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November 4, 2019 - Cheshwan 7, 5779

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Shoah witness Alberto Sed passes away at 90

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Shoah witness Alberto Sed passed away at 90 in Rome on Saturday.
Son of Pacifico Sed and Enrica Calò, Alberto was born in Rome on December 7, 1928. He escaped the Nazi round-up of October 16, 1943, but he was later arrested along with his mother and sisters in May 1944, sent to Fossoli and then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Only Alberto and Fatina, a victim of the infamous Mengele's experiments, survived and returned to Rome.

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Italian Senate approves a committee
against antisemitism and hatred

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Italian Senate approved the motion to establish a special committee against intolerance, racism, antisemitism and hate and violence incitement presented by Liliana Segre with 151 votes in favors, while 98 members decided to abstain. Those who chose to abstain were the senators representing the right-wing parties League, Brothers of Italy (FdI) and Forza Italia (FI).
“With the approval to an extraordinary committee against intolerance, racism, antisemitism, hatred and violence incitement, a motion whose first endorser was Shoah witness and Senator for life Liliana Segre, the Senate has sent a significant message to the whole Italian community today,” UCEI President Noemi Di Segni commented.

Translated by Rachele Ferin, 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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Italian Minister Franceschini Says Complete Funding of MEIS imminent

By Adam Smulevich

“The raising of the 25 million euros intended for the project of the MEIS is almost complete. I hope I will make an announcement briefly,” said Minister for Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini last week on the occasion of the signature of the protocol between the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara and the Colosseum’s Archaeological Park.
The prestigious collaboration has been strongly supported by the minister, who seeks to set up “joint research and promotion projects, expertise exchanges, integrated digital communication strategies aiming to spread knowledge of the history of Judaism from the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus.”

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 Jewish Italian Communities.

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'Via Elio Toaff, a tribute to a man who still lives'

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“This is a historic day, not only for the Jewish community, but for the whole city. Rabbi Toaff left an indelible mark on our story, he influenced all of us with his example and his open-mindedness. The symbolic acknowledgement of this person today is an important step also to strengthen even more the relationship between Rome and the Jewish community”.
Virginia Raggi, mayor of the Italian capital, didn’t hide her emotions on the day when a part of via del Tempio, between via Catalana and via del Portico di Ottavia, was named after rav Elio Toaff.

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.

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Voix de mémoire
et de démocratie

Anna Foa*

C’est à la sénatrice à vie Liliana Segre qu’on a attribué le prix cagliaritain pour l’ensemble de la carrière, dédié à Emilio Lussu, pour avoir été « voix de mémoire et de démocratie ».
Comme Liliana Segre, Emilio Lussu aussi a été un combattant extraordinaire qui a lutté en faveur de la démocratie et de la liberté. Sarde, interventionniste et hautement décoré pendant la première guerre mondiale, sujet sur leuqel il écrit un livre extraordinaire en 1937, « Les hommes contre », il fonde le Parti sarde d’action en 1921 et il en devient député.

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

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Hatred

By David Bidussa*

The last one hundred years (more or less) in 60 characters, spaces included: 1917-2019, from "hate toward the indifferent" to "hate toward the different."

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Jews blast racism commission abstentions

By Ansa staff*

Ruth Dureghello, the president of Rome's Jewish Community, on Thursday expressed dismay that the rightwing League and Brothers of Italy (FdI) parties and Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia (FI) did not vote in favour of creating an extraordinary commission against hate, racism and anti-semitism.
The motion to create the commission, proposed by Holocaust survivor and life Senator Liliana Segre, was approved on Wednesday by the Upper House with 151 votes in favour, none against and 98 abstentions.
"The commission is a great institutional result for our country, it has great value," said Dureghello.
"The abstention of some parties is disconcerting. It's a decision that we consider wrong and dangerous.

*The article was pubblished in Ansa on October 31, 2019.

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