Almost 8,000 Jewish citizens from 13 European countries participated in the latest survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights – FRA, highlighting significant concerns about rising antisemitism in the Old Continent. FRA’s third survey on discrimination and hate crime …
Twenty-three works of Jewish art created before World War II form the exhibition “La notte dipingevo quadri rossi” (At night I painted red pictures), set in the premises of the former Scola Grande synagogue in Trani, in the Apulia region, …
“I always thought it was better to go through hell at work than live in paradise at home,” recalled Fouad Blanga to Pagine Ebraiche in 2011. At the age of 85, he continued to go to his factory in Tribiano, …
“Bring them home now.” Nine months after Hamas pogroms, more than 120 hostages are still in the hands of terrorists. On July 7, the Union of Young Italian Jews (UGEI) staged a flashmob in Piazza Duomo in Florence in front …
The start of the Tour de France, the annual multiple-stage bicycle race which this year originated in Florence, was dedicated to Gino Bartali. To honor the Tuscan champion recognized in 2013 as a “Righteous Among the Nations” (the honor given …
Over twenty Italian universities have endorsed the “National Manifesto for the Right to Education.” The core of the manifesto, presented in Milan and initiated by university students, calls for moving beyond the attempts of a minority of university peers—associated with …
28.9% of the students in Italy who faced this year’s first session of the high school graduation exam chose Anne Frank. Or, more precisely, an excerpt by Maurizio Caminito from Profiles, selfies, and blogs citing Anne Frank’s diary. So are …
By 2026, the city of Turin will dedicate an exhibition space to Jewish-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi and his works within the new civic library under construction. This initiative, a collaboration between the municipal administration and the Primo …
For the first time in ten years, the flags of Keshet Italia, the organization representing Italian LGBTQ+ Jews, did not fly at the Pride events in Rome and Milan. “The decision not to participate was difficult, but necessary. The atmosphere …
The center-left candidate Sara Funaro will be the new mayor of Florence. Her competitor, former director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt, running for the center-right, lagged significantly behind in the polls. Born in Florence in 1976 and of Jewish …
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 …
*By David Jager
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Forty-four figures – from Ugo Ancona of Ferrara to Alessandro Lustig Piacezzi of Trieste – show the relevant contribution that left a mark in the events after the unification of Italy in 1861, at least until the fascist regime’s antisemitism …
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 …