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September 24, 2019 - Elul 24, 5779

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German President to Naples' Jewish Community: "Thank you for helping us to remember the past, so we can build the future"

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the synagogue of Naples last week.
“Thank you for welcoming us and sharing your stories about those terrible days,” he said.
On an official visit to the Naples, the German Head of State, after visiting the Goethe-Institute, specifically asked to see the synagogue and to meet with the Jewish Community (which is located in the same building as the Goethe Institute).
The planned 15 minutes became 30.
The vice-president of the Jewish Community of Naples Pier Luigi Campagnano and the rabbi Ariel Finzi welcomed Steinmeier and recounted the history and daily life of the Neapolitan Jewish reality.

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Religions come together to fight against gender-based violence

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Jews, Catholics and Muslims in Italy are coming together to strengthen a shared commitment against prejudice, discrimination and gender-based violence, in particular the one against teenage girls, considering the role they will assume in the society in the future.
This is the challenge of the project “Not in my name. Ebrei, Cattolici e Musulmani in campo contro la violenza sulle Donne” (“Not in my name. Jews, Catholics and Muslims against violence on women”), product of the collaboration between the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), the Italian Islamic Religious Community (Coreis), and the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum under the patronage of the Equal Opportunities Department of the Prime Minister’s Office who provided funding for its implementation.

Translated by Sara Volpe, 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 in Ferrara: dreams of body
and soul

By Rachel Silvera*

Primo Levi’s poems are intense, blunt, and painful: they retell through poetry the nightmare and the awakening.
They were chosen as the main focus of the international concert which was held in the magnificent Sala Estense in Ferrara to celebrate the European Day of Jewish Culture, whose theme this year was “Dreams – a Stairway to Heaven”.
The concert was organised by the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara, in collaboration with the National Committee for the Celebrations of Primo Levi’s birth centenary and with the Jewish community of Ferrara.

Translated by Mattia Stefani and revised by Claudia Azzalini, both students at the Advanced School of Modern Languages 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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Jona, le médecin
des pauvres

Anna Foa*

Commémorations. Le 16 septembre 1943, exactement un mois avant la rafle du ghetto de Rome, le Président de la Communauté juive de Venise, Giuseppe Jona, se tua. La rumeur dit qu’il s’était tué pour ne pas consigner aux Nazis la liste des membres de la communauté juive qu’on lui avait demandée. Il la détruisit d’abord et ensuite il se tua. Cette théorie reste la plus populaire, mais il n’existe aucune preuve qui la confirmerait, même si les Nazis pourraient avoir appelé Jona pour collaborer avec eux, comme ils le faisaient dans les ghettos polonais.

*Anna Foa, historienne. Traduit par Sara Facelli et révisé par Mattia Stefani, étudiants de l’École Supérieure pour Traducteurs et Interprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaires au journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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Poland

By David Bidussa*

“The executioners next door,” by Jan Tomasz Gross is a book that covers a case of extermination that took place in Poland in 1941 at Polish hands. The book was published in Italy in 2002, and reprinted in 2003. Since then, it has disappeared. Given the political winds blowing in Poland, it would be appropriate to reprint it, just to understand one of the sources of today’s Poland. For us, not for the Poles; as they already know it.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

For Libyan Jews, This Spicy Fish Stew
Is the Taste of Rosh Hashana

By Joan Nathan*

When Shalom Saada Saar was visiting Italy back in 2006, he yearned for the food of his childhood in Benghazi, Libya.
In Rome, he met Hamos Guetta, a fixture in the city’s Libyan Jewish community of 5,000 or so, to whom he carefully recited the dishes his mother cooked at Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year celebration that begins this year on the evening of Sept. 29.
“I described for Hamos the chita” — Hebrew for “new grains,” which were scattered on the tablecloth — “to symbolize a year of plenty,” said Mr. Saar, now 74 and a professor at the University of Miami Business School in Coral Gables, Fla.
When Rosh Hashana came around that fall, Mr. Guetta, a fashion designer, raced around Rome on his scooter trying to find the grains of new wheat, red pumpkin, Swiss chard, pomegranates and dates that the professor craved.

*The article was pubblished in The New York Times on September 17, 2019.

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