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February 25, 2019 - Adar I, 20, 5779

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New Study Sheds Light on Expulsion
of Italian Jews from Public Positions in 1939

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

How many Jews were employed by the Italian State when the anti-Jewish laws were passed? What happened to them? A new study by Annalisa Capristo and Giorgio Fabre published by Il Mulino offers many of the answers.
The two scholars used the Italian Government Accountability Office’s archives to find all the names of people who were let go in 1939 for racist motives: since their salaries were paid by the State, the termination of the payments had to be registered by the office.

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A Ceremony in Fossoli: “It Might Happen Again, But Literature Can Save Us”

By Daniela Modonesi*

“Reading Primo Levi’s works, especially in Fossoli, makes us understand once again and once more how only great literature, great art and great souls can save us from the water of the global deluge.” These were the concluding words of yesterday evening’s speech delivered by Ernesto Ferrero, president of the International Primo Levi Studies Centre, to celebrate 100 years from the birth of the Turinese writer. It took place in a transit camp inside the same shack from which 75 years ago Primo Levi was deported together with other 649 “pieces”, following the Nazi humiliating nomenclature.

*Translated by Simone Simonazzi, 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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Mahmoud from Jerusalem to Turin
to Cheer Juventus

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

In June 2018, the best soccer players in the world gathered in Russia, to attend the most exciting competition ever: the World Cup. A few thousands kilometers away, 250 kids joined an entirely different tournament in front of Jaffa Gate, one of the access of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was a penalty competition organized by the Roma Club Gerusalemme. Many months later, the winner visited Italy, and fulfilled his dream of attending a Series A match.
Mahmoud, 15 years old from A-Tur (East Jerusalem) was at the Allianz Stadium in Turin to see Juventus-Chievo Verona, he received the jersey of second goal keeper Mattia Perin as well.

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Westen

Anna Foa*

Verändert der Antisemitismus auch sein Gesicht zusammen mit der Welt um uns herum? Wie könnte man denn den Antisemitismus der Gelbwesten in Frankreich beschreiben, die den Philosophen Alain Finkielkraut angegriffen haben?
Auch wenn die Gelbwesten sich einigen Slogans des Antizionismus angeeignet haben, handelt es sich nicht um den traditionellen Antisemitismus, der in den Pariser Banlieues herrscht und von den jungen Islamisten der zweiten und dritten Generation verbreitet worden ist.
Es handelt sich auch nicht um den typischen Antizionismus der extremen Rechten und der jungen Neonazis, auch wenn er dazu Ähnlichkeiten hat.

*Anna Foa, Historikerin. Übersetzung von Sara Facelli, mit der Hilfe von Anna Zanette, beide Studentinnen der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Trieste und Praktikantinnen bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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History

By David Bidussa*

When asked why he did not teach the history of persecutions towards European Jews and their destruction, historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi would answer: “I refuse to teach how Jews died to students who have no idea of how they lived”. The knowledge of living Judaism is a priority in the fight against prejudice.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

How an Italian Writer’s Imaginary Garden Became a Place of Literary Pilgrimage

By Diego Courchay*

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is not a real place. We should say that first. You’d be forgiven for thinking that it is, and you wouldn’t be alone. It was invented in Giorgio Bassani’s 1962 historical novel of the same name, and in the 1970 Oscar-winning movie adaptation. It is a place of young love, refuge, and tennis, a place so carefully and lovingly described in the book that many devoted readers are certain it must be there, somewhere in the city of Ferrara, in Italy’s northeastern province of Emilia Romagna. And so thanks to literary imagination, countless travelers and tourists have made a secular pilgrimage to Ferrara’s wide avenues.
“There are hundreds of people every week. Some people came from the Mississippi Valley three days ago, from St. Louis, Missouri. ‘But where’s the garden? We want to see the garden,’” says Portia Prebys, Bassani’s longtime companion, from the city’s Center for Bassani Studies. “People come all the time and they’ll ask in the hotels, ‘But where is the garden?’ They think it really exists, you see.”

*The article was published on Atlas Obscura on February 18, 2019.

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