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November 5, 2018 - Cheshwan 27, 5779

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Italian Jewish Communities Pay Tribute
to Pittsburgh Victims

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Events to commemorate the victims of the attack that claimed eleven lives in Pittsburgh were held in several Italian Jewish Communities last week. Attending, beside for Jewish leaders and members of the communities, were several representatives of the local and national authorities.
The names of the victims and the kaddish for them was recited in Milan, with the chief rabbi Alfonso Arbib that highlighted how anti-Semitism has been a constant threat throughout the centuries, in spite of changing its tone.
In Florence, the ceremony included Mayor Dario Nardella, the former prime minister and current senator Matteo Renzi, several members of the regional and city councils as well as the American consulate Benjamin Wohlauer.
“We feel closer than ever to the Jewish community of Florence and to the Jews of Pittsburgh and the world. Today we are all Jewish,” said Nardella.

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Italian Minister of Defence Visited
Rome’s Synagogue

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Many of them took part in the First World War, ready to give everything for the country that had finally recognised them as full citizens. Twenty years later, the Racial laws sealed the betrayal. Many of the Jewish decorated war heroes were marginalised first, and then deported to death camps, from which they never returned.
The visit of the minister of Defence Elisabetta Trenta at the Great Synagogue of Rome, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the end of the Great War, reaffirmed the major contribution of the Italian Jews in this war, that has been at the centre of various initiatives in the last few weeks.
The memory of the war has been recalled together with the chief rabbi rav Riccardo Di Segni, the president of the Jewish Community Ruth Dureghello and the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni.

Translated by Sara Volpe, 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.

Noticias

“La conexión entre Israel y la diáspora
es crucial”

Daniel Reichel

En un mundo tan conectado, donde la comunicación se hace cada vez más rápida, directa y al mismo tiempo superficial, estamos perdiendo la capacidad de llegar al fondo de las cosas, de analizar en detalle nuestros objetivos y los de los demás. En una entrevista con el periódico Pagine Ebraiche,Ofer Sachs, el embajador de Israel en Italia, ha explicado: “Por eso el papel de los diplomáticos seguirá siendo importante también en los próximos años: nosotros tenemos que comunicar los intereses cada uno de su propio Gobierno y al mismo tiempo encontrar una manera de alcanzar esos intereses”. Sin embargo, para un embajador israelí hay otra dificultad. Sachs dice: “Israel era y sigue siendo un país con retos un poco diferentes comparado con otros países. A menudo no es aceptado ni acogido del mismo modo que las otras naciones. Por eso, ser un diplomático israelí a veces puede ser un poco difícil. Todavía hay mucha ignorancia y mucha incomprensión sobre lo que es Israel: una sociedad democrática y vivaz; un país que respeta los derechos de las minorías, que hace todo lo posible para defender a sus ciudadanos del terrorismo interior y exterior”. El embajador evidencia que ser una democracia no es un hecho que se pueda negociar y, por eso, cada crítica o diferente punto de vista que proceda del hebraísmo diaspórico o de los Gobiernos de otros países es acogida y atendida. Con el embajador hemos hablado de esto, de las relaciones con Italia, de la capacidad de construir redes internacionales por medio de recursos energéticos, del boicot anti-israelí, que Sachs considera como un “fracaso completo” para quien lo promueve.

Traducción de Mariateresa Serafino y revisión de Francesca Antonioli, estudiantes de prácticas en la oficina del periódico de la Unión de las Comunidades Judías Italianas.

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Racismo

Anna Foa*

La aberrante carta neonazi de amenazas e insultos dirigida a la Asociación Cultural “Arte in Memoria”, de la que Adachiara Zevi es la presidenta, ha suscitado un llamamiento que hasta ahora ha recogido más de quinientos firmas, nombres conocidos y nombres desconocidos, judíos y no judíos, muchas personas deseosas de expresar su solidaridad y de ser la voz de su preocupación. Una amplia adhesión, marca también de la necesidad de conseguir apoyo a su propia indignación en el vacío político que nos rodea. La carta de amenazas, que invocaba los campos de exterminio, era directamente antisemita, un punto importante que debemos destacar no porque creemos que un ataque a los judíos es más serio que un asalto a los inmigrados, una declaración racista contra la población romaní, un tiroteo desde un balcón contra un ser humano con la piel negra y no blanca, sino porque significaba que, después del racismo, de la reivindicación del odio, después de los insultos a la memoria, también el antisemitismo empezaba a ser parte de todo esto.

*Anna Foa, historiadora
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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When Hate Becomes Mainstream

By Jonathan A. Greenblatt*

This has been a very difficult few days for the Jewish community — and for America. What started as a normal Sabbath for Jews — a time to be with family and community, celebrate bar and bat mitzvahs, hold baby namings, pray to God — ended with news of the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. This was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. While the horror of this massacre is shocking, it is not entirely surprising. At the Anti-Defamation League, we have been tracking and fighting anti-Semitism for over a century. And while Jews have enjoyed a degree of acceptance and achievement in the United States perhaps unrivaled in our people's history, recent trends have been alarming. While the overall trend in anti-Semitic incidents has been a downward one, last year we saw the largest single-year increase since the A.D.L. began this annual audit in 1979 — a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017.

*Jonathan A. Greenblatt is the chief executive and national director of the Anti-Defamation League. The article was published in The New York Times on October 30, 2018.

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ITALICS

Giorgio Bassani’s Memorial Tapestry

By Adam Kirsch*

The Italian Jewish writer Giorgio Bassani lived to be 84 years old, and he spent most of his adult life in Rome, where he was a prominent editor and man of letters. But almost all of his fiction takes place in Ferrara, the small provincial city where he grew up, during the years just before and after World War II, when he was in his early 20s. Clearly, a rupture opened in Bassani’s life in that time and place which he spent a lifetime trying to understand. Indeed, Bassani came to see all six of his books of fiction as parts of a single story, and they were collected in Italian under the title The Novel of Ferrara in 1974.
Now, for the first time, The Novel of Ferrara has been published in English in one volume, in a translation by Jamie McKendrick. The book includes a number of short stories, but at its heart are four novellas, including Bassani’s best-known work, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which was made into a film by the director Vittorio de Sica. Garden is Bassani’s masterpiece—a classic tale of first love, under the gathering shadow of the Holocaust.
But Garden gains in meaning and resonance as part of The Novel of Ferrara, where it forms one panel in a tapestry representing the lost world of Ferrara’s Jewry. This was a small world—before WWII, Bassani writes, there were just 400 Jews in the city. But he evokes it in richly realistic detail, filling his pages with descriptions of streets and cafes and churches, encircled by the old city walls. Characters who appear as passing names in one story return as protagonists in another, creating a sense of intimate community. And certain events—above all, a massacre in late 1943, in which Ferrara’s Fascists killed 11 people—serve as landmarks, visible in the background of many different tales. In these ways, The Novel of Ferrara can be compared to Joyce’s Dubliners or Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine; but a more fitting parallel is the yizkor books that were produced after the Holocaust to commemorate so many vanished Jewish towns.

*The article was published in the Tablet on November 5, 2018.

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