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November 11, 2019 - Cheshwan 14, 5780

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Fourth tractate of Babylonian Talmud translated in Italian

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

A fourth tractate of the Babylonian Talmud has been released with an Italian translation. Devoted to marriage, Qiddushin hit the bookstores on Thursday, published by Giuntina.
The project of translating all Babylonian Talmud is included in a memorandum of understanding between Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Education, National Committee for Research (CNR), Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI).
In the past few years, the tractates of Rosh HaShanah (“New Years”), Berachot (“Blessings”), Ta’anit (“Fasts”) were made available to the Italian public.
Qiddushin is curated by the chief rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni.
“The Talmud devotes almost an entire Order, Nashìm, and as many as five treaties to matrimonial law,” rav Di Segni writes in the introduction, noting how the institution of Jewish marriage has a 35-century-long history.

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Senator for Life and Shoah survivor
Liliana Segre assigned police escort

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Senator for Life and Auschwitz survivor Liliana Segre was assigned a police escort after receiving alarming threats and antisemitic messages.
Segre, 89, was appointed Senator for Life in 2018 after decades devoted to bear testimony to what happened during the Shoah.
A few weeks ago, a report by the Milan-based Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation revealed that she was the target of an average of 200 antisemitic messages every day. Since then, the situation has deteriorated even further following a vote in the Senate on establishing a parliamentary commission to investigate antisemitism, racism and hatred. The senator introduced the proposal, but the center-right and right-wing parties decided not to back it..

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Victims of political and racial persecution
A commission takes office in Italy

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The study commission for the victims of political and racial persecution has officially taken office to propose some amendments to the regulations in favor of the victims. The commission, established by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers at the request of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), is presided over by former First President of the Italian Court of Cassation Giovanni Canzio.
The commission includes representatives of various institutions, among which lawyer Davide Jona Falco (representing UCEI), Anna Nardini (Presidency of the Council of Ministers), Giuseppina Veccia (Court of Audit), Marco Pierlorenzi (Ministry of Economy and Finance), Carmela Squicciarini (Ministry of Justice), Graziella Forti (Ministry of the Interior), Serena Colonna (ANPPIA) and Aldo Pavia (ANED).

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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WhatsApp et le 'Shoah party'

Gadi Luzzatto Voghera*

Ce ne sont pas des monstres, mais ils utilisent les monstres de notre société pour parler avec les adultes. Les jeunes (auxquels on voudrait accorder le droit de vote) qui se rendaient sur la discussion WhatsApp nommé de façon provocatrice « Shoah party », que veulent-ils nous dire ? Il y a quelques éléments qui ont attiré notre attention : 1) l’antisémitisme continue à être un langage diffusé et utilisé à plusieurs niveaux de notre société. 2) La violence verbale, utilisée dans d’amples secteurs de la politique, associe sans distinctions les côtés plus sombres de la conscience occidentale : de la pédopornographie à l’islamisme radical jusqu’à l’exaltation de l’extermination des Juifs. 3) La mémoire de la Shoah est devenue une activité des institutions et elle est donc reconnue comme une cible des contestations « alternatives ».

*Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, Directeur de la Fondation CDEC.
Traduit par Mattia Stefani, étudiant de l’École Supérieure pour les Interprètes et les Traducteurs de Trieste et stagiaire dans le bureau du journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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Ashes

By David Bidussa*

For the second time in a few months, the "Pecora Elettrica" bookstore in the Centocelle neighborhood in Rome has been set on fire. This time it was the evening before its new reopening.
"Nothing like arson embodies total destruction. Earthquakes, as natural events, or the destruction of a city, as a historical phenomenon, leave ruins behind and from these ruins, the story can be reconstructed. From ashes, nothing is reborn, if not the phoenix of myth. This truth was well-known by the elites in power at all times" (Leo Löwenthal, Book Burnings, Treccani 2019).

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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The Fortunate Foàs of Sabbioneta

By Eleanor Foa*

My father, an Italian Jew, used to say that “family is everything,” yet I knew very little about the history of the Foà family. That changed when, in his retirement, my father wrote a forty-page family memoir and began to fill in some of the missing pieces. He devoted only one line to our most famous ancestors, I Fratelli Foà, printers of Bibles and Hebrew prayer books in sixteenth century northern Italy. They flourished between 1551 and 1590 in the tiny, walled city of Sabbioneta. I’d become aware of them when, a decade earlier, an Israeli cousin had sent me copies of their handsome printer’s mark, or colophon. Their books are still considered exceptionally beautiful.
After my parents died, I proposed to my sister that we take a trip to Italy to visit those villages where the Foàs first emerged from the fog of history. As a writer, I took particular pride in our printer ancestors who peddled, not rags, but books. Perhaps, too, the existence of these printers helped explain why my father and his entire family believed that the Foàs were special.

*The article was published in the Jewish Book Council on November 4, 2019.

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