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February 24, 2020 - 29 Shevat, 5780

NEWS

Italian President Mattarella visits
the Great Synagogue of Rome

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

The President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella visited the Great Synagogue of Rome last week.
Mattarella gave an off-the-cuff speech, wishing the audience, who included many young children and students from the community school, “lechaim” and “Shabbat shalom”.
The president also took the opportunity to launch a message of awareness to all Italian society.
"The contribution offered by the Jewish community - he said - is crucial in the history of Italy. But this has not always been understood”. The reference was in particular to the "shame" of the racist laws promulgated 82 years ago by the fascist regime and all that they generated.

NEWS

In Turin, from the Mole to the streets
to say no to antisemitism

By Daniel Reichel

Turin’s landmark, the Mole Antonelliana, was lit up in order to send out a message to the whole city. “17th February. Waldensians and Jews. No to antisemitism” is the slogan which was projected on the cupola of the Mole.
“It was a symbolic way to show solidarity between the two minorities and to send out a signal to all the Turinese: in order to fight intolerance, we need everyone to be present and committed”, says Dario Disegni, President of the Jewish Community of Turin, to Pagine Ebraiche. This appeal to the people has its highest point in last week initiative promoted by the Municipality with the aim of showing that Turin is at the forefront in the fight against poisonous antisemitism and any form of hatred.

*Translated by Sara Facelli and revised by Claudia Azzalini, both students at the Advanced School 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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A lost picture finally found

By Paolo Brogi*

It was the one missing picture. And it just came to light thanks to the Stolperstein which was placed in Ancona in memory of Nella Montefiori a few days ago.
The photograph of Nella Montefiori, a teacher from Ancona who hid in Rome after the racial laws were issued and was then captured by German soldiers in via Cola di Rienzo on the morning of 16th October 1943, was missing both within the memorial of the Shoah in Rome and among the faces of the deportees of that same day. Nella, who was 38 years old at the time, was with her sister Ada, who managed to escape capture. Nella is one of the women immediately sent to the gas chambers upon arriving at the extermination camp. A Stolperstein to commemorate her had already been placed in via del Tritone 46 in Rome last year, but there were no photographs left of her.

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L’émancipation et la lutte contre la haine

Anna Foa*

Le 17 février 1848, le roi de Sardaigne Charles-Albert accorda aux Vaudois l’émancipation, c’est-à-dire l’égalité des droits et des devoirs par rapport aux catholiques. Un mois après, le 25 mars, on l’accorderait de même aux Juifs. Bien que pas encore complète, cette mesure a constitué une étape importante dans l’histoire des relations entre la majorité et les minorités en Italie. Les Juifs perdraient ces droits en 1938 avec les lois raciales, ce qui n’a pas été le cas pour les Vaudois.

*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 power of poetry

By David Bidussa*

In memory of Paul Celan, who is not wrong to re-read every now and then.
“Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown
we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night
we drink it and drink it
we dig a grave in the breezes there one lies unconfined”
The power of poetry: the genocide in little more than a tweet and nothing else.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Four things to know about the archives
of World War II-era Pope Pius XII

By Afp*

The March 2 unsealing of the archives of Pope Pius XII, the controversial World War II-era pontiff, whose papacy lasted from 1939 to 1958, has been awaited for decades by Jewish groups and historians.
The controversy over Pius XII hinges on whether the head of the Catholic Church, a former diplomat of the Holy See in Germany, remained too silent during the Holocaust, never publicly condemning the Nazis.
Here are four key points to better understand the archives’ importance.

*The article was published in the Times of Israel on February 20, 2020.

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