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<\/a> \u201cJews in twentieth-century Italy,\u201d the newly opened exhibition at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah \u2013 MEIS in Ferrara, begins with Italian Jews\u2019 acquisition of full rights at the end of 19th century, retraces the troubled events of the \u201cshort century\u201d and even casts a glance into the new millennium. Curated by Vittorio Bo and Mario Toscano, this temporary exhibition is the fourth part of the MEIS permanent exhibit and focuses on one hundred years of history with particular attention to \u201cthe challenges of an era, the wounds, the rebirth and the evolution of the concept of citizenship.\u201d It consists of seven sections and is enriched by contemporary artworks, photographs from public and private archives, historical documents and family objects.
\nAn original copy of the Albertine Statute opens the exhibit. The statute is the symbol of an era of possibilities that Fascism would betray with the racist laws of 1938. Such exhibition could not but deal with the Shoah and the Italian responsibilities in its fulfilment, from the initial persecution of rights to the persecution of lives that came as a consequence. The exhibit is also about the contribution of the Jewish world after the Holocaust, from the laborious post-war reconstruction to the instances and stimuli of the present times.
\n\u201cThis is an exhibition that has much to tell, it raises questions and invites reflection. We need to understand what the 20th century meant for Italian Jews, keeping in mind that knowledge remains the strongest antidote to prejudice,\u201d said MEIS president Dario Disegni presenting the exhibition to the press with director Amedeo Spagnoletto, curators Vittorio Bo and Mario Toscano and architect Antonio Ravalli, who took care of the exhibition design. \u201cWe live in terrible times after all, with a virulent resurgence of antisemitism,\u201d Disegni pointed out. \u201cWhat we want to give, also because of this, is a testimony of knowledge and culture.\u201d
\nThe exhibition \u201caims to provide a broad and articulate overview of the Jewish condition in Italy during the 20th century, with an awareness of the extraordinary richness and frightening drama of this tragic,\u201d the curators point out in the introductory essay of the exhibition\u2019s catalogue. In this sense, \u201cthe specific Italian affair is rooted in the great history of the century,\u201d and the guiding criterion of the narrative \u201cis represented by the transformations of the contents of the concept of citizenship in the transitions between liberal regime, fascist dictatorship and democratic republic.\u201d An approach that allows to focus at the same time on \u201cthe choices and responsibilities of the State and civil society during this century\u201d and the responses by the Jewish minority, “which must be seen in its facets and complexity.”
\nJews in twentieth-century Italy also features a multimedia table, at the end of which a video station continuously projects reflections by authoritative figures in Italian society on the meaning of the word citizenship, starting with Italian President Mattarella, who granted the Quirinale medal to the exhibition. In the video, he explains that citizenship is synonymous with coexistence, urging people to keep in mind that \u201cone’s own freedom, one’s own wellbeing, cannot be really full if others do not also have adequate freedom and live in adequate conditions.\u201d
\nCitizenship means Constitution, observed Senator for Life and Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre recalling that within a century, overcoming “the tragic wave that from San Rossore (where in 1938 King Victor Emmanuel III signed one the first decrees supporting discrimination against Jews in Italy) hurled us against the gates of Auschwitz,” we went from Article 24 of the Statuto Albertino “in which all subjects were equal before the law” to the “unsurpassed formulation of Article 3 of the Constitution.”
\nThe above-mentioned article is \u201cabout both formal and substantial equality\u201d. And it is also a guarantee \u201cof a future.\u201d That same future that all Italian Jews aspire to. During the press conference, Vittorio Bo expressed the hope that young visitors \u201cwon\u2019t feel differences, except the ones that each one brings of himself.”<\/p>\nTranslated by Alida Caccia, student from the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of the University of Trieste, trainee in the newsroom of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities \u2013 Pagine Ebraiche.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cJews in twentieth-century Italy,\u201d the newly opened exhibition at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah \u2013 MEIS in Ferrara, begins with Italian Jews\u2019 acquisition of full rights at the end of 19th century, retraces the troubled events of the \u201cshort century\u201d and even casts a glance into the new millennium. 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<\/a> \u201cJews in twentieth-century Italy,\u201d the newly opened exhibition at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah \u2013 MEIS in Ferrara, begins with Italian Jews\u2019 acquisition of full rights at the end of 19th century, retraces the troubled events of the \u201cshort century\u201d and even casts a glance into the new millennium. Curated by Vittorio Bo and Mario Toscano, this temporary exhibition is the fourth part of the MEIS permanent exhibit and focuses on one hundred years of history with particular attention to \u201cthe challenges of an era, the wounds, the rebirth and the evolution of the concept of citizenship.\u201d It consists of seven sections and is enriched by contemporary artworks, photographs from public and private archives, historical documents and family objects.