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August 17th, 2015 - Elul 2nd, 5775
Tikkun By Guido Vitale* "I started writing ‘Tikkun’ immediately after the premiere of my first feature film, ‘The Wanderer’, at Cannes Film Festival 2010. Within a month I had written a treatment that was accepted to Torino Film Lab. I had no doubt that my next film would also be set in the Jewish Ultra Orthodox world. Even before I shot ‘The Wanderer’, my vision was to create a trilogy based on a yeshiva scholar and his crisis of faith". (Avishai Sivan, Locarno film festival 2015). *Guido Vitale is the editor-in-chief of Pagine Ebraiche.   SUMMER BOOKS Il giardino dei Finzi Contini By Daniela Gross The Garden of the Finzi Continis by Giorgio Bassani, one of the most important Italian Jewish writers, was published in 1962 and soon became a classic. It tells the story of a prominent and sophisticated family, the Finzi Continis, living in Ferrara, a small city in Northern Italy, just before the Second World War. This novel illuminates a world erased by the Nazi and fascist persecutions, and it is always worthwhile to be reread. Il giardino dei Finzi Contini By Giorgio Bassani Feltrinelli 223 pp.		NEWS Rome, the Struggle of Urtisti  By Adam Smulevich Many uncertainties still hang on the future of the “urtisti”, the Roman Jewish vendors of souvenirs, who were forced to leave their traditional location in one of the main squares of the city center in July, together with the food trucks, by municipal order. The mayor, Ignazio Marino, has decided to move them so as to stop  the “degradation”, the deterioration of Rome, which has  recently been in the spotlight in Italy and all over the world. The urtisti, about 100 licensed street traders, whose presence dates back to nineteenth century (back then, it was the pope himself who granted them the authorization), are firm in their response: “We are not the cause of the deterioration. On the contrary, we fight against it.” Read more NEWS - Refugees, a Summer of Jewish Solidarity By Rossella Tercatin The summer of 2015 in Europe, and especially in Italy, will be remembered as one of the most challenging in terms of the numbers of migrants who reached its shores. Facing such a major humanitarian crisis, Italian Jewish communities and institutions have not remained indifferent. Following many initiatives taken in Milan, the Jewish Community of Genoa also started to collect food, clothes and other indispensable goods to meet the needs of the hundreds of refugees who have reached the city. Read more MEDIA DafDaf, Imagination and a Gift By Roberta Bridda* In the Summer, every year, the pages of DafDaf are particularly playful, and this month the Jewish magazine for kids has received an unexpected gift: Roberta Bridda, an Italian illustrator who lives and works in Barcelona has offered to the newsroom some of her beautiful characters, that she chose to present herself, in a perfect game for these long and hot days. “It is Summer, you’re on the beach, and you have nothing to do... well, then you can look around, you’ll see there is plenty of twigs, shells, tufts, pieces of wood, algae.The file of DafDaf 59 is available here.  You are at the seaside, and your parents are forcing you to wait before diving in the waves because you just ate too much of that delicious food cooked by your aunt? Well, you do not have to get bored: you can look around, you’ll see there are lots of strange characters just waiting to be discovered. *Roberta Bridda is an Italian artist living in Barcellona. She loves everything that has something to do with hand made books, and she gives workshops and lessons to children and adults. She has published several books, and her studio is called Il bosco blu (The blue forest). Read more Français Appels Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello, rabbin "Je veux que l'Église soit libre et que la religion soit respectée. Je ne vois point l'Église comme une voie ferrée. Je ne la crois pas libre si le clergé mineur continue à s'abandonner au despotisme du clergé majeur et encore moins libre quand l'un et l'autre s'unissent pour former un parti politique qui n'a pas de patrie, mais combat en tout et pour tout la patrie de chaque peuple. Je veux que l'État impose ses droits devant l'Église et les fasse respecter sans faire preuve de faiblesses, ni de rancœurs ". Voilà un extrait du discours du 27 septembre 1876 du patriote napolitain Pasquale Villari aux électeurs. *La traduction est de Giulia Castelnovo, élève de la Scuola superiore traduttori e interpreti di Trieste, stagiaire chez Pagine Ebraiche. Lire la suite An Ode to the Intolerant Secular Democracy By Yaacov Mascetti* Recent events, together with the broad reality we live in here in the Middle East, have brought me to ponder on some questions which I'd like to share with you. There is something unfair in the fact that the violent, aggressive, anti-democratic forces stirring within Israeli society today have always an advantage when confronted with the open-mindedness of liberal ideas. It's never actually a fair clash – never. *Yaakov Mascetti holds a Ph.D. and teaches at the Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University. Read more
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