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December 4, 2017 - Kislev 15, 5778

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A New Tractate of the Talmud
Translated in Italian

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Another instalment of the Italian translation of the Babylonian Talmud came out last week.
The Tractate of Berakhot, the first Tractate of the Seder Zeraim that largely deals with agricultural laws, has been published in two volumes by the publishing house La Giuntina. The Tractate was edited by rabbi Gianfranco Di Segni.
This achievement is part of the “Project Talmud”, which got under way in 2011 with an agreement signed by representatives of the government, the National Research Council, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities and the Rabbinical College. The government allocated over 5 million euro to it.
Working on the translations have been not only rabbis and Talmud scholars but also linguists, philologists, historians, researchers and computer scientists, using a special software especially developed for the project.

BOOKS

Italy Tell The Story Of Its Jewish People
In New Museum

By Talya Zax*

"The story of Jews in Italy is really an Italian story,” Dario Disegni said one recent autumn morning at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies.
Disegni, president of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, was appearing at Columbia to discuss the museum, which is also known as MEIS, opens in Ferrara on December 13. Italy does not lack for museums dedicated to its Jewish history, or, more commonly, memorials. You can wonder at the minutely detailed synagogues in Venice’s former Jewish ghetto, and mourn the limits that were imposed on the lives of the ghetto’s residents. Outside Rome, you can see what remains of a fourth-century C.E. synagogue, itself built on the ruins of a synagogue constructed five centuries earlier. In Carpi, a town close to Modena, you can visit the Museum to the Deported, a tribute to those who, including Primo Levi, were deported to concentration camps from the nearby Campo di Fossoli.
Yet Italy has not had a centralized institution that makes overarching sense of the history of its Jews. MEIS aspires to fill that void, beginning with an ambitious first exhibit: “Jews, an Italian Story: The First Thousand Years."

*The article was published in The Forward on November 29, 2017.

KULTURA

Potomec mariborskih Judov že 30 let raziskuje družinske korenine

Branka Bezjak*

Andree Morpurga tudi po 30 letih še ni minila strast do poizvedovanja o svojih in koreninah prednikov. Kakor že njegov priimek pove, je namreč daljni potomec mariborskih Judov. Ko so se morali ti po odloku Maksimilijana I. leta 1496 izseliti iz mesta, so pozneje prevzeli priimek Marpurg(er)/Marburg(er), kar je v dobesednem pomenu "iz Maribora". Priimek Morpurgo pa je italijanska različica priimka, ki naj bi se razvil iz beneškega poimenovanja za Maribor (Morpurch) in je med vsemi različicami daleč najpogostejši, je z raziskovanjem ugotovila tudi Marjetka Bradač iz Centra judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoga Maribor. Z dr. Andreo Morpurgom sta sodelovala pri snovanju razstave Morpurgi, potomci mariborskih Judov, ki so jo prejšnji četrtek odprli v Sinagogi. In ob tej priložnosti je potomec mariborskih Judov tudi prvič prišel v naše mesto.

*Vecer, 8.7.2017

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Meister

Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello*

Es gibt eine mythologische Figur, zwischen dem Vesuv und Tunesien, die weiß genau, wie man jede Form des menschlichen Widerstands bezwingen kann. Es ist der Parksünder. Er kommt und nennt dich „Meister!“ Und in diesem Moment fühlt sich jeder Vermessungstechniker wie Renzo Piano, jeder Krankenpfleger wie Umberto Veronesi, jeder Gymnast wie Roberto Bolle. „Meister“ ist der beste Titel, um dem Ego zu schmeicheln – ein imaginärer Titel, der jedoch für denjenigen, der zuhört, echt wird. Es handelt sich um eine fantastische Droge für ein grenzenloses Ego… und wo das Ego grenzenlos ist, ist es schwierig, Platz für Gott zu finden, lehrt Rabbi Nachman aus Breslau.

*Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello ist ein Rabbiner.
Übersetzung von Clara Ehret, Studentin der Universität Regensburg, Praktikantin in der Presseabteilung der Union der Jüdischen Gemeinden in Italien (UCEI).

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Having Faith or Wrestling with God, Alone

By Yaakov Mascetti*

Twenty years ago, after having lived on a religious kibbutz for about a year, I decided it was time to go learn somewhere. It was time to learn Judaism. I chose, for a number of reasons, the hesder yeshiva of Shilo. It was a very challenging experience, but most of all that was a time of self-fashioning for me – I was determined to consolidate my Jewish identity. And that is what I did, for about sixteen hours a day. Of course, that came with an enormous psychological price. It all felt extremely artificial, all extremely alien.
I had access, as a student there, to the computers for a few hours a week to respond to emails I would exchange with my Dad and Mom in Rome.

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

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The Diary of the Italian Resistance

By Sian Gibby*

Seventy-four years ago, on Dec. 1, 1943, Benito Mussolini ordered Italian police to arrest all Jews in the country as enemy aliens.
One of the Italian Jews rejected by his government that day was Emanuele Artom, a young Torinese scholar of extraordinary intellectual power who possessed a startling sensitivity, as well as the impulse to write about his life. If reading about brilliant young academic Jews from wartime Turin makes you think of Primo Levi, you are not far off; Artom and Levi were friends, part of the same close Jewish community. In the autumn of 1943, both men joined the partigiani, and both were arrested in 1944, in separate incidents, in the Alps outside their occupied city.
Artom, then 28, was not sent to Auschwitz; instead, the Nazis tortured him to death. He’d fought in the Italian Resistance as a commissario politico, in charge of disseminating the message of the struggle. An unlikely hero, he told his brief life story through diaries that have not yet been translated from Italian, though they have been published a couple of times, most recently in 2008; I read an earlier annotated version in Italian online from the Artom archives. He was an extraordinary human being with a keen awareness and expressive ability that, had he survived, would surely have placed him squarely in Levi’s company as one of the greatest Jewish chroniclers of the wartime experience.

*This article was published in The Tablet, on December 1, 2017.

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