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November 14, 2016 - Chshwan 13, 5777

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Italy Will Take on the Presidency of the IHRA

By Ada Treves

It Is now official: Italy will take on the presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in 2018. As explained by the head of the Italian delegation, Ambassador Sandro De Bernardin, "It is undoubtedly an important recognition for the work Italy has done in recent years, and of how much what we've been doing is appreciated. It is not easy to manage the presidency, and I take this confirmation as a gesture of confidence in our work, and as an important responsibility.". The program for 2018 is not totally defined yet - the Italian delegation is working on it in agreement with the Ministry of Education, that is competent on IHRA in our country - and it will take another few weeks to get a clear picture.

CULTURE

Conference and Exhibit Will Celebrate Centenary of Birth of Writer Giorgio Bassani

By Daniel Reichel

The year 2016 marks the centenary of the birth ofGiorgio Bassani, the renowned Italian Jewish writer.
The events dedicated to this anniversary will culminate with a conference dedicated to him in Rome and Ferrara (November 14 – November 19).
Alongside the conference, the unique exhibition "Back to the Garden" by American artist Eric Finzi whose family is from Ferrara will be open to the public.
Sponsored by the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS), in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary History of Ferrara and the Civic Museums of the Municipality of Ferrara Ancient Art, the exhibition brings together works inspired by “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis”, Bassani's masterpiece and it will be inaugurated on November 15, at Ludovico Ariosto's residence.

NEWS

Former Soccer Player with Fascist Tattoo Condemns Anti-Semitic and Racist Views

By Adam Smulevich

A Former Italian soccer player Paolo Di Canio wrote an open letter to the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) Noemi Di Segni, in which he repudiates "anti-Semitic, racist, discriminatory and violent views."
In September, Sky Sport channel, where he anchored a show focused on English soccer, suspended him after he appeared with a pro-fascist tattoo on camera. The episode was firmly denounced by the UCEI website www.moked.it and was rapidly circulated on the internet.
“I believe without ifs ands or buts, that Mussolini’s racist laws were a terrible infamy for the history of our country, an infamy that caused an immense tragedy for thousands of Jews in Italy,” Di Canio wrote in his letter to President Di Segni.

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Das erste und das
letzte Ghetto

von Andrea Jarach*

Mit zwei aufeinanderfolgenden Ausstellungen hat sich die Europäische Janusz Korczak Akademie München auf die Spuren des ersten und des letzten jüdischen Ghettos begeben. »Wir wollten eine Brücke zwischen dem 500 Jahre alten Ghetto von Venedig und dem weniger bekannten Ghetto von Shanghai während des Zweiten Weltkriegs schlagen«, erklärt die Kuratorin Imola Nieder.
»Unsere Idee ist die spirituelle Verbindung, die unwahrscheinliche Kraft des Lebens und Überlebens«, fügt die Leiterin der Akademie, Eva Haller, hinzu. Nach dem Auftakt in München werden die Ausstellungen nun zusammengeführt und ab dem 1. Dezember in Duisburg in den Überresten eines Treppenhauses im Garten der Erinnerung am Yitzhak-Rabin-Platz zu sehen sein.

*Judische Allgemeine, 10.11.16.

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Center of the World

By Daniela Fubini*

Reality check: we are a Middle-Eastern country slightly bigger than New Jersey which happens to be one of the smallest states in the USA. And we are not, last time anyone counted, the 51st State.
Nevertheless, we discussed the recent American Presidential elections as if it actually mattered to anyone in Washington what Israeli citizens think about Trump or Clinton (any Clinton). Facebook threads became heated as ticking bombs, people insulted openly anyone thinking differently. All among Israelis, the vast majority of them holding more than one passport, true, but not so many and American one. A clear “center of the world” syndrome.

*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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VENICE AND THE GHETTO

An Exhibit at the Museum of Italian Jewish Art in Jerusalem Presents 18th Century Sukkah

Closing a year full of events marking 500 years of the Ghetto of Venice, the U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art in Jerusalem opens a new exhibition offering an original perspective. The new exhibition opened for the festival of Sukkot, the 18th of October 2016.
Beginning in 1516, the Ghetto of Venice was established as a restricted area where the Jewish population was required to live. This pragmatic decision both included and isolated the Jews from their non-Jewish neighbors. Five hundred years after its institution and a century and a half after the destruction of its gates, the concept of the ghetto still echoes through history, and raises questions of migration and identity in our own time.

*This article was published in the website of the Association of European Jewish Museums.

IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

Militant Passion

By Guido Vitale

“Whatever rises from the rubble of liberalism’s debacle must never repeat that mistake. The decencies of modern life need to be argued with militant passion and broadcast to places where it can be heard by people who don’t read broadsheets. What neither America nor the rest of world can afford right now is to keep calm and carry on” (Simon Schama, Financial Times).

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The Fox and the Lion

By Daniel Leisawitz*

The morning following the US election, my college campus was eerily quiet. An almost funereal air permeated the quad and halls (and the cold steady rain didn’t help). In class, some students were visibly distraught, others quietly concerned, and a few others happy and hopeful. For one of my classes, in which we have been studying the political and literary writings of Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), his thought could not help but inform our reactions.

*Daniel Leisawitz is the Director of the Italian Studies Program at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA). The artwork is by Abraham Cresques a 14th-century Jewish Spanish cartographer.

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