“This historical era has one problem among many: prophets are missing.” Marek Halter is one of Europe’s most influential intellectuals. Born in Warsaw in 1936, he fled with his parents from the horror of the ghetto established by Nazis along …
By Daniel Reichel
One of the hardest times for Rabbi Mayer Stambler, head of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Ukraine, was March 2022. Russia’s aggression had just started. The gloomiest predictions – back then considered the most credible ones …
Von Adam Smulevich
“La piuma del ghetto” (Die Feder des Ghettos) ist ein Buch, das man verschlingt. Dies erscheint beim Gallucci Verlag und ist das letzte Werk von Antonello Capurso. Er ist ein Journalist, Schriftsteller und Bühnenautor, der viele Streifzüge …
By Daniel Reichel
A patient reading of hundreds of letters that Ri – this was Rita Levi-Montalcini’s nickname as a child – sent to her family. In particular the correspondence with her father Adamo, an engineer who moved from Turin …
Soixante-treize ans pour faire face à son passé. Ce sont ceux que Israel Corrado De Benedetti, juif de Ferrare né en 1927, a dû attendre pour remettre pied dans la cellule où, à l’âge de quinze ans, a été enfermé …
“Je me sentais trahi par l’Italie: c’était pas deux fascistes qui m’avaient arrêté, mais deux gendarmes en uniforme. Et puis, en Israël on voulait construire une société et un Pays meilleurs.” Israel Corrado De Benedetti racontait ainsi à Pagine Ebraiche, …
Renzo Gattegna, former president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities – UCEI, died in Rome last week. A civil lawyer, he was born in 1939 in Rome and had been president of UCEI from 2006 to 2016 for three …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
Aged 92, Alberto Mieli, also known as Zi Pucchio, passed away last week. He was among the last Italian witnesses of the Shoah. Born in Rome on December 22, 1925, he was caught by the Fascists …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff
Eliezer Tritto, a leader of the Jewish community from Sannicandro di Puglia just passed away a few days ago. He was 89 years old.
Tritto, who lived in Zfat where he ran a legendary falafel kiosk, …
By Danielle Rockman*
Once in an interview, Primo Levi said, “I am a chemist. But my existence was marked by two fundamental facts. The first is imprisonment at Auschwitz. The second is having written about my imprisonment at Auschwitz.”
In …