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July 2, 2018 - Tamuz 18, 5778

NEWS

A New Curator for the Nahon Museum

By Daniel Reichel

The Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art of Jerusalem has found its new curator: Anastazja Buttitta.
“We discovered her thanks to an article published in Haaretz. After checking her profile we understood that she was the right choice”, explained the president of the Nahon Museum, Jack Arbib.
“A dream comes true”, commented Anastazja who was born in Warsaw in 1981 and is the daughter of the Sicilian journalist and writer Pietro Buttitta.
“When I arrived at Ben Gurion University to work on my doctorate with Professor Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby (Jewelry from the Renaissance period in Venice), I thought it would be nice to work at the Nahon, a museum I learned to know well thanks to my studies with Professor Dora Liscia Bemporad,” she added.

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European Day of Jewish Culture 2018:
Focus on Storytelling

By Rossella Tercatin*

“Storytelling” is the theme chosen for the European Day of Jewish Culture 2018. Over 25 European countries will take part in the event, opening the doors of their Jewish sites to the general population and organizing exhibitions, lectures, concerts, performances.
“This topic was chosen by the majority of coordinators at the final meeting held in Luxembourg in March 2017. Nowadays, Storytelling is a cutting-edge tool in the dissemination strategies of historical heritage, turning this initiative into a great opportunity to explore different areas of the tangible and intangible Jewish European heritage,” explains the website of the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ). The AEPJ promotes the event in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the National Library of Israel.

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Livorno, a City for Religious Freedom

By Sophie Goldston*

Sixteenth-century Livorno (Leghorn) was a malaria-infested backwater fishing village before the ruling Medici family decided to turn the western Tuscan city into an important free port. The intention was to draw immigrants, specifically Jews from Spain and Portugal, to the city in an effort to rejuvenate the Tuscan economy. In 1548, Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici offered an invitation to all marranos (crypto-Jews) to come to Livorno as a sanctuary, but found little success. In 1593, Cosimo’s grandson, Ferdinando I, extended a more successful invitation which promised full religious freedom, amnesty, full Tuscan citizenship, special courts with civil and criminal jurisdictions, as well as exemption from wearing the Jewish badges, and other restrictions, such as restricting Jews to live in a ghetto. These conditions attracted many Jews to the flourishing port so that the Jewish population of the city grew from 114 in 1601 to more than 3,000 in 1689.
Unlike most Italian cities at the time, Jews in Livorno were permitted to pratice trades other than just money lending. The majority of the merchants were Jewish immigrants, and the paper, wine, and coral industries were all dominated by Jewish traders. Livorno also became an important center for Hebrew printing. One of the most significant printing figures in Livorno’s history is Salomone Belforte. By the year 1863, Livorno had become the fifth largest Hebrew printing center in the world, and it’s leading printing company was that of Salomone Belforte & Co.

*Sophie Goldston is a student at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA).

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Gestes

Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello*

Il est très difficile d’accepter l’idée que notre guide, notre maître Moshe ne soit pas entré en Terre promise pour avoir frappé un rocher avec son bâton. Et pourtant, toute sa faute repose dans ce geste : colère, rancune, occasion manquée d’éduquer le peuple et de sanctifier le nom de Dieu.
Certains gestes, bien que petits, marquent pour toujours notre être, même sans le vou-loir. Et c’est dans ces petits gestes quotidiens que se trouve la différence de ce que l’on est.

*Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello, rabbin. Traduction de Beatrice Bandini, 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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Anti-fascism

By Anna Foa*

On June 9, 1937, 81 years ago, two antifascist Jews, the Rosselli brothers, were killed by hit men belonging to the right-wing extremist French movement La Cagoule in Bagnoles-de-l’Orne, Normandy. It was the Italian fascist regime which commissioned the murder, first and foremost Ciano e Roatta.
Carlo Rosselli had been living in Paris since 1929, after his adventurous escape from the confinement in Lipari with Emilio Lussu and Francesco Fausto Nitti. In Paris, he founded the Giustizia e Libertà Movement (Justice and Freedom, translator's note) and then moved to Spain to fight for the Republic.

*Anna Foa is a historian. 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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ITALICS

The Real Zionist Planters' Society
in James Joyce's "Ulysses"

By Philologos*

In your preparations for Father’s Day on Sunday, June 17, you may have overlooked Bloomsday the day before. If you did, I submit that you missed the more important event. Fathers come and go. There will always, however, be only one Leopold Bloom, whose life and thoughts on June 16, 1904, along with those of his wife Molly and of Stephen Dedalus, the autobiographical hero of James Joyce’s first novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, are the subjects of Joyce’s second novel Ulysses (1922). Observed annually since 1924, Bloomsday is marked by some lovers of Ulysses by carousing in the pubs of Dublin, the city in which it takes place. Others prefer to settle with it into an armchair at home. It was while performing the latter ritual this month that I was led to consider the case of Agendath Netaim.
The reader first encounters these words in the second chapter of Ulysses. There, the half-Jewish Leopold Bloom is on his way home from a non-kosher Jewish butcher in whose shop he has bought pork kidneys for his breakfast while picking up a loose page from a stack of papers on the counter used to wrap meat in. The page comes from an illustrated Zionist advertising prospectus, and Bloom “walked back along Dorset Street, reading gravely. Agendath Netaim: planters’ company.”

*This article was published in Mosaic on June 27, 2018.

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