The Union of the Italian Jewish Communities and all 21 Jewish Communities in Italy join together in an embrace with Alessandro Salonichio, president of the Jewish Community of Trieste, for the loss of his mother, Mrs. Diamantina Vivante Salonichio. A custodian and witness of the memory of the Shoah for years, Mrs. Diamantina, in November …
Ferramonti di Tarsia, na região da Calábria, foi o maior campo de concentração fascista da Itália. Entrou em funcionamento no verão de 1940 e foi a residência forçada de milhares de judeus, apátridas, eslavos e opositores ao regime por mais de três anos. O seu fim foi decretado com a chegada do Oitavo Exército britânico, …
En Roma, en la sede del Ministerio italiano de Educación y Mérito, se desveló una placa en memoria de los profesores y de los estudiantes expulsados de las escuelas hace 85 años con la promulgación por parte del fascismo de las leyes racistas. “No luchemos contra el antisemitismo y contra el racismo solo hoy, sino …
Em seu último livro “Um papa em guerra. A história secreta de Mussolini, Hitler e Pio XII”, publicado na Itália pela editora Garzanti, o prêmio Pulitzer David Kertzer fala de “provas irrefutáveis do extermínio” conhecidas por Eugenio Pacelli. No entanto, como é sabido, o papa Pio XII não pronunciou nenhuma condenação pública contra a Shoah. …
“Um matemático visionário cujo trabalho teve profundas implicações até além do seu campo de estudo.” Poucas palavras, escritas por colegas da Universidade da Pennsylvania, para explicar a importância do trabalho de Eugenio Calabi, que morreu o 25 de setembro passado aos 100 anos. Irmão de Tullia Zevi (uma figura central do judaísmo italiano do pós-guerra), …
Am 7. Oktober 1943, neun Tage bevor die römischen Juden geraubt wurden, verhafteten deutsche Fallschirmjäger und SS-Truppen über 2000 Carabinieri, die in Rom Dienst taten. Diese Initiative, gebilligt von Marschall Rodolfo Graziani, dem Verteidigungsminister der Italienischen Sozialrepublik, hatte das Ziel, die Arbeit der nationalsozialistischen Besatzer zu „erleichtern“. Man dachte nämlich, dass die Mitglieder der Carabinieri …
On September 27, 1943, the people of Naples revolted against the Nazi-Fascist occupiers. Thousands of Neapolitans from all walks of life engaged in a passionate street-by-street battle to defend their freedom and dignity: An act of Resistance that would be known as the ‘Four Days of Naples’. Thanks to the courage and resourcefulness of these …
Pius XII., rodným jménem Eugenio Pacelli, věděl o existenci vyhlazovacích táborů. Potvrzuje to nedávný objev vatikánského archiváře Giovanniho Coco, který nalezl dopis ze 14. prosince 1942 podepsaný německým jezuitou Lotharem Königem, vůdčí osobností opozice proti nacismu v Německu. V dopise zaslaném osobnímu sekretáři papeže Robertu Leiberovi, jsou zmíněny koncentrační tábory Osvětim a Dachau. A je …
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited the synagogue in Rome on Tuesday and pledged to defend Italian Jewish citizens “from all forms of antisemitism.. “With this visit, I wish to show my solidarity with the Roman and Italian Jewish community, because in the terrible scenes coming from Israel – she said – there is something …
“A História, as histórias”. É este o tema escolhido para a edição deste ano da Festa do Livro Judaico que termina em Ferrara no domingo, 15 de outubro. O festival literário concebido e organizado pelo MEIS – Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah [Museu Nacional do Judaísmo Italiano e da Shoah] dedica a sua …
Thousands of lights lit up the night in front of the Arch of Titus in Rome, which was also shining with the colours of the flag of Israel. The solidarity initiative, launched Tuesday by the Italian daily newspaper “Il Foglio” and joined by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities – UCEI and the Jewish …
Mo‘èd Qatan, i.e. ” minor holiday”. Or, literally, “little festival.” It is the title of the eleventh tractate translated into Italian as part of the Babylonian Talmud Translation Project. In this tractate, curated by Rabbi Michael Ascoli, the attention focuses on permitted and prohibited work on the intermediate days of Passover and Sukkoth. Regarding the …
Fermé depuis 2012 à la suite des dommages causés cette année-là par le séisme dans la région italienne d’Émilie-Romagne, le Musée juif de Ferrare se trouve au dernier étage du complexe muséal de Via Mazzini, où sont situées les trois synagogues de la ville. Une “chaise d’Élie” laquée verte pour la circoncision, un plateau d’argent …
Oito anos após a sua morte, o legado artístico de Eva Fischer (1920-2015) continua vivo em vários projetos e iniciativas. A mais recente é um bom livro editado pelo seu filho, Alan David Baumann, cujas páginas devolvem com bom gosto anos de empenho no âmbito do design gráfico. As obras pertencem sobretudo às décadas de …
Napoli has won its third “Scudetto”, the Italian national championship well in advance. A feat that the team hasn’t managed to achieve for no less than the last 33 years for no less than 33 years, since the days when Diego Armando Maradona made the world dream with the ball at his feet. It was …
The looting of Rome’s Jewish Community Libraries and of the Rabbinical College has been carefully planned. On 30th September 1943, the men from the Einsatztab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, one of the two Nazi organisations specialised in plundering Jewish artwork, books, and archives, carry out an initial inspection. They come back again the next day, and the …
Écrivaine culinaire et photographe, Benedetta Jasmine Guetta fait partie des vainqueurs de la dernière édition du National Jewish Book Award avec son Cooking Alla Giudia. A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy, son premier livre de cuisine en anglais. “Je voulais préparer les biscuits de Pesach, j’ai commencé à bavarder avec une dame, puis …
“Never again to a world dominated by violence, abuses, racism, cult of personality, aggressions and war. Never again to a government that crushes freedom and rights. Never again to a society that discriminates, divides, isolates, and persecutes. Never again to a culture or an ideology that sings the praises of racial superiority, intolerance, fanaticism”. From …
Im Jahr 2008 lud Elena Cattaneo, ordentliche Professorin für Pharmakologie an der Universität Mailand, die Medizin-Nobelpreisträgerin Rita Levi-Montalcini ein, um eine Rede vor tausend Studenten zu halten. “Sie sprach anderthalb Stunden lang und stand gerade vor dem Pult mit einer geschlossener Faust, als wollte sie von der Kraft zeugen, die das Altern schlägt. Irgendwann habe …
For almost a century, the synagogue of Chieri, a precious testimony of the Piedmonte baroque, has ceased its original function. Its ancient legacy is today transmitted in the spaces of Tempio Piccolo (Small Temple) of Turin, where the Tevah and the Aron Hakodesh moved there in the 1940s “seem reborn to communicate optimally with the …