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March 19, 2018 - Nisan 3, 5778

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Florence, a Square to Say No to Hatred

By Adam Smulevich

Carlo Levi Square, in the heart of Florence, is just a meeting point, it is also an ideal place where to say no to fascism and to all forms of violence and oppression.
The dedication of a square is usually a formal act, but if it is enriched by memories and first-hand experiences, emotions can only end up gaining the upper hand. This is exactly what happened on the left bank of the river Arno last week. A ceremony was held to unveil the plate of Carlo Levi, an intellectual and painter from Turin, now considered one of the most important custodians of the Remembrance and the anti-fascist vocation of Florence (together with Anna Maria Ichino, honored with the same tribute).

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

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Israeli Cycling Team Proves Their Strength

By Adam Smulevich

The Israel Cycling Academy, the first Israeli professional cycling team to participate in a Giro d’Italia continues to amaze.
After distinguishing itself at the Tirreno - Adriatico, an elite cycle race in Italy between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts, the Academy played a leading role in the legendary Milano - Sanremo race. This the longest professional one-day race in modern cycling.

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Remembering Davide Astori

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

He was an athlete of great worth and respectability, but also a man with solid values. The football world is in shock with the sudden death of Davide Astori, team captain of ACF Fiorentina and defender of Italian national team. He played 14 matches with the national team and had been part of Florence football team since the summer of 2015.
Astori also backed several awareness-raising initiatives in the field of topics with major social impact, such as Holocaust Remembrance.
Last January, with his teammates, he symbolically cut a piece of barbed wire in memory of who lost his life in a death camp. In the same vein, after the horrible provocation of a group of Lazio football team supporters, outraged by the idiocy of the ultras, in October he read a piece of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.

Translated by Ilaria Vozza, student at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University, intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Un Jardin des Justes à Rome

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Salvo D’Acquisto, le carabinier napolitain qui a sacrifié sa vie pour sauver celles de beaucoup de civils. Irena Sendler, l’infirmière polonaise qui a aidé 2500 enfants à s’échapper du ghetto de Varsovie. L’allemand Armin T. Wegner, qui a documenté pour la première fois le génocide arménien et, plus tard, s’est opposé à la Shoah. Etty Hillesum, la jeune intellectuelle hollandaise dont le journal a ému des millions de personnes dans le monde. Mohamed Naceur (Hamadi) Ben Abdesslem, le guide tunisien qui a sauvé les touristes italiens pendant l’attaque de Daesh contre le musée du Bardo.
Ce sont eux les dédicataires des cinq premiers arbres du Giardino dei Giusti (Jardin des Justes) à Rome, inauguré le 6 mars à Villa Doria Pamphilj. Un défi qui s’adresse premièrement aux nouvelles générations et que la municipalité de Rome a accepté grâce à l’organisation Gariwo, foresta dei Giusti (forêt des Justes) et à Adei Wizo, l’association des femmes juives d’Italie.

Traduction de Federica Alabiso, étudiante de l’École Supérieure pour Traducteurs et Interprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaire auprès du journal de l’Union des Communautés Juives Italiennes.

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Pesaj

Pierpaolo Punturello*

Empieza el mejor periodo del año: Pésaj. Empiezan las preguntas al rav: ¿a la abuela, junto con su dentadura postiza, hay que hervirla o basta con calentarla levemente? ¿Al gato lo aso en el horno y luego lo dejo en remojo desinfectante durante 24 horas? ¿A los niños los duermo por lo menos durante cinco días antes de Pésaj para que no arrastren chametz por toda la casa? ¿El chupete del bebé lo hiervo con o sin el bebé? Y ¿antes o después de haberle cambiado el pañal en 18 minutos? ¿Las rosquitas las puedo preparar con arena? Si bien no existen preguntas tontas y si bien yo, en cuanto rav, os contesto a todos porque, si no, no sería un rav, os recuerdo que el polvo no es chametz y la familia no es el korbán, el sacrificio, de Pésaj. Relajaos.

*Pierpaolo Punturello es un rabino. Traducción de Mariateresa Serafino, estudiante de la Escuela Superior para Intérpretes y Traductores de la Universidad de Trieste, de prácticas en la oficina del periódico de la Unión de las Comunidades Judías Italianas.

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The Italian Elections

By Daniel Leisawitz*

The results of the Italian elections on March 4 were both surprising and predictable. The upstart populist party, Movimento 5 Stelle, was predicted to do well, and indeed it did, gathering the highest number of votes of any single party, with 32%. When this number is added to the 17% garnered by the other populist and Euroskeptic party, Lega (Nord), it becomes clear that quite nearly half of Italian voters opted for parties the platforms of which lean decidedly populist, protectionist, xenophobic, inward-looking, and reactionary. The possibility of a M5S-Lega coalition is a frightening one, not only for Italy, but also for the entire European project and for the democratic West.

*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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Israeli Schoolkids Perform Lost Music
Written by Jews During Holocaust

By Ariel David*

It’s another long day of rehearsals in the music conservatory of this small desert town in southern Israel, and Francesco Lotoro is doing what all great conductors do: screaming at his orchestra.
“No, no, no! I cannot listen the flutes. You must play più forte, stronger,” he exclaims in a frustrated pidgin of English and Italian.
The chastised musicians – teenagers dressed in jeans, sneakers and T-shirts – mumble an apology and listen intently to the maestro’s guidance. Then, instruments are raised and the ensemble takes it from the top as it tries to convey the desperate passion and dramatic tension of a tango written in the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
That last bit may sound incongruous, but “Der Tango fun Oshwientschim” (aka Oshvientshim) – as the anonymous Yiddish song is titled – is part of the core repertoire of this orchestra, made up of 20 children aged 10 to 17 from across southern Israel and dedicated to playing music composed during the Holocaust.
The orchestra leans on the efforts of Lotoro, a Jewish-Italian pianist and musicologist who has made it his life’s mission to find, preserve and popularize music that was composed by Jews and other prisoners during World War II – from entire operas written on toilet paper in Nazi camps to love songs created by POWs from all sides of the conflict.”

*This article was published in Haaretz on March 12, 2018.

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