“The most significant finding emerging from the survey Italians and Holocaust Remembrance Day: The evolution of perception from 2014 to 2025 appears to be related to declining attention. Paradoxically, at a time when attention to the Jewish world is at …
Mario Falco (1884–1943) was a professor of canon law; Carlo Foà (1880–1971) was a professor of human physiology; Giuliana Fiorentino Tedeschi (1914–2010) was an assistant in the history of the Italian language. They had vastly different lives and stories, connected …
The European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The AEPJ has been a key promoter of the European Day of Jewish Culture and numerous initiatives dedicated to highlighting over …
“A wave of emotions swept over me when the Pope came toward me with open arms and embraced me. Two thousand years of history, pain, and suffering weighed upon my heart.” With these words, the then Chief Rabbi of Rome, …
Sami Modiano, Piero Terracina, Elisa Springer. The testimony of extermination camp survivors, broadcast on screens, opened the solemn Memorial Day ceremony at the Quirinale on January 28. Present were the highest authorities of the Italian state and, most importantly, the …
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, this was emphasized by President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni in a press conference in Rome. “Holocaust Remembrance Day is not an event for Jews alone but for all of Italy …
The condition of 13 extermination camps and their sub-camps between 1944 and 1945, starting with those lesser-known in the Baltic region, is the focus of the new exhibition inaugurated at the Shoah Museum Foundation in Rome. Curated by historian Marcello …
From the Italian sport fields glory to Auschwitz. This is the tragic journey of Arpad Weisz, one of the most successful football coaches in history, winner of three national titles Weisz, as victorious as few others in his field, was …
The Day of Jewish-Christian Dialogue (17 January) has two themes this year. The Jubilee, the theme chosen for this 36th edition, but above all the Jewish world’s alarm at the continuing rift with the Catholic Church. “We are facing a …
Shortly after the announcement of the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the first hostages held by Hamas, the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), Noemi Di Segni, appealed for at least one more “ceasefire”: that …
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 …
“Years later, as he approached his eighties, Niccolò Introna would feel the need to defend himself for the first time in his life. It was as if he were on trial, not them. Particularly not the two people in question, …
Ruth’s is a kosher vegetarian restaurant next to the synagogue in Florence. Its owner for over twenty years, Tomas Simcha Jelinek, is also a vegetarian. “Everyone has been here. Even the Italian steak king, Dario Cecchini. Outside his realm, he …
After centuries of confinement in the ghetto, the granting of civil rights and freedoms offered Roman Jews the opportunity to build a grand synagogue in that very area, serving as a symbol of their historic shift toward emancipation. The synagogue …
In 2017, the Archdiocese of Palermo’s decision to grant the free use of an ecclesiastical property to establish a synagogue made headlines worldwide. The New York Times captured the moment with the headline: “500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim …
The film producer Marina Piperno, 89, and Luigi Morando Faccini, 84, are partners both in cinema and in life. They have no children. “Our legacy is our movies, they are our past, our present, and our future,” says Marina, a …
More than 1,500 rare printed volumes from the Jewish community of Mantua have been cataloged as part of the international I-TAL-YA Books project, led by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI). Architectural photographer and visual artist Giulia Flavia …
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 …
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 …