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Italian Senate approves three motions
on Remembrance but fail to merge them  

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

Three distinct motions on Holocaust Remembrance were approved by the Italian Senate last week.
“This morning, the Senate was called to vote on some motions on the implementation of more cogent and effective Remembrance policies. The majority responded positively to all three motions, which were presented by different political groups. Their focus were Italian students’ annual school trips to Holocaust sites and educational policies. It is a significant sign of the government’s future engagement, which should be picked up and which we very much appreciate at a time when hate speech and acts of hatred seem to take over in all fields and jeopardise democratic achievements and values which seemed to be well-established,” the President of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni commented.

*Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Sara Facelli, 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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Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah: new exhibit to be inaugurated on April 2

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The exhibition Dentro e Fuori (Inside and Outside) which will cover Jewish life in Italy at the time of the ghettos and to emancipation will be inaugurated on April 2.
Announcing it was the president of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara (MEIS) Dario Disegni, welcoming the new members of the board Gloria Arbib and Giovanni Franco Pernisa.
"These first four years at Meis have been an extraordinary adventure. The museum has become a relevant cultural center on the map of the country, and beyond,” Disegni said, thanking former board members Renzo Gattegna and Massimo Maisto.  

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Invited by UCEI, women from different origins knead bread together  

By Adam Smulevich

Women from various cultural and religious identities and traditions accepted the invitation of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, together with the Interreligious Table in Rome and the Italian Jewish Center Il Pitigliani, to meet and knead bread together.
Symbol of traditions and sharing, bread has always been the main element on humanking’s tables. It is the food that brings people together in everyday life, at parties and in ritual celebrations. These were the premises for the event, organized with the aim of launching a message of peace, dialogue and vitality entirely for women.
Participants prepared the challah, the Jewish bread for Shabbat, but also the bread of Indian, Yemeni and Moroccan tradition.

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La vérité contre
les charlatans

Anna Foa*

L’affaire du rescapé prétendu à la Shoah signalé par le CDEC a déclenché bien des réflexions et a fait beaucoup penser au roman de Javier Cercas L’imposteur. Cette histoire n’est pas aussi étrange que ça, en soi. Le fait qu’une personne perturbée, telle que ce monsieur-là, s’identifie profondément dans les récits des camps de concentration et d’extermination au point de croire, probablement en toute bonne foi ou presque, d’y avoir été elle-même, s’explique certainement par l’aide d’un psychiatre, mais ce n’est pas du tout impossible étant donné la puissance de ces récits. Le fait que les institutions et les écoles y aient cru sans hésitation, c’est bien tout autre chose.

*Anna Foa, historienne. Traduit par Mattia Stefani et révisé par Sara Facelli, 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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The liberation from Egypt and Amalek

By David Bidussa*

Jewish memory has defined two paradigms of the danger of annihilation and the defeat of the annihilator. Both are in Shemot a few chapters away. The first is the liberation from Egypt; the second the episode of Amalek. The first entered the civil calendar with a history of liberation. The second one does not have a date and has become a concept. The first is a place of Remembrance (it has a festival, a ritual, a text, a practice). The second is a metaphor, which does not have a date, which is encountered, as is said "generation after generation" [Ex., 17,16].




*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.






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Italian Jews, Christians jointly host
Syrian refugee family in Milan

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