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April 22, 2019 - Nisan 17, 5779

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“The Jewish Brigade, a Symbol
of European Freedom”

By Daniel Reichel*

As soon as he turned eighteen, Piero Cividalli followed the steps of his sister Paola – who had served in a British auxiliary unit since 1944 – and enlisted “in order to help liberate Europe from the yoke of Nazism and Fascism”.
Fortunately, the war was over right before Piero became actively involved in it. Two months after the end of the war, he landed in Taranto “with a group of Jewish soldiers who came from Palestine. I could see with my own eyes how Italy had been ruined. Fascism had led to the complete destruction of the country, turning it into a poor, barren and ruined land”.

*Translated by Arianna Mercuriali, 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.

culture

Primo Levi’s Centennial Program
Presented in Turin

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Committee for the Centennial of the birth of Shoah survivor and world renowned author Primo Levi presented the program of the initiatives for the anniversary last week in Turin.
“As Italian President Sergio Mattarella highlighted in his message, the remembrance of Primo Levi represents an important heritage and a reserve of ethics and humanity. Our Committee intends to start a wide range of initiatives in Italy and abroad to promote knowledge and awareness of the civil and moral testimony of a figure whose teachings are essential to our society today more than ever,” the president of the Committee Dario Disegni said.

culture

Terracini Archive in Turin, a Trove
of Primo Levi’s Papers

By Alice Fubini*

A small exhibition of original unpublished documents stored in many files and collections was the backdrop to a conference in Turin last week - a dialogue between Chiara Pilocane, director of Terracini Archive, and Cristina Zuccaro, responsible for the archive and library at Primo Levi Studies Centre. Alternating with some passages from Andrea Sola’s works, their speeches were introduced by Terracini Archive’s President Bianca Gardella Tedeschi.
The event was part of the initiatives for Primo Levi’s birth centenary, supported by the International Primo Levi Studies Centre and the National Committee for the Celebrations of the Centenary, established on March 25 and presided by Dario Disegni, President of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah and of the Jewish Community of Turin.

*Translated by Claudia Azzalini, student at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University and intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Joyeux 25 Avril

Alberto Cavaglion*

Pas de trêve pour le 25 avril. Depuis des années on n’arrive plus à apprécier la chaleur du printemps à cause d’une terrible damnatio memoriae: on ne parvient plus à rendre hommage à ceux qui ont donné à l’Italie son âge d’or. Ce jour d’avril 1945 marque le début de la période la plus riche, la plus joyeuse, la plus excitante pour l’Italie, qui en fait n’a duré que quelques années. Peu de temps après, on commença à glisser vers la misérable instrumentalisation politique sans fin de la lutte partisane à laquelle on assiste aujourd’hui.

*Traduction de Sara Facelli, étudiante de l’Ecole Supérieure pour Traducteurs et Interprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaire au journal de l’Union des Communautés Hébraïques Italiennes.

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What Does Thinking Mean?

By David Bidussa*

To think does not mean to tweet compulsively. To think with others means to re-establish and redesign a vision of goals that are worthy of being pursued through the means of reason and critical thinking. This is true at least if we don’t want to give up the will, desire and passion to create, and not be subjected to a better future” (Salvatore Veca, “Qualcosa di sinistra” - Something left-wing - Feltrinelli 2019, p.14). In the same way, the mouth was not created to shout, and the head is not on the neck to shake, but in order to think, in order to give purpose to the future. Thank you Salvatore Veca.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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Mystery of Wartime Haggadah Remains Unsolved on 75th Anniversary

By Daniel Sugarman*

In April 1944, 75 years ago, a group of Jews gathered together for a Pesach Seder like few others.
The setting was Bari, Italy — more precisely, a British army camp in the southern Italian city, established as the Allies slowly fought their way up through the country.
And the participants were soldiers: Jews from both the British and US armed forces, as well as the Italian underground.
The US army, through New York’s National Jewish Welfare Board, had issued copies of the Haggadah to Jewish soldiers. And in one Haggadah in use at the Seder, a number of those who attended signed their names.
Some, like Eli Zohar and Peretz Rosenberg, were from Kibbutzim in what was still British Mandatory Palestine. Others came from America, or Italy, even Poland. And there were at least two Jewish soldiers from the UK, a “Phil Goldberg” from Brighton and a soldier with the last name of “Rose” from Hull.

*The article was published in The Jewish Chronicle on April 18, 2019.

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