museum Foundation in Rome and organized by the historian Marcello Pezzetti, the exhibition “The Enemy Race” compares the Nazi antisemitic propaganda with the Fascist one. The exhibition is built around stereotypes and distorted interpretations of historical …