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February 11, 2019 - Adar I, 7 5779

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The Great Synagogue of Rome in the Spotlight

By Adam Smulevich*

The Great Synagogue of Rome, the most powerful symbol of the local Jewish community was built in 1904 and ever since then it has been a witness of beautiful as well as dark pages of over a century of Italian and European history. In the past few days itreceived new lights.
Forty-four floodlights with different intensity have been installed at the initiative of the Rome City Hall together with ACEA, the local electrical company. The artistic lighting is part of a project that involves the most evocative places in Rome.

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Historian Anna Foa Awarded Honorary Title by the President of Italy

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The president of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella awarded Anna Foa with the official title of Commendatore (equivalent to the English Knight Commander). The title is awarded to individuals who are honored with the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Anna Foa is a leading expert in Jewish history. She has authored dozens of books and papers and is a permanent contributor to Pagine Ebraiche.

KULTUR

Eine Installation für die Finzi-Contini

Von Thomas Steinfeld*

Das Buch "Die Gärten der Finzi-Contini" (1962), der Roman, mit dem der Schriftsteller Giorgio Bassani weltberühmt wurde, beginnt mit einem Besuch auf einem etruskischen Friedhof. "Hatte man die Schwelle des Friedhofs überschritten", berichtet der Erzähler, "wo ein jeder von ihnen ein zweites Haus besaß, in dem er schon das Lager bereitet hatte, auf dem er bald neben den Vätern ruhen würde, konnte die Ewigkeit nicht länger eine Illusion bleiben." An diesen Gedanken heften sich Erinnerungen. Sie führen den Erzähler zurück nach Ferrara, in seine Kindheit und Jugend, zurück zum jüdischen Friedhof und zur monumentalen Gruft der (fiktiven) Familie, deren letzter Generation der Roman gewidmet ist. Gewiss, es sind am Ende die Deutschen, die Micòl und ihre Familie ermorden. Aber bis es so weit kommt, gibt es "moderne Juden", die begeisterte Faschisten werden, halbaristokratische Juden, die sich in neugotischen Palästen unangreifbar wähnen, sowie selbstverständlich nicht-jüdische Italiener, die zu Antisemiten werden, sobald es von ihnen erwartet wird.

*Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1.2.2019

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Souvenir du dernier survivant du ghetto juif
de Rome

Par Federico Maccioni*

Il y a 75 ans par un petit matin nuageux d’automne, les habitants du ghetto juif de Rome ont été brusquement réveillés au son assourdissant des bottes dans l’escalier, par les claquements de portes et les ordres hurlés dans un accent étranger.
Le 16 octobre 1943 à 5h30, 300 soldats allemands ont débuté leur chasse et la rafle des Juifs de Rome alors que leurs victimes étaient paisiblement endormies, dans l’attente d’un matin habituel de Shabbat. Mais ce matin-là ne serait pas habituel.

*Times of Israel Français 26.01.2019.

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The Other Day of Memory

By David Bidussa*

Why does the Day of Memory - February 10 when the Treaty of Paris was signed - struggle to enter into the public conscience 15 years after its establishment? Why does that story of pain and violence fails to become public? Why, to the contrary and notwithstanding the many difficulties, does Holocaust Remembrance Day hold a public space? We better think about it before conspiracy theories (which in our country are on the rise) suggest that it is the umpteenth proof of the power of “Jewish internationalism”.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Yotam Ottolenghi on being greedy,
taking pleasure and finding his palate

By Mira Adler-Gillies*

Gluttony is not immediately apparent when you first encounter the world-famous chef — his slender elegance belies a voracious appetite. As soon as he starts to speak the delight he takes in the pleasure of food is unambiguous.
It's a pleasure that has shaped his life since he was a small child. His first word was "ma", short for marak (soup in Hebrew). He was referring, he says, to small soup croutons — salty, sweet, pillows that delighted a young palate. His was a palate forged in a uniquely culturally rich environment.
"I grew up in this incredible mumble jumble of food," he says. His mother, from a Berlin Jewish family who had come to Palestine via Sweden, was instrumental in introducing culinary diversity.
"I remember my mum had this book called The International Cookbook that was very big in the 60s and 70s, and she would make Malaysian curries and Tiramisu and sabayons and things that were from very different, diverse cultures."
His Florentine father, meanwhile, inculcated in him an appreciation of simplicity. His "desert island" dish, he says, is still his nonna's gnocchi alla romana — semolina dumplings, grilled with parmesan and butter — a dish he ate as a boy in the Little Italy his homesick grandparents created in a small Tel Aviv suburb.

*The article was published in the ABC on February 8, 2019.

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