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June 25, 2018 - Tamuz 12, 5778

NEWS

Italian Coen-Uzzielli Appointed
Director of Tel Aviv Museum of Art

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Italian curator Tania Coen-Uzzielli was appointed as the new director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
“I am very happy and I believe that this appointment pays tribute to Italian Judaism,” she commented. “Personally it is an honor to be called to guide an institution that is part of the history of this country. When Israel was not even a country yet, in Tel Aviv the art museum was already up and running”.
Coen Uzzielli is currently serving as the Head of Curatorial Services at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. She was born and raised in Rome and holds a degree in archeology. She has been working at the Israel Museum since the year 2000.

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Featured
in the Italian School-Leaving Examination

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

An excerpt of the Italian Jewish writer Giorgio Bassani was selected as one of the choices for the first exam of the “maturità”, the school leaving examination that Italian students have to pass to
graduate from high school. The first exam requires students to analyze a literary text or to write an essay on a range of topics.
The excerpt was from the book "Il giardino dei Finzi Contini" (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), one of the deepest and most touching works on the Shoah in Italy. It is set in the city of Ferrara that today is home to the first National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, a project carried out also to honor Bassani himself, who was also an active anti-Fascist.

FEATUREs

Ferrara, a Long Jewish History

By Aine Filler*

Ferrara, a town in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northeast Italy, is known as being the melting pot for different Jewish cultures. Jews first emigrated to Ferrara hundreds of years ago since the local laws generally tended to treat Jewish residents with respect. Many of them had fled from areas that were controlled by oppressive rulers, and Ferrara was a place Jews could come to live relatively freely.
The Jewish community of Ferrara is one of the few in the Emilia-Romagna region, which has existed since the Middle Ages. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Ferrara was ruled by the family who encouraged the existence of the community. However, at the end of the 16th century, the Este dynasty was pushed to Modena, and the city came under direct papal control. The Pope did not favor the Jewish community, and in 1627 the Jews of Ferrara were forced into a few streets, which became the ghetto of Ferrara. The Jews of Ferrara remained in the ghetto for more than 200 years, until Italian unification in 1859.

*Aine Filler is a student at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA).

bechol lashon - Français

À la télévision italienne,
le sort des Roms rappelle celui des juifs d'autrefois

Robin Panfili*

C'est en direct, dans l'un des journaux télévisés les plus suivis et regardés du pays, qu'Enrico Mentana, présentateur emblématique et historique du paysage audiovisuel italien et directeur de la chaîne généraliste La7, a décidé de s'exprimer sur la dernière annonce du nouveau ministre de l'Intérieur italien, Matteo Salvini.
Le leader du principal parti d'extrême droite du pays (La Ligue, ex-Ligue du Nord), devenu ministre au détour d'une improbable et laborieuse coalition gouvernementale, venait d'annoncer, le 18 juin, sa nouvelle idée: organiser un recensement des Roms vivant en Italie, en vue d'expulser celles et ceux de nationalité étrangère, mais en gardant «malheureusement» –ce sont ses mots– celles et ceux de citoyenneté italienne.

*Slate.fr, 19.6.18

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Fanaticism

By David Bidussa*

While trying to understand what is happening right now, I re-read the “Letter concerning fanaticism” by Shaftesbury (1708, Chiarelettere publisher), in which the author states that refusing to be in a good mood means that there is no mercy among one’s feelings and gives rise to two elements. These both express an illiberal vision and encourage a totalitarian dimension (as we would say today) of politics: on the one hand, a conspiracy approach to reality, on the other hand the idea that the supremacy of truth can only be ensured by becoming an irreproachable guardian of the truth itself, refusing irony. In fact, laughing and using humor equal blasphemy, which means that any collective experience, that denies irony, will become a dictatorship.
Best wishes to all of us.

*David Bidussa is a social historian of ideas. 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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ITALICS

Italian Jews Recall Holocaust-era Law in Condemning Plan to Register Country’s Roma

By JTA*

Italy’s Jewish community condemned a call by the country’s hardline interior minister to take a census of Italy’s Roma, or Gypsy, population.
The Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, said in a statement issued Tuesday that the call by Matteo Salvini to create a “registry” of Roma in Italy recalled the anti-Semitic legislation introduced by Italy’s fascist government on the eve of the Holocaust in 1938.
Salvini, who leads the right-wing League Party, told a TV station on Monday that he had asked the ministry to prepare a dossier on the situation of Roma in Italy “in order to see ‘who,’ ‘how,’ and ‘how many.’” His statement drew sharp protest from the center-left opposition. Later, Salvini said he had no intention of “creating files or taking digital fingerprints” of individual Roma.

*The article was published in The Jewish Telegraphic Agency on June 19, 2018.

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