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A Virtual Garden to Remember Righteous
Who Fought against Hatred

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

On the occasion of the European Day of the Righteous, established by the European Parliament in Strasbourg and celebrated on March 6 to remember all those who fought and are still fighting against hate and violence - a new project was presented in Milan: the virtual Garden of the Righteous, a virtual place collecting the names of the heroes that sacrificed their lives in the fight against totalitarianisms.
"From Israel to Tunisia more and more cities have gotten involved in the project and we are very proud of that,” explained Gabriele Nissim, the president of the Association Gariwo, which initiated the idea of the European Day of the Righteous.

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culture

From Jerusalem to Trieste, a New Director
at the Miramare Castle

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The director of the Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art in Jerusalem Andreina Contessa has been appointed director of the Miramare Castle Museum and Natural Park in Trieste by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
Contessa paid a visit to Miramare Castle at the beginning of March. She was accompanied by the editor in chief of the newsroom of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Guido Vitale, and she also met with the leaders of the Jewish Communities of Trieste and visited the synagogue.

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NEWS

An Acknowledgement for the Donation
of New Synagogue in Palermo

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bechol lashon - Français

Une copie non lue d’une édition multilingue des Psaumes du 16e siècle
aux enchères

Ilan Ben Zion*

Ferdinand Colomb, le fils illégitime du célèbre explorateur, avait été très mécontent après la première édition multilingue du Livre des Psaumes, dont une copie d’origine sera mise aux enchères à New York la semaine prochaine.
Le Psautier polyglotte a été imprimé à Gênes dix ans après le décès de son père, en 1516. Mais les annotations de deux pages sur la vie de Chistophe Colomb à partir d’un verset du Psaume 19 mentionnant « le bout du monde » l’avaient interpellé et rendu furieux.
Le Psautier polyglotte a été le deuxième livre imprimé en arabe, paru aux côtés de ses traditions originales en hébreu, en araméen, en latin et en grec. Le premier livre à avoir été imprimé en arabe n’a pas été – étrangement – le Coran. Il s’agissait du livre Kitab Salat al-Sawa’i, un livre chrétien sur les heures de prières, imprimé en Italie en 1514, dont seules quatre copies ont survécu.






Times of Israel Français, 11.03.2017.



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Purim, Our Conscience
and the Jewish Priden

By Yaakov Mascetti*

Purim is a difficult day for me – the narrative of violence that enwraps the whole subject of the hidden agency of God's hand, has made this specific holiday quite unpleasant in my eyes. Yes, I've had my share of self-aggrandizing slogans, usually due to a series of rather visceral reactions to the extremely violent context I live in. And yes, I have found great satisfaction in celebrating the slaughtering of those who wanted to slaughter us, in chanting and celebrating the victory of a mass of dispersed Jews in the midst of hostile populations. And yet, I do admit that those chants and those victorious and self-aggrandizing slogans are no longer compatible with who and what I am. So, while in my scholarship I aim to frame in my articles clear and compelling readings of literary texts of the past, avoiding, as much as I can, the tempting warmth of the hermeneutic circle, I admit that here I will allow myself to freely project onto the texts of my religious tradition a number of apriori values, which include human solidarity and the need for charity and understanding.

*Yaakov Mascetti holds a Ph.D. and teaches at the Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University.

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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

Papier

By Guido Vitale

"Un jour je me suis dit que je ne l'avais jamais remercié. Pourtant, je lui devais mes lectures. Et que serais-je sans lire et sourtout sans avoir lu? Comme je me preparais au depart, une petite voix m'avait soufflé: 'Deux mille ans que le planète et le papier cohabitent". (Eric Orsenna)









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italics

L.A.’s Mexican Italian Jewish Mayor Wins Re-Election in Landslide

By Jonathan Zalman*

In part, the re-election Wednesday of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, whom Hillary Clinton once considered as a vice presidential running mate, could be interpreted as a sign of consolidation within the Democratic Party. When half the ballots had been counted, The Los Angeles Times reported that Garcetti, the city’s first Jewish mayor, had locked in a second term by winning 80 percent of the vote against 10 challengers, a landslide result that was largely expected.

*This article was published in the Tablet on March 8, 2017.

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