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January 25, 2016 - Shevat 15, 5776

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Italian Minister of Education Commits
to Strengthen Shoah Studies

By Adam Smulevich

Last week the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Renzo Gattegna and the Italian minister of Education Stefania Giannini signed an agreement with the goal of strengthening the study of the Holocaust in schools. The agreement was signed during a trip that brought over 130 students from all over the country to Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Joining the students were Shoah survivors Sami Modiano, and sisters Andra and Tatiana Bucci.
The project, as both Gattegna and Giannini highlighted, renews the mutual commitment to continue in the effort of spreading Holocaust knowledge.

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Italy Prepares to Celebrate Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Daniel Reichel

"If it is almost impossible to educate against Auschwitz, we have to worry about educating after Auschwitz,” wrote historian Georges Bensoussan in his Auschwitz en héritage? D'un bon usage de la mémoire. The question is how to transmit the memory of the Shoah, its inner values and, above all, how to do it without the fundamental voice of the survivors, who are unavoidably passing away. Every year this dilemma becomes most evident during the celebration of January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Italy all those who are involved in keeping the memory of what happened alive are searching for ways to transmit it.
Thus, we must go beyond the testimonies of the survivors, the concerts, conferences, and exhibitions which are organized all over the country to bring the Shoah to the attention of the public and to open, or to keep open, various opportunities for reflection.

FEATURES

Venice Aims to Restore Shylock's Ghetto

By Tom Kington and Philip Willan*

Five hundred years after it was founded in Venice, Europe's original Jewish ghetto is fighting to preserve its ancient synagogues as monuments to Jewish resilience — and as a warning about intolerance and segregation. The singer Barbra Streisand is among backers of an 8 million fundraising drive by Venice's Jewish community to restore the area where, for nearly 300 years, Jews were locked up at night and forced to wear yellow caps.
Built on the site of an old metal foundry, the small district took its name, Ghetto, from the Venetian word "getar", meaning to smelt.

*The articles was published in The Times on January 18, 2016.

MEDIA

New Weekly Newsletters by Pagine Ebraiche

By Ada Treves

Sheva, seven, as the seven days of the week. It is under this new common name that the weekly newsletters produced by the editorial staff of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) reach their readers. Two of them, now "sheva - melamed" and "sheva - international", even if less known of the daily “paginebraiche24”, have been going on for a while, under the name of "Pagine Ebraiche International Edition" and, simply, "Melamed". With a very specific content - the international public and those involved in education - they were considered a specific product devoted to a restricted public, with their own loyal readership, but this is different now: "sheva" is the name of a whole new series of newsletters. There is already one new weekly, called "sheva - ideas" that had its debut only last week, and will give voice to Jewish thinkers and to subjects widely debated, and more newsletters will follow soon.m.

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On Pagine Ebraiche, the Meaning
of Bergoglio’s Visit

By Rachel Silvera

The new issue of Pagine Ebraiche was printed just a few hours after Jorge Bergoglio's visit to the main synagogue of Rome and features many special articles on the event.
The meaningful Pope's visit to the synagogue (the third, after John Paul II and Benedict XVI) is commented by historian Anna Foa, Italian Rabbinical Assembly president Giuseppe Momigliano, diplomat Sergio Minerbi, representative of the American Jewish Committee in Italy Lisa Billig and historian Alberto Melloni.
The February issue is also devoted to the importance of Holocaust remembrance and to future challenges.

PILPUL Reflecting before Acting By Benedetto Carucci Viterbi Reuven, who as the first-born was destined to royal and sacerdotal services, loses his rights because of his impulsiveness/impetuosity. Those who take care of the general public, and not only them, need always to reflect before acting. *Benedetto Carucci viterbi is a rabbi. The article was translated by Rossella Tercatin. Read more	BECHOL LASHON - Français Libération De David Bidussa* Lorsqu'on lisait la paracha de Bo, mon voisin au Bet Hakenesset que je fréquente m'a appris que le moment de la libération marque le début du calendrier. (“Ce mois-ci vous sera le commencement des mois, il vous sera le premier des mois de l'année.”, Ex., 12, 2). Entreprendre le processus pour devenir libres signifie devenir patrons de son temps, c'est-à-dire responsables de ses choix. *David Bidussa est un historien. La traduction est de Francesca Matalon. Lire la suite

IT happened tomorrow Shylock in Venice By Guido Vitale "Shylock is odious, but he is the most famous Venetian Jew, we cannot pretend he doesn't exist”. (Shaul Bassi - The Times) Read more	ITALICS Leaving Auschwitz By Daniela Gross On the next Holocaust Remembrance Day, there will be a new sad memory regarding Auschwitz to ponder about. As reported on the daily Il Manifesto by Beatrice Andreose, the Italian Memorial, which was set up in the camp in 1980 to honor the Italians that died in the Nazi lagers, was removed in May. Read more

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This newsletter is published under difficult conditions. The editors of this newsletter are Italian journalists whose native language is Italian. They are willing to offer their energy and their skills to give international readers the opportunity of learning more about the Italian Jewish world, its values, its culture and its traditions.
In spite of all our efforts to avoid this, readers may find an occasional language mistake. We count on your understanding and on your help and advice to correct these mistakes and improve our publication.

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Realizzato con il contributo di: Francesco Moises Bassano, Susanna Barki, Amanda Benjamin, Monica Bizzio, Angelica Edna Calò Livne, Eliezer Di Martino, Alain Elkann, Dori Fleekop, Daniela Fubini, Benedetta Guetta, Sarah Kaminski, Daniel Leisawitz, Annette Leckart, Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, Yaakov Mascetti, Francesca Matalon, Jonathan Misrachi, Anna Momigliano, Giovanni Montenero, Elèna Mortara, Sabina Muccigrosso, Lisa Palmieri Billig, Jazmine Pignatello, Shirley Piperno, Giandomenico Pozzi, Daniel Reichel, Colby Robbins, Danielle Rockman, Lindsay Shedlin, Michael Sierra, Rachel Silvera, Adam Smulevich, Simone Somekh, Rossella Tercatin, Ada Treves, Lauren Waldman, Sahar Zivan.