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February 17, 2020 - 22 Shevat, 5780

NEWS

Jewish delegation visits exhibit
on famed made-up case of ritual murder

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

“For centuries the cult of Simonino has spread hatred and the most sinister anti-Semitic violence, not only in Trento, not only in Italy, but throughout Europe. The story has become a symbol of a certain type of Catholic anti-Jewish prejudice which has been the cause of many grievances and sufferings and with which the Church has accepted, only in recent times, to confront itself. This visit also wants to be an acknowledgment of this path, today a harbinger of a new season of encounter and mutual understanding which also arise in the sign of the principles enshrined in the Nostra Aetate declaration".
This was stated by the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni, who visited on Sunday the exhibition "The invention of the culprit. The 'case' of Simonino of Trento, from propaganda to history" at the Museo Diocesano Tridentino in Trento.

NEWS

Senator Segre addresses the Regional
Council of Lombardy

By Daniel Reichel

Senator for life e Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre was a guest of the Regional Council of Lombardy, greeted by the Regional Council members from all political sides who, standing up, gave her a long applause.
Remembering the Jewish persecution, Segre explained: "Those who deny, the deniers of today and who will always deny as voices like mine disappear, will have great success. It is indeed easier to deny that all this has happened than admit that men can go so far as to commit unspeakable things. And if the things that have happened are unspeakable then it is easier to deny them”.

news

Plaque honoring family murdered
by the Nazis unveiled in Rome

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

A plaque honoring the Efrati family who was rounded up by the Nazis on October 16, 1943, was uncovered in Rome last week.
"On October 16, 1943, ten Roman citizens who were torn from their lives by Nazi hatred only because they were Jews, were rounded up from this place and deported to Auschwitz. Abraham Umberto Efrati with his wife Maria Di Segni expecting a baby and eight of their children. Enrica, Angelo, Cesare, Fortunata, Grazia, Giuditta, Dora and Marco. Only two of them returned."
The commemorative plaque was placed in via del Portonaccio 194, on the initiative of the Museo della Shoah Foundation and the city administration.

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Cristianos y judíos en Italia acogen a una familia de refugiados sirios

Cnaan Liphshiz*

La familia de siete [miembros] de Alepo emigró a Italia legalmente como solicitantes de asilo y la Unión de Comunidades Judías Italianas y la Comunidad Judía de Milán los hospedan en un apartamento en Milán.
El proceso de inmigración para recién llegados es parte de un proyecto que comenzó en 2016 por tres organizaciones cristianas, informó la agencia de noticias ANSA la semana pasada. La familia no fue mencionada por su nombre.

*Enlace Judío 8.02.2020

Leia mas

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The Ten Commandments

By David Bidussa*

I learned many things by listening to a 13-year-old teenager giving a speech for his Bar mitzvah in my synagogue. I summarize some of the things he said. In the scene of the ten commandments, three things count. The first is the expectation or the belief that without a fundamental principle there is no community of destiny; the second is the importance taking responsibility of a protocol of things to believe and things to do; the third is that we need to know how to manage feelings.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Italian Jews: Rome, the Renaissance
and Beyond

By Carlin Romano*

For most Americans familiar with Italian Jewry, the images that linger come from Vittorio De Sica’s evocative 1971 film, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, the Academy Award-winning picture based on Italian writer Giorgio Bassani’s prize-winning 1962 novel. Set in Bassini’s picturesque hometown of Ferrara, Garden mixed the beauty of provincial Italy, and the allure of gorgeous young people at ease, with a slowly mounting anxiety—the creeping horror by which Italy in 1938 turned on its Jews, and captured, killed or deported some 9,000 of them.
De Sica portrayed the wealthy and aristocratic sister and brother Micol and Alberto Finzi-Contini in their tennis whites, largely ignoring changing times amid the majestic poplars of their lush estate. They invited newly restricted middle-class Jewish friends to party behind their high stone walls, capturing the turning point at which Italy’s assimilated Jews became outcasts.

*The article was published in Moment on January 2020.

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