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July 23, 2018 - Av 11, 5778

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For UCEI Redazione Aperta 10th Edition,
a Walk through Miramare

By Daniel Reichel

“We saw each other here a year ago and many things have changed since then: back then I was pretty much alone while now I have my new staff, including administrators, architects and art historians”. When the staff of the newsroom of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) met with Andreina Contessa for the first time, she had been appointed director of the Miramare Castle Museum and Natural Park in Trieste only a few months earlier. A year later she explained, the situation is very different.

“We have started many different projects, restoring and securing the beautiful park of Miramare and also opening a new exhibition”, said Contessa. The meeting was one of the events organized for the tenth edition of the UCEI journalistic laboratory, Redazione Aperta (“Open Newsroom”), that for years has been bringing together not only UCEI journalists, but leading experts and leaders from the Italian Jewish world and beyond (in the pictures, the meeting with Contessa, the Miramare Castle, and a moment of the 2013 edition of Redazione Aperta by Giovanni Montenero).

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Limmud Italia, This Year in Jerusalem

By Rossella Tercatin*

Limmud Italia doubles down. For 2018, the Italian branch of the UK-based Jewish charity that for the past 30 years has positioned its annual conferences among the most popular events on the Jewish international scene has decided not to limit itself to its fifth event on the Italian peninsula. After the by now traditional meeting at the beginning of June that took place in Venice, Limmud Italia will soon host its first event abroad, in Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem edition will take place during the festival of Sukkot (September 26 and 27, 2018), offering Italian speaking Israelis and tourists alike the opportunity to immerse themselves in Jewish learning in the broadest possible sense.

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A Taste of Parma

By Ilise Posner*

Could there be an imitation cheese lurking on your shelf? Parmesan cheese, a simple delight for many has an intriguing history. It originated in, you guessed it, the Italian province of Parma and has been prepared for the past eight centuries there. But first, let’s get back to the history of this symbolic city.
Parma is located in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, which among other things, boasts a historic Jewish community. During the mid 14th century, the Visconti dukes of Mantua ruled Parma. During the rule of Visconti, Jews were permitted to partake in business as moneylenders.
In 1449 the city succumbed to a new ruler, Francesco Sforza. During this surrender, the privileges of the Jews of Parma were maintained and they received the support and protection of the city of Parma.
For the Jews, things took a turn for the worse when the Monte di Pietà, a Christian loan-bank, was established in Parma in 1488. Jewish loan-bankers began to leave the town because they were no longer permitted to carry on their moneylending activities or reside in Parma. Jews removed themselves from the city and established themselves in the neighboring villages. Jewish communities were formed in the small towns of Borgo San Domenico, Busseto, Colorno, Cortemaggiore, Firenzuola, and Monticelli.

*Ilise Posner is a student at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA).

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Identidades

Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello*

Una antigua tradición sefardita es la de no señalar públicamente las estrellas con los dedos durante la tarde de la salida del Sabbat cuando, precisamente, tres estrellas marcan su fin.
Debería de cercarse el motivo de esta tradición en el terror del control de la Inquisición que seguía cada gesto de los “Nuevos Cristianos” o conversos para averiguar su real identidad. Podríamos quizás aventurar que ese dedo que las estrellas no pueden ver sea una señal para un momento en el que estas familias, huyendo para seguir siendo ellas mismas, habían debido de esconderse de los terribles inquisidores.

*Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello, rabí. Traducción de Ilaria Vozza, 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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Anniversaries

By David Bidussa*

This coming October in order to mark the 10th anniversary since the death of Vittorio Foa, the Senate had dedicated a day of studies devoted to him. Last week, a Senate official communicated that the Senate is no longer interested. It appears that for the Senate Vittorio Foa is now an intruder. It might be one of the many ways that the Senate is getting ready to mark the anniversary of the anti-Jewish laws of 1938.

*David Bidussa is a historian of ideas.

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Italian police recover Renoir and Rubens
from heist involving ‘diplomatic rabbi’

By AP and TOI staff*

IPolice in northern Italy have recovered two paintings stolen in 2017 during a heist in which one of the accomplices dressed up as a “diplomatic rabbi.”
Carabinieri art-squad police displayed the paintings — a Renoir and a Rubens — for reporters Friday in Monza, a city in the northern Lombardy regional of Italy.
Investigators allege the works were stolen in Monza from a pair of art dealers by suspects posing as buyers.
Police said the paintings were found in a warehouse in Turin, Italy. Investigators said there are eight suspects, including four Italians and a Croat who were arrested last month in the case.
The investigators said the thieves had signed a phony contract pledging to pay 26 million euros (about $30 million) for the paintings. According to investigators, when the dealers were distracted, the thieves snatched the paintings and drove off.
Nenad Jovanovic, the Croatian suspect, is accused of falsely presenting himself to an art galley owner as a “diplomat rabbi” to distract the dealer as his accomplices stole the paintings.”

*The article was published in The Times of Israel on July 20, 2018.

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