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December 31, 2018 - Tevet 23, 5779

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The Secret Jewish History of Totocalcio

By Adam Smulevich

Totocalcio is the popular Italian soccer pools game invented by Jewish Journalist Massimo Della Pergola while he was housed in an internment camp in Switzerland where he had escaped to save himself and his family from anti-Jewish persecution.
Today the game is close to being canceled following a decision by the government which expressed its’ intention to propose a new formula.
While the Second World War was still in progress, Della Pergola had the intuition to invent a game that would raise the interest in Italian sports. A few years before he had been ousted from that very same world because of the Anti-Jewish Laws.
His intuition was a winning one. From its inception on May 5, 1946 until today millions of Italians have played the legendary schedina, a card featuring 13 matches whose results have to be guessed, marking each one with a home win (1), an away win (2) or neither of these (X).”

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Italian PM Reassures Jewish Communities
and No Profit Sector about Fiscal Policy

By Pagine Ebraiche Staff

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte reassured the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities in the matter of the new fiscal policy included in the 2019 Budget. The new law stipulates the end of tax concessions for non-profit organizations. This measure has caused an uproar in the entire Italian non-profit sector. These organizations will find themselves in the predicament of paying double the amount of taxes for 2019.
“We will take care of reformulating the norm and balancing it better as soon as possible in January”, Conte wrote in a note sent to president Noemi Di Segni.

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Jewish Sports in 1938: an Exhibition in Venice

By Pagine Ebraiche Staff

Many are the stories of Jewish sports heroes whose careers and often lives were brought to an end when there were the Anti-Jewish laws in Italy in 1938. Few of them somehow managed to keep practising and competing. An ongoing exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Venice focuses on both aspects and on a little known but fascinating figure: the local swimmer Giorgio Gesuà Sive Salvadori.
Born in 1921, Giorgio started to swim at age 13 and he immediately proved to be incredibly gifted. In 1937 he was selected to take part in the National Championships for his age group in Rome. After 1938 his team opportunistically kept on allowing him to compete, interested in taking advantage of his talent. He later took part in competitions under a false name. In the meantime, the State had confiscated his father’s tobacco shop on St. Mark Square (the shop was never returned to the family).
In 1943 he managed to avoid deportation by fleeing to Switzerland, where he found a job as a swimming instructor in Lugano. He moved back to Venice in 1947.

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Sitios

Anna Foa*

“Las intricadas vicisitudes históricas de los judíos que han llevado a la Shoah pueden comprenderse solo teniendo en cuenta el pecado de negar el Kerygma, es decir de no creer que Jesucristo sea el Redentor". Son palabras, en realidad solo algunas de las palabras de este tipo, sacadas del libro Kerygma, el Evangelio de los últimos días, escrito por Cristiano Ceresani, Jefe de Gabinete antes con la ministra Boschi y ahora con el ministro Fontana. Dicho libro, en el que se anuncia el Apocalipsis y se dedica una amplia parte a la Shoah, pretende ser una nueva manera de entender 2000 años de historia a la luz de las profecías bíblicas y fue solemnemente presentado el 23 de noviembre en la sala Lupa de la Cámara de Diputados italiana, en presencia de numerosos políticos de partidos diferentes.

*Anna Foa, histórica. Traducido por Antonioli Francesca, 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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Notizie felici

Latke v. Hamantasche

By Susanna Calimani*

The celebration of Hanukah brings the individual to expand the reach and quantity of light as the year reaches its lowest point. Yet, while the accepted rhetoric for Hanukah is that of the contrast between light and darkness, and the celebration of spiritual enlightenment vis-à-vis the dangers of cultural assimilation, a marginal and little known explanation of this holiday is the one proposed by Rabbi Nahman on the dreidel (the four-sided spinning top), upon which Rav ShaGaR (Shimshon Gershon Rosenberg) based one of his rather postmodern interpretations of traditional Judaism.

*Susanna Calimani is a wandering economist currently based in Frankfurt.

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ITALICS

Golders Green mosque to host exhibit
on Muslim heroes of Shoah

By Jenni Frazer*

Golders Green Mosque is to host a unique one-day Yad Vashem exhibition at the beginning of the new year, highlighting the Muslim Albanians who helped, protected and rescued their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust.
The exhibition, to be held under the auspices of the Faiths Forum for London, is part of the mosque’s drive to open and maintain dialogue with its neighbours, in the wake of objections made to its opening, as the Centre for Islamic Understanding, in Golders Green.
The Yad Vashem event, to be held on Sunday January 6, looks at the response of Muslim Albanians who defied Nazi occupiers. The Albanians did not just protect their own Jewish citizens but also offered sanctuary to Jewish refugees who had arrived in Albania and faced deportation to concentration camps.

*The article was published in the London Jewish News on December 27, 2018.

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