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October 23, 2017 - Chshvan , 5778

NEWS

New York Celebrates the Museum
of Italian Judaism and the Shoah

By Pagine Ebraiche Staff

“The Italian Government invested important resources in the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, and now we want to make sure to raise enough funds to guarantee its development. Anybody who is interested in supporting us here in the United States, should know that their contribution will be essential for keeping the rich and ancient Italian Jewish heritage alive, and for promoting its knowledge”. With these words, the Italian Minister for Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini presented the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) last week in New York.
Franceschini took part in the event “World Cultural Conservation. Italy at the Forefront” at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America of Columbia University, conversing with its director, historian David Freedberg.
The MEIS will be inaugurated on December 13 in Ferrara “a city that has been full of Jewish culture for over a millennium, and has played a protagonist role in Italian Jewish history,” highlighted Dario Disegni, the president of the MEIS.

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In Trieste, Discussing the Future of Miramare

By Guido Vitale

A castle for the people of Europe, a park for diversity and cultural wealth to blossom. And the dream that investments on culture and creativity will bring prosperity, development and progress for the new generations too. Miramare Castle was built for Archduke Maximilian at the gates of Trieste, nestled between the Adriatic Sea and the Karst, between East and West, in the meeting point of the three European souls (Latin, Germanic and Slavic). The project for Miramare has been launched and a day of study and learning dedicated to the future of this extraordinary naturalistic and artistic area marks this historic turning point.
Many international experts were present, invited by the new director Andreina Contessa, who was previously managing the Museum of Italian Jewish art of Jerusalem. She came to Trieste to take up the challenge of one of the strategic projects on which the Ministry of Cultural Heritage focuses closely.
In the morning, historian Rossella Fabiani and botanist Mauro Tretiach gave the participants a tour of the huge historical, artistic and natural heritage of the castle and the park. Later in the day, the participants were welcomed by President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia Debora Serracchiani and an intense discussion on the work that needs to be done was held in the hall of the historic Lloyd Palace.
Ms Serracchiani said: “Today we send an important message. Minister Franceschini provided the funding necessary to start the renovations; this will correspond with the commitment of the local government and of all the people that see in Miramare the regaining of a collective mission for Europe.”

Translation by Sara Volpe, student at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University, and intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

CULTURE

Milan, Capital of Books

By Daniel Reichel

From November 16 to November 19, Bookcity, the event devoted to books and authors, is coming back to Milan. “Bookcity - declared the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala during the press conference held in Palazzo Marino - is undoubtedly one of the most important events in our city. With its sessions spread all over the city, it celebrates the strong and lasting passion for books and reading. Bookcity is capable of talking about the past as well as dealing with current issues. This year, for the first time, a section entitled Equal Opportunities will be held: it will focus on how the lives of women have changed through the decades”.
More than 200 venues will host more than 1000 events during the four-day Festival.

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Die Musik der Anderen

Francesco Lotoro*

Aus rein demografischer Sicht und während der größten Deportationsphase ähnelten die im deutschen Mutterland erbauten Konzentrationslager kleinen Wohngebieten. Zivilgefangene waren nach 1941 oft zusammen mit sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen (eine Behandlung gemäß den Genfer Konventionen wurden ihnen vom Reich nicht gewährt) und sie waren nur wenige Blocks von aus den verschiedensten Gründen Deportierten entfernt.
Die sozialen, sprachlichen und religiösen Minderheiten in den Konzentrationslagern waren unzählbar; Sorben der Wehrmacht oder des serbischen Widerstands gemäß ihrer geografischen Herkunft, esperantosprachige oder der Glaubensgemeinschaft der Bahai angehörende Polen, britische Quäker, die Lehrer an holländischen Schulen waren, evangelische Pastoren, griechisch-orthodoxe Mönche vom heiligen Berg Athos, Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten, tschechoslowakische Unitarier, Geistliche der altkatholischen Kirche, bosnische Imame und Moslems, Sufi.

Übersetzung von Clara Erhet, Studentin der Universität von Regensburg und Praktikantin bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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A Sukkah in Frankfurt

By Susanna Calimani*

In Venice, for Sukkot, the Jewish Community builds a big sukkah in the garden of the Community Centre: it is decorated with childrens’ drawings, fruit and vegetables hanging from the ceiling
When we were kids, we also used to make garlands with crepe paper, and the father of one of us used to bring loads of ears of corn to be hung, together with eggplants, bell peppers, pomegranates, and bananas. The first to fall down were bananas, showing signs of distress after only a couple of days; pomegranates and corn could last much longer but were the most dangerous, and when sitting under them we always double checked to make sure they were tied carefully.
One year, during a lunch, we were betting on the life expectancy of an eggplant, and a few minutes later the eggplant fell down on the table.

*Susanna Calimani is a wandering economist currently based in Frankfurt.

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Rome March Promotes
Jewish-Christian Solidarity

By Benjamin Glatt*

More than 70 years after Romans stepped aside and let the Nazis deport the city’s Jews, Rome once again made the declaration that the only way to defeat the antisemitism of the present is by remembering the antisemitism of the past.
On October 16, 1943, more than 1,000 Jewish residents of Rome were torn from their homes, marching from the Jewish ghetto to the Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, where they eventually were deported to Auschwitz. They arrived to the death camps on October 22, and only 16 people returned to their homes. The remembrance march, held this week on the roundup’s 74th anniversary, went in the opposite direction, from the church to the ghetto, as a symbol of repentance.

*This article was published in The Jerusalem Post on October 18, 2017.

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