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March 20, 2017 - Adar 1, 5777

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'Carta canta', a Commitment
for Pagine Ebraiche

By Ada Treves

There is an expression in Italian, that has a magic musicality and a deep meaning at the same time. “Carta canta” is one of those idioms that are difficult to translate without losing the many layers its specific words imply, so even if “What is spoken flies what is written never dies” gives the sense, literally it should be “Paper sings”.
Paper is the one technology that has permitted the development of humankind in a way unparalleled by other inventions, and as neuroscientist are explaining and underlining more and more the way we read on paper is not the same way we read on a screen, and they affect our brains differently.
Our capability to understand reality relies heavily on the possibility to deepen our knowledge and to discover unforeseen details offered by articles printed on paper, and we also know that the experience of commenting and discussing news we have read “on paper” is not the same as sharing digital content with the speed and ease of a social network.
But the verb “cantare”, to sing, is also used in many other Italian idioms,, and between “ha cantato”, meaning "he has confessed and told all he knows" and “il canto del cigno”, the "swan song", there is reality: Pagine Ebraiche not only will continue to be printed and distributed – even if in smaller numbers - but it is undergoing a process of growth that will give all its readers a new and better instrument to know and understand the culture and the traditions of the Italian Jewish minority.
“Carta canta", the slogan chosen by Pagine Ebraiche to present its future and at the same time to ask for the support of its readers, asks for action.
After many years of free monthly presence in every single Jewish household in Italy, the newsroom is working on the development that will make Pagine Ebraiche grow and become more interesting, more punchy and with a stronger dignity, but to obtain all this, a different distribution strategy is needed. The choice, than, is to cover the industrial cost of the newspaper with the subscriptions the readers will be willing to pay, while keeping open and free the digital version of Pagine Ebraiche, Italia Ebraica and DafDaf, not to lose the priceless relationship with all those who have been following us with interest in the past eight years.
To continue on this project of growth we ask all our readers to show their commitment, that for us is not only the price of a yearly subscription, 30 euros, but mainly a sign of appreciation, friendship and support.

news

Europe Celebrates 60th Anniversary
of the Treaty of Rome

By Adam Smulevich

Europe and the world have their spotlight on Rome where the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome was recently celebrated. The pivotal international agreement was signed in 1957 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany, establishing the European Economic Community (EEC). Today, the document is still one of the most important treaties in the European Union.

NEWS

'The Last Mile' of Milan’s Shoah Memorial
to Be Completed by 2017

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The board of the Foundation for the Shoah Memorial of Milan announced last week that its library and research center are due to be completed by the end of 2017, thanks to the funds offered by the government of the Lombardy Region.
“Regione Lombardia has enabled us to complete the last mile of the construction works for the restoration of the last venue in Europe that has not changed since the time of the deportation to the Nazi camps,” explained the president of the Memorial Foundation Ferruccio de Bortoli.

bECHOL LASHON - Français

Le Louvre rend une oeuvre spoliée par les nazis à une famille juive italiennes

par Times of Israel staff*

Il aura fallu 76 ans pour que la famille du collectionneur d’art juif italien, Federico Gentili Di Giuseppe, ayant fui le fascisme de Mussolini en 1940, ne récupère « Les Noces d’Alexandre et Roxane », un dessin d’Il Parmigianino-Le Parmesan, conservé par le musée du Louvre depuis son retour d’Allemagne après-guerre.
A l’instar des autres œuvres spoliées conservées dans des musées français, il était jusque-là désigné sous l’acronyme MNR (Musées Nationaux Récupération).
Gentili décédé en 1940, ces deux enfants, fuyant les Nazis, n’ont guère le temps de gérer la succession.
« Un certain Julien Giraud, explique le site Arthemis de l’Université de Genève, se prétendant créancier de Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, assigne en référé les enfants de ce dernier devant le Tribunal civil de première instance de la Seine.
Il leur reproche de se « désintéresser complètement » de leur succession et demande donc la désignation d’un administrateur à cette succession ».

*Times of Israel Français 15.03.17

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Altrove/Elsewhere

Refugees

By Daniel Leisawitz*

We now find ourselves between two significant moments in the Jewish calendar: the 14th of Adar and the 15th of Nisan; in other words, the holidays of Purim and Passover. Both of these holidays ask us to remember important moments in Jewish history: moments in which the Jewish people found themselves in a vulnerable position in a country not their own; moments in which they found themselves at the mercy of sweeping historical events and political institutions much larger and more powerful than themselves.
One of the main mitzvot of both holidays consists in retelling and rehearing the stories themselves. These two narratives can have a special resonance for us this year, especially if we heed the Haggadah’s famous exhortation that “In each and every generation a person must see themselves as if they had personally left Egypt.” Whether as exiles in Persia, victims of the Babylonian Exile, or as an enslaved underclass in Egypt, we found ourselves in the position of displaced people and refugees in both of these moments of our history.

*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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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

En la guarida del lobo nazi

Guido Vitale

“(…) En Polonia aún sobrevive una testigo del horror de Chlaniów. Una anciana de 92 años a cuyo padre mataron. En Minneapolis, la ciudad del ciclo azul cuchillo, ha sido localizado el hombre que supuestamente ordenó la aniquilación. La hora del juicio ha llegado. El Lobo ya no tiene donde huir. Por delante sólo le queda su pasado”. (J. Matinez Ahrens, El Pais)

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Second Arch of Titus
Found in Rome

By Ariel David*

It wasn’t enough for the Romans to enslave the Jews, plunder Judea, conquer Jerusalem, destroy the Temple and then erect a massive triumphal arch to commemorate those feats of war for millennia to come: They had to build a second, even larger monument to celebrate their victory.
Archaeologists in Rome have uncovered the remains of a second triumphal arch dedicated to the emperor Titus and his success in putting down the Great Revolt of the Jews in the first century C.E..

*The article was published in Haaretz on March 20, 2017.

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