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March 30, 2020 - Nisan 5, 5780

NEWS

Liliana Segre: 'Our biggest fear is to die alone'

By Daniel Reichel*

“You know what? I have nothing original to say, and neither do my imagination, my fantasy, my common sense, nor anything else. I’m rather astonished by what is happening, and the truth is there is nothing to say. Maybe too many are talking and too much.” This is not an interview, but a short conversation in which Liliana Segre shared some of her impressions on the coronavirus outbreak in Italy with Pagine Ebraiche.
“It is like the Great Flood,” commented Segre, who explained to have chosen to remain deliberately silent, instead of talking about the medical emergency in public, despite invitations.

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.

NEWS

UCEI commemorates Fosse Ardeatine
victims online

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

Even remotely, everyone in their homes, we can take a moment to reflect in order not to forget and to reassert the values and challenges which unite us. On the 76th anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) has organized a commemoration on its Facebook page, which was streamed this morning and is still available for replay.
“335 Italians were slaughtered on this day in 1944. The Union of the Italian Jewish Communities would like to commemorate each one of them and pay homage to their memory,” underlined UCEI President Noemi Di Segni in her opening statement. General Military Prosecutor Marco De Paolis, historian Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi and UCEI’s director for Culture and Education Rabbi Roberto Della Rocca also made their statements. Some representatives of the National Agency for Youth then read out all 335 names of the victims.

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UCEI to devote funding to the fight
against coronavirus

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Union of Italian Jewish Communities will allocate a part of its funds from the Otto per Mille to support the fight against Coronavirus and help the entities that are dedicated to social and health solidarity. It will also make every possible effort to dedicated fundraisers, also in cooperation with the Jewish Medical Association.
This was decided by the board of the Union. The criteria will be set by the devoted UCEI commission.

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Besondere Beachtung

Roberto Della Rocca*

Moshe hat den Bau des Tabernakels gerade eben abgeschlossen und doch berichtet uns die Thora, dass er ihn „nicht“ freilich verwenden „darf“ (Exodus, 40; 35).
Wo ein Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg, stimmt?
Man glaubt, dass man seine Ziele immer und überall erreichen kann, vorausgesetzt, dass man starken Willen zeigt. Auf so einer Welt werden die Worte „ich kann“ so empfunden, als wären sie eine Herausforderung, die eigene Gewalt und Macht zu erweitern. Wenn die Thora sagt: „Du darfst nicht!“, das bedeutet nicht, dass man keine Möglichkeit hat oder nicht in der Lage ist, etwas zu tun.

*Rab. Roberto Della Rocca, Leiter des Kultur- und Ausbildungsbereich von UCEI.
Übersetzung von Sara Facelli, Studentin der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Trieste und Praktikantin bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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On the verge of collapse

By David Bidussa*

The twentieth century was characterized by the sudden collapse of states and empires that seemed to be in difficulties, but still capable of overcoming the impact of catastrophic events.
At the time of their collapse, those structures that seemed to represent the point of balance of the system and the guarantee of its duration, were shattered. Will it be like this again?

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

Distance learning, food parcels and dressing up: Italian Jews find ways to adapt

By Julie Carbonara*

It was a mild early summer evening and Venice’s ghetto quarter was pleasantly busy, rather than packed to the gills like the more touristy sites.
It was early Friday afternoon and the ghetto was winding down when a bearded man honed in on me and my companion and said: “My friends, would you like to celebrate Shabbat with us at Chabad House?”
I thought of that unexpected invitation — from a stranger to two strangers — a couple of days ago when a friend sent me a video of a Venice I struggled to recognise: its narrow lanes usually teeming with tourists and the odd local eerily empty, shops and restaurants shut, visitors gone, all life sucked out.
So empty it felt dead; a splendid museum rather than a living city.
The ghetto quarter and its museum are closed like the rest of Venice — but then, the whole of Italy, Jewish and not, had been slowly shutting down for weeks..”

*The article was published in the Jewish Chronicle on March 26, 2020.

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