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November 25, 2019 - Cheshwan 27, 5780

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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte
visits Milan's Shoah Memorial

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte visited the Shoah Memorial in Milan on Thursday escorted by Auschwitz survivor and senator for life Liliana Segre.
"In memory of this visit of mine to cultivate Remembrance, to break through the wall of indifference, and to keep alive the memory of what was and must no longer be again," Conte wrote in the guest book.

NEWS

Turin, a plaque to honor Jewish lawyers banned by racial laws

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

A plaque remembering Jewish lawyers banned by Fascist anti-Jewish laws was unveiled in Turin last week.
“Eighty years after law No 1054 banning Jewish lawyers from practicing law was issued on in 1939, lawyers in Turin paid homage to the memory of 54 colleagues of theirs who were disqualified from the legal profession and disbarred because they were Jewish,” reads the plaque dedicated to the 54 Jewish lawyers who found themselves in this situation.
During the inaugurating ceremony, the Bar Association took responsibility for that dark period, which should become a warning for the future.

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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Manifesto of Race signatories no longer honored in the streets of Rome

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“We must learn about our history in order to figure out who we were and choose who we want to be. By doing so, you will already take a firm stand. We must be in control of our decisions.”
Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi gave a speech to students in Rome. She chose the venue of Cinema Andromeda on a special day, which marks the end of a participatory process leading to the renaming of streets which were named after scientists Edoardo Zavattari and Arturo Donaggio, who had signed the infamous Manifesto of Race in 1938.
Instead, the streets will be named after other major figures who distinguished themselves for quite a different life and academic commitment: Doctor Mario Carrara, who refused to pledge allegiance to Fascism, Nella Mortara, one of the very first female professors of Physics at the Sapienza University of Rome, and Enrica Calabresi, full professor of Entomology at the University of Pisa.

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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Illiberale Demokratie

Gadi Luzzatto Voghera*

Die E-Mail ist freundlich. Sie kommt von einer Stadtverwaltung, die sich rechtzeitig in Bewegung setzt, um eine öffentliche Veranstaltung für den Tag des Gedenkens zu organisieren. Sie möchte eine Empfehlung darum: „uns an jemanden zu wenden, der als (unmittelbarer oder, da es lange her ist, mittelbarer) Zeuge der schrecklichen Geschehen erscheinen kann, die der Rassengesetzesverkündung und der Rassentrennung und Gefangenschaft der Juden von Nazifaschisten in Italien folgten“. Alles gut – sagt man sich – es geht nur um die Routine des Gedenkens. Wir werden ebenso viel freundlich antworten.

*Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, Direktor der Stiftung CDEC. Übersetzung von Rachele Ferin, und Revision von Sara Facelli, beide Studentinnen der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Trieste und Praktikantinnen bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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The ‘Affaire Dreyfus’

By David Bidussa*

"The Affaire Dreyfus" is a fairy tale with a happy ending only in appearance. With "The officer and the spy," Roman Polanski opened up a reading of the present through the past. Once the credits finished rolling, it was time to go out on the street and go beyond the story. I'm going to make it very short.
In the culture of all current political regimes (2019), there is a constant return of the myth of a Jewish conspiracy. The Dreyfus affair is just an episode that marks a difference between before and after.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Rome changes Donaggio, Zavattari streets

By Ansa staff*

The city of Rome on Thursday changed the names of two streets devoted to Edoardo Zavattari and Arturo Donaggio, who were among the Italian scientists to sign Benito Mussolini's racial laws in 1938 and which led to the ferocious persecution of Italy's Jews during World War II.
The streets were renamed after scientists who opposed the Fascist regime and were victims of the racial laws - the physician Mario Carrara, the physicist Nella Mortara and the zoologist Enrica Calabresi.

*The article was published on November 21, 2019.

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