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November 2, 2015 - Cheshwan 20, 5776

The Space between Us

By Guido Vitale*

"God loves us as a parent loves a child — but a parent who truly loves their child makes space for the child to develop his or her own identity. It is the space we create for one another that allows love to be like sunlight to a flower, not like a tree to the plants that grow beneath. The role of love, human and Divine, is, in the lovely phrase of Irish poet John O’Donohue, 'to bless the space between us'." (Lord rabbi Jonathan Sacks)

*Guido Vitale is the editor-in-chief of Pagine Ebraiche.

Star & Stripes

By Daniela Gross

Primo Levi just became the first Italian author to have his complete work, including unpublished writings, translated in English and put into print by a single publisher. This has never happened before: not even for Dante, Machiavelli, Montale or Calvino, as highlighted by Ernesto Ferrero on La Stampa. On Thursday, he highlighted in a long essay, titled “The Star and Stripes Key,” the impressive effort necessary to bring this enterprise to completion.

It took 15 years, a team of nine translators coordinated by Anne Goldstein (who also translated Elena Ferrante) and the collaboration of the Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi, to restore Primo Levi's works to their original meaning including the titles. “In 1959, Se questo è un uomo had become a banal Survival in Auschwitz, while the menacing La Tregua, which suggests a disturbing interlude, had become The Reawekening,” as Ferrero reminded us.

The release by Liveright Imprint of the Complete works of Primo Levi has a meaning going far beyond its literary value, wrote Ferrero. As Primo Levi himself taught us, “Linguistic tension tends to become racial tension. The eternal war led by mankind comes from Babel.
Translating is the anti-Lager. This is the reason why, he [Levi] said, translators should be honored, since they commit ‘to limit the damage of the Babel curse’, which makes us so aggressive.” The American edition of Primo Levi's opus enables us to receive these suggestions and to ponder about them.
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NEWS
Celebrating 50 years
of Nostra Aetate

By Adam Smulevich

Pope Francis expressed his support for the rediscovery of the Jewish roots of Christianity and condemned anti-Semitism during his latest Papal audience last Wednesday, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Nostra Aetate.
"Yes to the rediscovery of the Jewish roots of Christianity. No to anti-Semitism,” Francis said speaking to the crowds gathered at St. Peter’s Square.
Nostra Aetate is the declaration promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1965, which consistently improved the relations between Jews and Catholics.
The audience was attended by a delegation of representatives of the World Jewish Congress, lead by president Ronald Lauder and president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Renzo Gattegna.

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CULTURE
Israeli Comics Triumph in Italy

By Ada Treves

For the sixth consecutive year, Pagine Ebraiche has participated in Lucca Comics and Games, the international festival that for a few days transforms every year the medieval town of Lucca in a village of games, comics and animation packed with all sort of events, from roundtables to film screenings, from exhibitions to shows.
Hundreds of copies of the November issue were in free distribution together with Comics & Jews, the special section dedicated to the relationship between comics and Jewish identity.

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Italian Soccer Chairman's Anti-Semitic Remarks Spark Harsh Criticism

By Adam Smulevich

The Italian Soccer Chairman Carlo Tavecchio proved once again his inadequacy to his role. In an unequivocal interview with online newspaper Soccerlife, published on Sunday by national newspaper Corriere della Sera, Tavecchio speaks about "bad jews" and "gays to be avoided at all the costs". His remarks spark harsh criticism.

"The indecent homophobic and anti-Semitic statements of the Italian Football Federation president Carlo Tavecchio constitute a very serious and huge image damage to the credibility of our national sport and its institutions," President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Renzo Gattegna said.

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NEWS
The World Jewish Congress
Gathered in Rome

By Ada Treves

The board of the World Jewish Congress gathered in Rome last week, for three intense days to discuss key strategic issues and challenges that are of public interest.
Among the topics covered were the fight against anti-Semitism, the problem of the delegitimization of Israel and the necessity to raise the general attention about those many threats that are today a menace to every society.

In his opening remark Renzo Gattegna, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), speaking on behalf of the 21 Italian communities, focused on the example set by Italian Jews, with their constant dialogue with the surrounding society and their ability to nonetheless preserve their values and traditions.

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CULTURE -
Remembering Shadal, a Great Italian Scholar

By Francesca Matalon

The life and work of the prominent Italian rabbi Shadal (Samuel David Luzzatto, 1800 – 1865) were celebrated in Padua last week.
Shadal was a Hebrew scholar and a poet, a historian and a biblical exegete, a translator and a bibliographer. His work as a teacher in the prestigious Rabbinical School of Padua, combining scientific research and Jewish tradition, made him one of the most renowned Masters of his time in Italy and worldwide.
Shadal's rich and multifaceted character was explored in a conference held in Padua, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his death. The conference also marked the newest publication of his Commentary to the Torah after finding some manuscripts produced by several of his students, especially by the two brothers Ya’aqov and Itzhaq Pardo. The conference, organized by historian Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, was promoted by the Jewish Community of Padua and sponsored by the University of the city.

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Pagine Ebraiche, a Month
for Heroes

By Rachel Silvera

The new issue of Pagine Ebraiche features many heroes.
The special section, devoted to Comics & Jews is edited by Ada Treves. It introduces the readers to people like Joann Sfar, the cartoonist of "The Rabbi's Cat", but also Saul Steinberg, who lived in Bucharest, Milan and America. The paper then covers the story of Tomer and Asaf Hanuka, the Israeli writers who mix reality and fantasy.
Pagine Ebraiche shines a light on other heroes, like Diego De Henriquez, the mysterious man from Trieste who collected weapons and artifacts of war and who kept a record of the inscriptions inside the Italian death camp of Risiera di San Sabba. De Henriquez is the central figure of “Non luogo a procedere” (i.e. “nonsuit”), the latest book by Italian intellectual Claudio Magris, interviewed this month.

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עברית

קול הספרים

Sarah Kaminski, University of Turin

הפעם בחרתי בספר חשוב אך לא אקדמי שנכתב ע"י המוסיקולוג, אנריקו פוביני, פרופסור בדימוס של אוניברסיטת טורינו אשר לזכותו יש לציין פרסומים חשובים על תולדות המוסיקה בכלל ועל המסורות היהודיות בפרט. הנושא הוא מוסיקה והשירה במיסטיקה היהודית והוא מאפשר לקהל האיטלקי המכיר את ספריהם הקלאסיים של גרשון שולם, משה אידל, תרגומים או חלקי תרגומים מספר הזוהר, היצירה, וכתביו של הרמח"ל המיסטיקן האיטלקי, משה דויד לוצאטו, להתוודע לפן חדש וחשוב. הספר זורם לפי הזמן ההיסטורי ומקדיש פרקים קצרים למוסיקה בבית המקדש, למימד הנבואי של המוסיקה, עד למרכזיות הניגון והמוסיקליות במסורת החסידית. ספר נאה, עריכה מצוינת והמון ידע נגיש ומדויק.

אנריקו פוביני, מוסיקה ושירה במיסטיקה היהודית, ג'ונטינה, .2012

Double Life - Uniforms

By Daniela Fubini*

As the square fills up with youth, I sit by the wide street leading to it and observe. The stream of groups made of thirty-forty youngsters marches peacefully towards Kikar Rabin: the large majority of them was not born yet, on the 4th of November 1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was murdered and his murder brought the peace process to a halt. I look at the colours of their shirts: many blue, with the familiar white strings - Hashomer Hatzair; and a very large number of blue shirts with red strings - the No'ar Hapo’el, including several girls happily sporting a hijab. Along them march the white shirts, the Bnei Akiva, the religious youth movement who finally joined the annual memorial only a few years ago.

*Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Tel Aviv, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York.).
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