By Colby Robbins
Throughout the course of history some of the greatest works of art and literature have been overlooked by the public when they were first created. This is certainly the case for Italo Svevo whose most well-known work, …
By Lindsay Shedlin
Gillo Pontecorvo did not go to synagogue every Friday, or observe all the holidays. He was not a “perfect Jew,” but he was an innovative one. Gillo was born in 1919 in Pisa, Italy, into a large …
By Michael Sierra
Menashe Kadishman, a major Israeli artist also known in Italy as “the shepherd of the Venice Biennale” passed away on Friday at the age of 82.
Kadishman’s artworks are exhibited in central locations and in many galleries …
By Michael Sierra
It is said that there is always a first time. And the first few times it is also said that they are special: the first love, the first kiss, the first child, the first word. In this …
By Francesca Matalon
The new board of the Italian Union of Jewish Students (UGEI) elected last week in Milan is a breath of fresh air for Italian Jewish youth (there had not been a board since the Congress which took …
By Jazmine Pignatello*
Rita Levi-Montalcini was born to a wealthy Italian Jewish family in Turin in 1909. Although she had literary aspirations early in life, she was inspired to become a doctor after the loss of a close family friend …
By Lauren Waldman*
“Historians are supposed to be discoverers of truths,” this simple adage by Arnaldo Momigliano can help us understand his drive to investigate the history of the ancient world.
Momigliano was an Italian Jew, which already gave him …
By Sabina Muccigrosso*
“In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once” (Garden of the Finzi-Continis, 1962). And die more than once was what Giorgio Bassani did, if you consider each …