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September 9, 2019 - Elul 9, 5779

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‘An Officer and a Spy’ by Polanski wins prestigious award in Venice

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

After being praised by both the critics and the public, Roman Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy” won the Grand Jury Prize at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.
The film, considered by many the umpteenth masterpiece by the Polish-born director, narrates the vicissitudes of captain Alfred Dreyfus, a symbol of anti-Semitism in the late nineteenth century. Unjustly condemned for espionage against his country, Dreyfus was degraded and confined for four years on Devil Island. He was eventually found innocent.

SPORTS

New Israeli ambassador to Italy
presents his credentials

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Dror Eydar, new Israeli ambassador to Rome, has recently taken office.
The new representative of the Jewish state in Italy, who is 52 years old and has been a columnist for the newspaper Israel Hayom since 2007, has presented his credentials to Ambassador Inigo Lambertini, head of the Diplomatic Protocol at the Italian Republic at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
This gesture is preparatory to the official ceremony which will soon take place at the Quirinale Palace, where President Sergio Mattarella will receive Eydar’s credentials.
Eydar was appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exactly a year ago.

Translated by Mattia Stefani and revised by Claudia Azzalini, both students at the Advanced School for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra triumphs spectators in Milan

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

They have worked together for half a century. The relationship between Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is a life-long love story, which was celebrated at La Scala Theatre in Milan yesterday, during the opening ceremony of MITO SettembreMusica, the classical music festival which takes place every year between Milan and Turin.
The honor of the opening was given to the great Indian maestro and to this friendship, the quintessential artistic expression of the Jewish state, whose aim is to blend together Ludwig van Beethoven and Hector Berlioz’s notes.
This intense new challenge, called “Worlds”, combines two different artistic visions – Beethoven’s music represents nothing but itself and the composer is painstakingly concerned with form; Berlioz, on the other hand, aims to demonstrate that an orchestra can tell stories and weaves his tormented love story around staves..

Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Mattia Stefani, both students at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Remembrance and awareness
at the MEIS in Ferrara

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

A five-day-long collaboration to reach one common goal: helping teachers find a way to introduce Italian high school students to new topics, namely the Shoah and the inalienable values at the basis of human rights.
The seminar "Learning from our past - Acting for our future. Teaching about the Holocaust and human rights" kicked off yesterday at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara (MEIS). The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights (TOLI) and the Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (CDEC), in collaboration with the MEIS and the Contemporary History Institute of Ferrara (ISCO), organized the seminar, which gathered about 40 high school teachers from all over Italy. It will address issues related to the 20th century's historical debate, including Italian antisemitism in contemporary times, the fascist anti-Semitic policy, the construction of memory regarding deportation during the post-war period, the analysis of causes and effects of the feeling of hatred of the present day.

Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Mattia Stefani, both students at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Le vote et ses manipulateurs

Dario Calimani*

La réalité, elle n’est jamais fixe ; c’est pour ça qu’elle nous intéresse toujours et n’est jamais ennuyeuse, qu’elle nous pose devant à des questions, voire des doutes.
Par exemple, si on vote tous les quelques années et en sort une proportion entre les partis à partir de laquelle on doit former le gouvernement pendant une législature parlementaire déjà confirmée par ce même vote, est-il également légitime, à l’intérieur de cette législature-là, de demander un autre vote pour vérifier que la proportion entre les partis ne soit pas changée ? Combien de temps doit-il passer entre une consultation et l’autre ? Combien de fois pendant une législature?

*Dario Calimani, Université de Venise
Traduit par Mattia Stefani, étudiants de l’École Supérieure pour les Interprètes et les Traducteurs de Trieste et stagiaires dans le bureau du journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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Hatred

By David Bidussa*

"Look how efficient hatred is, how hatred keeps itself in shape in our century. How easily it overcomes obstacles. How easy it appeals to and hooks people." (Wislawa Szymborska, Hatred).
Our time in 170 characters, spaces included.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Edda Servi Machlin and Remembering
Jewish Italy

By Yvette Alt Miller*

Edda Servi Machlin has died at the age of 93. The cookbook writer changed many people’s understanding of Jewish cuisine and culture by writing prolifically about her childhood growing up in Italy’s distinctive Jewish community. Dating to Biblical times, the Jews of Italy have their own unique traditions, distinct from both Ashkenazi and Sephardi culture. Edda’s warm reminiscences – and delectable recipes – brought this world to life.
Edda was born in 1926 in the small town of Pitigliano in Tuscany, which had long been home to a thriving Jewish community. About 20 Jewish families lived in Pitigliano in the 1930s; though small, their community was proud and vibrant, boasting a beautiful synagogue, a Jewish library, two yeshivas, and a Jewish cemetery.
One unusual element of Jewish infrastructure in the town made the biggest impression on Edda: the town’s communal kosher oven, which was said to have first been built by Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition in 1492.

*The article was published in Aish on September 7, 2019.

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