Ada Treves* Die erste Tat der Podiumsrunde mit dem Titel “Teilnahme und Staatsbürgerschaft heute: die Herausforderungen der Aufnahme“, die eine zentrale Veranstaltung des Festes des Jüdischen Buches von Ferrara 2017 war, war die Unterzeichnung des Vereinbarungsprotokolls durch das Meis, das Nationale Museum des Italienischen Judentums und der Shoah und durch das Miur, das Ministerium für …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff* “At this historic stage, it is important to conduct an interreligious dialogue that must be based on two theoretical points: do not persecute anyone in God’s name, do not kill in God’s name.” This is the message that the Minister of the Interior Marco Minniti has sent from the synagogue of …
Pagine Ebraiche staff* As it has become tradition, the inauguration of the European Day of Jewish Culture in Rome goes together with the beginning of the events of the International Festival of Jewish Literature and Culture (this year in its tenth edition). Therefore, there were two locations for attending the events for the traditional Night …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff For the fourth year in a row, a Limmud event took place in Florence, Italy in the first week of June. Based on the format started in the United Kingdom over thirty years ago, Limmud events bring together thousands of participants from all over the world to many different locations …
By Daniel Reichel The Economics Festival of Trento took place last week focusing on health inequalities. For the occasion, the Italian Jewish newspaper published a special issue on the topic this month. Can a global network of kidney exchange be the answer to saving human lives and reducing inequalities in the healthcare system? …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff The thirteenth edition of the festival èStoria, closed on May 28, has brought Gorizia’s culture festival far beyond the borders of the region, to enter the Italian cultural calendar. The city is located in the Isonzo region, once a controversial strategic place of elegance between Mittel-Europe and Italy, and the forger …
By Adam Smulevich For the first time, the Italian Jewish community officially celebrates Yom Yerushalaim, the anniversary of the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem under Jewish control. The special anniversary, the 50th, will be at the center of several events including a concert on May 23 at the Trajan Market. The market is a …
By Daniel Reichel The Mokéd 5777, the traditional convention of Italian Jewry that takes place every spring in Milano Marittima, is dedicated this year to the Exodus of the Jews from the Arab world and the 50th anniversary of this painful occurrence. Organized by the Culture and Education Area of the Union of …
By Daniel Reichel A growing number of people are becoming interested in the activities of the Milan Holocaust Memorial. “For the first time, the Holocaust Memorial has hosted four activities in a single day with more than 800 visitors taking part in them,” said the vice president of the Memorial Foundation Roberto Jarach, speaking about …
By Rossella Tercatin A conference to remember British Detention Camps set in Cyprus after World War II will be held on the island later this week. The conference will focus on the children born in the camps, where their parents were held after attempting to reach Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust. …
By Pagine Ebraiche Staff The great Israeli cartoonist Asaf Hanuka and Italian writer Roberto Saviano are working together on a graphic novel about the Italian author’s story, which will be published in 2017. The news, after the anticipation by Pagine Ebraiche, has found a new confirmation by Giovanni Russo, head of Lucca Comics festival and …
By Ada Treves September, in Italy, means culture festivals. After the Festivaletteratura in Mantua, as usual, opened the month (this year with Mantua selected as the Italian Capital for Culture 2016), last week, it was time for Pordenonelegge, “la festa del libro con gli autori” (the book party, with the authors). Even if the location …
By Rossella Tercatin The 2016 European Day of Jewish Culture is coming up, and, as for usual, Italy is going to be among the countries with the highest number of events and locations taking part in it. This year edition will investigate the topic of Jewish languages and dialects: Hebrew, but also Yiddish, Ladino, …
By Francesca Matalon The 8th edition of Redazione Aperta, the two-week journalistic workshop held annually by the newsroom of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), ended on Friday. This year, for the first time, the group was composed of the journalists and their special guests. They worked for one week in Trieste and for …
By Rossella Tercatin Historian Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, the new director of the Center of Jewish Contemporary Documentation (CDEC) in Milan, and Simonetta Della Seta, who heads the Museo dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah (MEIS – Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah) in Ferrara participated in the debate that inaugurated the annual Pagine Ebraiche seminar …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff Italy and the Italian Jewish community join the rest of the world in mourning the Shoah survivor, writer and Nobel peace prize winner, Elie Wiesel, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 87. “Wiesel worked ceaselessly to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, to fight indifference, lying …
By Francesca Matalon With the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Libyan Jews in Rome approaching, many events are being held in the city to remember their escape from this Arab country in 1967 and their integration in Italy. The University of Rome 3 hosted an international conference on, Italy and Italian Jews in Colonial …
By Pagine Ebraiche Staff A ceremony to honor the Jewish Brigade was held at the War Cemetery in the village of Piangipane, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The cemetery contains hundreds of Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, including those of the Jewish Infantry Brigade group, which played an important role in the …
By Pagine Ebraiche staff The culture festival “Jewish in the City” opened in Milan on Sunday. Hundreds of people gathered at the historic site Rotonda della Besana which is a large edifice with a vast portico completed in the first half of the 18th century. They were there to take part in the event, …
By Francesca Matalon The cultural festival “Jewish in the City” will take place in Milan on May 29-31. The theme chosen for this third edition is the 150th anniversary of the Milan Jewish Community, which was established in 1866. The aim of the festival is not only to spread Jewish culture, tradition and universal …