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August 10th, 2015 - Av 25th, 5775

 
Poetry and Vulgarity
By Guido Vitale*

"In this film, there is a battle, tension, or maybe collaboration between poetry and vulgarity, between poetry and the world, or the universe, and life, which are always also a bit filthy and vulgar. So I wanted the poetic dimension of the movie to come out of the highest and the lowest."  (Nadav Lapid about “Haganenet”, Locarno film festival, August 2015)

*Guido Vitale is the editor-in-chief of Pagine Ebraiche.
 
SUMMER BOOKS
The Fascists and the Jews of Italy
By Daniela Gross

"From 1938 until 1943 – before the German occupation and accompanying Holocaust – Fascist Italy drafted and enforced a comprehensive set of anti-Semitic laws". In his new book “The Fascists and the Jews of Italy. Mussolini’s Racial Laws 1938-1945”, Michael Livingston, professor of Law at Rutgers University, exhaustively reviews Italian legal, administrative, and judicial sources along with archives of Italian Jewish Communities. The result is the first comprehensive survey of the Italian Race Laws in English, illuminating the legal framework and the bureaucratic mechanism on which the persecution against Italian Jews was based on. It is disturbing and challenging reading, but very illuminating.
 
The Fascists and the Jews
of Italy. Mussolini’s Race Laws 1938-1945
By Michael A. Livingston
Cambridge University Press
274 pp.
 
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NEWS
New Funds for the Jewish Museum of Italy 
By Adam Smulevich

The Italian government has allocated seven million euros to the development of the National Museum of Italian Jewry and the Shoah (Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah, MEIS) in Ferrara last week.
"Funding the MEIS is a matter of great cultural and historical significance," the Minister in charge of cultural heritage Dario Franceschini said.
Other allocations were decided for the refurbishment of strategic museums and heritage sites in Italy, such us the Colosseum in Rome, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Museum of Ancient Ships in Pisa.

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NEWS
Gearing up for the European Day of Jewish Culture

By Rossella Tercatin

Italian Jewish communities and institutions all over the country are gearing up for the 16th European Day of Jewish Culture, which will take place on September 6th, 2015, with the motto "Bridges".
Florence has been selected as the leading city in Italy for 2015 and it will offer events starting from Thursday, August 27. Among the events there will be concerts, lectures, food tastings, book presentations and performances in different locations, including the gardens of the great synagogue.


CULTURE
An Award for the Future
of Holocaust Research 
By Rachel Silvera
 
The Center for Jewish Contemporary Documentation (CDEC), a prominent Jewish institution devoted to research on contemporary Jewish history, won the LODLAM Challenge 2015 (Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, Museums). The award ceremony took place in Sidney at the end of June.
The CDEC won the prize thanks to its Open Memory Project, conceived and developed by the institution in partnership with regesta.exe (a company that takes care of organizing digital content and multimedia files on the web). The goal of Open Memory Project is to uncover the identity of the Drowned and the Saved from the Holocaust, as the prominent Italian survivor and writer Primo Levi called them.
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MEDIA -
Summertime with DafDaf 

By Ada Treves

A cover as fresh as sea waters opens DafDaf, the third and last number of the summer series. The illustration, as usual by Luisa Valenti, has been thought out to give kids the possibility to complete the two white shapes, or to cut it out and use it for their non-homework notebook, as suggested in her column Strega Comanda Color, in the last page. And the Jewish magazine for kids could not possibly not talk about the word "censorship" - explained thanks to the Treccani Encyclopaedia for kids: “A great writer, whose name was Jorge Louis Borges, once said: ‘I’ll let the others boast about pages they have written; I am proud of what I read’. As you well know books are often the real protagonists, on DafDaf, and this month we decided to recommend a few that have been banned, along with many others, in Venice, for reasons we do not understand.

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Sarah Kaminski, University of Turin
לכולנו חם נורא, באיטליה ובישראל אז עלה בדעתי לספר לכם על המוזיאון היחיד בעולם שהציג קרח. הדבר הטוב ביותר שאליו ניתן לייחל ביום לוהט, ממשטחי האין סוף הקפואים של אנטארטיקה ועד לשלגון הצונן בקיוסק של השכונה. טוב, אז בנאפולי לפני כמה שנים נפתח מוזיאון כזה, בנושא הקרח, אחד ויחיד מסוגו בעולם עם קירות בוהקים בתכלכל ושקוף, חיות ים ענקיות מפוסלות בקרח וקור תמידי. אך נאפולי נוהגת כדרכה והמוזיאון כמובן נסגר ונותר רק אתר אינטרנט קרחוני להפליא. ואז נזכרתי ב"להתראות באנטארטיקה" של נורית זרחי, ספר ילדים נפלא המספר על פינגווין קטן החוזר הביתה לקרחונים בזכות איש בודד הלומד מה זו אהבה. הזדמנות מצויינת לכתוב מילים טובות על נורית זרחי, אחת מהיוצרות הנהדרות והחכמות ביותר בספרות הישראלית הן לגדולים והן לקטנים.

נורית זרחי, להתראות באנטארטיקה, דביר, 2005

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Re-reading Shylock’s myth
By Dario Calimani*

Is it possible for an eminent Jewish Shakespearean scholar to feel he is to account personally for Shylock’s stubborn wickedness? Someone may think it impossible, but it is not. This is the dismal sensation passed on by Professor James Shapiro (Columbia University) during a lecture on ‘Shakespeare and the Jews’, on which topic, about twenty years ago, he wrote a precious, seminal book for all the scholars in the field.

*Dario Calimani is a full professor of English Literature at the Università Ca’ Foscari of Venice.
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