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May 14, 2018 - Iyar 29, 5778

NEWS

Anti-Semitism in 2018, the Jewish Perception

By Daniel Reichel*

Six years ago, Europe was different: ISIL, officially born in 2014, was still not menacing the continent and the far right was still not so powerful as it clearly is now. However, even then the Jewish people in the major EU countries felt that there was a threat on the horizon. According to a survey ordered by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), in the Jewish communities of Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Hungary, Romania and Latvia the increasing anti-Semitism and racism were clearly felt.
As the demographer Sergio Della Pergola, one of the experts carrying out the investigation, explained in May 2013 to Pagine Ebraiche, “the most exposed countries are Hungary, France and Belgium, followed by Italy, where racism is significantly increasing, especially in Milan. However, among the concerns of Italian Jews, anti-Semitism and racism are firstly preceded by unemployment, secondly by the state of the economy and public corruption”.

*This article was published in the May issue of Pagine Ebraiche and translated by Giulia Schincariol with the help of Anna Pagetti, students at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University, interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Comisión parlamentaria contra la intolerancia Italia tiene que seguir el ejemplo de Europa

Pagine Ebraiche staff

El primer acto parlamentario de Liliana Segre, senadora vitalicia y testigo del Holocausto, será el de presentar un proyecto de ley para crear una comisión encargada de prevenir y controlar casos de intolerancia, racismo e incitación al odio social. “Se trata de atender una petición del Consejo de Europa a todos los Estados miembros”, ha explicado Segre en un texto sobre el Ventotene Europa Festival. “Nuestro país sería el primero en ofrecer soluciones y medidas adecuadas para combatir lo que se conoce como “discurso de odio”. Este primer paso acompaña la moción con la que, también en esta legislatura, se propone crear una Comisión de protección y afirmación de los derechos humanos. Mi compañera Emma Bonino ha sido la primera en firmar”. El estancamiento político actual “está retrasando de manera inevitable la aprobación de la ley, pero nuestro proyecto sigue en marcha”, ha explicado Liliana Segre al periódico Pagine Ebraiche.

Traducción de Arianna Mercuriali y revisión de Mariateresa Serafino, estudiantes 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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features

Trieste, a City of Borders

By Giulia Nicolai*

Jewish history is not a mere sub-field, but an indispensible aspect of European history, and this traveling exhibition recognizes their role. From February 27th to March 29th, 2018, one hundred years after the end of the First World War, the “Carlo and Vera Wagner” Jewish Museum of Trieste featured the exhibition: “Austro-Hungarian Jewish Soldiers on the Isonzo Front.” As described by the online blog “Triest ebraica,” visitors were able to experience the life of these men “through vintage photos, historical maps, laws and regulations of the Empire, testimonies and diaries.”
The exhibition consisted of 15 panels and a bulletin board that displays objects of the Jewish Austro-Hungarian soldiers. Initially, the texts of the soldiers were in Slovenian, Hebrew and English, but they have been translated into Italian. Additionally, a montage of photographs portraying Jews in the various armies involved in the Isonzo Front are projected.

*Giulia Nicolai is a student at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA).

bechol lashon - Español

Visiones

David Bidussa*

La escena de 1948 en Oriente Próximo consta de tres actos: 1. Nacimiento de Israel; 2. Éxodo palestino; 3. Expulsión de los judíos de muchos países árabes.
Sobre Oriente Próximo, 70 años después, en las librerías - que se trate de libros impresos, digitales, de palabras o de novelas gráficas – no hay rastro de una visión capaz de ir más allá de las palabras de odio.

David Bidussa, historiador de las ideas
Traducción de Anna Zanette, 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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pilpul

Hazak

By Daniela Fubini*

How truly wonderful it is to have multiple nationalities and sometimes almost parallel lives across the continents and the seas. One of the great advantages is that you can tune out one of the nationalities and feel the other with much more intensity in particularly happy or interesting times in the international news, and that is exactly what happened to me (and I can guess to many other Europeans with double or triple nationality around Israel) last night.
Though it was known that Netta Barzilai had a strong chance of taking the Eurovision by a storm, I had to listen carefully to the song brought by Italy and consider it, and only after I could rejoice for the beautiful victory of Netta.

*Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Tel Aviv, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York.

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ITALICS

Forget Paul Newman, This Italian Port
Tells the Real Story of the Exodus

By Rosie Whitehouse*

An 11-million-euro redevelopment of the old military docks in this northern Italian port city will destroy the pier where over a thousand Holocaust survivors went on a hunger strike in 1946 when the occupying British forces blocked their illegal ship from sailing to Palestine.
The story of this ship – the Fede – and the hunger strike helped inspire the Leon Uris novel and the Hollywood blockbuster “Exodus” that starred Paul Newman as the Haganah secret agent who led the refugees to British Mandatory Palestine. Yet local historian Alberto Cavanna, who is 56, only discovered last year that illegal immigrant ships were fitted out in the dockyards where he worked for many years.
The real-life ship the Exodus, which made its own voyage in 1947, had been fitted out at nearby Porto Venere before it set sail for France and then to Haifa, from where its passengers were sent back by the British to Marseilles.

*This article was published in Haaretz on May 4, 2018.

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