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April 20, 2020 - Nisan 26, 5780

NEWS

Economist Raffaella Sadun joins
task-force against coronavirus

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Economist Raffaella Sadun, a member of a Roman Jewish family with some roots in Leghorn, a professor at the Harvard Business School, has been invited to join the coronavirus committee created under the leadership of manager Vittorio Colao in order to support the Italian government in dealing with the emergency.
In recent weeks, Sadun authored a piece in the Harvard Business Review titled "On Covid-19 the world can learn from Italy's mistakes” where she raised some critical issues emerged during the first phase of the emergency.

NEWS

For the Italian Jewish community, coronavirus care starts with the elderly

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“Prevention is always essential. It is even more so during this medical emergency, especially for the elderly, who are the most threatened and need to be treated in a timely manner. In several Jewish communities and care homes for the elderly, action was taken immediately and we continue to monitor the situation,” UCEI Vice-President Giorgio Mortara explained in an interview to Pagine Ebraiche.
As a doctor and as UCEI social services manager, Mortara explained that the communities’ caring for the elderly follows two strategies. “On the one hand, the elderly in retirement homes are protected through isolation, so that the risk of infection is minimised. From Milan to Rome, measures to ensure the safety of guests and healthcare workers have been taken. On the other hand, communication must be used to explain to the elderly and their families what is happening, thus looking after the psychological aspect of this very complicated crisis.”

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

Bnei Brith’s fundraising gets
27,000 masks to Lombardy

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Bnei Brith, one of the most ancient Jewish organizations in the world, donated to Lombardy Region 27,000 high-definition masks made of washable and reusable plexiglass.
Over the last few days, the organization has responded to the request of its Italian branch by promoting a fundraising campaign coordinated by President Charles Kaufman and CEO Daniel Mariaschin, in collaboration with the US Consulate General in Milan and United Parcel Service Foundations.

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.

bechol lashon - français

C’est nécessaire
et pourtant terrible

Anna Foa*

Il s’agit d’un îlot au large de New York, Hart Island, également connu sous le nom d’Ile des morts, où les pauvres, notamment les morts que personne ne veut inhumer, sont enterrés dans de grandes fosses communes depuis la fin du XIXe siècle. Si jusqu’à l’émergence du coronavirus on parlait de 25 enterrements maximums par semaine, ce chiffre est désormais passé à 25 par jours.

*Anna Foa, historienne. Traduit par Sara Facelli et révisé par Mattia Stefani, étudiants de l’École Supérieure pour Traducteurs et Interprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaires au journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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pilpul

Theology, Sociology
and the Pandemic

By Yaakov Mascetti*

To be sincere, I’m rather sick of reading or hearing the word “Corona” in every single thing that appears on the internet – even my field, that of literary scholarship, appear to have been flooded by recent events, and the overwhelming consequences of pandemic craze.

*Yaakov Mascetti (PhD) teaches at Bar Ilan University.

ITALICS

How the bubonic plague has eerie similarities to today’s pandemic

By Kathryn Mckinley*

The coronavirus can infect anyone, but recent reporting has shown your socioeconomic status can play a big role, with a combination of job security, access to health care and mobility widening the gap in infection and mortality rates between rich and poor.
The wealthy work remotely and flee to resorts or pastoral second homes, while the urban poor are packed into small apartments and compelled to keep showing up to work.
As a medievalist, I’ve seen a version of this story before.
Following the 1348 Black Death in Italy, the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio wrote a collection of 100 novellas titled, “The Decameron.” These stories, though fictional, give us a window into medieval life during the Black Death – and how some of the same fissures opened up between the rich and the poor. Cultural historians today see “The Decameron” as an invaluable source of information on everyday life in 14th-century Italy.”

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

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