“In Trieste, where sorrows abound amidst the beauty of sky and land, there is a slope called Via del Monte. It begins with a synagogue,” wrote the poet Umberto Saba in his youth, between 1910 and 1912. Years later, not …
“I’ve been telling my story in schools for 60 years. Recently, I injured myself, so now I mostly do it through Zoom. But it is always worth it.” Holocaust survivor and writer Edith Bruck received applause from dozens of young …
For the past three decades, Italian composer and pianist Francesco Lotoro has been on a mission to rescue music pieces composed in concentration, labor and POW camps in Germany and elsewhere between 1933 and 1953. He documents his findings in …
A detailed assessment of the current state of Jewish catacombs from Venosa, followed by those in Rome, Malta, Sicily, and Sardinia, is the primary goal of the international conference Jewish Catacombs in Italy : Research, Experiences, and Methodologies, organized by …
Livorno in Tuscany is primarily known for a congress, the one held from January 15 to 21, 1921, which marked the major split within the Socialist left and the birth of the Italian Communist Party. Three years later, from November …
A disease is spreading through the Western world: wokism, a form of self-hatred, now directed at Israel. This was the shared perspective among speakers at the Rome presentation of Italian journalist Fiamma Nirenstein’s latest book, La guerra antisemita contro l’Occidente …
On December 7 in Milan, the traditional ceremony for the Ambrogino d’Oro awards, the city’s highest civic honor, will take place. Among this year’s candidates are Walker Meghnagi, president of the Jewish Community of Milan, and Roberto Cenati, former president …
Giorgio Salvatore Ottolenghi, president emeritus of the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato, in the Piedmont region, has passed away at the age of 101. He led the small community for an uninterrupted 62 years, from 1958 to 2020, playing a …
The promotion of Jewish life and the fight against antisemitism. On these two pillars the Council of Europe based its recently approved declaration addressing the dramatic increase in antisemitism across the Old Continent as a consequence of October 7. The …
The goal was to strip away the rhetoric surrounding Liliana Segre. To move beyond the “very Italian” attempt to turn her into a symbol. And to let her speak today, offering the public a faithful portrait of her story and …