By Rachel Silvera To attend a lecture by Fania Oz, daughter of the prominent Israeli writer Amos, herself a writer and an historian, or a concert by the Israeli singer Idan Raichel. To taste food samples from traditional Jewish Roman cuisine, from the famous carciofo alla giudia (fried artichoke) to the zucchini concia. To discover …
By Daniel Reichel “This year we have a double theme: freedom and women”, explained on Sunday Rabbis Alfonso Arbib during the presentation of Jewish and the City, the international festival of Jewish Culture of Milan, whose title is “Pesach, the long Journey towards Freedom”. The second day of the Festival has coincided with the European …
By Rossella Tercatin Four nights and three days of lectures, performances, concerts, workshops at a dozen different locations. Milan Jewish Festival Jewish and the City will take place from Saturday evening September 13 to Tuesday September 16, offering all of these and much more. This year edition main theme will be the story of Pesach …
By Jonathan Gottschall* During last Friday’s lecture in Mantua, at the Festivaletteratura, probably the best known literary festival in Italy, Jonathan Gottschall has explained how fiction is the most “ancient and powerful virtual reality technology, and it simulates the great dilemmas of human life.” Professor of English, literary exponent of Darwinism, prolific author, Gottschall writes …
By Ada Treves At the end of the Summer, in Italy many are the culture festivals that take place everywhere and year after year the presence of Jewish culture and of Israeli authors is growing in their programmes. From the Festivaletteratura in Mantua to Pordenonelegge and Torinospiritualità, September is truly a month for books and …
By Simone Somekh* As the new Jewish year slowly gets closer, the Jewish communities in Italy prepare to kick off the fall calendar with a relatively recent tradition – the European Day of Jewish Culture. The international festival, which is reaching its 15th edition this year, is set to take place on Sunday, September 14th …
By Rossella Tercatin “If the trip goes on like this, nobody will be willing to go back home!”. The comment made by Noemi Ascarelli and Diletta Camerini is pretty common among people who are attending Taglit-Birthright Israel, an educational trip which offers young adults (aged 18-26) from all over the world the opportunity to visit …
By Alain Elkann* Since the beginning of the war I have spoken twice to Aharon Appelfeld. He is sort of secluded in his home in a little village close to Jerusalem. When there is the alarm he goes into his cellar with his wife, like everybody else does these days in Israel. When I asked …
Music, performances, stands selling Jewish specialties and books. The Jewish Community of Bologna has invited all the citizens for a very special festival celebrating the encounter with Jewish culture. On June 9th, hundreds of people gathered in the neighborhood around the synagogue for the first night of Bolanià. “We are willing to turn our synagogues …
By Adam Smulevich The small Jewish Community of Merano in South Tyrol celebrated in the past few hours a unique, almost historical event: a new Bar Mitzvah, the second after Word War II. Standing at the Tevah, the 13 years old Nathan Menachem Aron Armani (his brother Aaron Levi also celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in …
By Rossella Tercatin “Europe or not, it is time to change”. In an interview published on the June issue of Pagine Ebraiche, Luigi Zingales, the prominent Italian economist teaching at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, explained his views on the issues affecting Italy and the whole Euro-zone, and the possible solutions in …
By Simone Somekh* The second edition of Balagan Café, a Jewish culture festival taking place in front of the majestic synagogue of Florence, is set to start on June 12th. The project, designed by musician and klezmer expert Enrico Fink, aims to open the Jewish community to the vibrant cultural life of Florence. With a …
By Ada Treves The loss of memory and of the sense of history that affect dramatically the era in which we live, have prompted local institutions in Trieste – the Municipality, the Department of Humanities of the University of Trieste, and the Jewish Community – to promote the establishment of a permanent laboratory on the …
By Rossella Tercatin Talmud and social network. Zionism and Jewish ethics, music and theatre. Limmud Conference, the organization focused on Jewish education in all its forms, is about to deliver its first event in Italy. The first Limmud Italia Day is set to take place in Florence on Sunday and Monday, June 1st and 2nd, …
By Ada Treves
The numbers of the Turin International Bookfair are impressive, and the goal of 400,000 visitors seems now possible. The Salone internazionale del Libro di Torino lasts five days, and already in the opening day the trend was clear, the affluence being 6 per cent higher than last year. Pagine Ebraiche, the newspaper of Italian Jewry is present for the fifth year, guest of the organization, as it has been since 2009, when its first number was presented in this same occasion, and distributed in thousands of copies.
By Ada Treves The difficulty of publishing and its importance to minority cultures will be the theme of the roundtable organized by Pagine Ebraiche at the Turin International Bookfair and moderated by its editor-in-chief, Guido Vitale, Coordinator of the departments of Information and Culture of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities. It twill be held …
By Daniel Reichel Thousands of people gathered in the city of Ferrara on Saturday night in order to attend the opening of the “Festa del Libro ebraico in Italia” (Italian Jewish Book Fair). Not only book presentations and conferences, but also concerts, culinary events, guided tours of the Jewish itineraries of Ferrara, will animate the …
By Sharon Reichel The city of Ferrara is getting ready to host, from April 26th to May 1rst, the fifth edition of the Festa del Libro Ebraico in Italia, the established Jewish book fair organized by Fondazione MEIS (the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah Foundation). The Festa del Libro Ebraico aims to …
By Simone Somekh The cultural festival Jewish and the City is reportedly set to take over Milan, Italy, for its second edition on September 13-16. The festival, which debuted last year in the cultural agenda of the vibrant Italian city, is a four-day event and seeks to give a thorough look at contemporary Judaism through …
by Rossella Tercatin “Moked,” the great annual conference of Italian Jewry, will be held from May 1st to May 4th, 2014, in the traditional location of Milano Marittima on the Adriatic Sea. “Moked” (i.e. focus in Hebrew) is organized by the Department of Education and Culture of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities and it …