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January 22 2018 - Shevat 6, 5778

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Italian Holocaust Survivor Liliana Segre
Appointed Senator for Life

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Liliana Segre, 87, a Holocaust survivor from Milan, has been appointed Senator for life by Italian president Sergio Mattarella.
“Life can be very strange. I’m old enough to remember the promulgation of the Anti-Jewish Laws 80 years ago. As I told President Mattarella, back then I was blamed for simply being born. Today, they recognize it as a merit”, Segre told Pagine Ebraiche after the appointment.
Born in 1930, Segre was deported to Auschwitz in January 1944 with her father and another 600 Jews. Only 22 came back, among them, Liliana, who in the past 30 years has become one of the most active voices to promote awareness of what happened, and denouncing intolerance and indifference. “Indifference” is the word she asked to be carved on the entrance wall of the Holocaust Memorial in Milan, located in the warehouse of the Central Train Station where she was put on the train to Auschwitz.

The artwork is by Giorgio Albertini

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Milan’s Holocaust Memorial
to Be Completed in Eight Months

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Milan’s Holocaust Memorial is going to be completed in the next seven or eight months. Announcing this was the vice-president of the Foundation for the Memorial, Roberto Jarach. Mr. Jarach expressed his gratitude for the decision of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage to allocate the funds necessary to finish building the library.
“These funds represent the direct effort of the Italian authorities in the restoration of a place of Remembrance, where the horrors of the Shoah began in Milan”, commented Minister Dario Franceschini.

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“Vittorio Emanuele III, Guilty Before History”

By Adam Smulevich

Vittorio Emanuele III, the king who signed Mussolini’s Racial Laws against Jews in 1938 is guilty "in front of history" for this act.
This is the decision reached at the end of the mock trial against the Italian monarch that was held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. The dramatic production, titled "Il processo" ("The Trial") was promoted by the Union of Jewish Communities for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Italiener

Anna Foa

Vor 79 Jahren, in exakt diesen Herbstmonaten, erfolgten jene Gesetze, die den Juden die Bürgerrechte stückweise entzogen haben. Rechte, die sie mit dem Risorgimento, dem Prozess der Staatsgründung Italiens, erlangten und die sie sich dort durch ihre Teilnahme am Aufbau eines vereinigten Italiens erarbeiteten.

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

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Slip of the Tongue

By David Bidussa*

“Just words count. The rest is chatter”, said Eugene Ionesco. Only convictions exist. Slips of the tongue don’t.

*David Bidussa is a historian.

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ITALICS

1/3 Of The Paintings In Genoan Modigliani Exhibit Were Forgeries, Art Expert Says

By Talyah Zax*

Amedeo Modigliani, the Sephardic Italian painter and sculptor whose work is widely thought to have helped establish Modernism, is a favorite target of art forgers.
Such a favorite, in fact, that a shocking third of the artworks shown in a recent exhibit focused on Modigliani in Genoa, Italy may have been fakes.
As The New York Times reports, Isabella Quattrocchi, an art expert tasked by Italian prosecutors with determining the contested artworks’ provenance, has concluded that 21 of the works shown in the 2017 Palazzo Ducale exhibit are forgeries. Those works include 15 currently attributed to Modigliani — seven drawings and eight paintings — as well as six paintings thought to be the work of Moise Kisling, an artist who occasionally worked alongside Modigliani.

*This article was published in The Forward on January 15, 2018.

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