Entrepreneur Guido Ottolenghi has been appointed as the new president of the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara for the next four years. The appointment, by Italy’sMinister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, is effective immediately. Daniele Ravenna, …
A well-known entrepreneur in the oil industry, Guido Ottolenghi served as president of the Jewish community of Bologna from 2005 to 2013. Since 2014, he has been the head of the local Jewish Museum, which, with its numerous annual meetings …
“It is a strange country where stamps are dedicated to individuals who were closely involved with the activities of a the Fascist government, which we know caused so much damage.” Thus, the President of the Provincial Council of Bolzano (South …
“I had long envisioned the core of the story: a country with a Muslim majority and a significant Jewish presence, the interaction between the two communities, and I wanted children as main characters,” said Benedetta D’Incau. Known as BeneDì, …
In the 600th anniversary of the first recorded Jewish presence along the River Po in 1424, Turin will serve as the flagship city among 106 Italian locations hosting meetings and initiatives for the upcoming European Day of Jewish Culture. In …
The Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) has announced that, with an order published on July 30, 2024, the Civil Court of Rome has issued a precautionary measure for the removal and prohibition of publication of messages disseminated on …
The transcriptions of ketubbot (Jewish marriage contracts) from the “Nazione Israelitica” fund housed at the State Archive of Florence, which comprises records produced by the Tribunale dei Massari and the chancellery of the Jewish nation of Florence. But also messianisms …
On July 29, 2024, Goti Herskovits Bauer, one of the last living witnesses of the Holocaust, turned 100. Born in the Czechoslovakian town of Berehove and raised in Fiume, she survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and Theresienstadt. On her birthday, UCEI President Noemi …
“Thanks to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, a true friend of Israel, for the warm welcome. We appreciate the unique relationship between Israel and Italy, especially in this difficult time,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog during his one-day mission to Rome, …
Rome’s closeness with Jerusalem, a firm condemnation of Hamas terrorism, and Italy’s commitment to regional de-escalation. These are the topics addressed by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during her meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. They also discussed the Iranian …
Parma, Italy is best known for parmesan and prosciutto, but it is also a place of Jewish pilgrimage,
Yiddishists come here, as I did last October on a YIVO tour, to visit the Palatina Library and walk in the footsteps …
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Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has discussed efforts to prevent a new war in the Middle East with his Israeli and Lebanese counterparts, Israel Katz and Bou Habib, he …
After living between Milan, Paris and the Far East, photographer Mario Troiani settled in Israel drawn by “the emotions that this country and its light awaken in me.” For Troiani, born in 1962, capturing Israel’s colors and characters was more …
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I dislike moralizing in art. In truth, I bristle when anyone tells me how I should feel about anything. Blame it on my father’s childhood under Nazi occupation, or my post-punk childhood in suburban California. As Oscar
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The European Day of Jewish Culture on September 15th will be dedicated to family. And in Rome, “no place better represents this concept than the Great Synagogue, which will soon celebrate 120 years since its inauguration,” said art historian Giorgia …
Also known as Judezmo or Judaeo, Ladino is the ancient language of the Sephardic Jews, which survived the forced expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century and the subsequent dispersion throughout the Mediterranean region. According to recent …
More than 800 manuscripts were in the running for the 37th edition of the Italo Calvino Prize, the most important prize for unpublished fiction in Italy. Founded by a group including philosopher Norberto Bobbio, the literary critic Cesare Cases, the …
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Rome, Micha Ullman’s sculpture Second Home. Jerusalem – Rome was restored to its original location near the former Jewish Roman Ghetto. The Israeli artist, internationally renowned for his works commemorating historical events …
Comme l’on sait, dans la bibliothèque de Leopardi il y avait de nombreux livres en hébreu, notamment une Bible polyglotte que le poète avait commencé à feuilleter à l’âge de 15 ans. Cette lecture avait impressionné le jeune Leopardi si …