Usurers, seducers, and conspirators. This is how Italian cinema portrayed Jews before the Holocaust. In his new book, documentarist filmmaker Luca Martera, an expert in historical, investigative, journalistic and audiovisual research, reconstructs this little-known aspect. Titled Usurai, seduttori e cospiratori …
Eighty years after WWII, it is increasingly rare for a living person to be recognized as a Righteous among Nations. Yet, the honor – bestowed by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, to recognize those who took great …
Three projects for the preservation and valorisation of the Jewish heritage in the Marche Region. This is what the Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy (FBCEI) has proposed together with the Community of Ancona, where the FBCEI Board of …
Italian top state officials and leaders of the Roman Jewish Community commemorated the victims of the WWII Ardeatine Caves massacre on the southern outskirts of Rome on March 24. Italian President Sergio Mattarella laid a wreath and read the names …
From now on the Shoah Memorial in Milan can count on a new financial support. Thanks to the collaboration between the Italian Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of University, and to a cross-party amendment voted …
As of March 1, Umberto Piperno is the new Chief Rabbi of Leghorn (Tuscany). Born in Rome in 1961, he was ordained a rabbi in 1983 and in the same year was appointed by Rabbi Elio Toaff as coordinator of …
On Purim, a delegation from Or Lamishpachot (Light to the Families), an Israeli non-profit organization supporting families of fallen soldiers and victims of terrorist attacks, returned to Rome for the seventh time. Of the 64 parents welcomed at the Great …
Polish skier Bronislaw Czech was involved in the anti-Nazi resistance; German cyclist Harry Seidel helped more than 100 people escape from East Germany during Communist subjugation; Emil and Dana Zatopek, two track and field champions, distinguished themselves for supporting the …
Roberto (Roby) Bassi, an esteemed figure in the Italian and European Jewish world, passed away on March 1. Born in Venice, he was a professor of dermatology. The author of numerous scientific works, he was one of the pioneers of …
In the late 1960s, Jack Stroumsa, director of the Jerusalem Municipality’s Public Lighting Department, met a young Italian engineer named Gianfranco Yohanan Di Segni. Both were olim hadashim – new immigrants to Israel. Born in Rome in 1941, Di Segni …